All seminars begin at 4:15 pm, and are held in 169 Crawford Hall, on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, except where noted.
Seminars are scheduled primarily for Monday afternoon except where noted in red. Science lovers should also consult the CMU seminar schedule. Due to its high information content, you
may wish to view this page at its maximal width. Seminars for the 2003-2004 academic year include the following:
| Wed 27 August |
Dr. Xiaojiang Chen |
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Structures of Hexameric Helicases in Replication
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| 8 September |
Dr. Nancy Trun |
Duquesne University
The E. coli K12 Csp Proteins: Small Nucleic Acid Binding Proteins that Play a Role in Chromosome Condensation
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| 15 September |
Dr. Pamela K. Diggle |
University of Colorado
Phenotypic plasticity, developmental constraint, and the evolutionary dynamics of sex expression in plants
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| Thu 25 September; 2 pm |
Dr. Susan L. Lindquist |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Protein Folding as a Capacitor of Evolutionary Change
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| 29 September |
Dr. Paul Sternberg |
California Institute of Technology
Signal Transduction in C. elegans Sexually Dimorphic Development and Behavior**
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| 6 October |
Dr. Lawrence Harder |
University of Calgary
Beyond Floricentrism: The Pollination Function of Inflorescences
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| Thu 9 October |
Dr. Janet Butel |
Baylor College of Medicine
SV40: An Emerging Human Pathogen
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| 13 October |
Dr. Paul Rainey |
Oxford University & University of Auckland
The Evolution of Cooperation and Conflict: Insights from Experimental Bacterial Populations
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| 20 October |
Dr. Heidi Warriner |
University of Pittsburgh
Structural Studies of Lung Surfactants: An Analysis of Surfactant Failure in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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| 27 October |
Dr. Michael Schaller |
University of North Carolina
Focal Adhesion Kinase: Structural Approaches Yield Insight into Molecular Function
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| 3 November |
Dr. David Shub |
State University of New York, Albany
Catalytic RNA Meets Selfish DNA: The Group I Introns of Bacteriophages
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| 10 November |
Dr. Gustavo Leone |
Ohio State University
Tumor Suppressor and Oncogene Pathways in the Developing Placenta
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| 17 November |
Dr. Ragan Callaway |
University of Montana
Centaurea Invasions: Herbivores, Soil Microbes, and Allelopathy
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| 24 November |
Dr. Greenfield Sluder |
University of Massachussetts Medical Center
Centrosomes and the Cell Cycle
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| 1 December |
Dr. Enrique De La Cruz |
Yale University
Mechanisms of Myosin Motors: It's All in the Timing
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| 26 January |
Dr. Don Cleveland |
University of California, San Diego
Keeping Track of the Genome: Centromeres, Motors, and the Mitotic Checkpoint
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| 15 March |
Dr. Zuo-Zhong Want |
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Mechanisms of Trafficking and Clustering of Acetylcholine Receptor at the Neuromuscular Synapse
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| 22 March |
Dr. Jeanne Harris |
University of Vermont
Development and Evolution of the Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis
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| 29 March |
Dr. Carl Wu |
National Cancer Institute
ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling Complexes for Transcription
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| 5 April |
Dr. Rzszard Kole |
University of North Carolina, Lineberger Cancer Center
Clinically Relevant Modification of Splicing by Antisense Oligonucleotides
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