| September 5 |
Yousin Suh |
Health Science Center at San Antonio |
Genetic variation in genome maintenance: implication in cancer and aging |
| September 7 |
Sasha Stanton |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
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| September 28 |
Ken Krauter |
University of Colorado |
Complex genetics: teens, drugs, and genes |
| October 12 |
Dan Gottschling |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Nuclear incontinence: the effects of old age on the genome |
| November 9 |
Peter Gregersen |
North Shore/Long Island Jewish Medical Center |
Chasing down genes for rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmunity: genetic approaches to complex phenotypes |
| November 30 |
Susan Bressman |
Beth Israel Medical Center |
Hereditary Dystonias |
| December 14 |
Peter D. Yurchenco |
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
The role of laminin in epithelial polarization |
| January 11 |
Kremena Star |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Identification and analysis of renal quantitative traits loci |
| January 25 |
Rich Bushman |
University of Pennsylvania |
HIV-host chromatin interactions studied using massively paralled pyrophosphate sequencing |
| February 8 |
Sarah Elsea |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
RAI1mosaicism, and 17p11.2 deletions: the complexity of Smith-Magenis syndrome |
| March 8 |
Milan Jamrich |
Baylor College |
Molecular events regulating vertebrate eye development |
| March 13 |
Lisa Shaffer, Tamim Shaikh, and Robert Nicholls |
Washington State University/Signature Genomics; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pittsburgh |
Chromosome Rearrangements and Genomic Disorders |
| March 22 |
Eric Phizicky |
University of Rochester School of Medicine |
tRNA: how and why it is all dressed up |
| April 5 |
Nelly Pitteloud |
MGH |
FGF8 is a key ligand for FGFR1 in GnRH ontogeny |
| April 19 |
Ross Cagan |
Washington University, St. Louis |
Development, cancer, and drugs: old and new approaches with Drosophila |
| April 20 |
Rajarshi Ghosh |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
How does a moving animal stop itself? Insights fromm a novel episodic behavior in C. elegans |
| May 3 |
Jan Vijg |
Buck Institute for Age Research |
Genome Instability, Cancer, and Aging |
| May 17 |
David Goldstein |
Duke University |
From schizophrenia to HIV vaccines: whole genome-association studies point the way |
| June 7 |
Ruth Ashery-Padan |
Tel-Aviv University |
The multiple functions of Pax6 in eye development |
| June 21 |
Richard Spielman |
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Quantitative and other "complex" human traits |
| June 28 |
Jonathan Haines |
Vanderbilt University |
Dissecting the Genetics of Mulitple Sclerosis in the Genomic Era |
| July 9 |
Wei Li |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Mechanisms of cell competition in Drosophila |
| July 12 |
Gunnar Kleemann |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
The Endocrine Regulation of Sexual Behavior in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |