Event Calendar Archive

Date Time Speaker Headline
07/18/08 4:00 PM Peter Kaiser DBC Mini Symposium / Happy Hour

07/16/08 10:30 AM Richard G. Bolles Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphisms and Predisposition to Common Functional Disorders: The Molecular Link between Migraine, Depression, Irritable Bowel and Chronic Fatigue?

07/08/08 3:00 PM Benno Roozendaal Glucocorticoids, brain activation, and memory of emotionally arousing experiences

07/08/08 4:00 PM Jeffrey Rothstein Neuron-Astroglial Unit: Origin of Neural Injury and target for Therapy

06/20/08 4:00 PM Sergie Grando DBC Mini Symposium

06/14/08 1:00 PM Various Speakers The School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Honors Convocation

06/14/08 5:00 PM M. Marlene Godoy The School of Biological Sciences Commencement

06/10/08 4:00 PM Asla Pitkanen Modelling post-traumatic epilepsy: from challenge to applications

06/06/08 12:00 PM Squire Booker Taking a Hit: Self-Sacrifice as a Strategy in the Biosynthesis of Lipoic Acid

06/05/08 9:00 AM Shelley Campeau Organization and evolution of plasmids of two relapsing fever Borrelia species

06/02/08 2:00 PM Various Speakers The School of Biological Sciences Graduate Honors Convocation and Teaching/Faculty Awards

06/02/08 4:30 PM GK-12 Symposium 2008. Outreach, Research Training and Minority Science Programs (MSP)

05/30/08 12:00 PM Rosina Girones Quantification of Adenoviruses and Polyomaviruses, a Tool for the Control of the Microbiological Contamination of Environment and Water

05/30/08 4:00 PM Paul Rothemund DNA origami: folding DNA to create arbitrary shapes and patterns

05/29/08 9:00 AM Eric Cheng Transcription factors in Chlamydia that regulate multiple targets

05/29/08 9:30 AM Tara Crabb The Influence of the Exon Junction Complex on Intron Removal

05/28/08 11:00 AM Galina Filipova Genetics and Epigenetics of the Multifunctional Protein CTCF

05/28/08 4:00 PM Sheila A. Lukehart Unmasking the Great Imitator: Antigenic Variation in Treponema pallidum

05/23/08 12:00 PM Jeremy Boss Transcription Regulation of Immune System Genes

05/22/08 9:00 AM Rani Najdi Nuclear exclusion of growth-suppressing TCF-1 in colon cancer

05/22/08 9:30 AM Becky Tsai A strategy for Identifying LEF-1 IRES Regulatory Factors

05/22/08 3:00 PM Michael V. Zaragoa Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure in the Adenine Nucleotide Translocase 1 Mutant Mouse.

05/22/08 7:00 PM Ezekiel J. Emanuel The Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture - Beyond Band-Aids: Curing Americas Sick Health Care System

05/21/08 11:00 AM Xing Dai mPygo2 in Wnt signaling, chromatin modification, and stem cell development

05/16/08 12:00 PM Tim Sparer Chemokines Gone Wild! The Pleiotropic Effects of Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors: From Cytomegalovirus Dissemination to Tumorigenesis

05/16/08 2:00 PM Gino Cortopassi Potential Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Neurodegeneration

05/15/08 9:00 AM Renee Marcsisin-Rogers The Non-Variable Antigens of Borrelia hermsii, A Relapsing Fever Agent

05/15/08 11:00 AM Marthe Howard Transcriptional Regulation of Neurogenesis and Cell Type-specific Gene Expression in the Autonomic Nervous System

05/15/08 2:00 PM Young Hee Ko Cancer Cell Energy Metabolism: Understanding and Targeting Its Mitochondrial and Glycolytic Components

05/15/08 3:00 PM Pharmaceutical Sciences Information Session II

05/15/08 5:00 PM John Bixby STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING REGENERATION OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AXONS

05/14/08 11:00 AM Andres Moya Human infectious diseases: An evolutionary approach

05/14/08 11:00 AM Dan Klionsky Autophagy: a tightly regulated pathway of subcellular degradation that you rely on more than you realize (unless you attend this seminar, then you will be in awe)

05/14/08 4:00 PM George Chaconas Imaging the Lyme Disease Pathogen in a Living Host

05/14/08 7:30 PM Claudia Kawas The Fourteenth UCI Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory

05/09/08 12:00 PM J. Martin Bollinger, Jr. Formation and function of a radical-initiating manganese/iron cofactor in the ribonucleotide reductase from Chlamydia trachomatis

05/08/08 9:00 AM Allan Chen Stress Response in Chlamydia: Regulating the Regulator

05/08/08 11:00 AM Aaron Zorn Repression of Wnt Signaling in Foregut Organ Development

05/08/08 4:00 PM Ivan Izquierdo Memory Consolidation and Memory Persistence

05/07/08 11:00 AM Jim Kadonaga Perspectives on Transcription and Chromatin Dynamics

05/07/08 5:00 PM Peter Bowler Dr. Peter Bowler, Rio de Dios Book Signing Announcement

05/02/08 12:00 PM Kuan-Teh Jeang Tales of Two Human Retroviruses: Recent Insights Into Molecular Mechanisms Regulating HTLV-1 and HIV-1 Replication

05/01/08 9:00 AM Kerry Fitzgerald Functions of non-canonical initiation factors in poliovirus cap-independent translation

04/30/08 11:00 AM Doug Wallace A Mitochondrial Pathophysiology of Age-related Diseases, Aging, and Cancer

04/28/08 1:00 PM Florence d’Alché-Buc Statistical Learning of Biological Networks

04/25/08 12:00 PM Carsten Krebs Mechanism of Oxygen Activation by Mononuclear Non-Heme Enzymes

04/24/08 9:00 AM Matthew Kotlajich Commitment to splice site pairing: The return to the point of no return

04/24/08 11:00 AM John York Insights into Inositol Phosphate Cellular Signaling Pathways

04/24/08 4:00 PM Wendy Suzuki Associative Learning Signals in the Medial Temporal Lobe

04/23/08 11:00 AM Jodi Nunnari The machines that divide and fuse mitochondria

04/21/08 2:00 PM Min Dong Identification of Neuronal Receptors for Botulinum Neurotoxins

04/17/08 9:00 AM Gene-Errol Ringpis Modularity of Trypanosomal RNA editing TUTases

04/17/08 2:00 PM Jay Radke Role of the host cell molecular environment on the pathogenesis of Toxoplasma infection

04/16/08 11:00 AM Leslie Lock TBA

04/16/08 4:00 PM Christine Guthrie New Insights into the Regulation of mRNA Splicing

04/14/08 12:00 PM Manuela Raffatellu Tales from the gut: How Salmonella overcomes the mucosal barrier

04/14/08 1:00 PM Russell Greiner Budgeted Learning of Probabilistic Classifiers

04/14/08 3:00 PM Janice Pata Snapshots of an Error-Prone Polymerase Making a Single-Base Deletion Mutation

04/11/08 12:00 PM Reuben Shaw The LKB1 kinase: tumor suppressor and key regulator of AMPK and metabolism

04/11/08 4:00 PM Shannon Turley The Role of Lymph Node Stroma in Regulating T-Cell Immunity.

04/10/08 11:00 AM Richard Cheney Myosin-X and a novel form of motility in filopodia

04/10/08 2:00 PM Eain Murphy The role of miRNAs on human cytomegalovirus infection

04/10/08 4:00 PM Elizabeth Phelps Changing Fear

04/08/08 4:00 PM Michel Baudry Plasticity and Neurodegeneration: Two sides of the same coin

04/04/08 12:00 PM Juan Carlos de la Torre Deconstructing the Prototypic Arenavirus LCMV: Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Pathogenic Arenaviruses

04/03/08 2:00 PM Lidia Vasilieva Role of transcription-coupled RNA degradation in heterochromatic silencing

04/02/08 11:00 AM Jeremy Thorner TBA

04/02/08 4:00 PM Jennifer Doudna Hijacking the ribosome: Translational control in viruses and cells

03/31/08 2:00 PM Jing Huang Roles of p53 Methylation and Demethylation in Cancer

03/31/08 7:00 PM Gregory S. Hageman Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology - “A New Era for Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Insights Pertaining to a Key Role for the Immune System”

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03/27/08 9:00 AM Susan Huang Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): epidemic spread of an old microbe

03/24/08 1:00 PM Andrew G. Barto Intrinsic Motivation, Cumulative Learning, and Computational Reinforcement Learning

03/21/08 9:00 AM Gregory A. Weiss Combining Combinatorial Libraries to Map Membrane Proteins and Combat HIV

03/20/08 9:00 AM David Gauthier A link between the enzymatic activity of CLOCK and nuclear receptors

03/20/08 11:00 AM Ed Rubel Fishin’ for Solutions to Hearing Loss(Finding Genetic and Chemical Modulators of Inner Ear Hair Cell Death)

03/19/08 11:00 AM Steve Jacobsen Genetics and genomics of DNA methylation

03/19/08 7:30 PM Fred Gage The Fourteenth UCI Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory

03/17/08 12:00 PM Yongsheng Shi Eukaryotic Pre-MRNA Processing: Proteomics, Structure, and Regulation

03/17/08 1:00 PM Stefano Lonardi Computational Challenges of the Barley Genome Project

03/17/08 2:00 PM Tarek Samih Najdi Biological Analysis and Methematical Modeling of Glucose Metabolism and the Aspartate and Pyruvate Family Amino Acid Biosyntheses in Escherichia coli K12

03/15/08 8:00 AM Hot Topics in Epilepsy Research

03/14/08 8:00 AM Hot Topics in Epilepsy Research

03/14/08 12:00 PM Adam Martiny Patterns and Implications of Gene Gain and Loss in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus

03/13/08 9:00 AM Drew Etheridge 3' Adenylation/uridylylation monitoring of mRNA stability and mRNA editing in T. brucei mitochondria

03/13/08 11:30 AM Lifeng Xu Functional Regulation of Telomeres By Telomerase and Telomeric Binding Proteins

03/12/08 11:00 AM Lorraine Pillus Modifying Chromatin to Define Chromosome Functions

03/12/08 4:00 PM Joel Baines Assembly and egress of the herpes simplex virus nucleocapsid

03/10/08 12:00 PM Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou Neuronal Activity-dependent Regulation of MeCP2: Insight into the Molecular Basis of Rett Syndrome

03/07/08 9:00 AM Eric J. Huang Life and Death in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

03/07/08 12:00 PM Kristen Bernard Wets Nile Virus: Interactions With It's Hosts.

03/07/08 3:00 PM George Zhang Tracing functional changes in gene evolution

03/06/08 9:00 AM Laruimar Escudero-Paunette Studying the Importance of Alternative Adaptor Proteins in the Export of HSV-1 Transcripts

03/06/08 3:00 PM George Zhang Systems biology approaches to genetics and evolution

03/06/08 4:00 PM Ted Abel Cancelled - Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Colloquium Series

03/05/08 11:00 AM Robert Steele Hydra - small animal, big genome, lots of surprises

03/03/08 4:00 PM Harvey Cohen Comparative Proteomics in Pediatrics - Diagnostics & Prognostics for the 21st Century

02/29/08 12:00 PM Jean-Luc Popot Developing the applications of amphipols to membrane protein studies. An update.

02/28/08 9:00 AM Karoni Dutt Electrophysiological analysis of mice expressing a human sodium channel mutation that causes epilespy

02/27/08 11:00 AM David Walt Pathogen detection and Identification Using Microarrays

02/27/08 12:00 PM Judy Campisi Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons?

02/27/08 4:00 PM James McKerrow Developing Drugs for Neglected Parasitic Diseases in an Academic Incubator

02/22/08 9:00 AM Steven M. Lipkin New Approaches to Predict Inherited Colorectal Cancer Risk and Progression

02/21/08 9:00 AM Felicia Hernandez Imaging the Interaction Dynamics of ICP27 During HSV-1 Infection

02/20/08 11:00 AM Suzanne Sandmeyer In and Out with Ty3

02/15/08 12:00 PM Michael Gilson Entropy, Affinity and the Design of Targeted Molecules

02/14/08 9:00 AM Noriko Yokoyama Repression of the LEF1 Alternative Promoter in Colon Cancer

02/13/08 11:00 AM Bert O'Malley Nuclear Receptor Coactivators: Breaking the Code Of A Master Gene Regulator

02/13/08 4:00 PM Michael Rosbash Molecular basis of Circadian Rhythmicity

02/12/08 4:00 PM Steve Danzer Adult neurogenesis in the epileptic brain

02/08/08 9:00 AM Prasad Tongaonkar Biosynthesis of defensins: A role for ER-chaperone complex?

02/07/08 9:00 AM Sarah Daijogo Poly(A)-Binding Protein Interactions with Proteins Required for Poliovirus Replication

02/07/08 4:00 PM Dan Gusfield ReCombinatorics: Combinatorial Algorithms for Studying the History of Recombination in Populations

02/06/08 11:00 AM Sarah Millar Molecular controls of ectodermal appendage development

02/06/08 4:00 PM Petra Boukamp Human Epidermal Stem Cells: A Challenge

02/01/08 12:00 PM Joseph Jarrett Iron-sulfur Clusters as Sulfur Donors in Cofactor Biosynthesis

01/31/08 9:00 AM Elizabeth Case Mechanisms of Developmental Gene Regulation in Chlamydia

01/30/08 4:00 PM Jared Leadbetter New insights into lignocellulose digestion by termite gut microbes

01/25/08 12:00 PM Alan Rein Putting the Pieces Together: Molecular Mechanisms in HIV-1 Particle Assembly

01/24/08 10:30 AM Jay C. Dunlap The Circadian Oscillator - a cascade of positive- and negative-acting enzyme products of regulatory genes

01/23/08 4:00 PM J. Michael Bishop From Bench to Bedside with Proto-oncogenes

01/22/08 4:00 PM David Prince Mechanisms of Disinhibition in Chronic Neocortical Epileptogenesis

01/18/08 12:00 PM Andrej Luptak Mammalian Ribozymes

01/17/08 12:00 PM Nicola Clayton Canny Crows and Judicious Jays: The Case for Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes

01/16/08 11:00 AM Peter Kaiser Metabolic Pathways and Cell Proliferation

01/16/08 4:00 PM James L. Manley Diverse mechanisms regulate processing of mRNA precursors

01/16/08 7:30 PM Nicola S. Clayton The Fourteenth UCI Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory

01/11/08 9:00 AM Philip Carpenter Translational Studies of Laminin 5 and Other Markers in Breast Pathology

01/11/08 12:00 PM Rozanne Sandri-Goldin HSV-1 ICP27, a Multi Functional Regulatory Protien

01/10/08 12:00 PM Nace Golding Life in the fast brain: dendritic and axonal properties for auditory temporal coding

01/10/08 4:00 PM Eric Nestler Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction

01/08/08 4:00 PM Dane Chetkovich H Channel Mislocalization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

12/20/07 12:00 PM Daoyun Ji Searching for memory traces in neurons: from the hippocampus to visual cortex

12/14/07 9:00 AM Celia W. Goulding Structural And Proteomic Approaches In Discovering Molecular Assemblies To Aid Anti-TB Drug Discovery

12/13/07 12:15 PM Barbara Calabrese Structural Plasticity of Synapses: Amyloid beta, MARCKS and Membrane Phospholipids

12/12/07 11:00 AM Terry Magnuson Epigenetics, stem cells, and mammalian development

12/12/07 4:00 PM George Cross Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes: known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns

12/11/07 4:00 PM David Camerini HIV Pathogenesis and Immunity

12/10/07 4:00 PM Marc Mangel Phenotypic Evolutionary Models in Stem Cell Biology: Replacement, Quiescence, and Variability

12/07/07 12:00 PM Jefferey Kieft Translation Initiation Without Protiens: How a Viral IRES RNA Can Hijack a Ribosome

12/06/07 9:00 AM Santos Rojas The Role of Phosphorylation in the Activities of ICP27 during HSV-1 Infection

12/06/07 12:00 PM Xiangmin Xu Specific Neuronal Types and Functional Cortical Circuits

12/05/07 11:00 AM Anita Hopper Retrograde Nuclear Accumulation of Cytoplasmic tRNAs: A Conserved Cellular Response to Nutrient Deprivation

12/05/07 4:00 PM John Helmann Bacterial adaptations to metal ion limitation

12/03/07 4:00 PM Sheldon Greenfield Barriers to the Translation of Scientific Discoveries into Medical Practice: The NIH Roadmap and You!

