| Deadline for submission: Wednesday of preceding week. Send to mbiasst@mednet.ucla.edu or contact Susan Sassoon at x51018. |
| 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" 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 "" | 4:00 PM Boyer 159 |