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321 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455


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GCD Events


GCD 2008 Spring Semester Seminar Series
Thursdays at Noon in 2-101 Hasselmo Hall (BSBE)




Date Speaker/Title Host

January 31

Histone variants and deviants
Steven Henikoff, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Basic Sciences Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington




Judy Berman
625-1971



February 7

Developmental biology of glioma stem cells Chang Hyuk Kwon, Ph.D., Instructor,
Department of Developmental Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas  



David Largarespada
626-4979
(Dr. Kwon is a Cancer Center search candidate)

February 14

Germ cells in development and disease
James Francis Amtruda, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatircs, Molecular Biology and Internal Medicine, Horchow Family Endowed Scholar in Pediatrics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas


David Zarkower, 625-9450
(Dr. Amatruda is a Cancer Center search candidate)




February 21


Molecular mechanisms of pre-mRNA aplicing
and myotonic dystrophy
Andy Berglund, Ph.D.,, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon



Laura Ranum
624-0901


February 28

Quest for the 1p36 tumor suppressor: From chromosome engineering to chromatin remodeler
Anindya Bagchi, Ph.D., Postoctoral Fellow,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York



David Largaespada
626-4979
(Dr. Bachi is a Cancer Center search candidate)

Marach 6

Building a better mouse: Engineering cellular microenvironments for studing cell structure and function
Jan H. Hoh, Ph.D., Department of Physiology,
John Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland




Ross Johnson
624-1741

March 13

Using zinc finger nucleases and homologous recombination to manipulate the mammalian genome
Mathew Porteus, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departemnts of Pediatircs and Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas



Bruce Blazar
626-2734


March 20



NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK


March 27



Qualilty control of mRNA export from the nucleus: Checking IDs at the nuclear pore
Anita Corbett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta Georgia



Deanna Koepp
624-4201

April 3

How molecular motors drive the invasion fo brain by malignant gliomas
Steven Rosenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Neurology and Anatomy and Cell Biology
Columbia University, New York, New York



Meg Titus
625-8498

April 10

Molecular mechanisms of cell division: Nuclear envelopes and mitotic spindles
Christiane Wiese, Ph.D., Assistant Professorof Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin



Robin Wright
625-1183


April 17

*ROOM CHANGE*
Mayo Auditorium


Patterning gene expression and cell shape change in the drosophila embryo
EricF Wieschaus, Ph.D., Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey



Phil Jensen
625-8602
(Dr. Wieschaus is a graduate student invited speaker)

April 24


Targeting enzyme to treatment refractory sites in a lysosomal storage disorder
Bruce Blazar, M.D., Director, Center for Translational medicine, profesor and Andersen Chair in Transplantation Immunology, Chief, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program,
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota



Scott Mcivor
626-1497

May 1

Mitochondria, fission, fusion and apoptosis
Richard Youle, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Heath, national Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland



Harry Orr
625-3647


May 8

Biological asymmetry and cell signaling networks in left-right development
H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine,
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics,
Salt Lake City, Utah


Hiroshi Nakato
625-1727


May 15

Title - TBA
William B Wood, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado


Jocelyn Shaw
625-1912

May 22

Electron Tomography Provides
a New View into Cells

Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Brandeis University Waltham, Massacusetts


Dick Linck
624-5179


For more information, contact Laurie at oneil032@umn.edu