Event Calendar Archive

Date Time Speaker Headline
11/20/09 8:30 AM Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., FRS UC IRVINE 7TH ANNUAL IMMUNOLOGY FAIR 2009 - Presenting: Innate and Adaptive Immunity

11/20/09 8:30 AM Susan K. Pierce, Ph.D. UC IRVINE 7TH ANNUAL IMMUNOLOGY FAIR 2009 - Presenting: The initiation of B cell receptor signaling

11/20/09 8:30 AM Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D. UC IRVINE 7TH ANNUAL IMMUNOLOGY FAIR 2009 - Presenting: Antibody genes in immunity and cancer

11/20/09 8:30 AM Ellen Robey UC IRVINE 7TH ANNUAL IMMUNOLOGY FAIR 2009 - Presenting: In situ imaging of T cells in action using 2-photon microscopy

11/20/09 4:00 PM Peter Kaiser Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium

11/19/09 12:00 AM Mathew Blurton-Jones UCI CIRM Fellows Career Workshop

11/18/09 12:00 AM Mathew Blurton-Jones CIRM Fellows Stem Cell Symposium

11/18/09 4:00 PM Jane Koehler Bartonella quintana: A proficiently persistent pathogen of lice and men

11/13/09 12:00 PM Ralph Feuer Coxsackievirus Infection of Stem Cells in the Neonatal CNS: Consequences for CNS Development, Viral Persistence, and Disease

11/12/09 12:00 AM Gerald R. Crabtree Understanding the Words of Chromatin Remodeling

11/10/09 4:00 PM Michael Wong mTOR inhibition as a potential antiepileptogenic therapy for genetic and acquired epilepsies

11/02/09 2:00 PM Helen McNeill UCI Monthly Fly Meeting

10/30/09 9:00 AM Hsing-Jien Kung Androgen receptor, autophagy and prostate cancer

10/30/09 12:00 PM Sean Whelan Getting in and taking over: entry of vesicular stomatitis virus into cells and expression of its genome

10/29/09 12:00 AM Richard Boyd Stem cells meet immunity – developing synergies and overcoming confrontation

10/28/09 4:00 PM Neil Segil Development and Regeneration of the Inner Ear: Coordinating cell cycle and differentiation - Constraining Notch signaling

10/23/09 3:00 PM Henry Kennedy Dynamics of Cortical Networks

10/23/09 4:00 PM Elizabeth Rugg Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium

10/22/09 5:30 PM Francisco Ayala So Simple a Beginning: 150 Years of Darwin

10/17/09 1:00 PM Robert Klein Patient, Physician, Scientist

10/16/09 9:00 AM Mai Gu Detection and quantitation of EGFR gene copy number/gene amplification by FISH in NSCLC

10/16/09 12:00 PM Sunny Jiang Viruses in Coastal Waters

10/14/09 4:00 PM Ming Tan & Bert Semler Pathogens and You Seminar: H1N1 Flu

10/13/09 4:00 PM William G. Nelson Inflammation, Epigenetics, and Prostate Cancer

10/13/09 7:00 PM The Allergan Lecture in Modern Biology - Climate is Changing Globally. Dare We Act Locally?

10/06/09 4:00 PM Zakaria Mtchedlishvili Controlled Cortical Impact and Posttraumatic Epilepsy

10/02/09 9:00 AM Robert Hevner From mouse tails to Einstein's brain: T-box transcription factors in cerebral cortex development

10/02/09 12:00 PM Luis Villarreal Viruses are Essential Agents within the Roots and Stem of the Tree of Life

10/01/09 4:00 PM Todd Sacktor Long-term Memory Storage by PKMζ

09/28/09 9:00 AM Vivek Rangnekar A Paradigm for Cancer Selective Apoptosis

09/28/09 9:00 AM Vivek Rangnekar A Paradigm for Cancer Selective Apoptosis

09/25/09 12:00 AM Helen Blau UCI Stem Cell Symposium In Celebration of Stem Cell Awareness Day

09/22/09 4:00 PM Edward Dudek Progressive epileptogenesis in an animal model of perinatal stroke: continuous electrographic recordings with radiotelemetry

09/18/09 4:00 PM Susana Cohen-Cory Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium

09/11/09 9:00 AM Lisa Flanagan Novel biomarkers reveal neural stem cell differentation potential

08/03/09 12:00 PM Jurgen Moser ATP-Driven Reduction of Dark-Operative Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase Resembles Nitrogenase Catalysis

07/27/09 12:00 AM Hans Schöler Induction of Pluripotency in Adult Somatic and Germline Stem Cells

07/14/09 4:00 PM Amy Brooks-Kayal GABA(A) Receptor Subunit Regulation in Epilepsy

06/25/09 1:00 PM Richard Burt Treating Diabetes with Autologous Stem Cell Therapy

06/19/09 4:00 PM Kevin Thornton Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium

06/17/09 2:00 PM Brian Cummings Neural Stem Cells and Spinal Cord Injury: Basic Science to Translational Research

06/13/09 8:30 AM Speakers The School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Honors Convocation

06/13/09 11:00 AM James T. Goodrich The School of Biological Sciences Commencement

06/12/09 12:00 PM Cheryl A. Stoddart The SCID-hu Thy/Liv Mouse: Bugs, Drugs, and Beyond

06/09/09 4:00 PM Mark Goldberg Disconnected: Excitotoxic Mechanisms of Ischemic Axon Injury

06/09/09 4:00 PM Russell Sanchez Hippocampal Pathophysiology in the 'Silent Period' After Neonatal Seizure-Inducing Hypoxia

06/05/09 12:00 PM Adrian Ferre-D'Amare Catalysis and gene regulation by RNA: unexpected sophistication by a simple biopolymer

06/03/09 4:00 PM Andrew Escayg Sodium channel mutations and epilepsy

06/02/09 2:00 PM Various Speakers The School of Biological Sciences Graduate Honors Convocation and Teaching/Faculty Awards

05/29/09 12:00 PM Donald L. Jarvis Engineering Protein Glycosylation Pathways in the Baculovirus-Insect Cell System: Application to Influenza Subunit Vaccines

05/28/09 9:00 AM Elisabeth Baum Host immune selection and strain diversity in Borrelia burgdorferi, a Lyme borreliosis agent

05/28/09 11:00 AM Paul Miller Colocalization: Acquisition and Analysis

05/27/09 4:00 PM Ken Stuart The Mitochondrion of trypanosomes: more complex than you might think

05/26/09 4:00 PM Steven Small Action Observation and Language Understanding

05/22/09 1:00 PM Rob Morgan Understanding plasticity mechanisms in epileptogenesis through computational modeling

05/21/09 9:00 AM Nate Hoverter & Kira Pate DNA sequence specificity and gene expression program of TCF1E and Expression and actions of dnLEF1 in colon cancer

05/21/09 11:00 AM Michelle Digman Spectral Unmixing of Fluorophores

05/21/09 11:00 AM Jay Keasling Engineering Microorganisms for Productions of Drug and Fuels

05/15/09 4:00 PM Sarah Bray Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium & Happy Hour

05/14/09 9:00 AM Alison Isaacs & Kirsten Johnson Targeting/Plasmodium falciparum/in transgenic/Anopheles stephensi/mosquitoes with single chain antibodies and Mechanism of centrosome amplification during a Chlamydia infection

05/14/09 10:00 AM Ana Solodkin Human Motor Function: A Connectivity Approach

05/13/09 12:00 PM Nancy Wexler Huntington's Disease: Expansions on a Theme

05/13/09 4:00 PM Steve Kay Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Department Seminar

05/12/09 7:30 PM Nancy Wexler Genetic Jeopardy: Lessons Learned from Huntington's Disease

05/08/09 11:00 AM Thomas W. Jeffries Global expression analysis to guide engineering of xylose and cellobiose metabolism by Pichia stipitis

05/07/09 9:00 AM Mark Ou & Peter Shepard RNAP II and Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Transcription and Alternative Splicing and Secondary Structure: The Long and the Short of It

05/07/09 4:00 PM Paul Gold Age-related Memory Impairments: A Problem of Insufficient Memory Modulation

05/07/09 4:00 PM Katherine Plath Defining the Mechanism of Transcription Factor Induced Reprogramming

05/06/09 7:00 PM Ralph M. Steinman The Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology - Manipulating your Immune System for Better Vaccines Against Pathogens, Cancer, Allergy, and Autoimmune Disorders

05/01/09 9:00 AM Diane Hoffman-Kim Axon Guidance in Complex Environments -Keystones for Nerve Repair Technologies

05/01/09 12:00 PM Welkin Johnson Molecular evolution and functional polymorphism of the antiretroviral TRIM5 locus of old world primates

04/30/09 9:00 AM Brian Tanaka & Eric Velazquez Function of SCN8a as a genetic modifier of a Scn1a GEFS + Mutation to Reduce Seizure Susceptibility and Modulation of Sodium Channels mediated by a1 in Neurons

04/30/09 11:00 AM Richard Pagano Regulation of cell surface lipid microdomains and endocytosis

04/30/09 4:00 PM Peter Redgrave The Role of Phasic Dopamine Signaling in the Determination of Agency and the Discovery of Novel Actions

04/29/09 11:00 AM Jozsef Csicsvari Reactivation of Cell Assemblies in Sleep: Insights into Memory

04/24/09 12:00 PM Akif Tezcan Inorganic Control of Biological Self-Assembly

04/23/09 9:00 AM Rani Najdi Cancer alters nuclear localization of TCF-1 via a conserved Wnt-kinase network

04/17/09 12:00 PM Benhur Lee A broad spectrum antiviral that targets entry of enveloped viruses: unexpected discoveries from the world of emerging virus research

04/17/09 4:00 PM Todd Holmes Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium & Happy Hour

04/16/09 9:00 AM Shelley Campeau Genomics of a novel large plasmid in relapsing fever Borrellia

04/15/09 4:00 PM Bruce Bean Generation and regulation of spontaneous firing in central neurons

04/10/09 12:00 PM Harriet Robinson Correlations Between Vaccine-elicited Ab and the Tempo of Infection

04/09/09 9:00 AM Eric Cheng Chlamydial Histone-like protein 1 alters supercoiling of early gene promoters

04/07/09 9:00 AM Alcino Silva 2009 EpiCenter Symposium

04/07/09 9:30 AM Alcino Silva Molecular and Cellular Cognition: From the Lab to the Clinic

04/07/09 1:30 PM Uwe Heinemann Open blood-brain barrier, activation of astrocytes and epileptogenesis

04/03/09 12:00 PM Kun-Liang Guan The TSC-mTOR and Hippo pathways in cell growth and cancer

04/02/09 12:00 AM Jonathan Lakey Islet Transplantation as a Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes

04/02/09 11:00 AM David Pimentel Biofuels versus Food and Environment

03/27/09 9:00 AM Sharel Figueredo Structure-Function Relationship of Pro-alpha-defensin

03/26/09 9:00 AM Becky Tsai A strategy to Identify LEF1 IRES Regulatory Factors

03/26/09 12:00 PM Henry L. Roediger III Remembering Events That Never Happened: Creating False Memories Via Associative Inferences

03/25/09 7:30 PM Henry L. Roediger III The Power of Testing Memory: From the Laboratory to the Classroom

03/23/09 1:00 PM Aryeh Routtenberg Thoughts on Hippocampal Granule Cells: An Enigma Wrapped in a Mystery

03/19/09 9:00 AM April Phillips regA gene expression in Borrelia hermsii

03/19/09 11:00 AM Bing Ren Chromatin signatures of transcriptional enhancers

03/19/09 4:00 PM Mark Gluck Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Associative Learning and Decision Making

03/18/09 4:00 PM Ke Dong Modulation of insect sodium channel function by alternative splicing and RNA editing

03/13/09 9:00 AM Michael Selsted Production and Elaboration of Anti-Inflammatory Peptides by Inflammatory Cells

03/10/09 4:00 PM Edward Bertram Circuits and Seizures: Is There an Ictal Epicenter?

03/06/09 12:00 PM James Bowie What drives membrane protein folding?

03/05/09 9:00 AM Gene-Errol Ringpis Modularity of Trypanosomal Nucleotidyltransferases

03/05/09 4:00 PM Jeanne Loring The Secret Lives of Stem Cells: Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Pluripotence

03/04/09 4:00 PM Jens Lykke-Andersen The regulation of translation and mRNA turnover in human gene expression

03/02/09 7:00 PM Edgar K. Marcuse The Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture - Immunization Hesitancy: A Rising Tide that Challenges the Public Health

02/27/09 9:00 AM Sherif Rezk Hodgkin Lymphoma: Origin, Pathogenesis and EBV Association

02/27/09 12:00 PM Paul Lieberman The Epigenetics of Genome Stability: Lessons from Gammaherpesvirus Latency

02/26/09 9:00 AM Renee Marcsisin-Rogers Non-variable antigens of Borrelia hermsii, a pathogen notable for antigenic variation

02/20/09 12:00 PM Aimee Edinger Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium

02/20/09 12:00 PM David Cheresh Unexpected role of VEGF in the tumor microenvironment: New insights into cancer therapy

02/19/09 9:00 AM Matthew Kotlajich Commitment to Splice-Site Pairing: The Mediator of the Point of No Return

02/18/09 4:00 PM Felicia Goodrum Mechanisms of Human Cytomegalovirus Latency

02/13/09 9:00 AM David Danielpour Deregulation of TGF-beta Signaling in Prostate Cancer

02/13/09 11:00 AM Michael Eisen Understanding and Exploiting the Evolution of Drosophila Regulatory Sequences

02/13/09 12:00 PM Cosette Wheeler Integration of HPV Vaccination and Screening: U.S. Population-based Data and Politics vs. Public Health

02/12/09 9:00 AM Laurimar Escudero-Paunetto Studying Alternative Adaptor Proteins in the Export of HSV-1 Transcripts

02/10/09 4:00 PM Quentin Pittman Acute and Chronic Sickness and the Excitable Brain

02/05/09 9:00 AM Kerry Fitzgerald Intracellular localiztion and function of non-canonical initiation factors during poliovirus IRES-mediated translation

02/05/09 11:00 AM Paul S. Zorner Power to the People: Repositioning Agriculture, Biotechnology and Engineering as a Foundation to Enriched Energy Security, Climate Mediation and Regional Economic Development

02/04/09 4:00 PM Michael Emerman Evolution of function of the antiviral APOBEC3 genes against known and unknown viruses

02/03/09 4:00 PM Ted Abel Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Colloquium Series

01/30/09 9:00 AM Taosheng Huang TBX3 and Breast Cancer

01/30/09 12:00 PM Glen Nemerow The Interface Between Adenovirus Cell Entry and The Innate Immune Response

01/29/09 12:00 AM Year of Science 2009: Robots and Superheroes - Translating Science for the Public

01/29/09 9:00 AM Allan Chen Stress response in Chlamydia: Regulating the Regulator

01/29/09 4:00 PM Karl Peter Giese Fast Tracks and Sex-Specific Routes to Form Hippocampal Memory

01/23/09 8:00 AM David Harlan Future of Diabetes Research

01/23/09 9:00 AM Diane Hoffman-Kim Axon Guidance in Complex Environments -Keystones for Nerve Repair Technologies

01/22/09 9:00 AM Drew Etheridge PPR Proteins and Mitochondrial mRNA Maturation in Trypanosomes

01/22/09 11:00 AM Pavel Pevzner EULER: From Assembling Short DNA Reads to Shotgun Protein Sequencing by Assembling Mass Spectra

01/21/09 12:00 PM Michael Davis Role of the Amygdala and Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis in Fear vs. Anxiety: Corticotropin Releasing Hormone at the Center of Anxiety

01/21/09 4:00 PM Susan Baker Developing protease inhibitors to SARS coronavirus

01/20/09 7:30 PM Michael Davis The Fifteenth UCI Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory

01/16/09 12:00 PM Stanley Perlman Structural Correlates of Cytotoxic T cell Escape in the Murine Coronavirus-Infected Brain

01/16/09 4:00 PM Rob Steele Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium and Happy Hour

01/15/09 9:00 AM Janet Rozovics Cleavage of the VPg-RNA linkage in picornavirus genomes by cellular proteins(s)

01/15/09 6:00 PM In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin

01/13/09 4:00 PM Joseph LoTurco Better Late than Never: Stalling and Restarting Neuronal Migration in Developing Neocortex

01/09/09 12:00 PM Joseph Jez Sensing Cellular Environment Through Molecular Switches in Thiol Metabolism

01/08/09 9:00 AM Karoni Dutt Electrophysiological Analysis of a Human Sodium Channel Mutation Causing Epilepsy using Mouse Models

01/08/09 4:00 PM Peter Holland Attention for Learning and Action in Associative Learning

01/07/09 4:00 PM Kenneth Fields How important is T3S to chlamydial pathogenisis: What we know and what we are likely to find out

12/12/08 9:00 AM Subburaman Mohan Vitamin C Deficiency and Nrf1 Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Osteoporosis

12/05/08 12:00 PM Yong Duan Simulation of protein folding and dynamics by physics-based all-atom models

12/04/08 9:00 AM Felicia Hernandez Imaging the interaction dynamics of ICP27 during HSV-1 infection

12/03/08 4:00 PM Paula Cannon The role of the entry pathway in the pathogencity of New World hemorrhagic fever arenavirusus

12/02/08 12:00 PM Bruno Sobral The PathoSystems Resource Integration Center for Biothreats, Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Caused by Priority Bacteria and Viruses

12/01/08 3:00 PM Seeing Right Through You: The Event-related Optical Signal

11/21/08 8:00 AM Global Health Symposium: Malaria in the 21st Century

11/21/08 4:00 PM Christine Suetterlin Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium

11/20/08 9:00 AM Aileen Anderson The roles of human stem cell transplantation and inflammation in repair after snial cord injury: Mechanisms versus Mantras

11/14/08 9:00 AM Frank Jones Trastuzumab Treatment for Metastatic Breast Cancer - Did We Miss the Target?

11/14/08 9:30 AM UCI Minority Graduate Research Conference in Biomedical Sciences

11/13/08 9:00 AM Rahul Warrior Glycosaminoglycans translational regulation is required for morphogen signaling in drosophila

11/12/08 4:00 PM Charles Query Alteration of spliceosome dynamics impacts fidelity and flexibility of gene expression

11/10/08 8:30 AM Green Chemistry & Environmental Health

11/07/08 12:00 PM Vahe Bandarian Chemical Biology of Secondary Metabolism

11/06/08 9:00 AM Ed Nelson Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Replicon (VRP) Based Anti-Tumor Immunotherapy

11/03/08 7:00 PM Erin Schuman The Ralph Gerard Lectureship - Learning, Memory and the Brain (Due to an overwhelming response, R.S.V.P.s are no longer accepted for the Ralph Gerard Lecture)

10/31/08 9:00 AM Anatoly Slepenkin & Hency Chu Iron Starvation: A Novel Strategy for the Development of a Microbicide

10/30/08 9:00 AM Manuela Raffattellu TH17 cytokines orchestrate the mucosal barrier to Salmonella

10/29/08 4:00 PM Chester W. Price Partner switching: a versatile and widespread mechanism of signal transduction in bacteria

10/28/08 7:00 PM Arthur D. Lander The Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology - Strategies of Life: Old Questions Driving the New Systems Biology

10/24/08 12:00 AM UCI to Break Ground for New Stem Cell Building

10/24/08 9:00 AM Edwin Monuki The Mammalian Dorsal Telencephalon as a Classic Morphogen Gradient Model System

10/24/08 12:00 PM Anthony Kossiakoff Synthetic antibodies derived from a minimalized genetic code: New applications for structural and cell biology

10/23/08 9:00 AM Yongsheng Shi Molecular architecture of the human pre-mRna 3' processing complex

10/23/08 11:00 AM Charless Fowlkes Understanding variation in embryonic patterning among Drosophila species using a spatio-temporal atlas of gene expression

10/20/08 12:00 PM Pamela Tamez Malaria: From Genomics to Function

10/17/08 4:00 PM Marcelo Wood DBC Mini Symposium

10/16/08 9:00 AM Kyoko Yokomori SMC Complexes: Critical regulators of chomosomes in mitosis and interphase

10/16/08 11:00 AM Kyoko Yokimori Critical Roles of the Sister Chromatid Cohesion Complex Cohesin in Mitosis and Interphase

10/16/08 4:00 PM Todd Sacktor PKMzeta: The First Long-Term Memory Storage Molecule

10/15/08 4:00 PM Tatyana Pestova New insigns into mechanisms of Cap-dependent and IRES-mediated translation initiation in eukaryotes

10/14/08 12:00 AM Katharine Suding Forays Into the Field: Local Impacts of Global Biological Change

10/13/08 2:00 PM Peter Velasquez CHALK TALK Regulation of enteric commensal specific lymphocycle activation & migration

10/10/08 9:00 AM Sean P. Colgan New Insights into Inflammatory Hypoxia: the Role of HIF in Resolution

10/10/08 12:00 PM Anthony Berdis Developing Novel Therapeutic Agents by Exploiting Pro-Mutagenic DNA Synthesis

10/09/08 9:00 AM Ingrid Ruf Epstein-Barr Virus Pathogenesis: Noncoding RNAs and Tumorigenicity

10/07/08 12:00 AM Peter J. Donovan Stem Cells: Building New Treatments for Human Disease

10/07/08 4:00 PM Tim Benke Neonatal seizures and the developing brain

10/01/08 12:15 PM Yong Chen High-throughput protein identification and characterization using LC/MS

10/01/08 4:00 PM William Marzluff Novel pathways in regulation and expression of histone mRNA during the cell cycle

09/26/08 9:00 AM W. Edward Robinson Jr. Resistance to HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors Reveals Several Phenotypes

09/26/08 11:00 AM Barry Bunin Collaborative Drug Discovery with Academic Scientists

09/26/08 12:00 PM Mischa Machius Alpha-Ketoacid Dehydrognease: Structure, Mechanism, and Regulation of a 9 Mega-Dalton Multi-Enzyme Machine

09/19/08 4:00 PM Maike Sander Developmental Biology Center Mini Symposium & Sander Lab Send Off

09/12/08 9:00 AM Maria Cruz-Fisher Characterization of the antigenic ORFome of Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis

09/12/08 1:00 PM Richard Evans Gamma-Herpesvirus Associated, Metastatic Urogenital Carcinoma in California Sea Lions

09/02/08 2:00 PM Michael T. Shanahan Structural and Functional Studies of Mouse Paneth Cell CRS4C Peptides

08/14/08 4:00 PM Kobi Rosenblum Off-line Processing of Memory Information in the Gustatory Cortex

08/11/08 2:00 PM Peter Velazquez Orchestrating Immunity at the Hepatic and Intestinal Mucosal Effector Sites

07/25/08 3:30 PM Eloy Rodriguez REFLECTIONS ON THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRAINING IN CHEMICAL ECOLOGY AND MEDICINE

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 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 11:00 AM Andres Moya Human infectious diseases: An evolutionary approach

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”

Greg Hageman Postcard
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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

03/05/08 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 Dale Dorsett Roles of sister chromatid cohesion proteins in gene expression and development

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

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 Silvere van der Maarel Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: where genetics meets epigenetics

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

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 Alba: A Novel FCS/FLIM lifetime imaging acquisition for cofocal mocroscopy.

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

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 Yael Katan-Khaykovich Chromatin Dynamics and Transcriptional Transitions

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

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 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

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

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 Jonathan S. Towner Hemorrhagic Fevers Caused by Ebola and Marburg Viruses

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 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 Kenneth Ertel Interactions of cellular protein hnRNP C with poliovirus negative-strand RNA

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

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 Ray Luo Computational studies of p53 cancer mutations

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

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 Dendritic cells for Efficent Stimulation of Prophylatic or Therapeutic Immune Responses

03/22/06 4:00 PM Ehud Isacoff Optical Detection and control of neuronal signaling

03/21/06 7:30 PM Michael Rugg Watching the Brain at Work: Imaging the Formation and Retrieval of Memories

03/20/06 10:30 AM Richard Mathias Connexins between the Lens Circulation and Cataracts

03/18/06 2:00 PM Edward K. Wagner Memorial reception

03/17/06 12:00 PM Paula Traktman An Update on the Intricate Choreography of the Vaccinia Virus Life Cycle

03/17/06 1:00 PM Kevin Griffin Blood and guts: maternal determinants, endoderm induction and leukemia

03/16/06 9:00 AM Lisa Johnson Studies on the export of viral RNA by HSV-1 ICP27

03/16/06 11:00 AM KLAUS KAESTNER The Making of the Liver: Foxa Factors as Pioneer Transcription Factors

03/16/06 12:00 PM Matthew Krummel Spatiotemporal Control of the T cell Activation

03/16/06 4:00 PM W. Ian Lipkin Infection and Immunity in Acute and Chronic Disease

03/16/06 5:00 PM Anthony A. James GENETIC APPROACHES TO THE CONTROL OF VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES

03/13/06 1:00 PM Xiaoning Bi Cholesterol and cell signaling alterations in neurological diseases

03/11/06 8:00 AM Eighth Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, March 11-14

03/09/06 11:00 AM Mary Dasso Cellular roles and regulation of SUMO conjugation

03/09/06 12:00 PM Ellen Rothenberg Choosing to be a T cell: Transciptional and Signaling Regulatory Network

03/09/06 5:00 PM Bruce Blumberg ORGANOTINS AND ADIPOGENESIS: IS THE ENVIRONMENT MAKING US FAT

03/08/06 4:00 PM Sandra Weller How Herpes simplex virus commandeers the host cell chaperone and DNA damage machinery

03/06/06 10:30 AM Ralf Langen Amyloid protein misfolding studied by site-directed spin labeling

03/03/06 10:00 AM Larry Smarr Microbial Metagenomics Drives a New Cyberinfrasturcture

03/03/06 12:00 PM Xinhua Ji The Mechanism of Double-Stranded RNA Processing by Ribonuclease III: How Dicer Dices

03/03/06 2:00 PM Kimmen Sjolander Phylogenomic Analysis of the Human Genome

03/02/06 9:00 AM Ani Grigorian Modulation of T cell Function in Autoimmune Disease by Manipulating Mgat5 N-glycosylation

03/02/06 11:00 AM Victor Faundez Neuronal Mechanisms of Endosomal Vesicle Membrane Transport

03/02/06 5:00 PM Matthew J. McHenry INVESTIGATING HOW FISH DETECT WATER MOVEMENT

03/01/06 4:00 PM Steven Reed The cyclin E oncoprotein: mechanisms and pathologies

02/27/06 6:00 PM Frank La Ferla Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk Factors, Genes and New Treatments

02/24/06 12:00 PM Rich Longnecker How to Enter B Cells and Epithelial Cells: Lessons from Epstein-Barr Virus

02/23/06 9:00 AM Elizabeth Di Russo Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in Chlamydia

02/23/06 11:00 AM JEFFREY CHAMBERLAIN Body wide amelioration of muscular dystrophy by intravenous injection of adeno-associated viral vectors

02/23/06 12:00 PM Paul McCray Pulmonary applications of RNA interference

02/23/06 12:00 PM David Tait Understanding Attentional Set-Shifting Through Manipulations of Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Forebrain

02/23/06 5:00 PM James W. Hicks PYTHONS GROW BIGGER HEARTS AFTER A MEAL: A MODEL FOR EXTREME PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION

02/22/06 4:00 PM Arthur Weiss How herpes simplex virus commandeers the host cell chaperone and DNA damage machinery

02/17/06 9:00 AM Ping Wang Modulation of Insulin-like Growth Factor Signaling - The Heat is On

02/16/06 9:00 AM Sarah Daijogo Protein-protein interactions between viral and cellular proteins involved in picornavirus RNA replication

02/16/06 12:00 PM Siamon Gordon Innate Immune Recognition by Macrophages

02/15/06 4:00 PM Tso-Pang Yao HDACs and reversible protein acetylation in cell signaling and disease

02/14/06 10:30 AM Roger Y. Tsien Building molecules to spy on cells and tumors

02/14/06 12:00 PM Shivinder Grewal RNAi-mediated epigenetic control of the genome

02/13/06 1:00 PM Ulrike Luderer Oxidative stress, ovarian damage, and the protective role of glutathione.

02/09/06 9:00 AM Kimberly Aeling The global role of DNA supercoiling in the regulation of basal level gene expression in Escherichia coli

02/09/06 12:00 PM Ellen Rothenberg Cell Death Club and Division of Basic and Clinial Immunology: Choosing to be a T cell: transcriptional and signaling regulatory network

02/09/06 4:00 PM L. Ridgway Scott Digital biology: data-mining with a physical chemistry lens

02/09/06 5:00 PM John C. Avise A NATURALIST IN THE MODERN WORLD

02/08/06 12:00 PM UC MEXUS Funding Opportunities Workshop

02/08/06 4:00 PM Gerald Joyce It's a Wonderful Life: Evolution in an RNA World

02/06/06 10:00 AM Michelle Carmell The Piwi subfamily of Argonaute proteins and their interaction with a novel class of small RNA's

02/06/06 10:30 AM Ernest Wright The surprising versatility of human Na/glucose transporters (SLC5)

02/06/06 12:00 PM Bernard Moss Poxvirus entry and assembly mechanisms

02/02/06 9:00 AM Johnny Akers Gene Regulation by Transcription Factors in Chlamydia

02/02/06 11:00 AM MARTIN SMITH Agrin: A modulator of neuronal activity in the CNS

02/02/06 12:00 PM Michael McHeyzer-Williams Regulating Adaptive Immunity: Th clonal selection and pMHCII+DC

02/02/06 5:00 PM Melanie Cocco PROTEIN NMR: STRUCTURE AND DRUG BINDING

01/31/06 2:00 PM Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz From Genes to Phenotypes: Modeling Multicellular Organisms with L-systems

01/27/06 12:00 PM Katherine Spindler Mouse adenovirus: Capitalizing on mouse genetics to study virus-host interactions

01/26/06 9:00 AM Polen Sean Interactions of poly(rC)binding proteins with the 5' noncoding region of coxsackievirus RNA

01/26/06 11:00 AM TOM SARGENT Genes Downstream From TFAP2 That Function In Neural Crest Development

01/26/06 12:00 PM Robin Lorenz Mucosal Immunity in Response to Gastric Helicobacta Infection

01/26/06 12:00 PM Francesca Happe The weak central coherence account of autism spectrum disorders

01/26/06 5:00 PM Ingrid Ruf EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS-DEPENDENT MALIGNANCIES: THE KISS OF CANCER

01/25/06 10:00 AM JOHAN KREUGER Modulation of Growth Factor and Morphogen Signaling by Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans

01/25/06 4:00 PM Nahum Sonenberg mRNA 5' cap-binding proteins control cancer, development and memory

01/25/06 7:30 PM Francesca Happe Autism: Cognitive Style not Deficit

01/23/06 9:00 AM Tallie Z. Baram Mechanisms of Late-Onset Cognitive Decline after Early-Life Stress: genes, dendrites and synapses

01/23/06 3:00 PM Hitoshi Okamura Molecular Clocks in Mammalian Circadian System

01/20/06 12:00 PM David Hovda Traumatic Brain Injury and Metabolic Diaschisis

01/19/06 9:00 AM Santos Rojas The Role of Phosphorylation in the Activities of ICP27 during HSV-1 Infection

01/19/06 11:00 AM Douglas Bornemann and Richard White RESEARCH IN PROGRESS TALKS

01/19/06 12:00 PM Martin Flajnik Evolution of Adaptive Immunity

01/19/06 5:00 PM Jeffery S. Cox MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS, A BACTERIAL PATHOGEN THAT MASQUERADES AS A VIRUS

01/18/06 4:00 PM Toshio Tsukiyama The Mechanism of Chromatin Remodeling in Vivo

01/13/06 10:00 AM HOWARD RIEZMAN Protein Sorting Early In The Secretory Pathway

01/13/06 12:00 PM John Young Cellular factors involved in early steps of MLV infection

01/13/06 4:00 PM Terrence Sejnowski The Secret Lives of Cells

01/12/06 12:00 PM Patricia J. Gearhart Antibody Hypermutation: Subverted DNA Repair

01/12/06 4:00 PM Anthony Wagner Remembering Events Past: Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to Memory

01/12/06 5:00 PM Lawrence Cahill HOW THE BRAIN PROCESSES MEMORIES FOR EMOTIONAL EVENTS

01/11/06 4:00 PM Nathaniel R. Landau Intracellular Resistance to HIV and mobile genetic elements

01/05/06 12:00 PM Charles Parkos Mechanisms of Leukocyte Migration Across Mucosal Epithelia

01/04/06 4:00 PM Janet Rossant Stem cells and lineage development in the early mouse embryo

12/19/05 9:00 AM Eliezer Masliah Advances in Experimental Gene Therapy Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease

12/15/05 12:00 PM Joel Swanson The Coordination of Phagocytosis by Phosphoinositides and Small GTPases

12/14/05 4:00 PM Matthias Wabl The dynamic genome of B lymphocytes

12/12/05 8:45 AM Various Speakers Tapestry of Life: Lateral Transfers of Heritable Elements

12/12/05 9:00 AM Vincent Procaccio Effects of Estrogen on Mitochondrial Function in brain: A Potential Mechanism for Neuroprotection

12/08/05 9:00 AM Martin Hicks Regulation of Splice Site Selection

12/08/05 11:00 AM Adam Wilkins Network-thinking and the evolution of evo-devo

12/08/05 11:00 AM ADAM WILKINS Network-thinking and the evolution of

12/08/05 12:00 PM Thomas Rothstein Receptor crosstalk: Intelligent design of alternate pathways for BCR signaling

12/05/05 9:00 AM Laura Mosqueda Elder Abuse and Dementia: Hunches, Anecdotes, and Science

12/05/05 10:30 AM Jack Dixon Bacterial Pathogens: Hijacking Eukaryotic Signal Transduction Systems.

12/02/05 12:00 PM David Garfinkel Living within Yeast; a Retrotransposon's Tale

12/01/05 9:00 AM Ling Li Association of HSV-1 ICP27 and Cellular Response Factor

12/01/05 11:00 AM DEANNA BENSON Cell Adhesion Molecules In Axon Guidance And Synapse Assembly

12/01/05 4:00 PM Daniel Storm Mechanisms for Neuroplasticity: From the Hippocampus to Olfactory Epithelium

11/28/05 9:00 AM Masashi Kitazawa Institute for Brain Aging Seminar Series

11/18/05 9:30 AM Immunology Fair

11/18/05 3:00 PM Chris Schaumburg Cis-DNA Elements and Their Role in the Regulation of Gene Expression in Chlamydia

11/17/05 9:00 AM Bellanira Herrera Interactions between HIV-1 and Cellular Proteins

11/17/05 11:00 AM ERIC DAVIDSON A Gene Regulatory Network For Embryonic Specification

11/17/05 4:00 PM Leslie Orgel The Origin of the RNA World

11/17/05 5:00 PM Randall F. Holcombe SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS AND THE GENESIS OF COLON CANCER

11/16/05 4:00 PM Imke Schroeder Life at high temperature: Physiology of nitrate and iron reducation

11/10/05 9:00 AM Christine Suetterlin The regulation and significance of Golgi fragmentation during mitosis

11/10/05 11:00 AM ALBERT COUREY Spreading The Silence: Analogies Between Groucho And Yan-Mediated Repression

11/10/05 5:00 PM Paul Gershon MASS SPECTROMETRY IN THE BIOSCIENCES

11/09/05 4:00 PM Melissa Moore (1) The Exon Junction Complex and Spliced mRNA Metabolism and (2) Functional Proofreading of Eukaryotic Ribosomes

11/07/05 9:00 AM Pinar Coskun Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia Seminar Series

11/05/05 10:00 AM Rainforest of Wonders - UCI Arboretum's Fall Orchid Festival

11/04/05 9:00 AM Dan E. Mercola Promoter Array: studies identifies a large cohort of promoters that are rapidly bound and activated in vivo by acute DNA damage

11/04/05 11:00 AM Shin-Yong Moon Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Present and Future

11/03/05 9:00 AM Aimee Edinger Tumor suppression through growth factor control of nutrient uptake

11/03/05 11:00 AM BRIAN CRANE Protein Complexes That Mediate Bacterial Chemotaxis

10/28/05 12:00 PM Lori Frappier Cellular Protein Interactions of the Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA1 Protein: Insights into EBV Persistence and Cell Immortalization

10/28/05 4:00 PM Jeffrey Skolnick Prediction of Protein Structure, Function and Druggability on a Proteomic Scale

10/27/05 9:00 AM Till Geib The role of the Survival of Motor Neuron protein in Spinal Muscular Athrophy

10/27/05 11:00 AM DANIEL KALDERON Hedgehog Signaling In Drosophila

10/27/05 12:00 PM Nicholas Lukacs Chemokines and their receptors regulate the pulmonary immune environment

10/27/05 4:00 PM Thomas J. O'Dell Molecular Signaling Networks Regulating Activity-Dependent Changes in Synaptic Strength

10/27/05 5:00 PM Albert F. Bennett EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES OF TEMPERATURE ADAPTATION

10/26/05 4:00 PM Asim Dasgupta Transcriptional Regulation in RNA Virus-infected Cells

10/24/05 10:00 AM Kenneth Kosik microRNAs in the Regulatory Hierarchy

10/24/05 10:30 AM Patricia Babbitt Using the Superfamily Perspective for Inference and Understanding of Enzyme Function

10/20/05 5:00 PM Mahtab Jafari RULES FOR THE USE OF MODEL ORGANISMS IN ANTI-AGING PHARMACOLOGY

10/19/05 10:00 AM 5th Annual BioResearch Product Faire

10/19/05 2:15 PM Michael Lynch The NanoArrayer™: Surface Patterning Technology for the Development of Novel Applications

10/17/05 9:00 AM Bioart and the Public Sphere

10/17/05 10:30 AM Ravi Bhatia Targeting the malignant stem cell in chronic myelogenous leukemia.

10/17/05 5:00 PM Randall F. Holcombe SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS AND THE GENESIS OF COLON CANCER

10/14/05 10:30 AM JULIAN I. SCHROEDER EXPOSURE OF PLANTS TO TOXIC HEAVY METALS AND DROUGHT STRESS

10/13/05 9:00 AM Hans Keirstead Human embryonic stem cells as research tools and therapeutic agents

10/13/05 11:00 AM CARL THUMMEL Molecular Mechanisms of Steroid Hormone Signaling In Drosophila

10/13/05 12:00 PM Denise Doolan Malaria Vaccine Development: Integration of Applied Genomics, Molecular Immunology, and 21st Century Vaccinology

10/13/05 5:00 PM J. Lawrence Marsh CAN FLIES HELP MAN CURE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE

10/12/05 4:00 PM Anastasia Khvorova siRNA On-and Off-target

10/12/05 4:30 PM Fall Teaching Colloquy

10/11/05 4:00 PM Charles Cantor The Advantage of Precision in Genetics, Expression and Epigenetic Studies in Cancer

10/10/05 10:00 AM Bio, Art and Public Sphere: BioTech Workshop

10/08/05 10:00 AM The Art of Flowers Fall Perennial Sale

10/07/05 9:00 AM Michael K. Samoszuk Inflammation, Fibroblasts, and Cancer

10/06/05 9:00 AM Lan Huang Proteomics of the 26S proteasome complex using mass spectrometry-based approaches

10/06/05 11:00 AM SAMUEL PLEASURE Working On The Margins: The Role Of The Chemokine SDF1 In Controlling Migration And Positioning Of Cortical Neurons

10/06/05 12:00 PM Virginia Sanders It Takes Nerve to Tell an Immune Cell What to Do

09/30/05 12:00 PM Joan Curcio Mobilization of Ty1 LTR-retrotransposons and RNA-pseudogenes in response to genome instability in S. cerevisiae

09/29/05 9:00 AM Sheryl Tsai A Microbial drug factory caught in action: biochemical analysis of polyketide biosynthesis

09/29/05 11:00 AM PAUL GARRITY Seeing the light and feeling the heat: brain development and behavior in Drosophila

09/29/05 12:00 PM Tomas Mustelin Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases from Human Genome to Autoimmune Disease

09/22/05 12:00 PM Keith Elkon Abnormalities in Apoptosis Pathways and their effect on Peripheral tolerance

09/20/05 4:00 PM Elaine Fuchs Stem Cells in the Skin - Their Lineages

09/19/05 2:00 PM Roberta Baronio Activation of Src kinases is required for cytokine production by multiple Toll-like receptors

09/16/05 9:00 AM CTEM (California Tissue Engineering Meeting)

09/16/05 12:00 PM Bing Ren Mapping the Genome’s Second Code

09/15/05 12:00 PM Stanford Peng Regulation of tolerance & lymphocyte activation by forkhead transcription factors

09/13/05 1:00 PM DANIEL PEIFFER BMP Signaling Regulation During Early Vertebrate

09/09/05 10:00 AM William McGinnis Southern California Drosophila Conference

08/31/05 12:15 PM Amander Clark Lunch and Chalk Talk for Dr. Amander Clark

08/27/05 10:00 AM Summer Bulb Sale

08/26/05 10:30 AM Jiankang Liu Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia Distinguished guest lecture

08/18/05 4:00 PM Jean-Phillipe Vert IGB Colloquium - Supervised Inference of Biological Networks

08/05/05 12:00 PM Maryanne Garry When placebos affect memory

07/20/05 11:00 AM Mahendra Rao Stem cells and CNS development

07/18/05 2:00 PM Kristin M. Bedard Protein-Protein Interactions in Poliovirus Cap-Independent Translation

07/15/05 12:00 PM Gerold Feuer Infection and Gene Transduction of Human Hematopoietic Progenitor (CD34+) Cells: Modeling HTLV and KSHV Pathogenesis

07/15/05 1:00 PM Joseph G. Victoria Mutations within the integrase gene of SIV identify viral protein and host protein-virus interactions critical for lentivirus replication

07/14/05 12:00 PM Gail Lewandowski Use of a Systems Biology Strategy to Understand Brain Dysfunction Resulting from Pathogens or Injury

07/14/05 12:00 PM Ralf Wessel Sparse spatial sampling for the computation of motion in multiple stages

07/12/05 8:00 AM Regular Meeting of the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine

06/25/05 10:00 AM June Bloom Plant Sale

06/23/05 12:00 PM Dennis Burton Neutralizing antibodies and HIV vaccine design

06/21/05 1:00 PM Ales Hampl Mouse and human embryonic stem cell research in Brno, Czech Republic

06/21/05 4:00 PM Esmail Zanjani A Large Animal Model for Assessing the in Vivo Potential of Human Stem Cells

06/16/05 9:00 AM Kimberly Aeling The global role of DNA supercoiling in the regulation of basal level gene expression in Escherichia coli

06/16/05 12:00 PM David Schatz Molecular events in somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination

06/15/05 12:00 PM Gen-Sheng Feng Molecular signaling in stem cells and metabolic diseases

06/14/05 4:00 PM Jack M. Parent Adult neurogenesis: a force for brain repair or the dark side?

06/13/05 12:00 PM Ren-He Xu BMP, bFGF, and human ES cell self-renewal

06/10/05 9:00 AM Angie Garcia Isolation and Characterization of Baboon Theta Defensins

06/10/05 12:00 PM Christopher Still Fog in the California Channel Islands: Ecosystem Inputs and Consequences

06/10/05 12:00 PM Mike Flanagan Fragment-based drug discovery: From cytokines to kinases

06/10/05 12:00 PM Maya Mitalipova Maintaining the genetic integrity of human ES cells and differentiation into neural lineages

06/09/05 9:00 AM Johnny Akers Regulation of Tryptophan Biosynthetic Genes in Chlamydia trachomatis

06/09/05 4:00 PM Andrew P. Yonelinas Measures of Remembering

06/08/05 4:00 PM Susan L. Forsburg Replication, recombination, and genome integrity: insights from a model system

06/07/05 9:00 AM Wei Wei Fan Generating mouse models of human mitochondria diseases

06/07/05 9:00 AM Saori Furuta Roles of BRCA1 in Mammary Epitherlial Cell Differentiation

06/03/05 12:00 PM Thomas G. Whitham Genetic components of community structure and ecosystem processes

06/03/05 12:00 PM Shane Crotty Long term immunity to infectious diseases: antibodies and memory B cells

06/03/05 1:00 PM Laure Jason-Moller Measuring molecular interactions with surface plasmon resonance - How the Biacore can help your research

06/02/05 9:00 AM Sarah Daijogo Poly(A)-binding protein interactions with proteins required for poliovirus replication

06/02/05 11:00 AM Andreas Fritz Induction, Competence & Bias: Development of the inner ear in zebrafish

06/01/05 12:00 PM Amander Clark The Biology of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and the Formation of Germ Cells in vitro

05/31/05 9:00 AM Ning Yuan Su The F box protein Met30 is required for multiple steps in the budding yeast cell cycle

05/31/05 9:00 AM Min Yang ADA2, ADA3 & their regulation of transcription factors

05/27/05 12:00 PM Peter C. Wainwright Innovation and diversity in coral reef fishes

05/26/05 9:00 AM Ani Grigorian Modulation of T cell Function in Autoimmune Disease by Manipulating Mgat V N-glycosylation

05/26/05 11:00 AM KRISTIN WHITE The Regulation And Execution Of Apoptosis In Drosophila

05/26/05 4:00 PM Jerry W. Rudy Behavioral Tag: Making Memories from Products Generated by Experience Outside of the Learning Event

05/25/05 12:00 PM Philip Schwartz Treatment of Pediatric Brain Disease with Neural Stem Cells

05/25/05 6:00 PM Robert Corell UCI 2004-2005 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series Presents: Rapid Warming of the Arctic -An early warning for the planet-

05/24/05 9:00 AM Andy Teng A growth inhibitory function of the a-catenin/LEF1 downstream target mOvol in developing epidermis

05/24/05 9:00 AM School of Biological Sciences & UCIMC Blood Drive

05/24/05 9:00 AM Laskmir Nair Transcriptional repressor Ovoll controls the proliferation-differntiation balance by repressing genes like id2 and c-Myc

05/23/05 9:00 AM Orhan Nalcioglu Institute for Brain Aging Seminar Series

05/23/05 12:00 PM Noboru Sato The Signal Transduction Pathway Regulating Pluripotency in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

05/20/05 12:00 PM Elizabeth Waters TBA

05/20/05 12:00 PM Mike McCune Activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells and HIV disease progression

05/19/05 9:00 AM Lisa Johnson Studies on the export of viral RNA by HSV-1 ICP27

05/19/05 11:00 AM MARK HENKEMEYER Ephrin Signaling

05/19/05 3:00 PM Bianca J. Lam Mechanisms of Splice Site Recognition and Activation

05/19/05 3:00 PM Bianca J. Lam Mechanisms of Splice Site Recognition and Activation

05/18/05 12:00 PM Diana Ramirez-Bergeron The role of HIF in Cardiovascular Development

05/17/05 9:00 AM Chris Wiley A role for DNA methylation in peromyscus Hybrid Dysgenesis

05/17/05 9:00 AM Amanda Duselis Genomic imprinting & how it relates to Disease & Development

05/16/05 1:00 PM Szu-Wen Wang P-glycoprotein Inhibition by Common Excipients in Oral Drug Formulations

05/16/05 2:00 PM Fawzia A. Atcha Identification of a new DNA binding domain in the E-tail of TCF and its role in Wnt and cancer

05/13/05 12:00 PM S. Randal Voss The ESTs of Axolotls: Enabling Quantitative, Comparative, and Population Genomics

05/13/05 12:00 PM Gabriel Fenteany Chemical Approaches to Understanding Cell Migration

05/13/05 4:00 PM James E. Ferrell Building a Cell Cycle Oscillator: New Lessons from the Frog Egg

05/12/05 9:00 AM Elizabeth DiRusso Regulation of Transcription in Chlamydia trachomatis

05/12/05 12:00 PM Guy Salvesen Cell Death Club Seminar: Caspase Activation: Stepping on the Gas or Releasing the Brakes

05/12/05 5:00 PM Jose M. Almendral The Scid Mouse as Experimental Model to Define Molecular Evolution of Parvoviruses

05/11/05 12:00 PM Richard J. McNally Cognitive psychology and recovered memories of trauma

05/11/05 12:00 PM Zack Wang The role of EphB4 in ES cell differentiation

05/11/05 12:00 PM Michael Zuker Predicting nucleic acid hybridizaton and melting profiles

05/11/05 4:00 PM Raul Andino Genomic diversity in a viral population and its consequences for fitness, tissue tropism and pathogenesis

05/10/05 9:00 AM Jason Heale Condesin 1, PARF-1 and DNA repair in human cells

05/10/05 9:00 AM Weihua Zeng Identification & characterization of SMC Complexes Binding Sites on human D4Z4 repeats

05/10/05 4:00 PM Anne E. Anderson Potassium channel plasticity in epilepsy

05/10/05 7:30 PM Richard J. McNally Remembering trauma

05/09/05 7:00 PM Understanding the Promise and Problems of Stem Cells

05/06/05 12:00 PM Kenneth Stedman Viruses from Hell

05/06/05 12:00 PM Ellen Simms Cooperation and exploitation: Testing partner-choice theory in the legume-rhizobium nitrogen fixation symbiosis

05/06/05 3:00 PM Gwendolyn Maxine Jang RNA determinants in the expression of a voltage-gated potassium channel

05/05/05 9:00 AM Kenneth Ertel The 5' end of poliovirus negative-strand RNA intermediate influences positive-strand synthesis during viral replicaton

05/05/05 11:00 AM KAI ZINN Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis in Drosophila

05/05/05 12:00 PM Kristin Hogquist Getting the TCR to work on time

05/05/05 5:00 PM George Negrete Environmentally friendlier approaches to chiral molecules

05/04/05 11:00 AM Danesh Moazed NAD- powered Silencing Machines & Assembly of Heterochromatin

05/04/05 12:00 PM Henriette van Praag Hippocampal neurogenesis: is it important for learning in the adult mouse?

05/03/05 9:00 AM Jessican Chen Contributions by MutL Homologs Mih3 & Pms2 to DNA Mismatch Repair & Tumor Suppression in the Mouse

05/03/05 9:00 AM The 3rd Annual IGB Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Program Symposium

05/03/05 9:00 AM Douglas MacKay Mov2 is required for neural & hindgut development during embryogenesis

05/03/05 2:00 PM Teresa Lehmann Structural Studies of Chemotherapeutic Biomolecules Using NMR Spectroscopy

05/02/05 9:00 AM School of Biological Sciences Excellence in Research Program

04/29/05 12:00 PM Peter Donovan From Stem Cells to Germ Cells: Tracking Down Stemness

04/29/05 12:00 PM Bryan L. Foster Constraints on community assembly, diversity and productivity: experiments in temperate grassland

04/29/05 3:30 PM Eric B. Baum What is Thought?

04/28/05 9:00 AM Kristi Fox Intron and Exon Definition in pre-mRNA Splicing

04/28/05 12:00 PM Jonathan Ashwell T cell p38: teaching an old dog new tricks

04/28/05 5:00 PM James McGaugh How the brain makes sure that important experiences are well-remembered

04/27/05 12:00 PM Marcelo Wood Transcriptional regulation of synaptic plasticity and memory storage

04/27/05 3:00 PM Greg S. Suh Circuit Analysis of an Innate Avoidance (fear) Behavior in Drosophila

04/27/05 4:00 PM Virginia Miller Yersinia enterocolitica infection: views from both sides

04/26/05 9:00 AM Min Zhang Investigation of Ty3 virus-like particle structure

04/26/05 9:00 AM Eric Wang Global landscape of recent inferred Darwinian selection for Homo sapiens

04/26/05 9:00 AM School of Biological Sciences Excellence in Research Program

04/26/05 4:00 PM Eckard Wimmer Studies on the life cycle of a chemical called poliovirus

04/25/05 12:00 PM Steven Stice Turning human embryonic stem cells into biomedicine through a mixture of embryology, pharmacology, and physiology

04/22/05 12:00 PM John Young Anthrax toxin-receptor interactions and soluble receptor-based antitoxins

04/21/05 12:00 PM Thomas Braciale Pathogen dose and the regulation of anti-viral CD8 + T Cell responses by FasL and IL-12

04/21/05 2:00 PM Michel Tibaryrenc Evolutionary genetics and molecular epidemiology of pathogens

04/19/05 9:00 AM Kathleen Casey Follow-up studies of AGXT2 in Costa Rica Single Cases

04/19/05 9:30 AM Chris Smith BRCA-1 deficient mammary tumors have distint tumorigenesis processes & chemotheraphy response

04/18/05 11:00 AM Shunichi Takeda Reverse genetic study of cellular response to DNA damage in the chicken DT40 cells

04/18/05 12:00 PM Ole Isacson Biological Opportunities for Stem Cell Based Regeneration and Repair in Parkinson's Disease

04/18/05 12:00 PM Almira Vazdarjanova Investigating memory networks using immediate-early genes

04/18/05 1:00 PM David Jentsch Alpha-Noradrenergic Receptors as Targets for Cognitive Enhancement in Schizophrenia

04/15/05 9:00 AM Andrew N. Cornforth Regulation of c-FLIP in Prostate Cancer by Androgen.

04/15/05 12:00 PM David Parichy Zebrafish pigment pattern metamorphosis: a model for studying the development and evolution of adult form

04/14/05 9:00 AM Sung-Uk Lee Differential Expression of Mgat5 modified N-glycans among murine strains and its association with autoimmune disease

04/14/05 11:00 AM DAVID PARICHY Zebrafish pigment pattern and metamorphosis: a model for development and evolution of adult form

04/14/05 12:00 PM Robyn Klein Regulation of Neuroinflammation: The Chemokine Connection

04/14/05 3:00 PM Noboru Sueoka Directional Mutation Pressures as one of the Major Causes of Molecular Evolution

04/14/05 4:00 PM Ronald See The neural circuitry of conditioned-cued relapse to drugs of abuse

04/13/05 12:00 PM Ed Korzus Nuclear integration of signals promoting memory consolidation

04/13/05 4:00 PM David Spector A New Twist on the Central Dogma

04/13/05 4:00 PM David L. Spector A New Twist on the Central Dogma

04/12/05 9:00 AM Kevin Lin Hair & mammary cycles compared at the genomic level

04/12/05 9:00 AM Christian Tagwerker A new tandem affinity tag to study protome-wide ubiquitination & ULP modification profiles

04/11/05 9:00 AM Monica Carson Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia Seminar Series

04/11/05 11:00 AM Anastasia Mavropoulos Identification of new transcription factors involved in pancreas development

04/08/05 12:00 PM David Bloom Linking histone modifications and chromatin insulators to the regulation of HSV latent gene expression

04/08/05 12:00 PM Thomas W. Schoener Experimental studies of predatory effects on a common lizard in its food web

04/07/05 9:00 AM Bellanira Herrera Interactions Between Cellular and Viral Proteins which Affect HIV-1 Replication

04/07/05 11:00 AM HIROSHI SHIMIZU Evolutionary Origin of Autonomic Nervous System

04/07/05 5:00 PM Keith Gottlieb Educating a Virologist: Careers as a Virologist in Industry

04/06/05 11:00 AM Richard Harland BMP antagonists in vertebrate development

04/06/05 12:00 PM Michael A. Sutton Local protein synthesis in dendrites and the control of synaptic function

04/05/05 9:00 AM Amin Peng Regulation & Mechanism of NFBD1/MDC1 and 53BP1, two BRCT domain containing proteins, in Mediating DNA Damage Responses

04/05/05 9:00 AM Xiaoman Xu The role of co-factors of Lim domains in epithelial tissues

04/05/05 1:00 PM Frithjof Kruggel Recent Advances in Functional Neuroimaging Methodology

04/04/05 9:00 AM Jorge Busciglio Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia Seminar Series

04/04/05 12:00 PM Mahendra Rao Human Embryonic Stem Cells and their Differentiation into Neural Lineages

04/04/05 4:00 PM Paolo Sassone-Corsi Unique Transcription Rules and Chromatin Remodeling in Germ Cells

04/01/05 12:00 AM Mark Mamula Using Protein Chemistry to Trigger Autoimmune Responses to Tumors

04/01/05 12:00 PM Martin Kast Advances in the Immunology of HPV, Dendritic cells and Langerhans cells

03/31/05 9:00 AM Martin Hicks The Coupling of Transcription and Splicing Ensures Protection of Nascent Transcripts

03/30/05 11:00 AM Robin Lovell-Badge How the differences between the sexes are initiated

03/30/05 12:00 PM Richard Morris Synaptic tagging and the variable persistence of LTP

03/29/05 5:30 PM Robin Lovell-Badge 15th Annual Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture Series

03/29/05 7:30 PM Richard Morris IHF Distinguished Lecture on Brain, Learning and Memory

03/28/05 12:00 PM Robin Lovell-Badge The Role of Soxb1 Genes in Stem Cells and in the Development of the CNS and Sensory Systems

03/28/05 1:00 PM Ivan Soltesz Plasticity of Neuronal Microcircuits

03/25/05 12:00 PM Kathleen Boris-Lawrie The Destiny of Retroviral RNA: Ribosome or Virion?

03/24/05 9:00 AM Qiyuan Dai Programming of Antigenic Variation in a Relapsing Fever Borrelia Species

03/23/05 12:00 PM John F. Guzowski Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory: Immediate-early Gene Expression, Cell Networks, and Behavior

03/22/05 9:00 AM Marian Waterman Lymphoid enhancer factor-1 Expression and function in cancer

03/21/05 10:30 AM Michael Blaber Tertiary and Primary Structure Symmetry in Protein Evolution and Design

03/18/05 12:00 AM David Namazee Receptor editing and B cell tolerance

03/18/05 12:30 PM George L. Hunt, Jr. Climate change and energy flow in the southeastern Bering Sea

03/17/05 9:00 AM Liza Larsen Computationally Optimized DNA and Ty3 Virus-Like Particle Assembly

03/17/05 12:00 PM Pam Schwartzberg Integrating T Cell Signals

03/17/05 4:00 PM Carol A. Barnes Models of Normal age-related memory change: What are the primary neurobiological causes?

03/16/05 11:00 AM William Tansey Transcriptional Control & the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System

03/15/05 9:00 AM Peter Bryant Stem cells & cancer clues from drosophila

03/14/05 12:00 PM Laura Lillien Stem and Progenitor Cell Diversity in the Central Nervous System

03/14/05 1:30 PM Bradford W. Gibson Mitochondrial Proteomics, Aging and Neurodegerative Disease

03/11/05 12:00 PM Henry Levin Retrotransposons of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe, A Model for HIV-1 replication

03/11/05 12:00 PM Jan Dvorak Recombination: The Primary Determinant of the Pattern and Tempo of the Evolution of Gene Content Along the Chromosomes of Wheat and Its Diploid Ancestors

03/10/05 11:00 AM Louis Guillette Contaminants and Aquatic Ecosystems at Risk: A Gene to Population Approach

03/10/05 12:00 PM Donata Vercelli Functional Genomics of Allergic Inflammation

03/10/05 12:15 PM Pernille Baker High-quality, high-throughput microsatellite geno-typing for efficiently identifying disease-causing genes

03/09/05 4:00 PM Juli Feigon Structural and functional studies of human telomerase and yeast RNAse III

03/08/05 9:00 AM Tau-Mu Yi Sensing Gradients using G-Protein Systems

03/07/05 9:00 AM Barbara Dosher Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia Seminar series

03/07/05 10:00 AM David Gottlieb From Embryonic Stem Cells to Neurons in a Dish

03/04/05 12:00 AM Kees Murre Regulation and function of helix-loop-helix proteins in stem cell homeostasis and lymphocyte development

03/04/05 12:00 AM Cornelius Murre The regulation and function of helix-loop-helix proteins in hematopoietic stem cells and lymphoid development

03/04/05 11:00 AM Peter Byers A Role for the Order of Intron Removal in the Outcome of Splice Site Mutations

03/03/05 9:00 AM Santos Rojas The role of ICP27 in RNA Export

03/03/05 11:00 AM Paul Vrana A system for studying the role of genomic imprinting and placentation in mammalian growth and development

03/03/05 12:00 PM Craig Walsh Cell Death Club: Regulation of Lymphocyte Activation and Death by DRAK2

03/03/05 4:00 PM Robert L. Nussbaum A Molecular Genetic Approach to Parkinson Disease

03/02/05 11:00 AM Raju Kucherlapati Molecular Basis for DiGeorge/Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome

03/01/05 9:00 AM Larry Marsh Organizng the Organizers'-Regulation of WNT's and BMP

02/28/05 10:00 AM Eric S. Lander Interpreting Genomic Information (revised title)

02/25/05 12:00 PM Susan Ross The Three Faces of Env; Multiple Roles for One Retroviral Protein

02/25/05 12:00 PM Jessica Lee Green Spatial Scaling of Microbial Eukaryote Diversity

02/25/05 7:00 PM Eric Lander The Human Genome and Beyond

02/24/05 9:00 AM Hai Nguyen Regulation of Sodium Channel Fast Inactivation by the Carboxyl Terminus

02/24/05 11:00 AM Sharon Amacher Making Mesodermal Segments in Zebrafish

02/23/05 4:00 PM Karla Kirkegaard Poliovirus RNA replication: catalytic lattices on pirated membranes

02/22/05 9:00 AM Christine Suetterlin The Golgi-centrosome connection

02/18/05 12:00 PM Robert K. Josephson The Design of Fast Muscles

02/18/05 12:00 PM Jim Van Etten Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses

02/17/05 2:00 PM Laura Flatauer Yeast MAP Kinase Signaling: Mechanisms that Enhance Signal Transmission and Specificity

02/16/05 11:00 AM Webster Cavenee Defective Receptor signaling in Human Cancer: Mechanisms & Therapeutic approaches

02/15/05 9:00 AM Brandon Gaut Population genetics of maize & the search for selected genes:An approach that will work for humans, too

02/14/05 12:00 PM Bonita Biegalke Human cytomegalovirus UL34 protein: multifunctional protein or simple transcriptional repressor?

02/13/05 12:00 PM Conference on Biological Materials Sciences.

02/11/05 12:00 PM Lin Chao Evolution of Compensatory Mutations

02/11/05 12:00 PM Marcie McClure Hunting Reverse Transcriptase Encoding Agentsin Genomes: an Automated Approach

02/10/05 11:00 AM CARLITO LEBRILLA The Use of Mass Spectrometry in Cancer Offense and Bioterrorism Defense

02/09/05 4:00 PM Sydney Kustu The discovery of biological gas channels: evidence that the rhesus (RH) proteins are gas channels for CO2

02/08/05 9:00 AM Klemens Hertel Regulation of PRE-mRNA splicing in higher eukaryotes

02/08/05 11:00 AM Avner Friedman How Useful is Mathematics to the Biosciences?

02/07/05 12:00 PM Nancy Raab-Traub Epstein-Barr Virus: An Etiologic Factor in Human Cancer

02/04/05 12:00 AM Mattias Wabl Genomic instability in B lymphocytes

02/04/05 8:00 AM Leroy Hood 1st Annual GERI Symposium- Genetic Epidemiology of Common Diseases: Integrating Genetics, Biology and Medicine

02/04/05 12:00 PM Michele R. Dudash How does inbreeding influence the expression of phenotypic plasticty in Mimulus guttatus

02/04/05 3:00 PM Frederick Alt Histone H2AX in genomic instability & carcinogenesis

02/03/05 11:00 AM IAN KRANTZ Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and NIPBL: Novel Insights from the Identification of a Novel Gene

02/02/05 11:00 AM Matthias Hebrok The role of embryonic signaling pathways in pancreas development & cancer

02/01/05 9:00 AM Anthony Long Several thousand individuals, a few hundred SNP's, notch signaling & the genetics of a complex trait

02/01/05 12:00 PM Elissa Newport Statistical Language Learning in Human Infants and Adults

01/28/05 12:00 PM Jonathan Levine Species Diversity and Biological Invasions: From Invasibility to Impact

01/28/05 12:00 PM Nancy Reich An Innate Immune Response to Infection

01/28/05 3:00 PM Laura S. Levy Small Animal Models of Virus-Induced Lymphoma

01/27/05 11:00 AM Utpal Banerjee Combinatorial signaling and Transcriptional Control in Cell Fate Determination

01/27/05 12:00 PM Michael Croft Regulation of T Cell Survival by TNFR Family Costimulatory Molecules

01/26/05 4:00 PM Wesley Sundquist The Biochemistry of HIV Budding

01/25/05 9:00 AM Susana Cohen-Cory Imaging the formation of neuronal corrections in the live developing brain

01/24/05 10:30 AM Melanie H. Cobb Information Flow in MAP Kinase Pathways

01/21/05 12:00 AM Mark Ginsberg Integrin Signaling in Cancer and Immunity

01/21/05 12:00 PM Norman C. Ellstrand When Transgenes Wander, Should We Worry?

01/20/05 9:00 AM Christopher Schaumburg The Regulation of Arginine Transport Genes in Chlamydia pneumoniae

01/20/05 11:00 AM Marc Diamond Identification and Characterization of a Pathway Regulating Polyglutamine Aggregation and Toxicity

01/18/05 9:00 AM Ingrid Ruf Mechanisms of epstein-barr virus eber RNA function

01/14/05 12:00 PM Richard Lloyd Poliovirus Regulation of Translation: A Tale of Two Ends

01/14/05 12:00 PM Rice William THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELED

01/14/05 4:00 PM Stephen Smale Learning Theory

01/13/05 9:00 AM Pierre Baldi Informatics for Small Molecules in Chemistry and Biology

01/13/05 11:00 AM Jacek Gaertig Post-translational Modifications of Tubulins in Tetrahymena: Functions and enzymes

01/13/05 12:00 PM Steven Kunkel The Contribution of Chemokines to Established and Novel Inflammatory Paradigms

01/12/05 11:00 AM Frank Uhlmann Mechanisms ensuring faithful chromosome segregation

01/12/05 4:00 PM Kevan Shokat Chemical Genetic Analysis of Cellular Signal Transduction

01/11/05 9:00 AM Neil Tsutsui Population genetics & social organization of an invasive social insect in its native & introduced ranges

01/11/05 4:00 PM Peter Rotwein The long and short of growth regulation: Growth hormone action and control of IGF-I gene transcription

01/07/05 12:00 PM Bruce S. Weir Association Patterns in Very Dense SNP Maps of the Human Genome

01/06/05 9:00 AM Bianca Lam Regulation of Pre-mRNA Splicing

01/05/05 11:00 AM Paul Sternberg TBA

01/04/05 9:00 AM Hans Keirstead Emerging Strategies for the treatment of spinal cord injury

12/17/04 8:00 AM Systematics and the Origin of Species. On Ernst Mayr’s 100th Anniversary

12/16/04 9:00 AM Pathogens and You: A continuing series looking at Microbiology in the news, from bedside to bench

12/15/04 4:00 PM Michael A. Savageau Design, Construction, and Refinement of Gene Circuitry

12/13/04 10:30 AM Joseph Falke PH and C2 Domains: Signaling at Membrane Surfaces

12/10/04 12:00 PM Kathleen Boris-Lawrie The Destiny of Retroviral RNA: Ribosome or Virion?

12/09/04 9:00 AM Ju-Hui Ting Wnt target gene expression in colon cancer

12/09/04 11:00 AM Aris Economides A High Throughput Yet Versatile Method For Engineering Mutations Into The Mouse Genome

12/09/04 1:00 PM Steve Petrou Ion channels mutations in epilepsy

12/09/04 4:00 PM Alcino Silva Molecular and Cellular Cognition: Hippocampal/Cortical Mechanisms in Memory Consolidation

12/09/04 4:00 PM Peter Davies Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia Holiday Lecture

12/06/04 9:00 AM Austin Yang Institute for Brain Aging Lecture Series

12/06/04 10:30 AM Natalie Ahn Analyzing Signal Transduction by Functional Proteomics

12/03/04 9:00 AM Michael Demetriou Mgat5 N-Glycosylation sets funable thresholds for T cell activation, Th1/Th2 differentiation & spontaneous autoimmune disease

12/03/04 12:00 PM Paul Brindle Analysis of the transcriptional coactivators CBP and p300 in vivo

12/03/04 12:00 PM Adam Summers Biomaterials and biomechanics-strange truths from unusual fishes

12/02/04 9:00 AM Jenny Dai Association of Herpes Simplex Virus Type I ICP27 Protein with the C-terminal Domain of Cellular RNA Polymerase II

12/02/04 11:00 AM Jan Christian Regulation of Vertebrate Embryonic Patterning by Proteolytic Activation of TGF-β Family Members

12/02/04 4:00 PM Stuart Le Grice Nucleoside and amino acid analogs as probes of reverse transcription

12/02/04 5:00 PM Dr. Jeffery S. Cox TB Sucks

12/01/04 12:00 PM John Doyle Robustness and Biological Complexity

11/30/04 9:00 AM Rusian Aphasizhev RNA editing

11/29/04 1:00 PM Sheryl Tsai Learning Drug Design from Nature: The Architecture and Specificity of Polyketide Synthase.

11/23/04 9:00 AM Bert Semler Virus -host interactions in picornavisrus replication

11/23/04 2:00 PM David Fruman Signaling pathways and transcriptional changes that drive lymphocyte activation

11/22/04 10:30 AM Ruben Abagyan Computational Structural Proteomics and Drug Discovery

11/22/04 4:00 PM Denis Pare Filling the gaps between emotion, amygdala, and memory

11/20/04 10:30 AM Sally Ride Science Festival

11/19/04 9:30 AM UCI Minority Research Conference in Biological Sciences

11/19/04 10:00 AM 2nd Annual UCI Immunology Fair

11/19/04 10:15 AM Frederick Alt Transcription and DNA Deamination in Immunoglobulin Gene Diversification

11/19/04 11:00 AM Jonathan Sprent Stimulating T Cells with APC Vesicles

11/19/04 11:45 AM Douglas Green Mitochondria, Apoptosis, and Immune Tolerance: A Twisted Trail

11/19/04 12:00 PM Stephen Rudd ESTablishing comparative genomics from unsaturated sequence collections

11/18/04 9:00 AM Melanie Cocco Protein Structural Studies using NMR spectroscopy: Defensins and Lesion Bypass Polymerases

11/18/04 11:00 AM Guillermo Oliver Homeobox genes in forebrain and lymphatic vasculature development

11/18/04 12:00 PM Guiyun Yan Population Genetics of African Malaria Vectors

11/18/04 3:30 PM Klaus Schulten The physics of biological ion channels

11/17/04 11:00 AM L. Dennis Smith Stem Cells: A personal view of the science, promise, and politics

11/17/04 11:00 AM Scott Emr Ubiquitin & lipid kinase signaling in receptor down regulation

11/17/04 4:00 PM Dean Astumian Brownian Motors: Swimming in Molasses and Walking in a Hurricane

11/15/04 8:00 AM Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow:

11/15/04 9:00 AM Salvatore Oddo Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia

11/15/04 11:00 AM Ivo Francischetti Characterization of molecules from the salivary gland of blood-sucking arthropods

11/12/04 8:00 AM Various . 2004 Annual BioMedical Conference at the University of California, Irvine

11/12/04 12:00 PM James Lake The Ring of Life: Evidence for a Genome Fusion Origin of Eukaryotes

11/12/04 4:00 PM Gene W. Myers Whole Genome Sequencing, Comparative Genomics, and Systems Biology

11/10/04 11:00 AM Kenneth Zaret Specifying Organ Tissue Fates in the Gut Endoderm

11/10/04 1:00 PM Jean Shih MAO, Anxiety and Aggression.

11/10/04 4:00 PM Bernard Palsson Bringing Genomes to Life: the role of genome-scale in silico models

11/10/04 4:00 PM Bernard Palsson Bringing Genomes to Life: the role of genome-scale in silico models

11/09/04 9:00 AM Jorge Busiciglio Neurodegeneration in Down's syndrome & Ahzheimer's disease:Role of oxidative stress & mitochondrial dysfunction

11/05/04 12:00 PM Suzanne Sandmeyer Ty3, a yeast retrovirus model

11/05/04 12:00 PM J. William Schopf The Earliest History of Life -- Solution to Darwin's Dilemma

11/04/04 9:00 AM Larry Marsh Can flies help man cure neurodegenerative diseases?

11/04/04 11:00 AM Kevin Moses A New twist on an Old Story: MAP Kinase Nuclear Translocation in Neural Development

11/04/04 12:00 PM Kodi Ravichandran Signaling to Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells: The Beginnings of a Good Meal

11/03/04 11:00 AM Xiaodong Wang Mitochondria pathway of apoptosis & its therapeutic applications

11/02/04 9:00 AM Sheryl Tsai Learning drug design from nature: Structural & Chemical Biology of Polyketide Biosynthesis

10/29/04 12:00 PM Victoria Sork Contemporary and historical gene flow in California valley oak

10/29/04 12:00 PM Christel Uittenbogaart Infection of rare thymocytes: implications for HIV infection in the thymus and periphery

10/28/04 9:00 AM Naomi Morrissette Targeting Toxoplasma Tubulin: Using old-fashioned herbicides to identify new anti-parasitic therapies

10/28/04 11:00 AM Tom Schilling Genetic Analysis of Craniofacial Development in Zebrafish

10/27/04 1:00 PM Alastair Ferguson Autonomic Control: Neurotransmitter Roles for Regulatory Peptides.

10/27/04 4:00 PM B. Joseph Hinnebusch Fleaing the plague:interactions of Yersinia pestis with its flea vector that lead to transmission

10/26/04 9:00 AM Thomas Schilling Ap-2 Transcription Factors Regulate Early Epidermal & Skeletal Development in Zebrafish

10/25/04 9:00 AM New Ways of Understanding Plant Function

10/22/04 12:00 PM Scott Collins Community dynamics and stability in semi-arid grasslands

10/22/04 12:00 PM Christophe Bernard Temporal lobe epilepsy as a plasticity machine

10/22/04 12:00 PM John Tesmer Structural studies of G protein-coupled Receptor Kinases

10/22/04 2:00 PM Changcheng Zhou Characterization of New Roles for SXR, the Human Steriod and Xenobiotic

10/21/04 11:00 AM Linda Restifo Of Flies and Men: Comparative Genetics of Mental Retardation

10/21/04 12:00 PM Marilyn Diaz Molecular Basis of the Immunoglobulin Hypermutation

10/21/04 2:00 PM Kathie Olsen Women in Science: Achieve Immortality

10/20/04 9:00 AM Numerous speakers Developing Stem-Cell Therapies

10/20/04 11:00 AM Frank Sauer Non-coding RNA as regulator of cell fate determination in Drosophila

10/19/04 9:00 AM David Camerini HIV-1 Pathogenesis & Molecular Biology

10/19/04 2:00 PM Colin Green Gap junction regulation in the spinal cord: A complementary strategy for repair?

10/18/04 10:30 AM Debra Ann Fadool The Potassium Ion Channel: Roles Beyond the Classical Resting Potential

10/16/04 8:00 AM F.J. Ayala 70th Anniversary Symposium and Banquet Dinner

10/15/04 12:00 PM Oscar Perng Does immune stalling or evasion result in domino effects during HSV infection?

10/15/04 12:00 PM John Avise Genetic Assessments of Mating Systems and Reproductive Behaviors in Fishes

10/15/04 4:00 PM Pavel A. Pevzner Transforming Mice into Men

10/14/04 9:00 AM Karin Flick Regulation of the Transcription Factor Met4 by Proteolysis - Independent Ubiquitylation

10/14/04 11:00 AM Mark Mercola Factors for Cardiomyocyte Regeneration from ES Cells: Embryology to High Throughput Screen

10/13/04 11:30 AM Steve Scharf Lunch 'n Learn Seminar: Sun Workstations & Servers

10/12/04 9:00 AM Frank LaFerla Modeling & Treating Alzheimer's Disease in Mice

10/11/04 1:00 PM Benno Roozendaal Glucocorticoid effects on memory functions: Interaction with noradrenergic mechanisms in the amygdala.

10/08/04 12:00 PM W. Owen McMillan Heliconius color patterns: linking ecological, evolutionary and developmental genetics

10/08/04 12:00 PM Amy Anderson Targeting Biodefense Organisms: From Structures to Drugs

10/07/04 11:00 AM Steve Gross Single Molecule Studies of Cytoplasmic of Dynein

10/07/04 5:00 PM Michael Clegg The Global Challenges of Population, Disease and Environmental Sustainability: How can Science Help us Navigate the Next 50 Years?

10/06/04 3:00 PM Stanislas Leibler Are bacteria individuals? And why should we care?

10/06/04 4:00 PM Deborah H. Spector Exploitation of the Host Cell by Herpesvirus

10/05/04 9:00 AM Phang-Lang Chen Roles of BRCT proteins in cell cycle checkpoints control

10/04/04 4:00 PM Numerous speakers Dr. Paul H. Silverman Memorial Service

10/01/04 12:00 PM Magnus Nordborg The pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

09/30/04 12:00 PM Donald L. Sodora T Cell Homeostasis and AIDS: Lessons From the Monkey Models

09/24/04 12:00 PM Susan Neuhausen Genetic variants in IGF-pathway genes and cancer risk

09/23/04 12:00 PM Hugh Rosen Curios Evolution: S1P Receptors and the Control of Lymphocyte Trafficking

09/22/04 11:30 AM Electronic Educational Environment (EEE) New Faculty Orientation

09/21/04 4:00 PM Gary W. Mathern Mechanisms of epileptogenicity in cortical dysplasia: lessons from the operating room to the bench

09/20/04 4:00 PM Paolo Casali Somatic hypermutation and class switch DNA recombination in the maturation of the antibody response

09/17/04 8:15 AM 2004 UCI-IGB Chemical Biology Symposium

09/16/04 12:00 PM Charles Surh Regulation of Mature T Cell Homeostasis

09/13/04 10:00 AM Christopher Soles Structural Characterization of Porous Inter-Level Dielectric Films

09/08/04 5:30 PM Michael Rugg How Do We Remember? Clues from Functional Imaging

08/23/04 1:00 PM 800 users: Varian training

08/19/04 12:00 PM WebRoster to GradeBook to WebGrades - Electronic Grading at UCI

08/19/04 1:00 PM Frank Delaglio NMR Training Opportunities at UCI

08/13/04 12:00 PM Nigel Fraser The Latency Associated Transcript Gene of HSV : what does it do, and how does it do it?

