Departmental Seminars

Other departmental and program seminar series:

Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Program

Neuroscience Program


 

Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences:

FALL 2009

All seminars start at 12:30 pm.  Coffee and cookies at 12:15 pm.

ISB (Room 221)

Sept. 16

Alexei Aravin, Cold Spring Harbor Lab. "Small RNA Pathways in mouse germline".

Host: Ana Maria Salicioni

Sept. 23

Dennis Grab, John Hopkins University School of Medicine. "Taking a tryp(anosome) across the human blood-brain barrier: A role for G protein coupled receptors?"

Host: Sam Black

Sept. 30

Chris Woodcock, UMass Amherst, Biology Department. "Epigenetics, chromatin architecture, and Rett syndrome."

Host: Jesse Mager

Oct. 7 CNS Day - No Seminar
Oct. 14

Maria Santore, UMass Amherst, Polymer Science & Engineering. "Surface Design Strategies for Dynamic Cell Manipulation: From Fundatmentals to Cell Sorting and Signaling."

Host: Barbara Osborne

Oct. 21

Mohamed Treback, Albany Medical Center. "Novel Receptor-Operated Calcium Entry Pathways in the Vasculature."

Host: Rafael Fissore

Oct. 28

Gary Hunnicuit, Rockefeller University. "The sperm annulus: A critical component for male fertility."

Host: Pablo Visconti

Nov. 4

Stephen Miller, Northwester University. "An Antigen-Specific Tolerance Approach to the Therapy of Autoimmune Disease and tissue Transplantation – Mechanisms and Clinical Prospects."

Host: Barbara Osborne

Nov. 11 Veteran's Day - No Seminar
Nov. 18

Sandra Petersen, UMass Amherst, Biology Department. "Central role of TRIP in a new model of brain sexual differentiation."

Host: Barbara Osborne

Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Day - No Seminar
Dec. 2

Saby Sen, Bay State Health Center.  "Survival and differentiation of human adult stem cells."

Host: Joe Jerry

Dec. 9

Thai Thayumanavan, UMass Amherst, Chemistry Department. "Delivering therapeutics through designer polymers."

Host: Barbara Osborne