| September 21 |
John Greally |
Yale University |
Genomic imprinting and position effects: reasons to love junk DNA |
| October 12 |
DoubleTwist |
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Surging genomes with doubletwist.com |
| November 2 |
Hugo Bellen |
Baylor College of Medicine |
The genetic basis of hearing, balance, and the sixth sense |
| November 16 |
Marek Mlodzik |
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine |
Wnt/frizzled signaling in the specification of epithelial planar polarity |
| November 27 |
Michael M. Malim |
University of Pennsylvania |
Virus and host-mediatedmodulation of the early steps of HIV-1 infection |
| November 28 |
Errol Craig |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecualar Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Identification and characterization of a nuclear export signal in Ini1/hSNF5, a component of the human SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex |
| November 30 |
Connie Cepko |
Harvard University |
Genomics approaches to photoreceptor developmenta and disease |
| December 4 |
Hong Zhang |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Isolation and characterization of three new genes that regulate the expression and function of C. elegans Hox genes |
| December 14 |
Scott Keeney |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Starting meiotic recombination in yeast and mouse |
| January 11 |
Anna Maria Skalka |
Fox Chase Cancer Center |
Role of cellular DNA repair proteins in retroviral DNA integration |
| February 8 |
Steven Buratowski |
Harvard Medical School |
Connections between transcription, chromatin, and mRNA processing |
| March 8 |
Richard Mann |
Columbia P&S |
Control of developmental pathways by the Hox proteins and their cofactors |
| May 3 |
Bob Kingston |
Massachusetts General Hospital |
A biochemical approach to epigenetic regulation: SWI/SNF and Polycomb |
| May 17 |
Mike Young |
Rockefeller University |
Molecular control of the wake/sleep cycle |
| May 31 |
Jim Lupski |
Baylor College of Medicine |
Genomic architecture, rearrangements, evolution and genomic disorders |
| June 14 |
Pier Paolo Pandolfi |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Modeling cancer in the mouse and its therapeutic implications |