| August 28 |
Samuel Sidi |
Dana-Farber Institute |
A New Apoptotic Pathway in the Vertebrate DNA Damage Response |
| September 3 |
Julie Secombe |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Regulation of Myc-induced Cell Growth by the Histone Demethylase Lid |
| September 3 |
John Blangero
(sponsored with the Diabetes Center) |
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research |
Integrative Approaches to the Identification of Complex Disease Genes |
| September 10 |
William Belden |
Dartmouth Medical School |
Chromatin-Remodeling and Epigenetics Assist Circadian Clock-Regulated Gene Expression |
| September 11 |
Batbayar Khulan |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Cytosine methylation dynamics during normal cell differentiation |
| September 17 |
Alberto Polleri |
Stanford University |
Genetic Network Dysregulation and Human Disease: Results from Quantitative Systems Biology |
| September 19 |
David Heslin |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Activities of HERV-K components - capacity of the human genome to yield an infectious retrovirus |
| September 24 |
Chuxia Deng |
NIH |
BRCA1 and its downstream signaling in tumorigenesis |
| October 8 |
Arkady Celeste |
NCI-NIH |
Surveillance, Signaling and Repair Platforms Ensuring Genomic Stability |
| October 13 |
Igor B. Roninson |
Ordway Research Institute |
Transcriptional Consequences of Cellular Damage: Therapeutic Implications for Cancer and Aging |
| October 15 |
Christian Dahmann |
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics |
Cenetic Control of Epithelial Morphogenesis |
| October 28 |
Hui-Qi Qu |
McGill University Health Center |
Genetic Analysis of Human Complex Diseases: The Example of Type 1 Diabetes |
| November 5 |
Joseph Culotti |
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute |
Effects of reciprocally graded extracellular cues on axon guidance |
| November 12 |
Jacob Glass |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Species-specific CG dinucleotide clustering and periodicity: its genomic context, epigenomic influences, and relationship to human disease. |
| November 12 |
Koh-ichi Nagata |
Institute for Developmental Research (Japan) |
In vitro and in vivo analyses of cytoskeleton-related protein, Septin, during brain development |
| December 11 |
Brynn Levy |
Columbia University |
Genome-wide SNP Microarrays in Clinical Diagnostics and Translational Research |
| January 21 |
Agata Smogorzewska |
Harvard Medical School |
When Watson and Crick Get Linked: The Fanconi Anemia Pathway and DNA Crosslink Repair |
| January 28 |
Jay Hesselberth |
University of Washington |
Genomic DNA Footprinting: Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Sites Across the Genome |
| February 18 |
John Edwards |
Columbia University Genome Center |
Whole-Genome Methylation Profiles of Normal and Cancer Genomes |
| February 19 |
Matthew Harris |
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology |
Genetic Analysis of Variation in Adult Form: The Zebrafish as a Model for Evolutionary Change and Human Disease |
| February 25 |
Ertugrul Ozbudak |
Stowers Institute for Medical Research |
Spatio-temporal Compartmentalization of Key Physiological Processes During Muscle Precursors Differentiation |
| March 4 |
Willis Li |
University of Rochester Medical Center |
From JAK/STAT Signaling to Heterochromatin Stability: Implications in Tumorigenesis, Aging, and Stem Cell Maintenance |
| March 4 |
David Mangelsdorf |
UT Southwestern Medical Center |
Nuclear receptors, FGF's and their regulation of nutrient metabolism |
| March 11 |
Hong Xu |
University of California, San Francisco |
Exploring the Second Genome Mitochrondrial DNA Genetics in Drosophila |
| March 18 |
Zheng Wang |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Quality control of a transcriptional regulator by SUMO-targeted degradation |
| March 25 |
In-Hyun Park |
Harvard Medical School |
Reprogramming and Modeling Human Disease |
| May 13 |
Jeffrey Esko |
University of California at San Diego |
Proteoglycans as Portals of Entry for Lipoproteins and Therapeutic Agents |
| June 24 |
Marcia Haigis |
Harvard Medical School |
New roles for mitochondrial sirtuins in metabolism |
| July 23 |
Reid Thompson |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics (Thesis Defense) |
Epigenomic Dysregulation Associated with Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Normal Aging |