08/02/04 10:00 AM Allison B. Reiss Immunologically Mediated Disruptions in Cholesterol Flux in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis and Alzheimer s Disease

07/30/04 11:00 AM Peter Zavodszky Structural background of the substrate specificity of Mannose-Binding Lectin Associated Serine Protease

07/30/04 4:00 PM Ian Parker Slide Show of Ian Parker's 2004 Badwater Ultramarathon and movie screening

07/16/04 10:30 AM Ann Kiessling Human Embryonic Stem Cells

07/14/04 1:00 AM Web cast: Dr. Ian Parker runs ultra-marathon for the Barbara Burgess Memorial Fund

07/13/04 11:30 AM Data Storage Solutions

06/15/04 4:00 PM H. Jurgen Wenzel Cerebral lesions in the Eker rat model of tuberous sclerosis

06/14/04 1:00 PM Jerry Siegel Hypocretin (orexin): Normal role in arousal, motor control, food intake and contribution to narcolepsy

06/11/04 8:15 AM Various speakers . Life Sciences Start up Company Conference

06/10/04 9:00 AM Various speakers . Academic and Industrial Partnerships in the UK and US

06/10/04 11:00 AM Erin O'Shea Control of Noise in Eukaryotic Gene Expression.

06/10/04 12:00 PM Hilde Cheroutre The CD8alpha-alpha co-receptor has an unexpected role in natural an acqured memory of CD8+ T cells

06/08/04 9:00 AM Weihua Zeng Identification & characterization of the in vivo binding sites of SMC complexes on mammalian chromosomes

06/08/04 9:30 AM Ikram Ouni Proteolysis-dependent & independent Roles of Ubiquitin in Transcription

06/07/04 1:00 PM Michele Simonato Involvement of Opioid peptides in limbic seizures.

06/07/04 4:30 PM Piero Anversa Stem Cells in Myocardial Regeneration

06/04/04 12:00 PM Ann Feeney Many levels of control of V, D and J gene rearrangement in B lymphocytes

06/03/04 11:00 AM William G. Tatton Interrupting Signals for Increased Mitochondrial Membrane Permeability: Reducing Aptosis in Neurodegeneration.

06/03/04 3:30 PM Adam Summers Is There Science in Finding Nemo and Do Sharks Make Any Sense?

06/02/04 1:30 PM Biological Sciences Honors Convocation

06/01/04 9:00 AM Peng-Chieh Chen Cancer susceptibility defective DNA damage response & increased frameshift mutation levels in Mih3 mice

06/01/04 9:30 AM Ning Su A Cell Cycle checkpoint induced by Methyl-Group Donor limitations

05/28/04 12:00 PM Michael Lieber Non-B DNA Structures in Physiologic and Pathologic Gene Rearrangements

05/28/04 4:00 PM Tomaso Poggio Learning Theory and Applications

05/27/04 12:00 PM Nora Sarvtnick Regulation of Autoimmunity

05/26/04 11:00 AM Rudolf Jaenisch Nuclear Cloning, Stem Cells, & Reprogramming of the Geonome.

05/25/04 9:00 AM Andrew Cornforth Regulation of FLICE-like inhibitory protein in prostate cancer.

05/25/04 9:30 AM Ashraf Elfiky The role of interferon receptor in mediating gene transcription.

05/21/04 9:00 AM Various speakers Various speakers IGB Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Program Symposium

05/20/04 11:00 AM Edward Seto A Novel Function for Histone Deacetylase in Development and Cancer.

05/18/04 9:00 AM Feng Liu Inactiviation of CtIP leads to Rb-dependent G1 arrest & embroyonic lethality in mice.

05/18/04 9:30 AM Xiangduo Kong The Role of Human Cohesin at Mitotic Spindle pole.

05/18/04 7:30 PM James L. McGaugh Remembering Memory and the Brain

05/17/04 10:00 AM Yu Shang Lee Repair of spinal cord injury using peripheral nerve graft and aFGF in adult paraplegic rats.

05/17/04 1:00 PM Mark Geyer Pharmacological, developmental and mutant models of sensorimotor gating deficits in schizophrenia

05/14/04 2:00 PM Fumio Ogoshi Ca2+-permeable AMPA/kainate (Ca-A/K) channels in hippocampal neurons.

05/13/04 11:00 AM Frederick Kaplan Why Do Some People Form Two Skeletons.

05/13/04 12:00 PM Stephen M. Hedrick, Ph.D. A Genetic Analysis of the Erk-1 and Erk-2 in T Cell Development

05/13/04 4:00 PM Terry Robinson Drugs, Neuroplasticity and the Transition to Addiction.

05/12/04 11:00 AM Michael Levine Whole-genome analysis of Drosophila gastrulation & the Ciona heart lineage.

05/12/04 7:00 PM Gregory Stock From Regnerative Medicine to Genetic Design-What are we really afraid of?

05/11/04 9:00 AM Douglas MacKay Movo2 and Early Embryonic Development.

05/11/04 9:30 AM Erica Rockabrand Protein domains surrounding the polyglutamine repeat may contribute to Huntington's Disease Pathogenesis.

05/11/04 4:00 PM Kevin S. Lee Developmental malformations of the cerebral cortex contributing to epilepsy and cognitive impairment

05/10/04 1:00 PM Alan Watts Anorexia: What's thirst got to do with it?

05/10/04 4:00 PM Bruce Ames A Metabolic Tune-Up to Optimize Lifetime Health

05/07/04 12:00 PM William Hahn Cooperative Interactions that Transform Human Cells.

05/07/04 12:00 PM William Hahn Cooperative interactions that transform human cells.

05/07/04 1:00 PM Edwin W. Rubel Experience and auditory brainstem development: signals, cellular events and critical periods.

05/06/04 11:00 AM Jeffrey Axelrod Complex Patterns From Simple Rules: Reaction Diffusion Modeling of Planar Cell Polarity Signaling.

05/06/04 4:00 PM John O'Doherty Neural Computations Subserving Instrumental and Pavlovian Conditioning in the Human Brain

05/04/04 9:00 AM Idit Hazan Identification & characterization of a hypha-specific cyclin in candida albicans.

05/04/04 9:30 AM David Schneider Functional Stability & Regulation of RNA Polymerase I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

05/04/04 10:00 AM Excellence in Research Finalist Poster Judging.

05/03/04 1:30 PM Excellence in Research Finalist Poster Judging.

05/01/04 9:00 AM Various Various 2004 UCI Campuswide Symposium on Basic Cancer Research.

04/28/04 9:00 AM Excellence in Research Poster Judging for Biomedical Sciences.

04/28/04 11:00 AM Michael Rosenfeld The Yen & Yang of Transcriptional Regulation in the Developing Neuroendocrine System

04/28/04 11:00 AM Leonardo Cohen From bench to bedside: influence of theories of plasticity on human neurorehabilitation.

04/28/04 2:00 PM Excellence in Research Poster Judging for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

04/28/04 3:00 PM Excellence in Research Poster Judging for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Developmental and Cell Biology.

04/28/04 6:00 PM Bio Sci Alumni - 11th Annual Bio Sci Career Night

04/27/04 9:00 AM Kathleen Cooper-Casey Linkage & Candidate Gene Analyses of Schizophrenia in a Costa Rican Family.

04/27/04 9:30 AM Mahalakshmi Nair Sequence specificity & mechanisms of transcriptional repression by mOvol, a zinc-finger transcriptional factor.

04/27/04 1:00 PM Excellence in Research Poster Judging for Neurobiology and Behavior.

04/26/04 1:00 PM Salvador Huitron-Resendiz Sleep and Alzheimer's disease: Early alterations preceding AB accumulation in rodents

04/23/04 12:00 PM Grant MacGregor Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus:

04/23/04 12:00 PM Grant MacGregor Adventures in mutagenesis - Identification of novel genes required for spermatogenesis, lactation and aggression in mice.

04/23/04 1:00 PM Claire-Dominique Walker Leptin, stress and development

04/23/04 4:00 PM Clarence J. Peters Technological vs. Societal Responses to Viral Threats

04/22/04 12:00 PM Nils Lonberg Induction of Anti-Tumor Immunity with an Antibody to CTLA-4: Pre-Clinical and Clinical Data

04/22/04 2:00 PM Excellence in Research Talks for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

04/22/04 4:00 PM Ray Dolan The Perceptual and Mnemonic Role of the Human Amygdala.

04/21/04 9:00 AM Excellence in Research Talks for Neurobiology and Behavior.

04/20/04 9:00 AM Jong Soo In vivo kinetics of laser-induced DNA damage recognition by double strand break (DSB) repair factor.

04/20/04 9:30 AM James Tong Longevity control by Neurofibromatosis-1/protein kinase A signaling in Drosophila.

04/20/04 2:00 PM Blair Calancie Using electrophysiology to study recovery after acute SCI in humans: new insights into prognosis.

04/19/04 1:00 PM Penelope Jones Modulation of Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels

04/15/04 11:00 AM Gregory Weiss Reverse Engineering Protein Structure and Function with Combinatorial Libraries.

04/15/04 4:00 PM Rik Henson fMRI Investigation of Recognition Memory and Cued Recall: Role of Decision Processes, and of Recollection, Familiarity and Priming

04/14/04 11:00 AM Angelika Amon Control of Chromosome Segregation in Yeast.

04/13/04 9:00 AM Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini mtDNA & multifactorial disorders.

04/13/04 9:30 AM Lawrence Dearth P53 Cancer mutants & their diverse activities.

04/10/04 2:00 PM Jun Yu The Story of the Rice Genome Continues

04/09/04 12:00 PM Dean Kedes Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus: Inroads into Structure and Pathogenesis

04/08/04 12:00 PM Marc Jenkins Tracking the Activation of CD4+ T Cells In the Body

04/06/04 9:00 AM Hung Fan Transformation by Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus.

04/06/04 9:00 AM Todd Holmes Ion Channel Physiology: Genomics, Structure/Function, Circuits, & Animal Behavior.

04/06/04 12:00 PM Gen-Sheng Feng Signal Transduction by Tyrosine Phosphatases: From Phenotype to Mechanism

04/06/04 4:00 PM John Swann The impact of seizures on hippocampal development

04/02/04 10:00 AM Terrence J. Sejnowski Communication in the brain

04/02/04 12:00 PM Eric Arts How HIV Evolves to the Most Fit Form: Implications for Disease and Global Spread.

03/30/04 9:00 AM Ed Monuki Water on the Brain: How the Roof Plate Controls Choroid Plexus Development

03/26/04 12:00 PM Jonathan Towner Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Uganda

03/26/04 4:00 PM C. Lee Giles CiteSeer: Past, Present and Future

03/25/04 12:00 PM Myron F. Goodman Human and Bacterial Hyper-Mutation

03/23/04 9:00 AM Song Zhou Different Transcriptional regulatory complexes formation for S. cerevisiae Ste 12 mediated mating & Filamentous growth Pathway5.

03/23/04 9:30 AM Jason Heale The emerging role of a novel interaction betwen the SMC complex condesin & the base excision repair protein PARP-1.

03/22/04 1:00 PM Ellis Levin Plasma Membrane Estrogen Receptors: Structure/Function to cell Biology

03/19/04 11:00 AM Ming Tan Regulation of Gene Expression in Chlamydia

03/18/04 11:00 AM Christine Suetterlin How and Why the Mammalian Golgi Aparatus Fragments During Mitosis

03/17/04 4:00 PM Robert Stickgold Sleep and off-line memory reprocessing: Curious and curiouser

03/16/04 9:00 AM Adriana Briscoe Molecular Evolution of Insect Color Vision.

03/16/04 7:30 PM Robert Stickgold Sleep, Memory and Dreams: What are they good for?

03/12/04 12:00 PM Warner Greene Unraveling the Biology of HIV Vif and HTLV Tax

03/11/04 11:00 AM Andrew Groves Induction and Regeneration of the Inner Ear

03/10/04 7:45 AM How Valuable is that IP Portfolio? Evaluating the Value of an IP Portofolio – Yours or Your Competitor’s

03/10/04 11:00 AM Pier Paolo Pandolfi Role of PTEN in tumor suppression & in development: therapeutic implications

03/10/04 11:00 AM Manolis Kellis Computational Genomics: Genes, Regulation, Evolution

03/10/04 12:00 PM 2 Seminars: Laser Speckle Imaging Techniques and 2-photon imaging of Ca2+ signals in cortical neurons.

03/09/04 9:00 AM Ken Cho Genomic approaches to vertebrate growth factor signaling.

03/09/04 11:00 AM Eric Stanbridge Signaling Network Circuitry in Cancer Progression

03/09/04 12:00 PM Emily Chen Multidimensional Proteomic Analysis of Breast Cancer: A Bioogist's Perspective

03/08/04 1:00 PM Yi Sun Cell intrinsic mechanisms involved in controlling the timing of neural stem cell differentiation

03/05/04 12:00 PM Yaoqi Zhou Making a physical interaction out of statistics of protein structures.

03/05/04 3:00 PM Andrew R. Blight Developing SCI therapies - from bench to boardroom to bedside

03/04/04 11:00 AM Michael O'Connor Assisted diffusion of a heterodimeric BMP factor facilitates assignment of dorsal cell fates in the early Drosophila embryo

03/04/04 12:00 PM Paul Garside Seminars in Immunology

03/04/04 4:00 PM Mark Packard Neurobiology of Multiple Memory Systems

03/04/04 4:00 PM Yee Whye Teh Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

03/02/04 9:00 AM Ulrike Luderer Toxicant- Inducted Premature Ovarian Failure & Protective Role of Glutathione

03/02/04 11:00 AM Nancy Allbritton Intracellular Signaling Cascades and Cancer

03/02/04 4:00 PM Li M. Fu Recent Advances in Microarray-Based Functional Genomics Data Mining: An Avenue to Biological Discoveries

03/01/04 11:00 AM Aimee Endinger Growth Factors Regulate Cell Survival by Controlling Nutrient Transporter Expression

02/27/04 12:00 PM Vincent Racaniello Mouse models of picornavirus pathogenesis

02/26/04 11:00 AM William Sullivan Microtubules, Membranes, Myosin, and Cytokinesis

02/26/04 12:00 PM Mina Bissell The Structural Basis of Tissue Specificity: The Role of the Microenvironment in Breast Cancer.

