Special Seminars Archive: 2005-2006

Monday, September 12

10:00 am
Erez Dekel (Alon Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, October 18

12:00 noon
Ben Lehner (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
“Using RNAi to map genetic interactions during metazoan development: a genetic interaction map for signal transduction in C. elegans”
Bio Labs Lecture Hall (room 1068), 16 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 22

12:15 pm
Kevin Foster (Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics, University of Helsinki)
“Sociobiology at the genetic level: cooperation and conflict in microorganisms”
Museum of Comparative Zoology room 101, 26 Oxford Street

Thursday, December 1

12:00 pm
Allan Drummond (Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology)
“How protein misfolding governs the rate of molecular evolution”
Museum of Comparative Zoology room 101, 26 Oxford Street

Tuesday, December 20

12:00 pm
Tim Cooper (School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland)
“Adaptation and the network: understanding the interplay between adaptation and transcription network structure”
Museum of Comparative Zoology room 101, 26 Oxford Street

Thursday, January 5

12:00 pm
Banu Ozkan (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco)
“Using protein physics to guide protein structure prediction”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 10

3:00 pm
Erez Braun (Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
“Gene recruitment and adaptive reprogramming of gene regulation in yeast ”
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 17

12:00 pm
Maya Said (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
“Signaling in biological cells: challenges and opportunities”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 31

12:00 pm
Michael Lampson (Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University)
“Partitioning the genome: local signaling to ensure accurate chromosome segregation in cell division”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, February 7

12:00 pm
Ben Lehner (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
“Metazoan genetic interaction networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, February 14

3:00 pm
Anton Zilman (Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University)
“Physical mechanisms of nuclear-cytoplasmic transport: nano-sieves inside the cell”
Haller Hall, 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Tuesday, July 18

4:00 pm
Ned Wingreen (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
“Lipid localization in bacterial membranes”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Special Seminars Archive: 2004-2005

Thursday, September 16

2:00 pm
Thomas Duke (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
“Ultrasensitive signal transduction: general principles gleaned from bacterial chemotaxis”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 30

2:00 pm
Chris Gunter (Nature)
“How to publish your paper in Nature, or wherever you want: tips for success in a changing scientific world”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, December 16

12:00 pm
Hunter Fraser (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
“A bestiary of computational biology and genomics”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 26

1:00 pm
Amos Tanay (School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University)
“New computational tools, old biological principles: exploring yeast regulatory networks and their evolution”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 9

10:30 am
Fyodor Kondrashov (Population Biology Graduate Group, University of California at Davis)
“Compensatory evolution and evolution of amino acid composition”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, February 17

12:30 pm
Ilya Nemenman (Joint Centers for Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center)
“Thinking about information processing in molecular networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 2

11:00 am
Jeffrey Chuang (Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco)
“Insights from comparative genomics: from genome organization to regulatory complexity”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 9

10:00 am
Julia Zeitlinger (Whitehead Institute)
“Combinatorial control of developmental programs by transcription factors”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 23

12:00 pm
Stephanie Rollmann (Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University)
“The genetic architecture of chemosensory behavior in Drosophila”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 6

11:00 am
Yaakov Benenson (Departments of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics and Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Molecular automata: 'smart' components of biological networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Friday, June 24

11:00 am
Peer Bork (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg)
“Towards spatial and temporal protein interaction networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Monday, June 27

3:00 pm
Fred Libersat (Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
“Wasp voodoo rituals, venom cocktails and cockroach zombification in the south pacific islands”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Friday, July 8

11:00 am
Ned Wingreen (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
“Chemosensing in E. coli: two regimes of two-state receptors”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Special Seminars Archive: 2003-2004

Tuesday, March 23

11:00 am
Norihiro Okada (Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
“Looking for the molecular basis of adaptive evolution of cichlid fishes in the great African lakes”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Special Seminars Archive: 2002-2003

Thursday, September 26

4:00 pm
Mark Goulian (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)
“Continuous control in a two-component regulatory system”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Monday, September 30

11:00 am
Hao Li (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco)
“Dissecting the transcription networks of a cell using computational genomics”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 12

10:00 am
Roy Kishony (Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University)
“Mutations and stress in bacterial growth”
Sherman Fairchild room 211, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 4

10:00 am
Nicole King (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Choanoflagellates and the origin of animal multicellularity”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue
2003

Tuesday, January 21

10:00 am
Sharad Ramanathan (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
“Noise and amplification in signalling systems: rod cells as a case study”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Friday, February 21

10:00 am
Itsik Pe'er (Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Resolution of haplotypes from measured frequencies”
Sherman Fairchild room 211, 7 Divinity Avenue

Friday, July 25

11:00 am
Tom Shimizu (Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University)
“Modelling the bacterial chemotaxis receptor complex”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, August 19

10:00 am
Tzachi Pilpel (Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Variations on (regulatory) motifs: molecular- and systems-level analyses of genetic control networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue