All seminars began 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 whre noted. Due to its high information content, you
may wish to view this page at its maximal width. Seminars for the 2001-2002 academic year included the following:
| 17 September |
Dr. Glenn Herrick |
University of Utah School of Medicine
Chromatid Breakage and Telomere Formation during Macronuclear Development in the Ciliated Protozoan, Oxytricha trifallax
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| 24 September |
Dr. Greg Prelich |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Regulation of the RNA Polymerase II General Transcription Machinery: Lessons from Yeast
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| 1 October |
Dr. Michael Synder |
Yale University
Large-Scale Analysis of the Yeast Genome and Proteome: A Tale of Two Chips
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| 8 October |
Dr. Lynn Adler |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Herbivory and Pollination in Hemiparasitic Plants: Effects of Host Plant and Host-Obtained Alkaloids
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| 15 October |
Dr. Richard Wood |
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Human DNA Repair Proteins and Pathways
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| 22 October |
Dr. Ivet Bahar |
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Computational Prediction of Protein Dynamics
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| 29 October |
Dr. Peter Chesson |
University of California, Davis
Maintenance of Species Diversity in Variable Environments
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| 5 November |
Dr. Gary Ruvkun |
This seminar has been postponed until 21 March 2002
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| 12 November |
Dr. Ellen Fanning |
Vanderbilt University
Orchestrating SV40 DNA Replication: New Insights into the Players
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| 19 November |
Dr. Candace Galen |
University of Missouri
Floral Evolution: Insights from an Alpine Wildflower, Polemonium viscosum
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| 26 November |
Dr. Margaret Titus |
University of Minnesota
A Tail of MyTHs and FERMS - an Analysis of How Myosin VII Participates in Dynamic Cell Adhesion
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| 3 December |
Dr. Susan Michaelis |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Non-classical Biogenesis of Yeast a-Factor: CaaX Processing and Export via an ABC Transporter
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| 10 December |
Dr. Michael Purugganan |
North Carolina State University
Molecular Evolutionary Ecology of Arabidopsis Flower Development
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| 18 March |
Dr. Richard Losick |
Harvard University
Rings, spirals and polar division
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| 21 March |
Dr. Gary Ruvkin |
Harvard Medical School
Neuroendocrine pathways that control metabolism and lifespan in C elegans and beyond
The Richard Russell Memorial Lecture
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| 25 March |
Dr. Ingrid Parker |
University of California, Santa Cruz
The role of natural enemies in explaining and constraining invasions: clovers, pathogens and herbivores
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| 1 April |
Dr. Mary Lou Guerinot |
Dartmouth College
Metal uptake in Arabidopsis: From soil to seed
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| 8 April |
Dr. Timothy Lohman |
Washington University School of Medicine
Helicase-catalyzed DNA unwinding
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| 15 April |
Dr. William Saxton |
Indiana University
Making things move in oocytes and neurons
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