02/26/04 12:00 PM Lewis L. Lanier NK Cell Receptors In Innate and Adaptive Immunity

02/26/04 4:00 PM Mina Bissell How Does the Breast Remember it is a Breast, And How it May Forget and Become Breast Cancer.

02/26/04 4:00 PM Randy Buckner Images of Memory in Healthy Aging and Dementia

02/25/04 11:00 AM Hong Wu PTEN, Stem Cell and Tumorigenesis

02/24/04 9:00 AM Grant MacGregor Genetic screens identify novel gene products required for gametogenesis (and aggression) in male mice

02/24/04 11:00 AM Tau-Mu Yi Are Biological Networks Scale-Free?

02/24/04 1:30 PM Sean Conner The Role of Phosphorylation in Regulating the Clathrin-mediated Endocytic Pathway

02/23/04 9:00 AM Sean Deeny The Effects of Physical Activity and ApoE Genotype on Cortical Activation.

02/20/04 11:00 AM Martin R. Jadus Novel Anti-tumor Properties of Membrane Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor

02/20/04 12:00 PM Steve Michnick Towards a molocular spectrometer of the cell

02/19/04 4:00 PM Barry Connors Electrical synapses in the mammalian brain: What, where, how and (perhaps) why

02/18/04 3:00 PM Laurent Itti Contribution of Low-Level Saliency to Human Eye Movements in Dynamic Scenes

02/17/04 9:00 AM Hopi Hoekstra The molecular basis of color adaption: from mice to molecules

02/17/04 11:00 AM Frances Chance Joys of Noise: The Role of Background Synaptic Input in Cortical Processing

02/17/04 11:00 AM Stephen West Making ends meet: double-strand break repair in mammalain cells

02/17/04 3:00 PM Quaid Morris Automatic Functional Annotation using a Comprehensive Set of Mouse Gene Expression Profiles

02/17/04 7:00 PM Victor McKusick The Development and Future of Medical Genetics as a Clinical Speciality

02/13/04 12:00 PM Andrew Rice Mechanism and Regulation of HIV Tat Transcriptional Activation

02/13/04 4:00 PM Mark Borodovsky Unsupervised Model Training for DNA Sequence Analysis Algorithms

02/12/04 11:00 AM David Glanzman Postsynaptic Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in Aplysia

02/12/04 12:00 PM Satya Dandekar HIV Pathogenesis: Is it all about 'gut feeling'?

02/12/04 7:00 PM Francisco Ayala Darwin's Greatest Discovery: Design without Designer

02/11/04 11:00 AM Mark Winey Centrosome duplication: A major cell cycle event

02/10/04 9:00 AM Ji Sze Neuron-specific regulation of serotonin signaling by TRPV ion channels in C elegans

02/10/04 11:00 AM Herbert Sauro Computational Software Requirements for Systems Biology

02/07/04 5:30 PM Jorge Ancona 2004 Homecoming/Alumni Appreciation Night Reception & Basketball Game

02/05/04 11:00 AM Ali Brivanlou Maintenance of Stemness in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

02/03/04 9:00 AM Barbara Hamkalo My Journey through the Mammalian Centromere

02/03/04 7:30 PM Elizabeth Spelke What Makes Humans Smart? Lessons from Children

02/02/04 1:00 PM Martin Citron Beta-Secretase - A Target for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

02/02/04 4:00 PM Elizabeth S. Spelke Language and Thought

01/30/04 12:00 PM Philip Felgner High Throughput Proteomics in Vaccine Antigen Discovery

01/29/04 12:00 PM Daniel Douek Death by a thousand cuts: How HIV causes disease

01/28/04 11:00 AM Dennis Roop Genes involved in Stem Cell Decisions & Commitment to Epidermal Differentiation

01/27/04 9:00 AM Robin Bush Computional models of influenza: Linking structure, sequence and function

01/26/04 1:00 PM Richard Chamberlin Natural Toxins as Lead Compounds for New Small Molecule Probes of Biological Receptors

01/25/04 9:00 AM Susana Cohen-Cory Imaging the formation of neuonal corrections in the live, developing brain

01/23/04 12:00 PM Kevin Gardner PAS domains: A Versatile Way to Build a Biological Switch

01/23/04 4:00 PM Terrence Sejnowski Communication in the brain.

01/22/04 11:00 AM Ralph Greenspan Attention, Arousal and the Rudiments of Consciousness in Drosophila

01/22/04 12:00 PM Larry Lum Retargeting of Activated T Cells to Her2/neu and CD20 Positive Targets

01/16/04 4:00 PM Mathew Jones Interneurons, inhibition and noise in dentate gyrus.

01/15/04 11:00 AM Hollis Cline Multiple Experience Dependent Mechanisms Regulate Visual System

01/15/04 2:00 PM Dev Kambhampati Information Session on the UC Discovery Grant

01/15/04 4:00 PM John Guzowski FISHing for memories: Genes, cell networks and behavior

01/15/04 4:00 PM Diane W. Wara Individual and Institutional Strategies for Enhancing Advancement of Women in Academia

01/14/04 11:00 AM Ray Deshaies Mechanisms & regulation of proteolysis by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

01/14/04 3:00 PM Charles Lineweaver The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way

01/13/04 9:00 AM Paolo Casali Immunoglobulin somatiac hypermutation: AID, DNA lesions and error-prone repair

01/13/04 4:00 PM Steve White The role of the mouse GABA/Betaine transporter mGAT2 in the control of seizure activity.

01/12/04 12:00 PM Satya Dandekar HIV Pathogenesis: Is it all about Gut Feeling?

01/12/04 1:00 PM John J. Gargus Letting Function Drive the Genomic Approach to Complex Polygenic Neuropsychiatric Disease

01/09/04 10:00 AM Sydney Brenner Reading the Genome

01/09/04 12:00 PM Alex Toker Protein Kinase D Promotes Cellular Survival via a Novel NF-kB Signaling Pathway

01/08/04 12:00 PM Polly C. Matzinger Does the Immune System REALLY Discriminate Between Self and Non-Self?

01/08/04 7:00 PM Sydney Brenner Humanity's Genes

01/05/04 9:00 AM Salvatore Oddo Antibody-mediated clearance of Ab reverses early tau pathology, Cognitive Phenotyping of the Triple Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

01/05/04 12:00 PM Markus Ribbe Nitrogenases - An Intriguing Paradigm for Metallocluster Assembly

12/17/03 11:00 AM Barbara Panning Xist RNA and X chromosome inactivation

12/16/03 4:00 PM Anders Dale Dynamic Imaging of Brain Function: Relating Imaging Signals to the Underlying Physics and Physiology

12/15/03 10:30 AM Mark Ellisman Multi-Scale Imaging of the Nervous System

12/15/03 12:00 PM Lisa Schechter Going for the Gold: Mining Type-111 Secreted Effector Proteins in the Model Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas Syringae Pathovar Tomato DC3000

12/12/03 11:00 AM W. Edward Robinson, Jr. Novel Targets for Anti-HIV Therapies

12/11/03 11:00 AM Shawn Burgess Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Vertebrate Development

12/11/03 12:00 PM Robert M. Strieter CXC Chemokines in Angiogenesis and Metastases of Lung Cancer

12/11/03 1:00 PM Naomi Morrissette The Plant-Protozoan Connection: What Herbicides Tell Us About Parasite Microtubules

12/10/03 12:00 PM Junia Melo Bcr-Abl: The Most Famous Oncoprotein In The World

12/09/03 9:00 AM Jef Boeke Retro transposition mechanisms & gene silencing

12/08/03 12:00 AM Greg Somerville Staphylococcus Aureus Physiology and Evasion of the Innate Immune Response

12/08/03 1:00 PM Richard D. Palmiter Dopamine, Motivation and Reward

12/05/03 12:00 PM Mark Bedford The Functional Analysis of the Protein Methyltransferase, CARM1

12/05/03 4:00 PM Michael A. Arbib Wrapping Up the Brain: From Brain Operating Principles to Computer Technology

12/05/03 4:00 PM Michael Arbib University of California, Irvine INSTITUTE for GENOMICS and BIOINFORMATICS Distinguished Speaker Series 2003-2004

12/04/03 11:00 AM Aaron Hsueh Evolutionary Genomics of Polypeptide Ligands and Receptors

12/04/03 4:00 PM Mark Barad L-type voltage-gated calcium channels in fear extinction and other inhibitory learning protocols

12/03/03 11:00 AM Tony Hunter Signal transduction by Phosphorylation

12/02/03 9:00 AM Maike Sander Control of cell fate by Nkx6 Transcription factors in the pancreas & CNS

12/01/03 12:00 PM Anne Stellwagen The Means to an End: Recruiting Telomerase to Native and Broken Chromosome Ends

11/25/03 9:00 AM Veronica Yu Role of CKS1 in transcription regulation

11/24/03 1:00 PM Tamas Bartfai Fever and the Neuronal Actions of IL-1

11/20/03 11:00 AM Sascha du Lac Cellular Mechanisms of Motor Learning

11/19/03 4:00 PM Russell A. Poldrack The Neural Basis of Classification Learning in Humans

11/19/03 6:30 PM Bio Sci Alumni Mentor Program Orientation

11/18/03 9:00 AM Susan Neuhausen Genetics of Celiac Disease

11/17/03 9:00 AM ADRC Seminar: Clinico-Pathological Case Presentation

11/17/03 12:00 PM Zhongpin Chen Optical Coherence Tomography: Noninvasive imaging of tissue structure and physiology

11/17/03 12:00 PM Bruce Tromberg Optical imaging in thick tissues

11/14/03 1:00 PM Kenji Hashimoto Glutamate Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: Focus on D-Serine

11/14/03 1:00 PM Lily Wu Gene Expression-based Imaging and Therapy Targeting Prostate

11/13/03 11:00 AM Seung Kim Common Strategies For Glucose Regulation in Flies, Mice, and Humans; How to Build a Better Islet

11/12/03 11:00 AM James Broach Mapping Signal Transduction Pathways Using Global Transcriptional Analysis

11/07/03 10:00 AM Partho Ghosh Invasion of mammalian cells by bacterial pathogens

11/07/03 10:40 AM Sherie Morrison Antibody glycosylation: How sweet it is.

11/07/03 11:20 AM Anthony James Experimentally-induced protection to malaria: the case for a live vaccine

11/07/03 12:00 PM Michael Emerman Cell-to-Cell Transmission of HIV-1

11/07/03 2:45 PM Carl F. Ware Cellular decisions: live, die or coexist with your favorite viral pathogen?

11/03/03 1:00 PM Georges Stepien Accumulation of random mitochondrial DNA deletions and phenotypic consequences in aged human skeletal muscle

11/03/03 4:30 PM Joe Davis First Steps with Your Business Idea

10/31/03 12:00 PM Tom Menees RNA Branching and Debranching in the Yeast Retrovirus-like Element Ty1

10/30/03 11:00 AM Michael Shen Regulation of Nodal Signaling During Mouse Embryogenesis

10/30/03 2:00 PM Climate Change (The Greenhouse Effect: What it Means for you, your Children, and your Grandchildren.)

10/29/03 8:00 AM The Fifth UCI Neuroscience Symposium

10/29/03 7:00 PM Erwin Neher Ralph Gerard and Grass Traveling Scientist Lecture

10/20/03 7:00 PM Thomas J. Carew From Molecules to Memories: Lessons from a Simple Brain

10/18/03 10:00 AM UCI Arboretum Fall Art and Flower Festival

10/17/03 12:00 PM Steve Young Prenylated Proteins in Health and Disease

10/16/03 8:45 AM 2003 San Diego Center for Molecular Agriculture Symposium and Showcase

10/16/03 11:00 AM Todd Holmes Transgenic Manipulation of Electrical Excitability to Probe Neural Circuits and Behavior

10/16/03 12:00 PM Scott Zamvil HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors (Statins)in Modulation of TH1-Mediated Autoimmune Disease

10/16/03 4:00 PM Russ B. Altman Challenges in Knowledge Management and Discovery in Biology

10/15/03 10:00 AM BioResearch Product Faire

10/13/03 10:00 AM Lance Simpson Identification of the Major Steps in Botulinum Toxin Action

10/13/03 4:30 PM Larry O'Toole So You Want to be an Entrepreneur…

10/09/03 11:00 AM Al Goldin Sodium channels and CNS Disease

10/09/03 2:00 PM Howard Eichenbaum CNLM Colloquium

10/09/03 4:00 PM Grover Stephens Memorial

10/03/03 12:00 PM Mike Carey Mechanisms of the Mediator Co-Activator in Pol II Transcription Complex Assembly and Function

09/22/03 8:30 AM 2003 Southern California Biotechnology Symposium - Gene Discovery in Complex Polygenic Diseases

11/11/55 3:00 PM Fred Alt Histone H2AX in genomic instability & carcinogenesis

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