OCTOBER   2008
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David Nelson
Nanoscience in biology: Virus buckling and folding of pollen grains
5:30pm - 6:30pm

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Eric Post
Some like it cold: individual-, species-, and community-level responses to a changing Arctic climate
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Troy van Voorhis
Exploring Electron Transfer: From Simple Photochemistry to Energy Conversion
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Brad Bernstein
Epigenetic mechanisms of ES cell pluripotency
3:00pm - 4:00pm

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Stephen L. Buchwald
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies
4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Future of Energy: John Rowe
“In Pursuit of a Sustainable Energy Future”
5:00pm - 6:00pm

7
Egbert Leigh
What 50-ha plots have taught us about tropical forest ecology?
12:00pm - 1:00pm

R.O.M.E.
student research presentations
3:30pm - 4:30pm

8
Michael Dickinson
How flies find stuff
12:15pm - 1:15pm

Howard Berg
Running the flagellar motor at zero torque
5:30pm - 6:30pm

9
Michael Dickinson
The visual ethology of fruit flies
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Ted Turlings
TBA
4:00pm - 5:00pm

10
Andrew Wang
Intrinsic Glycan Length Distributions by Peptidoglycan Glycosytransferases
12:15pm - 12:45pm

Hong-Myung Lee
Synthesis of (+)-cortistatin A
12:45pm - 1:15pm

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Greg Douhan
Population biology of the ubiquitous ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Alan Jasanoff
Molecular neuroimaging with MRI
12:15pm - 1:15pm

15
Kevin Verstrepin
Squishy Oktoberfest Special: Beer Science 101
5:30pm - 6:30pm

16
Tom Kirchhausen (MCO Student-Invited)
"Dynamics of Endocytosis"
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Kurt Zilm
TBA
1:00pm - 6:00pm

Scott Hodges
TBA
4:00pm - 5:00pm

17
Sidney A. Simon
Licking-Induced Synchrony Improves Learning in the Taste-Reward Pathway
11:00am - 12:00pm

Adam Hock
Synthesis and characterization of tantalum amidinates: Towards the ALD of TaN
12:15pm - 12:45pm

Jonathan Swoboda
Targeting wall teichoic acid biosynthesis to combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
12:45pm - 1:15pm

Steven Flavell
Regulation of synapse development by the activity-regulated transcription factor MEF2
3:00pm - 4:00pm

Kenichiro Itami
TBA
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Luis Parada
TRKB and Intracellular Signaling in Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Depression
12:15pm - 1:15pm

Peter Calabresi
The role of the voltage gated potassium channel Kv1.3 in human T cell differentiation
1:00pm - 2:00pm

David C. Corey
TBA
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Carl DeCicco
TBA
5:00pm - 6:00pm

21
Wayne Goodman
The NIMH Strategic Plan for Translational Research
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Ben Wolfe/Julie Shapiro
TBD/SHIP: Woody Plant Seeds Digitized
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Jungyin Yuan
A Question to Understand the Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration
12:15pm - 1:30pm

22
Sarah Veatch
Lipid rafts reach a critical point
5:30pm - 6:30pm

23
Forest Rohwer
"Thursday Seminar Series"
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Jeff A. Long
Molecular switches for root/shoot fate during plant embryogenesis
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Ronald Roepman
Elucidation of retinal ciliopathies by dissection of ciliary protein networks
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Pascal Braun
"Interactome mapping - where are we and how do we move forward"
3:00pm - 4:00pm

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Tracie Paine
Attenuation of cortical PKA disrupts attention and stimulates locomotor activity in rodent models
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Rustem Ismagilov
Spatial Effects Control Dynamics of Nonlinear Networks
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Noah Whiteman
Mining the plant-insect interface: Developing a genetic model herbivore of Arabidopsis
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Mark F. Bear
Towards fulfilling the promise of molecular medicine in a developmental brain disorder
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Jose Rivera
Adventures in Supramolecular Space Using 8-Arylguanine Derivatives
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Antioine van Oijen
Watching individual proteins at work on DNA
5:30pm - 6:30pm

30
John Rawls
"Thursday Seminar Series"
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Navjot Sodhi
Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Laurence Barron
From Cosmic Chirality to Virus Structure: Lord Kelvin's Legacy
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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