Frontiers in Biology
Frontiers in Biology: 2019-2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | |
| Fall - 2019 | |||
| 25-Sep | Bryan Dickinson | U Chicago | Synthetic biology approaches to study and exploit RNA regulation |
| 2-Oct | Lucy O'Brien | Stanfrod | Stem cell dynamics of flexible organ states |
| 9-Oct | Onn Brandman | Stanford | Stress response pathways at the molecular and systems levels |
| 16-Oct | Bo Wang | Stanford | A tale of two worms: stem cell-driven regeneration and parasitism in flatworms |
| 23-Oct | Ellen Yeh | Stanford | Searching away from the streetlight: surprises from malaria’s plastid organelle |
| 6-Nov | Roy Parker | Colorado University | RNP granules in health and disease |
| 8-Nov | Steve McKnight | UTSW | (BC Journal Club) |
| 15-Nov | Mark Krasnow | Stanford | |
| 13-Nov | Susan Strome | UCSC | Histone-based transgeneration epigenetic inheritance |
| 20-Nov | Ting Wang | Washington U | Transposable elements and epigenome evolution |
| 4-Dec | Li-Huei Tsai | MIT | Network level approaches to studying Alzheimer’s disease |
| Winter - 2020 | |||
| 8-Jan | Daniel Promislow | U of Washington | Genetics of aging in natural populations: from flies to Fido |
| 15-Jan | Naama Barkai | Weizmann Institute | The search for transcription factors for their in-vivo binding-sites: distributed sensing byintrinsically disordered regions |
| 22-Jan | Karolin Luger | U of Colorado | Adventures in the chromatin jungle |
| 29-Jan | Alex Marson | UCSF | Reprogramming Human T Cells With CRISPR |
| 5-Feb | Cliff Tabin | Harvard | Signals and forces patterning the intestinal smooth muscle |
| 12-Feb | Michael Bassik | Stanford | Development of new CRISPR/Cas9-based tools to identify cancer drug targets and mechanisms of cellular uptake |
| 19-Feb | Richard Mann | Columbia | The Transcription factor specificity paradox: Lessons from Hox proteins |
| 4-Mar | Alvaro Rada-Iglesias | U of Cologne | Compatibility between genes and enhancers in development and congenital disease |
| 18-Mar | Diana Shakes | College of William & Mary | From skewed sex ratios to cracking the meiotic secrets of a genetic lawbreaker development |
| 14-Mar | Bruno Reversade | EMBO, Singapore | A master switch for limb numbers |
| 15-Mar | Christopher Westlake | NIH | Assembly of the cilium from inside to outside the cell via membrane trafficking |
| Spring - 2020 | |||
| 13-May | Rhiju Das | Stanford | Open Vaccine: Stabilizing mRNA vaccines for COVID 19 through computation and crowdsourcing |
| 20-May | Mariana Wolfer | Cornell | Seminal contributions: How male-derived protiens regulate reproduction |
| 26-May | Steve Henikoff | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Genome-wide mapping of protein-DNA interaction dynamics |
| 3-June | Molly Schumer | Stanford | The genetic architecture of naturally occurring hybrid incompatibilities |
Frontiers in Biology: 2018-2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | |
| Fall - 2018 | |||
| 26-Sep | Ulrich Hartl | Max Planck | "Molecular chaperones in protein folding and quality control" - Genetics (J Frydman booked Clark separately) |
| 3-Oct | Dan Jarosz | Stanford | "Mapping biochemical drivers of phenotypic change" (Oct 1-3 Biochem Retreat) |
| 10-Oct | Jim Ferrell | Stanford | "Trigger waves in cell signaling" |
| 17-Oct | Kryn Stankunas | U Oregon | "How the zebrafish got its fin back: signaling niches, and cell transitions of regeneration" |
| 24-Oct | Alan Lambowitz | UT Austin | "Thermostable Group II Intron Reverse Transcriptases (TGIRTs): Evolutionary signficance, structure, and RNA-seq applications" |
| 31-Oct | Prashant Mali | UCSD | |
| 7-Nov | James Chen (Zhijian) | UTSW | "Enemy within - how DNA triggers immune defense and autoimmune disease through the cGAS-STING pathway" |
| 14-Nov | Kristin Baldwin | Scripps | "Through the looking glass: Exploring neuron diversity and human genetics using reprogramming" |
| 28-Nov | Wendell Lim | UCSF | "Hacking cells: Learning by building" - switched w/ Genetics 8/7/18 -Genetics will take March 27 or May 22 |
| 5-Dec | Gisou van der Goot | U Lausanne | "Protein palmitoylation in health and disease: from Wnt signaling to anthrax" |
| 12-Dec | Rosie Alegado | U of Hawaii | "Influence of bacterial compounds on multicellular development of choanoflagellates" |
| Winter - 2019 | |||
| 16-Jan | Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado | Stowers | "Understanding the source of regenerative ability in animals" DB and BC switched Jan 16 with Jan 23 |
| 30-Jan | Maria Barna | Stanford | |
| 6-Feb | Tom Kornberg | UCSF | |
| 13-Feb | Ibrahim Cisse | MIT | "Super-resolution imaging of transcription in live mammalian cells" |
| 20-Feb | Tania Baker | MIT | |
| 27-Feb | Andreas Matouschek | UT Austin | "Deciphering the proteasomal degradation code" |
| 6-Mar | Yoseph Barash | U Penn | "Big data, small data: Getting from genotype to phenotype through transcriptome variations identification and prediction" |
| 13-Mar | Sergio Grinstein | U of Toronto | "Ion channels and the cytoskeleton in phagocytosis and micropinocytosis" |
| 20-Mar | Katie Peichel | U of Bern | "Genetics of adaptation and speciation in sticklebacks" |
| 27-Mar | Lulu Qian | Caltech | "Algorithmic and architectural foundations for programmable molecular machines: DNA robots, information-processing circuits, and reconfigurable nanostructures" |
| Spring - 2019 | |||
| 3-Apr | David Segal | UCD | "Changing Your Mind: Targeted Epigenetic Editing in the Brain" |
| 10-Apr | Samara Reck-Peterson | UCSD | "The cellular interstate system: deciphering the mechanisms of microtubule-based transport" |
| 17-Apr | Frank Chan | Max Planck | "The long-legged mouse and the impossible hybrid - the genetics of genome evolution in the mouse" |
| 24-Apr | Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz | Janelia | "Membrane dynamics and organelle biogenesis - lipid pipelines and vesicular carriers" |
| 1-May | Sabine Cordes | U Toronto | "Post-transcriptional and post-translational mechanisms shaping vertebrate social behavior" |
| 8-May | Piali Sengupta | Brandeis | Food mind control: Regulation of sensory behaviors by internal feeding state in C. elegans |
| 15-May | Kim Orth | U of Texas Southwestern | "BLACK SPOT, BLACK DEATH, BLACK PEARL: THE TALES OF BACTERIAL EFFECTORS" 10/22 - asked Billy Li and Mike Bassik if BC can take for Cliff Tabin |
| 22-May | Matt Waldor | Harvard | |
| 29-May | Swathi Arur | MD Anderson | "Of worms, mice and women: ERK signaling sculpts small RNA pathway in development and disease" |
| 5-Jun | Andy Minn | U Penn | |
Frontiers in Biology: 2017-2018
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | |
| Fall - 2017 | |||
| 27-Sep | Xiaowei Zhuang | Harvard | Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale by imaging |
| 4-Oct | Francesca Cole | MDAnderson CC | Meiosis and chromosome segregation in mammals: why younger isn’t always better” |
| 11-Oct | Beatrice Hahn | Upenn | Out of Africa: Ape origins of Human AIDS and Malaria |
| 18-Oct | Monte Winslow | Stanford | Molecular Determinants of Cancer Growth and Metastasis |
| 25-Oct | Nadav Ahutiv | UCSF | Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of gene regulatory elements |
| 31-Oct | Jim Rothman | Yale | Rothman couldn't make Nov 1, we couldn't another speaker for Nov 1 - Title: "Transiting the Golgi Stack: New Insights into an Old Problem" |
| 8-Nov | Steve McKnight | UTSW | (BC Journal Club) |
| 15-Nov | Mark Krasnow | Stanford | |
| 29-Nov | Michael Marletta | UCB | Nitric Oxide Signaling: From Prokaryotes to Humans |
| 6-Dec | Kim Cooper | UCSD | What big feet you have!” Identification of Genes Associated with Skeletal Proportion |
| 13-Dec | Christine or Johnathan Seidman | Harvard | (BC Journal Club) |
| Winter - 2018 | |||
| 10-Jan | Tom Cech | U Colorado | LncRNAs, PRC2 recruitment, and epigenetic silencing |
| 17-Jan | Diana Laird | UCSF | Heterogeneity and selection in developing germ cells |
| 24-Jan | Emma Lundberg | SciLifeLab | Spatial proteomics and the single cell |
| 31-Jan | Sekar Kathiresan | Mass Gen | Hearth attack: from gene discovery to risk prediction, biology and therapeutics |
| 7-Feb | Kevan Shokat | UCSF | Chemical tricks for drugging the undruggable |
| 14-Feb | Hugo Bellen | Baylor | Drosophila to unravel pathogenic mechanisms of neurological diseases: a Zika target and ApoE4 in Alzheimer’s Disease (BC taking since G took Feb 21) |
| 21-Feb | Genetics: Sex Chromosome Symposium | Genetics (Marcia) took Feb 21 from Biochem for Genetics-Sex Chromosome Symposium | |
| 28-Feb | Wallace Marshall | UCSF | Pattern formation and regeneration in a single cell (MUNZER) |
| 7-Mar | Jay Shendure | U Washington | Global views of development |
| 14-Mar | Bruno Reversade | EMBO, Singapore | A master switch for limb numbers |
| 21-Mar | Elizabeth Chen | UTSW | To invade or to resist: That is the question - Mechanisms of cell-cell fusion (BC Journal Club) |
| 28-Mar | Gloria Brar | UCB | |
| Spring - 2018 | |||
| 4-Apr | Daniel Kahne | Harvard | Molecular machiens that make membranes |
| 11-Apr | Kees (Cornelis) Murre | UCSD | Non-coding transcription instructs chromatin folding and compartmentalization to dictate enhancer-promoter communication |
| 25-Apr | David Bartel | MIT | MicroRNAs and other regulatory RNAs |
| 2-May | Oskar Hallatschek | UCB | Microbes under pressure (BC Journal Club) |
| 9-May | Stirling Churchman | Harvard MS | Probing gene regulation from the nucleus to mitochondria |
| 16-May | Cecilia Moens | Fred Hutchison/ U Wash | What Happens in Vagus: topographic mapping by the Vagus nerve. [James (Zhijian) Chen cannot because he's receiving an award. Instead he'll speak on Nov 7, 2018] |
| 23-May | Sun Hur | Harvard | Antiviral innate immunity: duplex RNA-mediated protein aggregation |
| 30-May | Amita Sehgal | U Penn | Biology of bedtime: understanding circadian rhythms and sleep |
| 6-Jun | Alanna Schepartz | Yale | |
| 13-Jun | Jennifer Garrison | Buck Institute | Cellular and circuit mechanisms of neuropeptide signaling |