UMDNJ-NJMS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series

Public Health Research Institute Seminar Series

Rutgers-Piscataway BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology Seminar Series

NJIT Math-Biology Seminar Series

2009 Seminar Series

1:00 pm
1/15/09
MSB H-609


Dr. Francisco (Pancho) Bezanilla, Professor, University of Chicago
Voltage Sensing in Ion Channels

12:00 pm
2/3/09
MSB C-555


Paul H. Patterson, Ph.D., Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Immune Involvement in Autism & Schizophrenia: Etiology and Animal Models

2:30 pm
2/4/09
GITC 4415


Dr. Christian Laing, New York University
Annotated Tertiary Interactions in RNA Structures Reveal Motif Correlations

12:15 pm
2/10/09
ICPH


Dr. Orna Cohen-Fix
Lipin and the Art of Nuclear Shape Maintenance

9:15 am
3/4/09
MSB B-610


Dr. Phillip Popovich, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
Manipulating Microglia and Macrophages to Promote Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury

12:15 pm
3/10/09
ICPH


Dr. Craig Peterson
Chromatin Dynamics and Genome Stability

9:15 am
4/1/09
MSB B-610


Charles D. Stiles, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
Transcription Factors and Formation of Glia in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System

12:00 pm
4/6/09
MSB H-609b


Claudia Schmauss, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
How Early Life Stress and Genetic Vulnerability Impact on Adult Serotonin 2C Receptor Editing

11:30 am
4/7/09
Tiernan 373


Zheng Wang, PhD, NAL Pharmaceuticals, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
Drug Delivery Technologies and Applications

12:15 pm
4/14/09
ICPH


Dr. Yuan Chang
Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: A New Human Tumor Virus

12:15 pm
4/21/09
ICPH


Daniel Kearns, Ph.D., Indiana University
Biofilm Formation and a Bifunctional Flagellar Clutch in B. Subtilis

12:15 pm
4/28/09
ICPH


Kevin Struhl, Ph.D., Harvard University
How Proteins Find Their Target Sites in Vivo: Implications for Epigenetic Inheritance and Transitions

12:00 pm
4/30/09
MSB E-609b


Thomas Gingeras, Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
New Classes of Functional Short RNAs and Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Networks

12:15 pm
5/5/09
ICPH


Jefferey Cox, Ph.D.
Host-Pathogen Interactions Responsible for M. tuberculosis Virulence

9:15 am
5/6/09
MSB B-610


Linda Noble Haeusslein, PhD, Professor, Physical Therapy & Rehab, UCSF
Recovery After Injury to the Immature Brain: How timing may be everything

12:15 pm
5/19/09
ICPH


Dr. Scott Landfear
An Essential Role for Glucose Transporters in the Life Cycle of Leishmania Parasites

2:30 pm
9/14/09
GITC 4415


Dr. Jason Wang
Discovery of Non-coding RNAs in Diverse Genomes

1:00 pm
9/23/09
Life Science Center 103


Dr. Claus Holzapfel
Fusion Ecology: How to learn to love your new (plant) neighbor

12:00 pm
9/28/09
MSB B-610


Leo Premkumar, PhD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
TRPV1 as a Target for Next Generation Analgesic

1:00 pm
9/29/09
Life Science Center 103


Dr. Radka Wildova, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY
What Happens When an Invader Meets a Close Relative? Understanding Interactions between Native, Exotic and Hybrid Cattails

2:30 pm
9/29/09
Cullimore 611


Dr. Avi Maayan, Department of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Data Mining and Network Analysis in Systems Biology

2:30 pm
9/30/09
GITC 4415


Adel Dayarian, Rutgers University
*De Novo* Assembly of Mate Pair Reads from Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies

2:30 pm
10/6/09
Cullimore 611


Dr. Hani Girgis, Johns Hopkins University
Two Machine Learning Algorithms for Selecting and Ranking the Best Predicted Protein Structures

11:30 am
10/14/09
Tiernan 373


Dr. Blase Billack, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Jamaica, Queens, NY
Reduction of Vesicant Toxicity by Ebselen and Its Analogs

12:15 pm
10/20/09
ICPH


Larry Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Interplay of M. Tuberculosis and Macrophages in the Human Respiratory System

11:30 am
10/21/09
Tiernan 373


Dr. Lyubomir Vassilev, Discovery Oncology, Roche Research Center, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, NJ
Activation of the p53 Tumor Suppressor for Cancer Therapy

12:00 pm
10/22/09
MSB E609b


Robert Darnell, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disease Reveals the RNA World of Brain and Cancer

12:15 pm
10/27/09
ICPH


Stephen P. Goff, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Retroviruses

2:30 pm
10/27/09
Cullimore 611


Dr. Hamid Reza Noori, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Neurochemical Oscillations in the Basal Ganglia

2:30 pm
11/4/09
GITC 4415


Dr. Usman Roshan
Discriminative Learning Methods for Analyzing Genome-wide Association Studies

2:30 pm
11/16/09
GITC 4415


Dr. Zhi Wei
An HMM-based Optimal Multiple Testing Procedure for Genome-wide Association Studies

1:00 pm
11/17/09
Life Science Center 103


Dr. Monica Carson, University of California, Riverside
Microglia in the Developing and Aging Brain: A Moving Target in Neurodegenerative Disorders

2:30 pm
11/17/09
Cullimore 611


Dr. Michael Graupner, Center for Neural Sciences, New York University
A Bistable Synaptic Model with Transitions between States Induced by Calcium Dynamics: Theory vs Experiment