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May 2013
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
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5/7
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
2:00pm
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Biology Thesis Defense
State-dependent modulation of neuronal circuits in C. elegans sleep.
Julie Cho,
Biology, CIT Sternberg Lab,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
"Engineered temperature compensation in a synthetic gene oscillator"
Matthew Bennett,
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Self-Control Failure and Its Repair in Addiction
Warren Bickel,
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute,
Monday, May 6th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
"Tissue Engineering Active Biological Machines: Bio-inspired Design, Directed Self-assembly, and Characterization of a Primitive Heart"
Hesham Azizgolshani,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biology Thesis Defense
Label-free single-molecule detection using microtoroid optical resonators
Judith Su,
BMB, Fraser Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Bioimaging at the nanoscale -- Single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Xiaowei Zhuang,
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Mutation, drift and the origin of subcellular features
Michael Lynch,
Distinguished Professor ,
Dept. of Biology,
Indiana University Bloomington ,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
12:00pm
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6:30pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biology Thesis Defense
Engineering nucleic acid mechanisms for regulation and readout of gene expression: conditional Dicer substrate formation and sensitive multiplexed northern blots
Ma'ayan Schwarzhopf,
Biology, CIT Pierce Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
Steve Cole,
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
UCLA School of Medicine,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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Biology Thesis Defense
Proteomic Analysis of the Cdc48/Ubx Network Identifies a Role for Ubx2 in the Regulation of Lipid Biosynthesis
Natalie Kolawa,
Biology, CIT Deshaies Lab,
Monday, May 13th, 2013
9:00am
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9:01am
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Is the Genome Useful in Medicine?"
Steve Quake,
Professor of Bioengineering,
Department of Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural substrates of memory
Loren M. Frank,
Associate Professor,
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience Department of Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
GATA foctor regulation of HSC homeostasis and T cell development
Doug Engel,
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair,
Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone Reduces the Gender Gap in Financial Risk Taking
Henrik Cronqvist,
McMahon Family Chair in Corporate Finance and George R. Roberts Fellow; Associate Professor of Financial Economics,
Claremont McKenna College,
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
How Parkinson's Disease Starts, and How It Might Be Stopped
Gregory Petsko,
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Brandeis University,
Friday, May 17th, 2013
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Biology Thesis Defense
Sulfur-Cycling in Methane-Rich Ecosystems: Uncovering Microbial Processes and Novel Niches
Abigail Green Saxena,
Biology, CIT Orphan Lab,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Time Travel in Experimental Evolution
Richard Lenski,
Professor of Microbial Ecology,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one
Michael D. Mauk,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Intrisic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits
Troy Margrie,
Wellcome Trust Investigator,
Head of Division of Neurophysiology,
National Institute for Medical Research - London,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
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Thesis Seminar
"Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions"
Jonathan Sternberg,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:30am
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Thesis Defense.
"Beyond Watson and Crick: programming the self-assembly and reconfiguration of DNA nanostructures based on stacking interactions"
Sungwook Woo,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 27th, 2013
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
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General Biology Seminar
Phil Sharp,
Institute Professor ,
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Defense.
"Architecture, Limits, and Tradeoffs in Biology"
Fiona Chandra,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 31st, 2013
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