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April 2012
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
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General Biology Seminar
A mechanism to detect vacuolar pathogens and its role in promoting pro- and anti-bacterial immune responses during TB infection
Jeffrey Cox,
Asso. Professor,
Microbiology and Immunology,
UCSF,
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Understanding how synaptic plasticity shapes neural representations
Stijn Cassenaer,
Broad Scholar,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning, Representation and Generalization of Uncertainty
Konrad Kording,
Associate Professor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Physiology,
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Northwestern University,
Monday, April 9th, 2012
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General Biology Seminar
Action potentials and myelination in activity-dependent plasticity and development.
Doug Fields,
Chief,
Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section,
NIH, NICHD,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
The Synaptome Meets the Connectome: Fathoming the Deep Diversity of CNS Synapses
Stephen Smith,
Prof. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Stanford University,
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Control of Visual Spatial Attention by Prefrontal Cortex
Tirin Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology and HHMI,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
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General Biology Seminar
"The cellular and molecular basis for planarian regeneration"
Peter Reddien,
Asso. Professor,
Biology,
MIT,
Friday, April 13th, 2012
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Robotic Exploration of Planetary Bodies
Robotic Exploration of Planetary Bodies
Issa Nesnas,
Dr.,
JPL,
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
9:30am
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
2:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Discrete Steps and Inter-Subunit Coordination of a DNA Packaging Ring-ATPase
Carlos Bustamante,
Professor,
Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Learning to Tolerate the Microbial Self
Sarkis Mazmanian,
Assistant Professor,
Biology,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
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General Biology Seminar
Mechanisms of transcription factor evolution: the next dimension of developmental evolution
Gunter Wagner,
professor of ecology and evolutionary biology,
Yale University,
Gunter Wagner,
Prof. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Systems Biology Institute,
Yale University,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
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Thesis Seminar
DNA mechanics and transcriptional regulation in the E. coli lac operon
Stephanie Johnson,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
11:30am
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
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Bioengineering Lecture
Molecular programming with artificial nucleic-acid systems
Lulu Qian,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Mechanisms of Inter-Temporal Decision-Making: Trait and State Effects
Jan Peters,
Institute for Systems Neuroscience,
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Using natural and non-natural amino acids to probe membrane-protein insertion into the ER
Gunnar von Heijne,
Professor,
Center for Biomembrane Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Stockholm University,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Mechanical Control and Free Energy Landscapes of Single Protein and DNA Molecules
Ching-Hwa Kiang,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Physics & Astronomy and Bioengineering,
Rice University,
Friday, April 20th, 2012
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
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Bioengineering Lecture
Using engineering principles to help babies born with 'half a heart'
Ajit Yoganathan,
Associate Chair for Research and Regent's Professor,
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
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General Biology Seminar
Organization and Assembly of Neural Circuits
Liqun Luo,
Professor,
Department of Biology,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Control, Learning and Exploration in Human Decision-Making
Etienne Koechlin,
Director, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Reward Prediction
Jeremiah Cohen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Monday, April 30th, 2012
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Biophysics Lecture
RETHINKING CARBON FIXATION
Ron Milo,
Senior Scientist and Anna and Maurice Boukstein Career Development Chair,
Department of Plant Sciences,
Weizmann Institute,