News and Lectures

Upcoming Seminars

SEMINAR, Tuesday, April 03, 2012
“Next Generation Sequencing Studies in Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Richard H. Myers, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Director, Genome Science Institute, Boston University School of Medicine

Past Seminars (2011-2012)

SEMINAR, Tuesday, September 20, 2011
“DNA Shape and the Workings of the Human Genome”
Tom Tullius, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston University

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Friday, September 23, 2011
“Captain Kaback and the Great White Permease”
H. Ronald Kaback, MD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles

SEMINAR, Tuesday, September 27, 2011
“Illuminating Paramyxoviruses: Attenuation and Pathogenesis, Two Sides of One Coin”
Paul Duprex, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University School of Medicine

SEMINAR, Tuesday, October 11, 2011
“Obesity as a Chronic Inflammatory State: Is Adipose Tissue a Culprit?”
Susan K. Fried, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Boston University School of Medicine

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Thursday, October 13, 2011
“GPI, Sphingolipids and Secretion: The molecular basis of virulence in African trypanosomes”
James D. Bangs, PhD
Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin—Madison

SEMINAR, Tuesday, October 18, 2011
“Evolution of Specificity in a Superfamily of Phosphatases”
Karen N. Allen, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston University

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Thursday, October 20, 2011
“The Fat-regulating Phosphatidic Acid Phosphatase Plays a Key Role in Protection against Lipotoxicity”
George M. Carman, PhD
Director, Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Friday, October 21, 2011
“An abundant and unusual RNAi pathway regulates robust gene silencing in Entamoeba histolytica”
Upinder Singh, MD
Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine

SEMINAR, Tuesday, October 25, 2011
“Analysis and Design of Receptor-Ligand Interactions by Computational Mapping of Macromolecules”
Sandor Vajda, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

SEMINAR, Tuesday, November 01, 2011
“Early Events in the Assembly of Very Low Density Lipoprotein, the Precursor of LDL”
C. James McKnight, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Thursday, November 03, 2011
“Integration of Metabolism and Virulence in Gram-Positive Bacteria”
Abraham L. Sonenshein, PhD
Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine

SEMINAR, Tuesday, November 8, 2011
“Strategies for translating the mechanisms of androgen action into selective function promoting anabolic therapies”
Shalender Bhasin, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief Section Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Boston University School of Medicine

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Thursday, November 10, 2011
“Telomeres and Virulence Genes in Candida glabrata”
Brendan Cormack, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

SEMINAR, Tuesday, November 29, 2011
“Genetic Dissection of Host Resistance to Respiratory Infections”
Igor Kramnik, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR, Wednesday, November 30, 2011
“Insulin Biosynthesis during the Development and Progression of Diabetes: A Double Edged Sword”
Ming Liu, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Thursday, December 1, 2011
“The PI3K-mTOR Signaling Circuitry and Novel Targeted Cancer Therapies and Preventive Strategies”
Silvio Gutkind, PhD
Chief, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, NIDCR, NIH, Bethesda, Md.

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR, Tuesday, December 6, 2011
“Mechanisms of nervous system and muscle development and regeneration”
Laura N. Borodinsky, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Thursday, December 8, 2011
“Defining Mammalian Host Cell Pathways that Support Intracellular Trypanosoma cruzi Infection: Is there Therapeutic Potential?”
Barbara A. Burleigh, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR, Thursday, December 15, 2011
“Regulation of the DLK-1 pathway in synapse formation and axon regeneration”
Dong Yan, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR, Thursday, January 5, 2012
“Novel Chromatin Mechanisms Regulating Lifespan”
Weiwei Dang, PhD
Instructor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SEMINAR, Tuesday, January 10, 2012
“New Strategies for Diagnosis and Therapy of Mucopolysaccharidoses”
Jeffrey D. Esko, PhD
Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR, Thursday, January 12, 2012
“The role of CRL4-Cdt2 ubiquitin ligase in cell cycle progression and genome stability”
Tarek Abbas, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia

SEMINAR, Tuesday, January 17, 2012
“mTORC1 and Lipid Partitioning”
Konstantin Kandror, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR, Thursday, January 19, 2012
“Golgi Biogenesis, Function, and Defects in Diseases”
Yanzhuang Wang, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan