Seminars -- Past
 
Seminars - 2007

DAY:Thursday, December 13, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Domenico Tortorella
TITLE:Delineating the Mechanism of Protein Dislocation from the ER to the Cytosol
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, December 13, 2007
SPEAKER:Maureen A. McCall, PhD, Professor, Deptartment of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Univesity of Louisville, KY
TITLE:What comparisons of no b-wave mouse mutants tell us about retinal development and function
LOCATION:Room 038, LIfe Sciences Bldg.
TIME:Noon

DAY:Tuesday, December 11, 2007
SPEAKER:Arianna Maffei, PhD, Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
TITLE:Experience-dependent rewiring of cortical microcircuits
LOCATION:Room 038 LIfe Sciences Building
TIME:4:00 pm

DAY:Tuesday, December 04, 2007
SPEAKER:Alfredo Fontanini, MD/PhD, Dept of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis Univ, Waltham, WA
TITLE:Cortical dynamics in the gustatory system of awake behaving animals.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg.
TIME:10:30am

DAY:Monday, December 03, 2007
SPEAKER:David Weiner, Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
TITLE:Spotty Business: Improving the Immune potency of DNA Vaccines for HIV
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, November 29, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Nicole Sampson
TITLE:Bacteria on Steroids: Homing in on Antibacterials
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, November 29, 2007
SPEAKER:Bruce Riley, PhD, Professor, Biology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
TITLE:Fgf Signaling Coordinates Development of Sensory Hair Cells and Neurons of the Inner Ear
LOCATION:Rm 038, LIfe Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Monday, November 26, 2007
SPEAKER:Lucille London, Ph.D, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University
TITLE:Respiratory Reovirus 1/L induction of Diffuse Alveolar Damage: A Model for the Study of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg, Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Monday, November 19, 2007
SPEAKER:Christopher W. Cutler, DDS, Ph.D, Stony Brook Univ. School of Dental Medicine
TITLE:Dendritic Cell Subsets in the Oral Mucosa: Arbiters of Infection or Immunity?
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg. Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, November 15, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Daniel Kessler
TITLE:Fox-Groucho Cooperation in Transcriptional Control of the Nodal Signaling Pathway
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, November 15, 2007
SPEAKER:Yimin Zou, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Neurobiology Section, Biological Sciences Division, Univiversity of CA, San Diego
TITLE:Wnt Signaling in Nervous System Wiring
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg.
TIME:Noon

DAY:Wednesday, November 14, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Robert L. Geahlen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
TITLE:Signaling from the B cell antigen receptor: Syk and p-Tyr'd
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Monday, November 12, 2007
SPEAKER:Andrew J. Darwin, Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine
TITLE:Combating the potential for secretin-induced stress in pathogenic bacteria
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, November 08, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Benjamin Turk
TITLE:Active Site and Docking Site Profiling of Protein Kinases
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Monday, November 05, 2007
SPEAKER:Jose L. Lopez-Ribot, Ph.D., University of Texas, San Antonio
TITLE:Challenging current dogmas in Candida albicans pathogenesis
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, October 25, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Elizabeth M. Boon, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
TITLE:The H-NOX Family of Heme Sensor Proteins: A New Role for Nitric Oxide Signaling in Bacteria
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, October 25, 2007
SPEAKER:Julie Kauer, Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology, Brown Univ., Providence, RI
TITLE:Opiates Block LTP at Synapses in the Midbrain Reward Pathway
LOCATION:Rm 038, Life Sci Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, October 18, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Joseph Gall
TITLE:The Cell Biology of snRNP Biogenesis
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, October 18, 2007
SPEAKER:John Lisman, PhD, Professor, Dept of Biology, Brandeis Univ,. Waltham, MA
TITLE:A Circuit-Based Model That Integrates a Broad Range of findings Regarding Schizophrenia
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sci Bldg.
TIME:Noon

DAY:Tuesday, October 16, 2007
SPEAKER:Christopher Kellendonk, PhD, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY
TITLE:Modeling Schizophrenia Endophenotypes in Mice
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg. Rm 038
TIME:10:30am

DAY:Monday, October 15, 2007
SPEAKER:James P. Quigley, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
TITLE:The Simplicity of the Developing Chick Embryo Used to Examine the Complexity of Human Tumor Metastasis
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg. Rm 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Friday, October 12, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Susan B. Horwitz (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Dr. Philip A. Cole (Johns Hopkins University), etc
TITLE:The inaugural ICB&DD Symposium on Frontiers in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/icbdd/news.shtml
LOCATION:Charles B Wang Center
TIME:1:00-6:30 pm

DAY:Thursday, October 11, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Isaac Carrico
TITLE:Introduction of Unnatural Functionality into Biological Systems
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, October 11, 2007
SPEAKER:Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D. Professor, Depts of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
TITLE:Limbic System Modulation of Dopamine Neuron Activity and the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia. Host: Lorne Mendell 2-8632
LOCATION:Life Sciences, Rm 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Tuesday, October 09, 2007
SPEAKER:Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D., Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
TITLE:Specific Neuronal Types and Functional Cortical Circuits
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg.
TIME:10:30 am

DAY:Thursday, October 04, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Gerald Thomsen
TITLE:From Reef to Beef: TGFB Signaling Modulators in Embryonic Development and Evolution
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Tuesday, October 02, 2007
SPEAKER:Young-Hwan Jo, PhD, Division of Endocrinology, Dept of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
TITLE:To Eat more or to eat less: Neurophysiological analysis of feeding-related neural circuitry in the hypothalamus.
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Room 038
TIME:10:30am

DAY:Monday, October 01, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Banafshe Larijani, Cell Biophysics Laboratory, London Research Institute, London, England
TITLE:From Phosphoinositide Signals in Membrane Dynamics to Imaging In Vivo Molecular Interactions of PI3Kinase Events: A Translation into EGFR Activation in Cancer
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Thursday, September 27, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Ramanujan Hegde
TITLE:The Biosynthesis of Secretory and Membrane Proteins
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, September 27, 2007
SPEAKER:Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD/PhD, Professor, Center for Neuroscience, Rutgers Universtiy, Newark, NJ
TITLE:Internally Generated Assembly Sequences in the Hippocampus.
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Room 038
TIME:12 Noon

DAY:Wednesday, September 26, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. David F. Green, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
TITLE:Designing Functional Protein Complexes: A Biophysical Approach to a Systems-Level Problem
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Thursday, September 20, 2007
SPEAKER:Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
TITLE:Regulating Learning and Memory Through Dendritic Integration.
LOCATION:Life Sciences, Rm 038
TIME:12 Noon

DAY:Tuesday, September 18, 2007
SPEAKER:Shaoyu Ge, PhD, Dept of Neuroscience/Neurology, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ. SOM, Baltimore, MD
TITLE:New Neurons in the Adult Mammalian Brain: Integration and Synapse Maturation.
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Room 038
TIME:10:30am

DAY:Wednesday, September 05, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Melinda K. Duncan, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
TITLE:Lens Differentiation: The Role of Transcription Factors and Extracellular Matrix
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Thursday, September 06, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Kevin Czaplinski
TITLE:mRNA Trafficking and Localized Translation in the Cytoplasm
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Tuesday, July 31, 2007
SPEAKER:Jing Hu, PhD, Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, Germany
TITLE:Sensory Mechanotransduction: Ion Channels and Mechanism
LOCATION:Life Sci Bldg, Rm 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, June 07, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Gerald W. Hart
TITLE:Dynamic Cycling of O-GlcNAc: Roles in Signaling, Transcription, Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease
LOCATION:Lecture Hall 2, Level 2, Health Sciences Center
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Wednesday, May 30, 2007
SPEAKER:
TITLE:Insulin Signaling Pathways, A Symposium Honoring Dr. William Benjamin
LOCATION:Health Sciences Center, Level 3, Lecture Hall 5
TIME:9:00 a.m.

DAY:Thursday, May 31, 2007
SPEAKER:Corey Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
TITLE:Regulation of the Mode of Exocytosis in Mouse Adrenal Chromaffin Cells.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, May 31, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Elof Carlson
TITLE:Darwin - Used, Abused, and Necessary
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, May 24, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Richard Vierstra
TITLE:The Expanding Universe of Ubiquitin-Fold Proteins
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, May 24, 2007
SPEAKER:Gabriel Corfas, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neurobiology Program, Departments of Neurology and Otolaryngology Children's Hosptial and Harvard Medical School.
TITLE:Molecular Mechanisms of Neuron-Glia Interactions: Roles in Development and Disease.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Wednesday, May 23, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Miduturu Srinivas, Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY State College of Optometry, New York, New York
TITLE:Connexin Channels: Pharmacology and Regulation
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Thursday, May 17, 2007
SPEAKER:Edward Ziff, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.
TITLE:Protein Interactions and the Trafficking of AMPA Receptors.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, May 10, 2007
SPEAKER:Mark S. Shapiro, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Texas, Health Science Center, San Antonio
TITLE:Convergent and Divergent Intracellular Signaling Pathways Modulating Neuronal Ion Channels.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Monday, May 07, 2007
SPEAKER:John A. Blaho, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
TITLE:Apoptosis During Herpes Simplex Virus Infection
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, May 03, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Keith Sheppard
TITLE:American Science Education: Beyond the Gathering Storm
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, May 03, 2007
SPEAKER:Peter Shizgal, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
TITLE:The Role of Tonic Dompamine Signaling in the Computation of Payoff.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Monday, April 30, 2007
SPEAKER:Cyrus Vaziri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Univ SOM
TITLE:Regulation of DNA Replication by S-phase Checkpoint Signaling
LOCATION:Life Sciences Building 038
TIME:12:00 PM

DAY:Thursday, April 26, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. David Kaback
TITLE:Dirty Dancing - The Mating Rites of Homologous Chromosomes
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, April 26, 2007
SPEAKER:Cecilia B. Moens, PhD, Investigator HHMI and Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
TITLE:A Necessary Evil: How Vertebrate Embryos Use and Control Retinoic Acid Levels to Generate Spatial Pattern
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg
TIME:Noon

DAY:Wednesday, April 25, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Banafshe Larijani, Cell Biophysics Laboratory, London Research Institute, London, England
TITLE:Nuclear Envelope Phosphoinositide Signals and In Vivo Molecular Interactions of Downstream PI3Kinase Events
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Monday, April 23, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Peter B. Bennett, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
TITLE:Nitrogen Narcosis, Pressure Reversal and the High Pressure Nervous Syndrome
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:4:00 p.m.

DAY:Monday, April 23, 2007
SPEAKER:Susan Waltz, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
TITLE:Ron Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling in Breast Development and Cancer
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, April 19, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Elaine Majerus
TITLE:Glycosylation of the von Willebrand Factor Cleaving Protease (ADAMTS13)
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, April 19, 2007
SPEAKER:Wade Regehr, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
TITLE:Retrograde Signaling by Endocannabinoids in the Cerebellum.
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Sciences Bldg.
TIME:Noon

DAY:Wednesday, April 18, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Yajun Tang, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
TITLE:Cataracts in Cx46 or Cx50 Knockout Mice are Dependent on a Calpain 3 Isoform
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Thursday, April 12, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Marc Gartenberg
TITLE:Heterochromatin and the Cohesion of Sister Chromatids
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, April 12, 2007
SPEAKER:Karen J. Berkley, PhD, McKenzie and Distinguished Research Professor, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University
TITLE:Neural Mechanisms of Pelvic Pain
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Room 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, April 05, 2007
SPEAKER:James M. Fadool, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science & Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University.
TITLE:Deciphering Mosaics in Vertebrate Photoreceptor Development.
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Room 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, April 05, 2007
SPEAKER:John Lambris, PhD, Professor of Patholoby and Laboratory Medicine, U of Pennsylvania
TITLE:From Atoms to Systems: A Cross Disciplinary Approach to Today's Challenges in Biosciences
LOCATION:BHS T9 145
TIME:12:00 PM

