Developmental Biology Interest Group: Seminars
The University of Utah hosts numerous seminars by internationally recognized scientists. Some of these researchers are hosted by graduate students who are supported by the Developmental Biology Training Grant, an NIH-sponsored training program in Developmental Biology.
Recent seminars include:
Frederick W. Alt
Children's Hospital,
Harvard University
"A critical role for DNA end-joining
in lymphogenesis and neurogenesis"
Neal Copeland
Frederick Cancer Center
"Leukemia genes: large scale cloning,
pathway predictions, and animal models"
Stanley Falkow
Stanford University,
School of Medicine
"Genomics and bacterial pathogenicity"
Cory Goodman
University of California,
Berkele
"Mechanisms of neuronal pathfinding
in Drosophila"
Haig S. Kesheshian
Yale University
"Neuromuscular development in Drosophila:
A pupil perspective"
Mitzi Kuroda
Baylor College of Medicine
"Non-coding RNAs, X chromosome recognition
and dosage compensation i Drosophila"
Susan Lindquist
University of Chicago
"From mad cows and 'psy-chotic' yeast:
a new genetic paradigm"
A. Javier Lopez
Carnegie Mellon University
"Recursive splicing in large introns
and developmental regulation of splice site choice"
David Mangelsdorf
University of Texas,
South West
"Nuclear orphan receptors and the
discovery of new metabolic signaling pathways"
Barbara J. Meyer
University of California,
Berkeley
"Sex and death in C. elegans"
Andrew Murray
University of California,
San Francisco
"Pushing yeast out of mitosis: A
cautionary tale about a phosphorylation site"
Renato Paro
University of Heidelberg
"Chromatin-mediated epigenetic regulation
and the mechanism of cellular memory"
Stanley Prusiner
Univeristy of California,
San Francisco
"Structural biology & molecular genetics
of prion disease"
Steven M. Reppert
Massachusetts General
Hospital
"Molecular analysis of a mammalian
clock feedback loop"
Jasper Rine
University of California,
Berkeley
"ORC, silencing and cell cycle"
Gerald Rubin
Univeristy of California,
Berkeley
"Understanding the Drosophila genome"
William Sly
St. Louis University
"Hereditary hemochromatosis: Learning
from mice how people pump iron"
Nahum Sonenburg
McGill University
"The mRNA 5'-cap binding protein,
eIF4E: Regulation of gene expression and cell growth"
Thomas C. Sudhof
University of Texas,
South West
"Synaptic vesicle exocytosis: Mechanisms
and regulation"
Leonard I. Zon
Children's Hospital, Harvard University
"Dissecting development and disease
using the zebrafish"
The schedules for these items can be found on the Bioscience Calendar.