MCDB Events

Staehelin Symposium (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-06-16 08:00 to 2007-06-16 16:00)

The Andrew Staehelin Retirement Symposium

MMB (A2B70, from 2007-07-06 12:00 to 2007-07-06 13:00)

Mike Klymkowsky: Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists: Reflections on the Evolution of MCDB 1111: Biofundamentals Ignacio Barbieri Nojek: Mechanism of Transctiptional Regulation by p63 Transcription Factors"

Special MCDB Seminar - Leon Weinberger - Princeton (A1B60, from 2007-06-25 12:00 to 2007-06-25 13:30)

 

MMB - Mara Stewart (Su Lab) Cecilia Riquelme (Leinwand Lab) (, from 2007-06-29 12:00 to 2007-06-29 13:00)

Mara Stewart - "Centromere Pairing and Meiotic Chromosome Segregation" and Cecilia Riquelme (Leinwand) - "Molecular characterization of cardiac hypertrophy in Burmese pythons"

MMB (A2B70, from 2007-07-13 12:00 to 2007-07-13 13:00)

Jia Shi and Michelle Smith (MCDB Science Education Initiative) "Why multiple heads are better than one: The importance of peer group learning in the undergraduate introductory MCDB courses." Christian Damgaard "A role for the 5' terminal oligopyrimidine tract in mRNA stability and sub-cellular localization during nutrient stavation?"

MMB (A2B70, from 2007-07-20 12:00 to 2007-07-20 13:00)

Sacha De Carlo "Structural Basis of ATP-Dependent Transcription Activation" Stephen Luckey "Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3B Signaling in Familial HYpertrophic Cardiomyopathy"

MMB (A2B70, from 2007-08-03 12:00 to 2007-08-03 13:00)

Donald Evans "In Vitro Mutational Analysis of Phylogenetically Conserved Nucleotides in Bacterial RNase P RNA" Chad Pearson "Identifying Proteins for Early Stages of Basal Body and Centriole Duplication"

MMB (A2B70, from 2007-07-27 12:00 to 2007-07-27 13:00)

Christine Ondzighi and Dada Pisconti

MMB - Sandra Clement - Jaime Keck (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-08-10 12:00 to 2007-08-10 13:00)

MCDB A2B70 Sandra L. Clement (Lykke-Anderson Lab) and Jamie Keck (Winey Lab) will be speaking. The topic of Sandra Clement’s presentation is “Regulation of Human mRNA Turnover by the p38 MAP Kinase Pathway” and the topic of Jamie Keck’s presentation is “Cyclin E Deregulation Impairs Progression through Mitosis by Inhibiting APCcdh1”.

James Hurley, NIDDK, NIH MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-09-20 16:00 to 2007-09-20 17:00)

MCDB Seminar Speaker

Jessica Tyler, UCHSC. MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-09-27 16:00 to 2007-09-27 17:00)

Jessica Tyler of UCHSC - "Regulation of Genomic Processes by Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly"

Jens Lykke-Andersen, Pre-tenure seminar (A2B70, from 2007-10-04 16:00 to 2007-10-04 17:00)

Jens Lykke-Andersen of MCDB will be presenting his pre-tenure seminar. Hosted by Mike Yarus.

Keith Blackwell, Harvard University, MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-10-08 16:00 to 2007-10-08 17:00)

Keith Blackwell of Harvard University will be the MCDB Seminar Speaker for Monday October 8th. Hosted by Tom Blumenthal.

Rick Young, MIT. MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-10-11 16:00 to 2007-10-11 17:00)

Rick Young of MIT will be the October 11th MCDB Seminar Speaker. "Regulatory Circuitry of Embryonic Stem Cells". Hosted by Joaquin Espinosa.

Steve Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson, MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-10-18 16:00 to 2007-10-18 17:00)

Steve Henikoff of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will be the October 18th MCDB Seminar Speaker. "Histone Variants and Deviants". Hosted by Brian DeDecker.

Bob Hancock, UBC Vancouver , MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-10-25 16:00 to 2007-10-25 17:00)

Bob Hancock of UBC Vancouver will be the MCDB Seminar Speaker for October 25th. Hosted by Corrie Detweiler.

Peter Walter, UCSF - MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-11-01 16:00 to 2007-11-01 17:00)

Dr. Peter Walter of the University of California, San Francisco will be the MCDB Seminar Speaker for November 1st. "The Unfolded Protein Response Intracellular Signaling and Quality Control". Hosted by Dr. Gia Voeltz

Thanksgiving - No Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-11-22 16:00 to 2007-11-22 17:00)

 

Kodi S. Ravichandran. MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2007-11-29 16:00 to 2007-11-29 17:00)

Kodi S. Ravichandran will be the MCDB Seminar Speaker for November 29th. Hosted by Ding Xue.

Peter Sarnow, Stanford MCDB Seminar Speaker (A2B70, from 2008-03-20 16:00 to 2008-03-20 17:00)

Peter Sarnow of Stanford will be the MCDB Seminar Speaker for March 20th. Hosted By Jens Lykke-Andersen. "Subversion of Liver-specific MicroRNA miR-122 by Hepatitis C Virus"

Brad Olwin Stem Cell Lecture (Muen E050, from 2007-07-11 09:24 to 2007-07-12 09:25)

 

Lecture--William Bialek, Princeton (Duane Physics G1B20, from 2007-07-18 19:00 to 2007-07-18 20:00)

More Perfect Than we Imagined: A Physicist's View of Life A Theoretical physicist, his work has been inspired by a broad range of biological phenomna, from the dynamics of single protein molecules to the coding and processing of information in the brain.

MCDB Medical Seminar - Bob Garcea UCHSC (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-09-06 16:00 to 2007-09-06 17:00)

Medical Seminar

MCDB Medical Seminar - David Bentley UCHSC (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-11-15 16:00 to 2007-11-15 17:00)

MCDB Medical Seminar - Hosted by Dr. Tom Blumenthal -"Co-Transcriptional mRNA Biogenesis: the Rules of Engagement"

Herman Stellar Cancelled (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-12-06 16:00 to 2007-12-06 17:00)

MCDB Fall 2007 Seminar

MCDB Seminar - Yigong Shi, Princeton CANCELLED (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-12-13 16:00 to 2007-12-13 17:00)

MCDB Seminar

Biochemistry Seminar--Dr. Alexey I. Nesvizhskii (Ekeley W166, from 2007-07-25 16:00 to 2007-07-25 17:00)

Seminar by Dr. Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Computational Analysis of Large Scale Proteomics Datasets"

Special Roche Presentation (PORT B121, from 2007-08-01 12:00 to 2007-08-01 13:00)

Roche/454 Next-Generation Sequencing -Technology, Applications and Advancements (Presenter-Paula Kelsey)

ACS Workshop on Funding Opportunities (MCDB A1B20, from 2007-08-13 16:00 to 2007-08-13 17:00)

Workshop on Funding Opportunities from The American Cancer Society by Dr. Christopher Widnell, Senior Program Officer, ACS.

Biochemistry Seminar--Dr. David Engelberg (Ekeley W165, from 2007-08-07 14:00 to 2007-08-07 15:00)

Informal Seminar: Producing constitutively active p38 MAPK and ERK-mechanisms and biological properties by Dr. David Engelberg, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Institute for Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

MASP Welcome Back Gathering (MCDB A450, from 2007-09-12 16:30 to 2007-09-12 20:00)

MASP Welcome Back Gathering - Vivian Nguyen@colorado.edu

Thesis Seminar--Daniel Resnicow (MUEN E-0046, from 2007-08-24 11:00 to 2007-08-24 12:00)

Thesis Seminar: Functional Diversity Among Human Skeletal Myosins and a Myopathic Mutation Mentor: Dr. Leslie Leinwand

Dr. Hernando Sosa - Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Porter B121, from 2007-09-14 11:45 to 2007-09-14 12:45)

MCDB Informal Seminar - "Structure and Synamics of Kinesins on Microtubules" - Host: Andy Hoenger

MMB Garcia - Zhang (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-09-07 16:00 to 2007-09-07 17:00)

Kristin Garcia - Su Lab - "Regulation of a Kinesin-5 by Drosophila Weel" Liang Zhang - Han Lab - "Systematic Identification of miRISC Proteins, miRNAs and their mRNA Targets in C. Elegans by their Interactions with GW182 Family Proteins AIN-1 and AIN-2"

Thesis Seminar--Christopher Arthur (Ekeley E1B20, from 2007-09-07 14:00 to 2007-09-07 15:00)

Synaptic Vesicle Recycling at the Small Synapse of the Brain Mentor: Dr. Michael Stowell

Microbiology Supergroup (CIRES Auditorium Room 338, from 2007-09-04 15:30 to 2007-09-04 16:30)

 

MMB Peden/Nickerson (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-09-14 16:00 to 2007-09-14 17:00)

 

MMB-Mapes/Wichmann (, from 2007-09-21 16:00 to 2007-09-21 17:00)

 

Signaling and Cellular Regulation Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-09-17 16:00 to 2007-09-17 17:30)

 

MCDB Fall 2007 Seminar - Dr. Michael Levine-Univ. of California, Berkeley (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-11-08 16:00 to 2007-11-08 17:00)

"Whole-genome Analysis of Dorsal Gradient Threshold in the Drosphila Embryo"

Bioinformatics Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-09-24 16:00 to 2007-09-24 17:00)

The first Bioinformatics Supergroup of the year will be this coming Monday, Sep 24. The supergroup will start at 4 pm, in Ekeley W165/166 (the same room as SCR).

MMB - Hausburg-Hughes (A2B70, from 2007-09-28 16:00 to 2007-09-28 17:00)

Hausburg - The Roles of mRNA Decay in SkeletalMuscle Regeneration" Hughes - "Plasmid Gene Therapy on the Spinal Cord"

MCDB Mentors are hosting their annual MCDB BBQ (Patio outside Porter B121, from 2007-10-02 17:00 to 2007-10-02 18:30)

October 2nd the MCDB Mentors are hosting their annual MCDB BBQ. All professors, staff, post docs, research assistants, grad students, advisors, and undergrads--anyone who is a part of MCDB--- are welcome. It will be from 5-6:30 on the patio outside of B 121. Please join us for the usual good food (hamburgers, hot dogs, cole slaw, beans, cookies and sodas) and the great company of the MCDB community.

David Pollock from the School of Medicine will do a short presentation and answer questions about his proposal to initiate a 454 sequencing facility entitled “The Colorado Consortium for Comparative Genomics” (B121, from 2007-10-10 12:00 to 2007-10-10 13:00)

 

MMB (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-10-05 16:00 to 2007-10-05 17:00)

Aaron Donner - Espinosa Lab "Stimulus-specific Co-regulators of p53-dependent Transcription" Caleb Richter - Odorizzi Lab "Regulation of Deubiquitination and Endosomal Morphology"

SCR Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-10-08 16:00 to 2007-10-08 16:30)

 

RNA Club (Ekeley E1B20, from 2007-10-09 17:30 to 2007-10-09 18:30)

Aimee Keel and Toby Franks

Marcelo Sousa, Biochem Seminar (CHEM 142, from 2007-10-10 16:00 to 2007-10-10 16:00)

 

Bioinformatics Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-10-15 16:00 to 2007-10-15 17:00)

 

Symposium--Signaling and Cellular Regulation (ATLAS Auditorium, from 2008-05-12 09:00 to 2008-05-12 17:00)

 

MMB--Tom Armel and Andy Troy (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-10-19 14:00 to 2007-10-19 15:00)

Tom Armel - "The Effect of Disease Causing Mutations on beta-MyHC Structure and Function" Andy Troy - "Asymmetric Cell Division: A Mechanism of Satellite Cell Self-Renewal"

RNA Club--Steve Marquez/Natasha Chumachenko (Ekeley E1B20, from 2007-10-23 17:30 to 2007-10-23 18:00)

 

MMB Xin Geng/Megan Wemmer (MCDB A2B70 , from 2007-11-02 16:00 to 2007-11-02 17:00)

 

Signaling and Cellular Regulation Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-10-29 16:00 to 2007-10-29 17:30)

 

Thesis Seminar--Elizabeth (Betsy) Luczak (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-11-05 15:00 to 2007-11-05 16:00)

 