11/30/07 9:00 AM Richard Gallo Antimicrobial Peptides: Redefining the Skin's Barrier Against Infection

11/30/07 12:00 PM Joyce Bishoff Tissue Vascularization using Blood-derived and Bone Marrow-derived Progenitor Cells. An abstract is below.

11/29/07 11:00 AM Alan Perelson Mathematical Modeling of Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Treatment

11/28/07 11:00 AM Pierre Baldi Charting Chemical Space with Computers: Challenges and Opportunities in Drug Discovery and Design

11/27/07 7:00 PM Steven A. Frank, Ph.D. The Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology - Cancer and Aging: How Our Bodies are Designed to be Reliable and Why They Fail

11/20/07 1:30 PM Ling Li Charting the Movements of HSV-1 ICP27 to Determine Its Role in Regulating Viral Gene Expression throughout HSV-1 Infection

11/19/07 4:00 PM Philip Cole Chemical Approaches to Sorting out Histone Modifications

11/16/07 11:00 AM Tommi S. Jaakkola Elements of Distributed Inference

11/16/07 2:00 PM Ju-Hui Ting LEF/TCFs are non-redundant in gene regulation in colon cancer cells

11/16/07 4:00 PM Ed Monuki DBC Mini Symposium and Happy Hour

11/15/07 9:00 AM Stefan Kaluz Regulation of hypoxic response by proteasomal inhibitors

11/14/07 4:00 PM David Schneider New adaptive and innate immune signaling pathways in the fruit fly

11/09/07 12:00 PM Brian V. Geisbrecht Structural Biology as a Tool for Understanding Immune Evasion by Staphylococcus Aureus

11/09/07 1:30 PM Antoine Triller A real time molecular dynamic perspective on synaptic stability and plasticity

11/09/07 4:00 PM Klaus Schulten The Computational Microscope

11/08/07 9:00 AM Celia Goulding Probing the Novel Mycobacterial Heme Uptake System: A Structural and Biochemistry Analysis

11/08/07 4:00 PM Kai Kaila Experimental Febrile Seizures Are Precipitated By A Hyperthermia-Induced Respiratory Alkalosis

11/07/07 11:00 AM Ellis Levin Estrogen inhibits DNA damage and repair signaling in breast cancer

11/01/07 9:00 AM Kirsty Salmon The IN's and OUT's of Protein Solubility

10/31/07 4:00 PM Peter Palese The Pathogenicity of Pandemic Influenza Viruses

10/31/07 4:00 PM Peter Palese The Pathogenicity of Pandemic Influenza Viruses

10/29/07 11:00 AM David Heckerman Graphical Models for HIV Vaccine Design

10/29/07 11:00 AM Dale Dorsett Roles of sister chromatid cohesion proteins in gene expression and development

10/26/07 11:00 AM Sung-Uk Lee Regulation of Autoimmunity by Genetic and Metabolic control of N-glycosylation

10/26/07 12:00 PM Peter Girguis Peering into the private lives of microbes: insight into the ecological physiology of deep sea microbes using conventional and novel approaches

10/26/07 4:00 PM Paolo Sassone- Corsi DBC Mini Symposium & Happy Hour

10/25/07 9:00 AM Phil Collins Nanoscale electronic circuits: a new tool for single-molecule research and biochemical assays

10/24/07 11:00 AM Chris Lima Post-translational protein modification by SUMO, a ubiquitin-like modifier

10/24/07 11:00 AM Silvere van der Maarel Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: where genetics meets epigenetics

10/24/07 4:00 PM Frank Kaiser The cohesin protein NIPBL recruits histone deacetylases to mediate chromatin remodelling

10/19/07 12:00 PM Massimo Palmarini A Paradigm for Virus-Host Coevolution: Sequential Counter-Adaptations Between Endogenous and Exogenous Retroviruses

10/18/07 9:00 AM Eike Niehus Global and specific mechanisms of temporal gene regulation in chlamydia

10/18/07 11:00 AM Richard Dorsky Coordinating neurogenesis ­ Targets of Wnt and Tcf in the zebrafish CNS

10/18/07 4:00 PM Andrew Fire How Cells Deal with Unwanted Information

10/17/07 11:00 AM Wade Harper Signaling through the ubiquitin-proteasome system

10/17/07 4:00 PM Raphael Valdivia Sucking the Fat: Translocation of host organelles into the Chlamydia parasitophorous vacuole as a novel mechanism of lipid acquisition

10/16/07 4:00 PM Michael Rogawski Neurosteroids and Epilepsy - How Menstruation, Stress and Hypogonadism Influence Seizure Susceptibility

10/15/07 10:00 AM Kristi Fox-Walsh Splice-Site Recognition and Pairing

10/12/07 12:00 PM Anand K. Ganesan Genome wide RNAi Identifies Pharmaceutically Tractable Regulators of Melanin Production

10/11/07 9:00 AM Kara Corbin-Lickfett Structural Analysis of the ICP27 N-terminal RNA binding motif

10/11/07 2:00 PM Christopher Crowder Infection dynamics of the relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii

10/11/07 7:00 PM Howard Brody Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture - Conflict of Interest in the Academic Medical Center: Is It a Problem?

10/10/07 11:00 AM Michael Grunstein Site specific histone acetylation and gene activity

10/05/07 11:00 AM Donald Ganem KSHV AND THE BIOLOGY OF KAPOSI’S SARCOMA

10/04/07 9:00 AM Dominik Wodarz HIV evolution in vivo and the development of AIDS

09/28/07 12:00 PM Wei Yang Problem Oriented Sampling Design to Quantitatively Understand Biomolecular Recognitions and Enzymatic Reactions

09/27/07 9:00 AM Rachel Martin Solid-state NMR methods for investigation of large and insoluble proteins

09/25/07 9:00 AM Michelle Digman Imaging Microscopy Workshop 2201 Natural Sciences II

09/25/07 9:00 AM Michelle Digman Alba: A Novel FCS/FLIM lifetime imaging acquisition for cofocal mocroscopy.

09/18/07 4:00 PM Karen Wilcox The M-Channel and Epilepsy: Mutations, Mice and Medicine

09/14/07 12:00 PM Jae Bum Kim Lipid Dysregulation and Metabolic Disorders

09/07/07 10:00 AM Southern California Drosophila Conference

08/23/07 11:00 AM Yang Shi Histone demethylases and dynamic regulation of histone methylation

08/08/07 11:00 AM Hung-Lin Chen Deficiencies in Protein N-glycosylation and Human Autoimmunity

08/06/07 11:00 AM I-Ju Chen Lateral compartmentalization of TCR versus CD45 by galectin-N-glycan binding and microfilaments coordinates basal and activation signaling

07/19/07 4:00 PM Laura Hertel AAA. Lonely Cytomegalovirus Looking For Beautiful Dendritic Cell. Lifelong Relationship Only. Maturational Status Not Important.

07/02/07 11:00 AM Sean D. Taverna Histone Methylation in Epigenetics: Tales of gene activation and silencing

06/28/07 11:00 AM Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu Transcriptional regulatory network through SATB1-mediated chromosomal interactions

06/28/07 11:00 AM Yael Katan-Khaykovich Chromatin Dynamics and Transcriptional Transitions

06/26/07 12:15 PM Michael Miller Talking sex with C. elegans sperm and eggs

06/25/07 11:00 AM Michael Lieber Pathologic and Physiologic Double-Strand DNA Breaks and the Mechanism of their Repair

06/21/07 4:00 PM Craig E. L. Stark Declarative Memory, Pattern Separation, and the Medial Temporal Lobes

06/19/07 2:00 PM Jenny Dai-Ju The Role of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Regulatory Protein ICP27 in Viral Gene Expression Regulation

06/18/07 11:00 AM Benjamin R. tenOever Diverse Functions of the IKK-related Kinases in IFN-mediated Antiviral Immunity

06/17/07 1:00 PM School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Honors Convocation

06/14/07 9:00 AM Kerry Fitzgerald and David Gauthier Functions of non-canonical initiation factors in poliovirus cap-independent translation AND Chromatin remodeling and Clock function

06/14/07 11:00 AM Tom Neufeld Control of Cell Growth and Vesicular Trafficking by the mTOR Signaling Pathway

06/12/07 4:00 PM Peter B. Crino Molecular Pathogenesis of Cortical Dysplasia: one cell at a time

06/08/07 12:00 PM Derya Unutmaz Dissecting the Perturbation of Human T Cell Subsets During HIV Infection

06/08/07 4:00 PM Milan Jamrich Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium & Happy Hour

06/07/07 9:00 AM April Phillips and Renee Marcsisin-Rogers Role of recombination in Borrelia hermsii diversity and antigenic variation AND The dynamics and specificities of the antibody responses to the antigens in relapsing fever

06/07/07 1:30 PM School of Biological Sciences Graduate Honors Convocation & Teaching and Faculty Awards Recetpion

06/07/07 2:00 PM Lari Wenzel Stress, Immunity and Cervical Cancer: Public Health Implications

06/06/07 4:00 PM Elisabetta Ullu RNAi machineries in Trypanosoma brucei

05/31/07 9:00 AM Allan Chen and Matt Kotlajich Stress Response in Chlamydia: Regulating the Regulator AND Commitment to splice-site pairing: The point of no return

05/31/07 11:00 AM Anjen Chenn Regulation of Neuronal Production and Differentiation

05/31/07 11:00 AM Ani Grigorian Regulation of T cell Function and Autoimmunity by Protein N-glycosylation

05/31/07 11:00 AM Ani Grigorian Regulation of T cell Function and Autoimmunity by Protein N-glycosylation

05/30/07 11:00 AM Fabienne Paumet Mechanism of membrane fusion in eukaryotes

05/29/07 7:00 PM Elizabeth Loftus 17th Annual Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture - What's the Matter with Memory?

05/25/07 11:00 AM Yann LeCun Supervised and unsupervised learning with energy-based models

05/25/07 12:00 PM Adam Geballe Evasion of dsRNA-Triggered Antiviral Responses by CMV-a Case of Nuclear Disarmament?

05/24/07 9:00 AM Drew Etheridge and Gene-Errol Ringpis Functions of Non-canonical Poly(A)Polymerases in Trypanosomes AND Modularity of Trypanosomal RNA Editing TUTases

05/24/07 11:00 AM Gabriela Cezar Discovery of Predictive Biomarkers in Cancer and Human Embryonic Stem Cells using Metabolomics

05/23/07 4:00 PM Mark T. Bedford Using Proteomic Approaches to Understand Protein Methylation

05/18/07 4:00 PM Elliot M. Meyerowitz How plants compute: Cellular interactions in the shoot apical meristem and patterns of plant growth

05/18/07 4:00 PM Elliot M. Meyerowitz How Plants Compute: Cellular Interactions in the Shoot Apical Meristem and Patterns of Plant Growth

05/17/07 9:00 AM Janet Rozovics Identification of Host Factors that Interact with the Genome-Linked Protein of Picornaviruses

05/17/07 11:00 AM Ruslan Aphasizhev Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Genome expression in Trypanosomes

05/17/07 12:00 PM Deanna M. Barch Mechanisms of Cognitive and Emotional Control: Basic Mechanisms and Applications to Schizophrenia and Aging

05/15/07 3:00 PM Kimberly A. Aeling DNA Binding Properties of Integration Host Factor

05/14/07 9:00 AM x x IGB's 5th Annual Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Program Symposium

05/11/07 12:00 PM Susan Wessler It's Alive: Activation of Virtual Rice Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis Yeast

05/11/07 12:00 PM James T. Goodrich Craniopagus twins: A neuroscience and neurobiological discussion of their separation from both an historical and a modern perspective.

05/11/07 4:00 PM Nicholas J. Turro Fluorescence Probes for the Imaging of mRNA in Living Neurons: Toward Tracing Thoughts One mRNA Molecule at a Time

05/11/07 4:00 PM Nicholas J. Turro Fluorescence probes for the imaging of mRNA in living neurons: Toward tracing thoughts one mRNA molecule at a time

05/10/07 9:00 AM Laurimar Escudero-Paunette Alternative Adaptor Proteins in the Export of HSV-1 Transcripts

05/10/07 11:00 AM David Heckerman Leveraging Hierarchical Population Structure for HIV Vaccine Design and Genome-Wide Association Studies

05/10/07 1:30 PM Roberta Diaz-Brinton Neurosteroid Regulation of Neurogenesis in Human Neural Stem Cells and Mouse Model of Alzheimer's: Does Effect in Brain Predict Response in Spinal Cord?

05/09/07 4:00 PM Imke Schroeder Nitrate respiration at 100 C: Archaic Energy Acquistion

05/08/07 4:00 PM George Huntley More missions for matrix metalloproteinases: novel roles for extracellular proteolysis in remodeling synaptic connections

05/04/07 9:00 AM John Yang Heat shock protein 60 in diabetic myocardium

05/03/07 9:00 AM Karoni Dutt Analysis of a Human Sodium Channel Mutation that causes Epilepsy using Transgenic Mice

05/03/07 11:00 AM Charles Limoli Repair, Regeneration and Cancer: The Impact of Oxidative Stress on the Irradiated CNS

04/26/07 9:00 AM Johnny Akers Mining the Chlamydial Genomes for Regulatory Factors

04/26/07 12:00 PM Ralf Mendel Molybdenum metabolism in plants and humans and its crosstalk to FeS and Cu metabolism

04/25/07 11:00 AM Daniele Piomelli The endocannabinoids: from hot to hotter

04/25/07 4:00 PM James Champoux The Repair of Topoisomerase I-DNA Covalent Complexes and the Neurodegenerative Disease SCAN1

04/25/07 7:00 PM Francisco J. Ayala Evolution and Religion: Concert, not Conflict

04/24/07 11:00 AM Shree K. Nayar Computational Cameras: Redefining the Image

04/21/07 9:00 AM Center for Hearing Research Symposium

04/20/07 12:00 PM Benjamin Segal Th17 cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis: Are they the genuine pathogenic effectors in autoimmune inflammation?

04/18/07 11:00 AM Michael Snyder Analyze This and That: Genomes and Proteomes

04/18/07 12:00 PM Clive Bramham BDNF and control of LTP consolidation in the adult Brain

04/18/07 1:00 PM Felicia Hernandez Imaging the Interaction Dynamics of ICP27 During HSV-1 Infection

04/17/07 7:00 PM Richard Kolodner The Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology: DNA Mismatch Repair - From Studies with Model Organisms to Understanding the Genetics of Human Cancer Susceptibility

04/13/07 12:00 PM Thomas Spencer Endogenous Retroviruses: Are They Essential For Reproduction?

04/11/07 11:00 AM Leslie Thompson Pathogenic mechanisms in Huntington's disease and implications for therapeutics

04/11/07 4:00 PM Patricia Johnson Of Mice and MIcrobes: A Tale of Hydrogenosomal & Mitochondrial Evolution

04/10/07 4:00 PM Ed Ziff AMPA Receptor Trafficking in Plasticity and Disease

04/06/07 12:00 PM Coran Watanabe Inspiration from Nature: Natural Products in Drug Discovery Efforts

04/05/07 4:00 PM Eric Klann Translational Control Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Plasticity and Memory

04/04/07 11:00 AM Kun Ping Lu Conformational Regulation after Phosphorylation: From Atomic Structure to Human Disease

03/30/07 12:00 PM Serena M. Dudek Consolidating Long-term Potentiation: Getting to the Nucleus

03/29/07 9:00 AM Eric Sung Localization of Voltage Gated Sodium Channels in the Mouse CNS

03/29/07 12:00 PM Randolf Menzel Memory traces in the mushroom body of the honeybee brain

03/29/07 3:00 PM Bellanira Herrera Modulation of HIV-1 Vif-Human APOBEC3 Interactions

03/28/07 4:00 PM Stephen A. Back Maturation-Dependent Mechanisms of Oxidative-Stress-Mediated Cerebral Injury: Role of Oligodendrocyte Progenitors in White Matter Injury and Repair

03/28/07 4:00 PM Jonathan S. Towner Hemorrhagic Fevers Caused by Ebola and Marburg Viruses

03/28/07 7:30 PM Randolf Menzel Little Brains with Bright Minds: Communication, Navigation and Learning in the Honeybee

03/26/07 11:00 AM Chih-Chen Tsai Atrophin proteins at work: Implications for transcriptional repression, nuclear receptor signaling, and polyglutamine diseases

03/23/07 12:00 AM MB&B Research Retreat

03/23/07 9:00 AM Maike Sander How to make organs of the correct size: Mechanisms of progenitor cell maintenance in the pancreas

03/22/07 9:00 AM Noriko Yokoyama Repression of the LEF1 Alternative Promoter in Colon Cancer

03/22/07 11:00 AM Evgeny Fadeev Special Seminar: School of Physical Sciences and School of Biological Sciences

03/22/07 11:00 AM Wenying Shou Collapse or Collaborate: Experimental and Mathematical Analyses of a Synthetic Cooperative System

03/21/07 11:00 AM Frank Meyskens Pathogenesis and prevention of human melanoma: What do redox, black albinos and hip replacements have to do with it?

03/21/07 4:00 PM Stefan Kappe Attenuating the Plasmodium liver stage: Fast track to effective malaria vaccine development

03/16/07 9:00 AM Steven Wechsler Herpes simplex virus latency: More than you ever wanted to know about LAT - and a little more

03/16/07 12:00 PM Walter Atwood Invasion of Host Cells by the Human Polyomaviruses

03/16/07 7:00 PM Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

03/15/07 9:00 AM Sarah Daijogo Poly(A)-Binding Protein Interactions with Proteins Required for Poliovirus Replication

03/14/07 11:00 AM Alan Hinnebusch Functions of translation initiation factors in initation complex assembly, AUG recognition, and translational control

03/14/07 3:00 PM Juan Carlos Rodriguez Backbone NMR Assignments and Dynamic Studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Heme Oxygenase

03/12/07 11:00 AM Matt Petroski Mechanisms of protein ubiquitination

03/12/07 12:00 PM Gerold Feuer Modeling Viral Pathogenisis Using Humanized SCID Mice and Human Stem Cells

03/12/07 4:00 PM Audrey Duarte A Multidisciplinary Approach to Characterizing Memory in Older Adults

03/09/07 9:00 AM Rachel Martin Solid-state NMR methods development for structure determination of insoluble proteins

03/09/07 11:00 AM Sam Roweis Making the Sky Searchable: Large Scale Astronomical Pattern Recognition

03/08/07 9:00 AM Elizabeth Di Russo Mechanisms of Developmental Gene Regulation in Chlamydia

03/07/07 11:00 AM Hadley Sikes Photopolymerization as a method of robust, inexpensive signal amplification in the detection of biomolecular recognition

03/07/07 4:00 PM Steve Beverley Retention and Loss of RNA interference pathways during the evolution of trypanosomatid protozoan parasites

03/06/07 8:15 AM Robert L. Macdonald GABAA receptor mutations and idiopathic generalized epilepsies and febrile seizures

03/06/07 2:00 PM Qiyuan Dai Genetic mechanisms for antigenic variation in a relapsing fever Borrelia species

03/05/07 11:00 AM Geng Wu Understanding the Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination of beta-catenin

03/01/07 9:00 AM Lisa Johnson Studies on the export of viral RNA by HSV-1 ICP27

03/01/07 4:00 PM Matthew Walker Sleep, Memory and Brain Plasticity

02/28/07 11:00 AM Stephen Buratowski Coupling Transcription with mRNA Processing and Chromatin

02/26/07 11:00 AM Min-Gyu Lee Histone demethylation and its role in chromatin function

02/23/07 9:00 AM Leslie M. Thompson Underlying Mechanisms of Pathogenesis in Huntington Disease

02/23/07 12:00 PM P.R. Lowenstein The microanatomy of brain immune responses: immunlogical synapses in the brain

02/22/07 9:00 AM Ani Grigorian Genetic and Metabolic Control of T cell Function and Autoimmunity by the N-Glycan and Hexosamine Pathways

02/21/07 11:00 AM Steve Dowdy TAT-Mediated Delivery of Macromolecucular siRNA Therapeutics

02/21/07 4:00 PM Raymond Roos Molecular Pathogenesis Studies of Neurotropic Viruses

02/16/07 11:00 AM John Platt The Beautiful Noisy-OR: How automatic diagnosis can help Web services and video teleconferencing

02/16/07 12:00 PM Robert Silverman Identification of the Gammaretrovirus XMRV from Human Prostate Tumors with a Mutation in RNase L

02/15/07 9:00 AM Susan Curry, MD and John Haller, Ph.D. Research Opportunities and Grantsmanship Symposium

02/15/07 9:00 AM Kenneth Ertel Interactions of cellular protein hnRNP C with poliovirus negative-strand RNA

02/15/07 12:00 PM Louise Chow A New Efficient System to Dissect HPV Infections in Organotypic Cultures of Primary Human Keratiinocytes

02/15/07 4:00 PM Charlotte A. Boettiger Cognitive Neuroscience: A Top-down Approach to Identifying the Neural Mechanisms of Addiction

02/14/07 11:00 AM Kaikobad Irani Tumor Cell Longevity: Antagonization of P66shc

02/12/07 11:00 AM Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou The Control of Centrosome Number

02/09/07 9:00 AM Paul Mischel Targeted Molecular Therapies of Glioblastoma

02/09/07 11:00 AM Garrison Cottrell What can computational models tell us about face processing?

02/09/07 12:00 PM Mitya Chklovskii Is wiring of the cortical column random or specific?

02/09/07 4:00 PM Robert Schwarcz Astrocytes deliver: reactive glial cells as targets for anticonvulsant intervention

02/08/07 9:00 AM Stuart Souki Determining the Fuctional Role of ICP27 Methylation During HSV-1 Infection

02/08/07 4:00 PM David Knight Neural Substrates of Human Fear Learning and Memory

02/07/07 11:00 AM Phang-Lang Chen Investigations of mediators in DNA damage response

02/07/07 4:00 PM Daniel Herschlag RNA Enzymes: Insights into the Properties of RNA and the Nature of Biological Catalysis

02/06/07 12:00 PM Janice Yoshizawa, Jason Stagno Research in Progress (RIP)

02/02/07 11:00 AM Brendan Frey A new, simple and fast algorithm for clustering non-Euclidean data by passing messages between data points

02/02/07 4:00 PM Brendan Frey Towards a unified framework for modeling DNA/RNA sequence, expressed RNA, spliced RNA, peptides and drugs

02/01/07 9:00 AM Santos Rojas The Role of phosphorylation in the activities of ICP27 during HSV-1 Infection

01/31/07 11:00 AM David Schneider Control of RNA Polymerase I transcription elongation and effects on ribosome assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

01/26/07 9:00 AM Ulrike Luderer Opposing roles of oxidative stress and glutathione in ovarian follicular toxicity

01/25/07 9:00 AM Sung-Uk Lee The regulation of T cell activation and autoimmunity by beta 1,6 GlcNAc-branched N-glycans

01/25/07 4:00 PM Robert C. Malenka Mechanisms and functions of synaptic plasticity

01/24/07 11:00 AM Bogi Andersen A conserved transcriptional pathway governing differentiation in Drosophila and mouse epidermis

01/24/07 4:00 PM Richard Gourse Small moleculars, big effects on gene expression: Control of transcription initiation by molecules that occupy the secondary channel of RNA polymerase

01/19/07 12:00 PM Marianne Manchester Tissue and Tumor Targeting Using Viral-Based Nanoparticles

01/17/07 12:00 PM Owen Witte Stem Cells for Prostate Tissue Development and Prostate Cancer

01/17/07 7:30 PM Frank M. LaFerla Winning the Battle Against Alzheimer Disease: New Discoveries Offer New Hope

01/12/07 9:00 AM Craig M. Walsh Death and T Cells: Modulation of Immune Homeostasis and Tolerance by Apoptotic Signaling Intermediates

01/12/07 12:00 PM Jason Zell Translational applications of epidemiologic data: risk reduction through polyamine inhibition among colorectal carcinoma patients

01/10/07 11:00 AM Paolo Sassone-Corsi A Chromatin Remodeling Clock

01/10/07 4:00 PM Peter Walter The Unfolded Protein Response: How the Endoplasmic Reticulum Talks to the Nucleus

01/09/07 4:00 PM Tom Sutula Seizure-induced plasticity: matters of timing and metabolism

01/05/07 12:00 PM Markus Ehrengruber Neurovirulence of Semliki Forest Virus and Measles Virus in Brain Slice Cultures

12/15/06 9:00 AM Frank Jones HER4/ERBB4 Intracellular Signaling in Breast Cancer - Unleashing the Killer Inside

12/14/06 11:00 AM Claude Bernard Understanding CNS autoimmunity: from animal models to MS Patients

12/14/06 12:00 PM Ya-Lin Chiu Deciphering the Biology of APOBEC3G: Intrinsic Immunity to Exogenous HIV Infection and Endogenous Alu Retrotransposition

12/13/06 11:00 AM Paul Vrana Developing a novel mammalian genetic/epigenetic system: from biochemistry to behavior

12/13/06 4:00 PM Ellie Ehrenfeld Re-Routing Cellular Membrane Traffic By Poliovirus

12/12/06 12:00 PM Alex Evilevitch Internal DNA Pressure Effect on the Phage Capsid Stability. Evolutionary Optimization of Phage

12/12/06 12:00 PM Ray Luo Computational studies of p53 cancer mutations

12/06/06 11:00 AM Roy Parker P-bodies and the Control of mRNA Translation and Degradation

12/05/06 10:00 AM Li-Ying Sung Reprogramming ability of hematopoietic cells at different differentiation stages by somatic cell nuclear transfer

12/05/06 12:00 PM Craig Walsh Research in Progress (RIP)

12/04/06 7:00 PM Doug Wallace Allergan Lecture in Modern Biology - Mitochondrial Medicine: The Energy Biology of Health and Disease

12/01/06 9:00 AM Ajit Varki Genetic Differences Between Humans and Great Apes: Implications for the Human Condition

12/01/06 12:00 PM Jing Huang Druggable islands in the network: Lessons from protein interactome and chemical genomic analyses

11/30/06 4:00 PM Yehezkel Ben-Ari TBA

11/29/06 11:00 AM Kyoko Yokomori Roles of cohesion and condensing in genome regulation and integrity

11/29/06 4:00 PM Luisa Iruela-Arispe VEGF Signaling and Vascular Homeostasis

11/28/06 12:00 PM Markus Ribbe Research in Progress (RIP)

11/28/06 1:30 PM Amber Donahue The Role of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase in the Development and Activation of B Lymphocytes

11/28/06 4:00 PM Jack W. Szostak Towards the Design and Synthesis of an Artificial Cell

11/28/06 4:00 PM Jack W. Szostak Towards the Design and Synthesis of an Artificial Cell

11/27/06 10:30 AM Zhen-Qiang Pan Polyubiquitination by SCF and Cdc34

11/27/06 1:00 PM Deborah Koniak-Griffin An Evolving Program of Leadership, Service, and Health Promotion Research with Vulnerable Populations

11/21/06 4:00 PM Cheryl A. Logan Overheated Rats, Race, and the Double Gland: Sex Hormones and Acquired Hereditary Induction, 1910-1930

11/20/06 1:00 PM Susan Ludington Building the Evidence for Kangaroo Care

11/20/06 1:30 PM Gabriela Cezar Human Embryonic Stem Cell Metabolome Reveals Candidate Biomarkers and Biochemical Pathways of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

11/20/06 3:00 PM Liza Larsen Ty3 virus-Like Particle Assembly

11/17/06 11:00 AM Pedro Domingos Unifying Logical and Statistical AI

11/17/06 12:00 PM G. Ian Gallicano From Cell Adhesion to Signal Transduction: Having Fun With Embryonic Stem Cells

11/17/06 12:00 PM G. Ian Gallicano From Cell Adhesion to Signal Transduction: Having Fun With Embryonic Stem Cells

11/17/06 3:00 PM Dan Mercola Developmental Biology Center & Developmental Biology Program of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Friday Mini Symposium / Happy Hour

11/16/06 2:00 PM Zifu Wang Live Molecular Imaging of Cells and Tissues - Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP)

11/16/06 4:00 PM Geir Bjorkoy The p62/SQSTM1 Protein Targets Polyubiquitinated Proteins for Autophagic Destruction

11/16/06 4:00 PM Gunnar von Heijne Proteome-wide Studies of Membrane Protein Topology

11/16/06 4:00 PM Gunnar von Heijne Proteome-Wide Studies of Membrane Protein Topology

11/16/06 7:00 PM Charles F. Stevens Ralph Gerard Lectureship - How the Brain is like a Computer, and How it is Different

11/15/06 12:00 PM Michael Buchmeier Confronting SARS Coronavirus: Lessons from the first Pandemic of the 21st Century

11/15/06 4:00 PM Laura Arce The Great Excape: Wnt-Linked colon cancers avert negative regulation

11/13/06 8:00 AM The 3rd Annual Medical Device Conference: DEVICES IN ACTION

11/10/06 12:00 PM Satrajit Sinha Transcriptional control of epithelial development and differentiation: Role of p63 and Ets proteins

11/09/06 4:00 PM Elisabeth Murray What, if anything, is the medial temporal lobe?

11/08/06 9:30 AM UCI Minority Graduate Research Conference in Biological Sciences

11/08/06 4:00 PM Gerry Byrne Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression in Chlamydia: Insights for Chronic Disease

11/07/06 10:00 AM Stephanie Ramos Regulation of Autoimmunity by DRAK2

11/07/06 12:00 PM Silvia Delker, Ahmend Al-Qahtani Research in Progress (RIP)

11/07/06 4:00 PM Wolfgang Loescher Mechanisms of drug resistance in epilepsy: New targets for treatment?

11/06/06 1:00 PM Ellen Olshansky A Program of Research on Women's and Men's Experiences of Infertility

11/03/06 12:00 PM Forest Rohwer Global viral diversity

11/02/06 9:00 AM Arthur Barela A Novel Sodium Channel Mutation That Causes GEFS+

11/02/06 4:00 PM Chris Brewin PTSD: what is it that a neurobiological model must explain?

11/01/06 11:00 AM Shyam Sharan Functional Dissection of Human Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes Using Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes

10/31/06 12:00 PM Rahasson Ager, John Coroneus Research in Progress (RIP)

10/27/06 9:00 AM Bogi Andersen The role of LIM domain co-activators in epidermis and cornea homeostasis

10/27/06 12:00 PM Kevin MacKenzie Spacificity of helix-helix interactions in membranes and detergents

10/27/06 4:00 PM Satoru Miyano Inferring and Simulating Gene Networks for Drug Target Pathway Discovery

10/26/06 12:00 PM Linda Bradley Homeostasis and Immunity In CD4 T Cells

10/25/06 11:00 AM Haoping Liu Cell Fate Determination in Yeasts

10/25/06 4:00 PM Hiten Madhani Mechanisms of MAP kinase signaling specificity

10/24/06 12:00 PM Novelle Kimmich, Jennifer Houman Research in Progress (RIP)

10/24/06 4:00 PM Edward Cooper KCNQ Potassium Channel Clustering on Neuronal Axons: Functions, Mechanism and Implications for Epilepsy

10/23/06 2:00 PM Barbara Knowles Cracking the Egg or How to set up the Ultimate Stem Cell

10/23/06 7:00 PM Davor Solter Human and Animal Cloning Imprinting: Current Perspectives

10/20/06 9:00 AM Rainer K. Brachmann How a simple yeast assay for p53 led to unexpected projects and discoveries; ADA proteins and transcriptional regulation; p53 cancer mutants and their functional rescue

10/20/06 12:00 PM James Marks Botulinum neurotoxins: From genome to therapeutics

10/19/06 9:00 AM Emiliana Borelli Unraveling dopamine function through the analysis of genetically engineered mice

10/19/06 12:00 PM Howard Petrie Identifying Novel Signals for Lymphoid Differentiation in the Post-natal Thymus

10/18/06 11:00 AM Steve Lipkin Hypomorphic DNA Mismatch Repair and Cancer Susceptibility

10/17/06 12:00 PM Amanda Laust, Tyler Korman Research in Progress (RIP)

10/16/06 12:00 PM Luisa Villa Overview of HPV Vaccine Clinical Development

10/12/06 11:00 AM Phong Tran Microtubules, Motors, and MAPS - How Cells Construct Linear Arrays of Microtubules

10/11/06 11:00 AM Eva Lee Tissue Specific Activities of BRCA1

10/11/06 4:00 PM Jay Gralla Transcriptional re-programming of E. coli during its stressful life in the GI tract

10/10/06 9:00 AM Colby Weeks Structure activity analyses of canonical structural features in a mouse alpha-defensin and its precursor

10/10/06 12:00 PM Jessica Schulz, Cathie Overstreet Research in Progress (RIP)

10/09/06 4:00 PM Neetu Gupta Spatial Organization and Regulation of B Cell Activation

10/06/06 9:00 AM Christine Boyes Grants.gov

10/05/06 9:00 AM Sunny Jiang Surf and Turf: Bacteria and viruses in the coastal water

10/03/06 9:00 AM Hongbo Chi MAP Kinase Signaling in Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses

10/03/06 7:00 PM R. Alta Charo, J.D. 16th Annual Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture - Stemming the Tide: Politics, Policy and Regenerative Medicine

09/29/06 12:00 PM David M. Katz BDNF and the Neurbiology of Rett Syndrome

09/29/06 12:00 PM Rainer Reinscheid Neuropeptide S Receptor: From Point-Mutations to Human Psychiatric Disorders

09/28/06 8:00 AM Various Speakers Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research

09/28/06 9:00 AM Markus Ehrengruber Alphaviral Gene Transfer into the Brain

09/28/06 12:00 PM David Lo Discriminating Tastes: Peyer's Patch M Cells Use a Novel Particle Transcytosis Mechanism

09/25/06 12:00 PM Gabor Tamar Feed-Forward Networks Activated by Single Pyramidal Cells in the Human Cerebral Cortex

09/25/06 4:00 PM P'ng Loke Dissecting Interactions Between Parasites, Macrophages and T cells

09/22/06 12:00 PM Steven Wechlser Herpes simplex virus latency: Does LAT control the world?

09/21/06 2:00 PM Zifu Wang Workshops on fluorescence imaging with the Zeiss LSM510 Meta system

09/15/06 8:15 AM Various speakers 2006 Synthetic Biology Symposium

09/15/06 3:00 PM Various speakers Developmental Biology Center Friday mini symposium & happy hour

09/14/06 12:00 PM Habib Zaghouani The Role of IL-13 Receptor Alpha 1 Chain in Neonatal Immunity: Implicaton in Infections and Allergies

09/12/06 4:00 PM Manish Patel Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Seizure-Induced Neuronal Injury

09/11/06 2:00 PM Seishi Takeda Japan Society for Promotion of Science

09/08/06 10:30 AM Various Speakers 2006 Southern California Drosophila Conference

09/07/06 4:00 PM Michael Miller Transforming growth factor: a key player in early cortical development

08/29/06 11:00 AM Filippo Rijli Development of the Facial Somatosensory Map and Hox Genes

08/17/06 3:00 PM Various speakers Celebration for Susan Bryant

08/10/06 11:00 AM Toshihiko Ogura Non-canonical Wnt signal coordinates cell behaviors and the endocytosis of EphB receptor through dynamic actions of Daam1

07/31/06 12:00 PM Ray B. Nagle Studies on Prostate ECM During Tumor Progression

06/29/06 11:00 AM James Shen Regulation of Mammalian Globin Gene Switching by Modification and Subcellular Transport of Transcription Factors

06/22/06 12:00 PM Edward A. Clark Regulation of B cell survival

06/21/06 10:00 AM Russell F. Doolittle Protein Structure and the Rational Design of Ligands

06/15/06 9:00 AM Eric Sung Cellular Localization of Sodium Channels in Mouse Neurons

06/13/06 11:00 AM Ronald DePinho Glioblastoma Genomics and Biology

06/09/06 9:00 AM Natural Sciences II Open House

06/09/06 12:00 PM Erica Suchman The potential of AeDNV for biological control of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

06/08/06 9:00 AM Noriko Yokoyama LEF1 gene regulation and expression in Colon cancer

06/08/06 11:00 AM James Glazier First Steps Towards Computing an Organism: Cell-Oriented Modeling of Biological Development Using the Cellular Potts Model

06/07/06 4:00 PM Guangming Zhong Chlamydial manipulation of host cell signaling pathways

06/05/06 10:00 AM Ashraf El Fiky Type I Interferon Receptors: A substrate for regulated processing and a mediator of gene transcription

06/01/06 9:00 AM Janet Rozovics Identification of Host Factors that Interact with the Genome-Linked Protein of Picornaviruses

06/01/06 11:00 AM RANDALL T. MOOON Wnt Signaling in Regeneration and Regenerative Medicine

06/01/06 5:00 PM Sharon Hays Special Seminar: From Lab Rat to Policy Work: An Insider's View of Science Policy in the Nation's Capitol. Dr. Sharon Hays. Chief of Staff. Office of Science and Technology Policy. US Executive Office of the President

05/31/06 2:00 PM John Disterhoft Mechanisms of learning in young and aging hippocampus

