Seminars
The Thursday Series

The Cell Biology Department conducts its seminar program jointly with the Program in Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. These seminars are held each Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Room 147 of the Nanaline Duke Building, except as otherwise noted.


2008 Seminars
Date Speaker Title Host
June 5 Rolf Craven
Markey Cancer Center
University of Kentucky
Conserved P450 activators that link cholesterol synthesis and cancer therapeutics

Tom Petes

May. 29 Alejandro Aballay
Duke University
C. Elegans as a model system to study conserved host-pathogen interactions

Joe Heitman

May. 15 Larry Zwiebel
Vanderbilt University
Molecular genetics of olfaction in disease vector mosquitoes

Hubi Amrein

May. 8* Ruslan Medzhitov
Yale University
Innate host defense strategies

Jo Rae Wright

May. 1 Raphael Valdivia
Duke University
Secrets of an old pathogen: Chlamydia infections and new paradigms in the cell biology of host-pathogen interacations

Joe Heitman

Apr. 24* Davor Solter
Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology
Epigenetic controls of early mammalian development

Blanche Capel

Apr. 17 Phil Zamore
UMass Medical School
Small RNA diversity and function

Vidong Nguyen

Apr. 10 Scott Keeney
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Mechanism and regulation of meiotic recombination

Sue Jinks-Robertson

Mar. 27 Elliott Kieff
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard University
Coordinate Epstein-Barr Virus encoded nuclear protein regulation of cell gene transcription is essential for lymphocyte transformation

Bryan Cullen

Mar. 20 Craig Garner
Stanford University
SAP97 regulates in the sorting, trafficking and dynamics of synaptic Glutamate receptors

Mike Ehlers

Mar. 13 Vincent Mauro
The Scripps Research Institute
Mechanisms of eukaryotic translation initiation

Chris Nicchitta

Mar. 6 Mark Rose
Princeton University
Safe sex and the single cell

Danny Lew

Feb. 28* Roy Parker
University of Arizona
Control of the mRNA translation and degradation in eukaryotic cells

Chris Nicchitta

Feb. 21 Benoit Chabot
University of Sherbrooke
Splicing connections in apoptosis and cancer

Mariano Garcia-Blanco

Feb. 7 Gerhart Wagner
Uppsala University
Regulatory RNAs in bacteria – Biological roles and mechanisms

Coby Slagter-Jager

Jan. 31* Cliff Tabin
Harvard University
From signaling to morphogenesis in left-right assymetry

Fan Wang

Jan. 17 Samuel Katz
Duke University
Eradication of vaccine-preventable virus infections--One down? Two to go?

TBA

Jan. 10 Robert Lamb
Northwestern University
Understanding paramyxovirus-induced membrane fusion

Bryan Cullen

*Part of the Cell Biology Distinguished Lecture Series



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