Stanley J. Gill Memorial Lecture (CHEM 142, from 2007-11-07 16:00 to 2007-11-07 17:00)

Speaker: Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Rockefeller University

Thesis Seminar--Eric P. Holinger (PORT B121, from 2007-11-06 15:00 to 2007-11-06 16:00)

 

Bioinformatics Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-11-05 16:00 to 2007-11-05 17:00)

 

RNA Club--Knight/Glover-Cutter (Ekeley E1B20, from 2007-11-06 17:30 to 2007-11-06 17:30)

 

MMB - Culver - Kilburn 11 09 07 (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-11-09 16:00 to 2007-11-09 17:00)

Brady Culver (Winey Lab) "Stuck in the Middle within Tetrahymena II" Chandra Kilburn (Winey Lab) " New Tetrahymena Basal Body Components Identify Basal Body Domain Structure"

MMB Seamen - Gu 11 16 07 (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-11-16 16:00 to 2007-11-16 17:00)

E. Seamen (HanLab)- "Characterization of a New Player in Monomethyl Branched -chain Fatty Acid Metabolism in C. Elegans". Chun Yan Gu (Lee Lab) "Function of NeuroD in the Pancreas".

RNA Club--Ravinder Singh/Rebecca Montange (Ekeley E1B20, from 2007-11-20 17:30 to 2007-11-20 19:00)

CANCELLED/Rescheduled to 11/27/2007

Signaling Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-11-26 16:00 to 2007-11-26 17:30)

 

RNA Club--Ravinder Singh/Rebecca Montange (Ekeley E!B20, from 2007-11-27 17:30 to 2007-11-27 19:00)

 

MCDB Seminar - Dr. Amy Wagers -Harvard (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-01-17 16:10 to 2008-01-17 17:10)

"Regenerative Function of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells"

Informal Seminar - Dr. Robert Kirmse (MCDB A1B60, from 2007-12-11 12:00 to 2007-12-11 13:00)

German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany "Modeling the Assembly Kinetics of Intermediate Filaments with Vimentin"

CANCELLED--MCDB Seminar - Dr. Nicholas Proudfoot- Oxford (Cires Auditorium, from 2008-02-08 12:00 to 2008-02-08 13:00)

"Gene Punctuation in Eukaryotes: Interrelationship Between the Cell Cycle and Transcription Termination".

MCDB Seminar - Dr. Hermann Steller, Rockefeller Univ. (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-04-03 16:00 to 2008-04-03 17:00)

MCDB Seminar - Host:Ding Xue Title: "Death by Degradation: Regulation of Cell Death by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway"

MCDB Informal Seminar - Dr. Shelley Sazar (Porter B121, from 2008-01-22 16:00 to 2008-01-22 18:00)

Dr. Shelley Sazar, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Title: Nuclear Shape Change during Fission Yeast Mitosis". Host Dr. Dick McIntosh

MCDB Seminar - Dr. Michael Green - University of Massachusetts Medical School (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-04-17 16:00 to 2008-04-17 17:00)

MCDB Seminar - Host: Ravinder Singh, Title: "Dissecting Oncogene-Directed Regulatory Pathways through Genome-Wide RNA Interference Screens"

MCDB Seminar - Dr. Robert G. Roeder, Rockefeller University (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-04-24 16:00 to 2008-04-24 17:00)

MCDB Seminar: Host: Joaquin Espinosa Title: "Role of Diverse Cofactors in Transcriptional Regulation in Animal Cells"

MCDB Seminar - Dr. Wendy Hanna-Rose, Penn State University (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-04-10 16:00 to 2008-04-10 17:00)

MCDB Seminar - Host: Min Han Title: Nicotinamide Processing Regulates Reproductive Development and Function in C. elegans"

MMB Presentation (A2B70, from 2008-01-18 16:00 to 2008-01-18 17:00)

Nick Farina and Stacy Erickson will be presenting

MMB-Ka Lin Swain/Toby Franks (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-11-30 16:00 to 2007-11-30 17:00)

 

Bioinformatics Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2007-12-03 16:00 to 2007-12-03 17:00)

 

Final RNA Club Meeting (, from 2007-12-11 17:30 to 2007-12-11 18:00)

 

