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May 2017
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
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General Biology Seminar
Canceled
Bassem Hassan,
Directeur of Recherche and Team Leader,
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière,
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière,
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MscL).
Nadia Herrera,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
You can trust me: How people use punishment and unconditional cooperation to honestly signal their trustworthiness
Jillian Jordan,
PhD Candidate in Psychology,
Yale University,
Friday, May 5th, 2017
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
An allosteric theory of transcriptional regulation.
Griffin Chure,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Zhannetta Gugel,
Graduate Student,
Neurobiology,
California Institute of Technology,
Jie-Yoon (Remy) Yang,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Meningeal Lymphatics Draining Neurological Diseases
Jonathan Kipnis,
Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair,
Neuroscience,
University of Virginia School of Medicine,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Don't Twinkle, Little Star: How a Laser-Shooting Robot is Taming the Atmosphere and Bringing Space-based Astronomy to Earth
Everhart Lecture Series
Rebecca M. Jensen-Clem,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System
Shaobin Guo,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Moving through intracellular phase space
Clifford Brangwynne,
Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering,
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Strategies for bone and tendon regeneration
Hala Zreiqat,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Tissue Engineering and Biomaterial Research Unit,
University of Sydney,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, USA,
Friday, May 12th, 2017
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
Histone-binding of DPF2 mediates its repressive role in myeloid differentiation.
Ferdinand Huber,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 15th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Noncoding RNA-Mediated Genome Rearrangement
Laura Landweber,
Professor,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biological Sciences ,
Colombia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
Making Micro-Biology Interactive, Accessible, and Programmable: Biotic Games, Cloud labs, and Synthetic Cell-Cell Adhesion
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Getting the best reward: neuronal mechanisms for utility maximisation
Wolfram Schultz,
Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience,
Univerity of Cambridge, UK,
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
On Growth and Form: From Macromolecular Assemblies to Multicellular Tissues
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan,
Professor,
Departments of Physics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"A hidden dimension in cell-cell communication"
Everhart Lecture Series
Sandy Nandagopal,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
How cells use chemistry and physics to break the bones that power their movement
Enrique M. De La Cruz,
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Yale University,
Friday, May 19th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Bag6 Complex: Achieving Biological Complexity through Modularity
Amanda Mock,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
A compass for weak magnetic fields based on photolyase repair of thymine dimers
Theodore Zwang,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Biophysical Studies of Ligand-gated Ion Channels
Betty Wong,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
**Has been Calnceled**
Alison Ondrus,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuit Assembly and Organization
Linqun Luo,
Professor,
Biology,
Stanford School of Medicine,
Thursday, May 25th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Mechanisms in human DNA mismatch repair
Paul L. Modrich,
HHMI Investigator, and James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Duke University School of Medicine,
Friday, May 26th, 2017
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
Convergent evolution of respiratory complex I homologs with additional proton pumping capacity
Grayson Chadwick,
Graduate Student,