| September 3 |
Danaise V. Carrion |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
The Role of the Bub1 Gee in Chromosomal Instability and Cancer Progression |
| October 2 |
Thomas Tuschl |
Rockefeller University |
Gene regulation by small dsRNAs |
| October 16 |
Laura Johnston |
Columbia University |
Cell competition as a mechanism of growth control |
| November 13 |
Rolf Jessberger |
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine |
SMC proteins are required for meiosis |
| December 11 |
Eric Alani |
Cornell University |
Roles for mismatch repair proteins in genetic recombination |
| January 8 |
E. Bryan Crenshaw III |
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Molecular genetic analyses of mammalian embryonic development |
| February 5 |
David Schwartz |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Single molecule approaches for the new biology |
| February 19 |
Josef Penninger |
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
T cells, bones, and mammalian evolution |
| March 4 |
Eric Holland |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Using mice to dissect the biology of gliomas |
| March 9 |
L. Rene Garcia |
Texas A&M University |
Regulation of male behaviors in C. elegans during mating |
| April 1 |
Rolf Sternglanz |
SUNY Stony Brook |
Transcriptional silencing in yeast: role of the Sir2 deacetylase and the Sir3 BAH domain |
| April 15 |
Ralf Schnabel |
Technical University of Brauschweig, Germany |
4D-microscopic analysis of the embryogenesis of C. elegans. Lineage, binary specification, regions and cell migrations |
| April 29 |
Linda Penn |
University of Toronto |
Regulation and functions of the myc oncoprotein |
| May 13 |
Jeff Simon |
University of Minnesota |
Transcriptional repression and chromatin modification by Polycomb group proteins |
| June 10 |
Alan Shuldiner |
University of Maryland School of Medicine |
Genetics of type 2 diabetes and other complete disorders in the Amish: plain, but not simple |
| June 15 |
Jennifer Blanck |
Albert Einstein Collge of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Functions and interactions of the carboxyl terminus of the Myc antagonist, Mxi1 |
| June 17 |
Gail Martin |
University of California at San Francisco |
FGF function in vertebrate embryogenesis |
| August 5 |
Marsha Caton |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Characterization of Torp2a: A Novel AAA+ Chaperone protein |