| October 27 |
Elias Spiliotis |
Stanford University |
Epithelial cell morphogenesis and disease: septins take center stage |
| November 10 |
Frank Middleton |
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse |
The emergence of convergence: high-throughput genetic linkage, association and functional genomic screens identify novel candidate genes for schizophrenia that are involved in brain maturation and function |
| November 21 |
Lingyun Jia |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Genetic mechanisms for axonal development of ray sensory neurons and behavior in the C. elegans male |
| December 1 |
Michael Hampsey |
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
Transcription, processing and gene loops |
| December 15 |
Paul Lasko |
McGill University |
Cap-dependent translational control in Drosophila development |
| January 5 |
Jessica Treisman |
Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine |
Novel components of the EGF receptor pathway in Drosophila eye development |
| January 19 |
Mark Lewandowski |
NCI Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center |
BMPps, FGFs, and WNTs conspire to control cell death during mouse embryogenesis |
| February 2 |
Scott Bultman |
University of North Carolina |
A Brg1 allelic series reveals the role of SWI.SNF-related complexes during mammalian development |
| February 13 |
Jelena S. Arnold |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
The role of Tbx1, a 22q11 deletion syndrome candidate gene, in mouse development |
| February 16 |
Yousin Suh |
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio |
Genetic Variation in Cancerand Aging: From the Bedside to Functional Genomics |
| March 2 |
Doris Wu |
NIH |
Making of an inner ear |
| March 27 |
Rachele Arrigoni |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
The Polycomb-associated protein Rybp functions as a ubiquitin and a SUMO receptor |
| April 27 |
Philip Hinds |
Molecular Oncology Research Institute/Tufts-New England Medical Center |
The retinoblstoma protein pathway in development and cancer |
| May 5 |
Anton Svetlanov |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
MutS and MutL mismatch repair proteins in recombination and repair pathways of mammalian meiosis |
| May 11 |
William Dobyns |
University of Chicago |
Where has all the GABA gone? ARX (and CDKL5), malformations, epilepsy, mental retardation and pleiotropy |
| May 25 |
Bradley Bernstein |
Broad Institute, MIT |
Epigenetic mechanisms of cellular memory |
| June 8 |
Vittorio Sartorelli |
NIH |
RNA helicases p68/p72 and the non-coding RNA. SRA are coregulators of MyoD and skeletal muscle differentiation |
| June 21 |
Olivier Delattre |
Institut Curie, Paris |
Role of EWS-FLI1 and hSNF5/INI1 in tumorigenesis and differentiation |
| June 22 |
David Allis |
Rockefeller University |
Beyond the double helix: writing and reading the "histone code" |
| June 27 |
Melanie Babcock |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Organization and evolution of low copy repeats (LCR) on chromosome 22q11 |
| August 9 |
Jun Liao |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Dosage-dependent role of Tbx1 in 22q11 deletion syndrome mouse models |