DAY:Thursday, March 29, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Hiten Madhani
TITLE:Specification of Active Chromatin in S. Cerevisiae
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, March 22, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Jessica Treisman
TITLE:Novel Components of the EGF Receptor Signaling Pathway in Drosophila Eye Development
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, March 22, 2007
SPEAKER:Leslie B. Vosshall, PhD., Chemers Family Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University.
TITLE:Olfaction: From Receptors to Perception
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Room 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Monday, March 19, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Dieter M. Schifferli, Univ. of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
TITLE:Surface-expressed virulence factors of Yersinia pestis
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg. Rm.038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, March 15, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Todd Reynolds
TITLE:Control of Yeast Multicellular Behavior by Surface-Associated Environmental Cues
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Monday, March 12, 2007
SPEAKER:David J. Banks, Ph.D., UCLA
TITLE:Forward Somatic Cell Genetics and Host-Pathogen Interactions
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, March 08, 2007
SPEAKER:John Greally, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Depts. Medicine and Molecular Genetics
TITLE:Dynamic Cytosine Methylation in Differentiation and Disease
LOCATION:BHS T9 145
TIME:4:00 PM

DAY:Thursday, March 08, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Orna Cohen-Fix
TITLE:Shaping and Misshaping the Yeast Nucleus
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, March 08, 2007
SPEAKER:Stefan Herlitze, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
TITLE:G-Protein Modulation of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Neuronal Circuits
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg, Room 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Monday, March 05, 2007
SPEAKER:Caroline A. Kulesza, Ph.D., Princeton University
TITLE:A Stable Intron Encoded by Cytomegalovirus is a Virulence Factor in vivo
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg., Rm 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, March 01, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Daniel G. Tenen
TITLE:Transcription Factors, Stem Cells, and Leukemia
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, February 22, 2007
SPEAKER:Ellen J. Hess, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland
TITLE:A twist on the anatomy of dystonia
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Thursday, February 22, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Alejandro Heuck
TITLE:Membrane recognition and pore formation by Perfringolysin O, a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Thursday, February 15, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Alan Hall
TITLE:Signal transduction pathways controlling cell shape and cell migration
LOCATION:Room 038, Life Science Building
TIME:4:00pm

DAY:Monday, February 12, 2007
SPEAKER:Manuela Raffatellu, Univ. of Ca. @ Davis
TITLE:Mechanisms of Innate Immune Evasion: How Salmonella Typhi flies below the radar.
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg. Rm. 038
TIME:NOON

DAY:Thursday, February 08, 2007
SPEAKER:Ellen J. Hess, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
TITLE:A new twist on the anatomy of dystonia
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Tuesday, January 30, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Isaac Carrico (Dept. Chemistry, SUNYSB)
TITLE:Introducing unnatural functionality into biological systems
LOCATION:BST8-180
TIME:12:00 noon

DAY:Monday, January 29, 2007
SPEAKER:Weiming Yuan, Ph.D., Yale University
TITLE:Modulation of CD1d antigen presentation pathway by herpes simplex virus
LOCATION:Life Sciences Bldg. Rm 038
TIME:Noon

DAY:Wednesday, January 24, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Aurelio Galli, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
TITLE:Probing the Action of Amphetamine: The Need for Speed
LOCATION:Basic Science Tower, T-5, Room 140
TIME:12 noon

DAY:Thursday, January 11, 2007
SPEAKER:Dr. Chia-Yi Kuan
TITLE:Genetic Analysis of Cdc42 and Rac1 GTPase in Forebrain Development
LOCATION:Room 434, Life Sciences Building
TIME:4:00pm