Events at UCLA in Molecular Biology
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Nov 8 - Nov 14, 2009  [this week]Also available at http://www.mbi.ucla.edu
Mon
Nov 9
Barry Forman, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
"Treating Metabolic Disease and Treating Cancer, But I Repeat Myself"
Contact: Christina Jamieson, x72469
Human Genetics Speakers Series
11:00 AM
Gonda 1357
Mon
Nov 9
Jason Stajich, Ph.D.
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, UC Riverside
"Blasting Mold with the Data Fire Hose: Addressing Comparative and Evolutionary
Genomics of Filamentous Fungi with Next Generation Sequencing"

Host: John Novembre, x54065
Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program Seminar Series
4:00 PM
Gonda 1357
Mon
Nov 9
Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D.
Departments of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; HHMI
"Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Watching the Brain Dynamics
of Motor control at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects"

Contact: Jin Lee, x64956
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
4:00 PM
Young Hall 2033
Mon
Nov 9
Jing Huang, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Member, Molecular Biology Institute
"New Approaches Linking Proteomic and Drug Target Discovery"
Proteomics Seminar Series
5:30 PM
CNSI Auditorium
Tue
Nov 10
DISSERTATION SEMINAR
Esther Szu-Chia Shao

Mentor: Dr. Kristina Bostrom
Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program
"Study of the Activin-like Kinase Receptor-1 in Atherogenesis
and Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression"

Molecular Biology Institute
10:30 AM
Gonda 1357
Tue
Nov 10
Scott I. Simon, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
"Triglyceride Rich Lipoproteins Stoke the Fire of Inflammation"
Hosts: Judith Berliner, x52436 and Luisa Iruela-Arispe, x45763
Vascular Biology Seminar Series
4:00 PM
Boyer 159
Tue
Nov 10
Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Progenitor Cell Competence and Tissue Induction in the Mouse Embryo"
JCCC Gene Regulation Program Area
4:00 PM
CHS 73-105
Tue
Nov 10
Kristin Scott, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley
"Taste Recognition in Drosophila"
Host: Mark Frye, x55360
Joint Seminars in Neuroscience
4:00 PM
NRB Auditorium
Thu
Nov 12
Ute Krämer, Ph.D.
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Heidelberg, Germany
"Analyzing the Moleclar Mechanism Underlying an Extreme Trait in an Arabidopsis-related Species"
Host: Sabeeha Merchant, x58300
Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology In-House Seminar Series
Co-sponsored by the Molecular Biology Institute and C & MB Training Grant
12:00 PM
LSB 2320
Thu
Nov 12
Anna Wu, Ph.D.
Departments of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA
"Molecular Imaging of Cancer using ImmunoPET - "IHC in vivo""
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
12:00 PM
CHS 73-105
Thu
Nov 12
Ram I. Mahato, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis
"Polymeric Micelle-based Combination Therapy for Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer"
JCCC Signal Transduction and Therapeutics
Program Area and the Department of Bioengineering
12:00 PM
Engineering 2101 V
Thu
Nov 12
X. William Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
"Novel Genetic and System Biology Approaches to Unravel Huntington's Disease (HD) Pathogenesis"
Neurogenetics Affinity Group Lecture
12:00 PM
Gonda 1357
Thu
Nov 12
MBI THURSDAY SEMINAR SERIES
John Yates, III, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
"Driving Biological Discovery Using Quantitative Proteomics"
Host: Jing Huang, x54329 and James Wohlschlegel, x47955
4:00 PM
Boyer 159
Fri
Nov 13
Ursula W. Goodenough, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
"Fat vs. Carbs: Lipid Bodies from Wild-type and Starchless
Chlamydomonas and Implications for Biodiesel"

Host: Sabeeha Merchant, x58300
Biochemistry Seminar
9:00 AM
Boyer 159
Fri
Nov 13
Victor Ambros, Ph.D.
Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
"MicroRNA Pathways in Animal Development"
Contact: Harvey Herschman, x58735
JCCC Seminars of the 2009 Winners of the Massry Award
10:00 AM
NRB Auditorium
Fri
Nov 13
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School;
Department of Molecular Biology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
"The Roles and Possibilities of Small RNAs"
Contact: Harvey Herschman, x58735
JCCC Seminars of the 2009 Winners of the Massry Award
10:00 AM
NRB Auditorium
Fri
Nov 13
Ursula W. Goodenough, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
"Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual Differentiation, Haploid-diploid Transitions,
and Uniparental Inheritance of Chloroplast Genomes"

Host: Sabeeha Merchant, x58300
Genetics Seminar Series
12:00 PM
Boyer 159
Fri
Nov 13
Martin J. Kelly, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland
"Building A G PRotein Coupled Estrogen Receptor is Involved in Hypothalamic Control of Homeostasis"
Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology of the Brain Research Institute
12:00 PM
LSB 2320
Fri
Nov 13
NO EMBRYOLOGY CLUB THIS WEEK

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4:00 PM
Boyer 159