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May 2016
Monday, May 2nd, 2016
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Illuminating the cortical circuits underlying decision making
Karel Svoboda,
Group Leader,
HHMI - Janelia,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
TBA
Gwyneth Card,
Group Leader at the Janelia Research Campus,
Janelia Farm,
Janelia Research Campus,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Markel cells as touch sensors of the skin- latest advancement in tactile neuroscience
Masashi Nakatani,
Research Institute for Electronic Science,
Hokkaido University,
Thursday, May 5th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Intracellular compartments for dynamic metal storage
Sabeeha Merchant,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology Institute,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Thinking With Your Gut: Microbial Effects on Behavior in Flies
Catherine (Katie) Schretter,
Graduate Student,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, May 6th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Temporal Control of Ion Channel Activation
Oliver Shafaat,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 9th, 2016
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Processing Tastes in Drosophila
Kristin Scott,
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development,
Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity"
Gustavo Rios,
Bioenigineering PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 16th, 2016
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"
Debora Marks,
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
MegaRNPs and Monosomes: Reassessing Structure and Function
Melissa Moore,
Professor,
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms of regulation and fidelity in tail-anchored membrane protein targeting
Meera Rao,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Multiplexed analysis of diverse RNA classes via hybridization chain reaction"
Aneesh Acharya,
Bioengineering Ph.D. Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Oscillatory Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Ming Hsu,
Assistant Professor,
Haas School of Business and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Speaker
Optical Microscopy Techniques for Mapping the Brain Connectome with Nanoscale Resolution
Emmanouil Karagiannis, Ph.D.,
Research Scientist,
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Medial Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Chemicals and Fuels
Jay Keasling,
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
A Rodent Model of the "Cocktail Party Problem"
Michael DeWeese,
Associate Professor,
Physics & Neuroscience,
University of California Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Microbial Modulation of Neuroendocrine Signaling and Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans
Dennis Kim,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Challenging the Precious Metal Mindset: Green Chemistry with Potassium
Anton Toutov,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 26th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Spying on Nature As It Moves: New Technologies and Probes for Cellular Imaging
Jay Nadeau,
PhD,
Scientific Researcher, Caltech and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, McGill,
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Amino-Terminal Acetylation of Proteins in Human Health and Disease
Gholson Lyon,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY,