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  Monday Seminar Series 2009

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; talks are held right across the street in the Mellon Institute. Due to its high information content, you may wish to view this page at its maximal width. Seminars for the 2009-2010 academic year include the following:

14 September Dr. Don Cleveland
University of California, San Diego
Guarding the genome: Centromeres, aneuploidy, and tumorigenesis
 
21 September Dr. Kirill Kiselyov
University of Pittsburgh
Learning from mistakes: Lysosomal storage diseases
 
22 September Dr. Rick Young
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Programming and Reprogramming Cell State
 
23 September Dr. Anthony Schwacha
University of Pittsburgh
The Mcm complex: Unwinding the mechanism of the replicative helicase
 
28 September Dr. Beth Stronach
University of Pittsburgh
Stress signaling in Drosophilia development and homeostasis
 
5 October Dr. Kevin Folta
University of Florida
“Functional genomics in strawberry biology: Putting new sequence information to work
 
19 October Dr. Xinnian Dong
Duke University
Dissecting plant immune signaling network in Arabidopsis
 
26 October Dr. Kirk Deitsch
Cornell University
Epigenetic mechanisms underlying antigenic variation and immune evasion by malaria parasites
 
2 November Dr. Kathleen Donohue
Duke University
The ecological genetics of germination in a colonizing species
 
9 November Dr. Terry Magnuson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chromatin remodeling, epigenetics, and mammalian development
 
16 November Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
University of Virginia
Signal Transduction from the extracellular matrix: from kinases to cancer
 
23 November Dr. Nick Putnam
Rice University
Evolution of metazoan genome organization
 
30 November Dr. Massimo Pigliucci
SUNY, Stony Brook
A few unorthodox ideas about evolutionary theory
 
7 December Dr. Dan Doak
University of Wyoming
Using demography to explain range limits: A study of two arctic-alpine plants
 

 
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