MMB - Chris Wrobel/ Maeng-Jo Kim (MCDB A2B70, from 2007-12-07 16:00 to 2007-12-07 17:00)

 

MMB Presentation (MCDB A2B70 - UC Boulder, from 2007-12-14 16:00 to 2007-12-14 17:00)

John Hall (Olwin Lab, MCDB) and Jackie Dennis (Lykke-Anderson Lab, MCDB)

MMB Presentation (MCDB A2B70 - UC Boulder, from 2007-12-21 16:00 to 2007-12-21 17:00)

Nathan Gomes (Espinoza Lab, MCDB)

MMB Presentation (A2B70, from 2008-01-04 16:00 to 2008-01-04 17:00)

Justin Kuczynski (Perkins Lab, MCDB) "Single Molecule Studies of RNA PolII Transcription Initiation" and Pippa Cosper (Leinwand Lab, MCDB) "Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer-Induced Cardiac Atrophy"

1st Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend (Various venues, from 2008-02-07 12:00 to 2008-02-10 11:00)

See individual schedules for events

MMB Ryan Henry (Espinosa) (A2B70, from 2008-01-25 16:00 to 2008-01-25 17:00)

"p53: An Old Dog Learns New Tricks"

Faculty Recruit Chun-Li Zhang Seminar - Salk Institute for Biological Sciences (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-01-31 16:00 to 2008-01-31 17:00)

Nuclear Receptor Signaling in Adult Neural Stem Cells and Animal Behavior

Faculty Recruit Rui Yi Seminar - The Rockefeller University (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-11 16:00 to 2008-02-11 17:00)

MicroRNA in Mammalian Skin Development and Stem Cells

MCDB Faculty Recruit Briana Burton Seminar - Harvard Medical School (, from 2008-02-18 16:00 to 2008-02-18 17:00)

Chromosome Segregation During Bacterial Cell Division: ATPase-Mediated DNA Transport Across Membranes

MCDB Faculty Recruit Ashby Morrison Seminar - University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-03-10 16:00 to 2008-03-10 17:00)

Activities of a Chromatin-Remodeling Complex During DNA Damage Responses

MCDB Faculty Recruit Bing Li - Stowers Institute for Medical Research (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-21 16:00 to 2008-02-21 17:00)

ReSETting Transribed Chromatin: the Set2-Rpd3S Pathway

MMB Magida/Hiester (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-01 16:00 to 2008-02-01 17:00)

 

MMB Myatt/K. Ross (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-08 16:00 to 2008-02-08 17:00)

 

RNA Journal Club (HLMS 245, from 2008-02-11 12:00 to 2008-02-11 14:00)

Presentation of student papers. All graduate students and post-docs are welcome!

Microbiology Supergroup (Ekeley S274, from 2008-02-05 15:30 to 2008-02-05 16:30)

Microbiology Supergroup

MMB Allen/Reznik (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-15 16:00 to 2008-02-15 17:00)

 

MCDB Seminar - Dr. Jacek Gaertig - University of Georgia (MCDB A120, from 2008-05-06 16:00 to 2008-05-06 17:00)

Host: Mark Winey Title: "Role of Post-Transcriptional Modification of Microtubules in Biogenesis of Cilia".

Bioinformatics Supergroup (Ekeley W165/166, from 2008-02-11 16:00 to 2008-02-11 17:00)

Jeremy Widmann (Knight lab, CHEM) MotifCluster: An interactive online tool for clustering and visualizing sequences using shared motifs and Gianguido Coffa (Copley lab, CIRES) Identification of convergently evolved enzymes in the thermophilic microbe T. volcanium

MCDB Seminar - Nicholas Proudfoot (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-08 17:05 to 2008-02-08 18:00)

Host: Tom Blumenthal Title: "Gene Punctuation in Eukaryotes: Interrelationship between the Cell Cycle and Transcription Termination"

MCDB Faculty Recruit Randall Dahn – The University of Chicago (MCDB A2B70, from 2008-02-14 16:00 to 2008-02-14 17:00)

The Development and Evolution of Vertebrate Appendage Skeletal Pattern

Sigma-Aldrich Functional Genomics Presentation (MCDB A352 IR, from