05/31/06 2:30 PM Les Palkuti DTRA Meeting

05/26/06 12:00 PM Michela Plateroti Cross-talk between the thyroid hormone and the Wnt signalling pathways in the control of intestinal epithelial progenitors proliferation

05/26/06 1:00 PM Frantisek Sehnal Insecticidal BT Crops and Their Effect on Non-Target Species

05/26/06 4:00 PM Role of Follistatin in Drosophila Development/BicaudalID and the Regulation of Intracellular Transport in Drosophila Embryogenesis

05/25/06 9:00 AM Tarek Najdi Biological analysis and mathematical modeling of glucose metabolism and pyruvate family amino acid biosynthesis in Escerichia coli K12

05/25/06 11:00 AM Frantisek Sehnal Silk Composition and Hormonal Regulation of Its Production

05/25/06 12:00 PM Robert Schreiber Cancer immunoediting: Roles for immunity in cancer protection

05/25/06 2:00 PM Marvin Minsky Interior Grounding and Self-Conscious Reflection - Three Possibly New Theories of Intelligence

05/24/06 4:00 PM Alberto Kornblihtt Pol II elongation and the coupling between transcription and alternative splicing

05/23/06 9:00 AM The 4th Annual Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Program Symposium

05/22/06 9:00 AM Richard Hartman Antibodies, Magic Fruit and Transgenic Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease

05/19/06 12:00 PM Ren Sun Tumor-associate herpesviruses: from systems biology to clinical applications

05/19/06 2:00 PM Hilda Hiu Yin Yu Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in Chlamydia: The Role of σ 28 RNA Polymerase

05/18/06 9:00 AM Felica Hernandez Imaging the Interaction Dynamics of ICP27 During HSV-1 Infection

05/18/06 11:00 AM Serge Sokol Wnt Signaling and Cell Polarity Regulation in Vertebrate Embryos

05/18/06 12:00 PM Susan Swain CD4 T cells, generation of memory and the role of CD4 T cells in combating influenza

05/17/06 9:00 AM M. Kerry O'Banion Inducible Brain Expression of IL-1 in a Transgenic Mouse: A Model for Chronic Neuroinflammation

05/16/06 8:00 AM LifeChips Symposium May 16-17

05/16/06 12:00 PM Larry Young The neurobiology and evolution of social bonds

05/16/06 7:30 PM Larry Young The Monogamous Brain: What can science tell us about love?

05/15/06 7:30 AM CALIFORNIA: PROSPERITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY May 15th - 17th

05/15/06 10:00 AM Robin Kleiman Phosphodiesterases as Therapeutic Targets for CNS Disorders

05/12/06 12:00 PM Elliot Kieff Points of attack in Epstein-Barr Virus Oncogenesis

05/11/06 9:00 AM I-Ju Chen Regulation of CD45 by Mgat5 modified N-glycans in T cells

05/11/06 11:00 AM Ira Daar EphrinB1 Controls Cell Movement by Runnin’ with the Dvl

05/10/06 4:00 PM Kelsey Martin Signaling between synapse and nucleus during long-lasting neuronal plasticity

05/09/06 4:00 PM Joanne Yeakley Bead-based Microarrays: from Whole Genomes to Single Nucleotides

05/05/06 4:00 PM Stephen Altschul The Compositional Adjustment of Amino Acid Substitution Matrices

05/04/06 9:00 AM Karoni Dutt Analysis of Human Sodium Channel Mutations that cause Epilepsy using Transgenic Mice

05/02/06 11:00 AM Gregg Duester Retinoic Acid Activity during Somitogenesis and Neurogenesis

05/01/06 10:30 AM John Kuriyan Structural Analysis of the Src and Abl Tyrosine Kinases

04/28/06 9:00 AM Andrew Cornforth Differential regulation of c-FLIP by androgens: Role of PI3 kinase signaling

04/28/06 12:00 PM Aleem Siddiqui Hepatitis C virus induces an ER stress response and oxidative stress

04/28/06 3:30 PM George Klein Non-Immune Surveillance Against Tumors

04/27/06 9:00 AM Laurimar Excudero-Paunetto Alternative Adaptor Proteins in the Export of HSV-1 Transcripts

04/27/06 11:00 AM ANIL BHUSHAN Mechanisms That Regulate Proliferation Of Pancreatic Progenitors And Beta Cells

04/27/06 12:00 PM Marcus Clark Pre-B cell antigen receptor and early B cell development

04/26/06 1:30 PM Tim Wiltshire Haplotype associated mapping in the mouse: Linking genes to phenotypes

04/26/06 7:00 PM Stem Cells and Society: A Series of Dialogues

04/24/06 10:30 AM Philip A. Anfinrud Watching Proteins as they Function with Picosecond Laue Crystallography and MD Simulations

04/24/06 11:00 AM Stanislav Shvartsman Quantitative Analysis of Morphogen Gradients in Drosophila Oogenesis

04/24/06 1:00 PM Jingzhen Yuan Regulation of protein kinase D by GPCR signaling: molecular mechanisms and signal transduction pathways

04/21/06 12:00 PM Anne Brunet FOXO transcription factors in the control of longevity

04/21/06 4:00 PM Soren Brunak Temporal Interactome for the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle by Data Integration

04/20/06 9:00 AM Hung-Lin Chen Identifying Biochemical and Genetical deficiency in N-glycan pathway in MS patients

04/20/06 12:00 PM Richard Siegel Life and death signals for T-cells

04/20/06 4:00 PM Jennifer Raymond Learning Rules in the Cerebellum

04/20/06 4:00 PM Jennifer Raymond Learning Rules in the Cerebellum

04/20/06 5:00 PM Irwin Rose Special Seminar Dr. Irwin Rose Nobel Laureate. Distinguished Speaker

04/19/06 4:00 PM Marianne Bronner-Fraser Regulatory events in neural crest development

04/18/06 7:30 AM Robert Palmisano Managing Innovation at an Emerging Company

04/14/06 12:00 PM Daniel Voytas Retrotransposons and heterochromatin: the role of integrase chromodomains in target specificity

04/13/06 9:00 AM Kristi Fox-Walsh Genomic analysis of alternative splicing

04/13/06 5:00 PM Thomas F. Schilling GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SKELETAL DEVELOPMENT IN ZEBRAFISH

04/12/06 4:00 PM James R. Williamson An Assembly Landscape for 30s Ribosomal Subunit

04/10/06 1:00 PM Jackson Bittencourt The Melanin-Concentrating Hormone and the Search for Food Behavior.

04/09/06 7:00 AM From Proteins to Proteomics Ralph Alden Bradshaw 65th Birthday Symposium

04/07/06 1:00 PM PATRICK LEMAIRE From Embryo to Genomics to Bioinformatics: Analysis of Neural Tissue Formation in the Ascidian Ciona Intestinalis

04/06/06 9:00 AM Stuart Souki Uncovering the functional significance of ICP27 methylation during HSV-1 Infection

04/06/06 11:00 AM MARTIN M. MATZUK Genetic Dissection Of Mammalian Fertility Pathways

04/06/06 12:00 PM Jacek Lubkowski Structural and functional properties of human beta- defensins

04/06/06 5:00 PM Enrico Gratton 3-D Particle Tracking

04/03/06 6:00 PM Stem Cell Research at UCI: Past, Present and Future

03/30/06 9:00 AM Sung-Uk Lee Genetic defect of N-glycosylation is associated with autoimmune demyelinating disease in mice

03/27/06 10:30 AM Robert Stroud A Two Billion Old Tale of Membrane Transport Proteins

03/25/06 9:00 AM Multiple Speakers UCI Center for Hearing Research Symposium

03/23/06 9:00 AM Kenneth Ertel Interactions of cellular protein hnRNP C with poliovirus negative-strand RNA

03/23/06 12:00 PM Claude Leclerc Targeting Den