Calendar of Events

Seminars of particular relevance to biochemists, Fall 2011

 3 pm, Friday, September 16 (Chem)
Jeffrey Katz, Department of Chemistry, Colby College. 
“Playing with Rings:Oxacalixarenes Lead to Surprising Things.”

4 pm, Thursday, September 22 (Bio)
Ann M. Stevens, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, VA
"Social networking in the bacterial world"

4pm, Thursday, September 29 (Bio)
Giovanni Bosco, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the University of Arizona.  
Seminar title to be announced
Research focus: “how nuclear architecture, chromosome morphology and chromatin structure are modified in response to developmental cues and environmental factors.”

4 pm, Thursday, October 13 (Bio)
Charles Kimmel, Department of Biology, University of Oregon
"Shaping the Head Skeleton"

4pm Thursday October 27 (Bio)
Joel Graber, Jackson Lab, Bar Harbor ME.
“Managing the message: Alternative polyadenylation under cellular stress conditions”

3pm, Friday, October 28 (Chem)
Laurie Comstock, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital.
“Phylum-wide general protein 0-glycosylation system of the Bacteroidetes”

3pm, Friday, November 4 (Chem)
Candidate seminar*

4pm, Thursday November 10 (Bio)
Judith Berman, University of Minnesota.  
Seminar title to be announced
Research focus:  Candida albicans genetics and cell biology

4pm, Thursday November 17 (Bio)
David Doroquez, Brandeis University.   Seminar title to be announced
Research focus:  The role of intracellular trafficking in modulating ciliary structural morphology in C. elegans

3pm, Friday, November 18 (Chem)
Candidate seminar*

3pm, Friday, December 2 (Chem)
Candidate seminar*

*Chemistry is searching for two Associate Professors of Chemistry and a one-semester Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry.