1. SESQUICENTENNIAL
SEMINAR SERIES
The Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics (MBG) Presents:
FALL
2015
FRIDAYS AT 4:00 PM
G-10 / LARGE SEMINAR ROOM
BIOTECHNOLOGY BUILDING
8/28
DORIS BACHTROG Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-04
Associate Professor, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Sex-specific aging in Drosophila: a role for the Y chromosome?
9/12
ALISON FRAND B.S., 1993
Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Time to Make New Skin: Stem Cell and Matrix Dynamics
in C. elegans
9/18
RODNEY ROTHSTEIN Postdoctoral Fellow, 1977-79
Professor, Genetics and Development, Columbia University
Medical Center
Increased chromosome mobility and the homology search
during double-strand break repair
9/25
MICHAEL GOLDBERG MBG Faculty, 1982-present
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Phosphatase regulation by unfair competition
10/2
XUEMEI CHEN Ph.D., 1995
Professor, Center for Plant Cell Biology, UC Riverside
A tale of tails – mechanisms of microRNA turnover
10/9
SU GUO Graduate School, 1994
Professor, Bioengineering, UC San Francisco
Asymmetric division of neural stem cells
10/16
GEORGE MACKIE Ph.D., 1971
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of British Columbia
Fascination with (mRNA) decay: several vignettes
10/30
JOHN GEARHART Ph.D., 1970
Professor, Cell and Development Biology, School of Medicine
Professor, Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania
Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine – Some Progress,
Many Challenges
11/6
BINGWEI LU Ph.D., 1995
Professor, Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine
Mitochondrial Quality Control in Health and Disease
11/13
GERRY FINK MBG Faculty, 1967-1982
Professor, Genetics, MIT
Evolution of a genome without sex
12/4
LEE KRAUS B.S., 1998 and MBG Faculty, 1999-2010
Director, Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive
Biology Sciences
Professor and Vice Chair, Basic Science, Dept. of Ob/GYN
Professor, Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas
PARPs and ADP-ribosylation: Fifty Years and Counting
12/11
JACOB MUELLER Ph.D., 2005
Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, University of Michigan
Medical School
X vs. Y
J.SITNIK
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