Quest for Career Seminars are held the 1st Thursday of every month at 1:00 p.m., beginning September 4th, in D1.602. Speakers and topics are still being finalized.
December 3
MATCHEMATICS: The science of matching skill sets to jobs
Dr. Melanie Cobb, PhD
Dean and Professor, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
November 5
Careers in Patent Law for Life Science PhD's
Jointly Sponsored by the Post-Doctoral Association
Robert Hanson, JD, PhD
Partner at Sonnenschein, Nath, Rosenthal, LLP
Patent Prosecution Life Sciences Group
October 1
The New Career Paradigm For Biomedical Scientists
John G. Self
Co-Founder, Chairman, and Senior Client Advisor
JohnMarch Partners, Inc.
September 3
Planning for Career Satisfaction and Success
Dr. Sharon L. Milgram, PhD
Director of the Office of Intramural Training and Education at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
August 25
Preparing for a Career in Non-Profit or Community Research
Dr. Marcus A. Huggans, PhD
Director of Recruiting and Programming at The National GEM Consortium
Biological Chemistry & Cell Regulation
Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation
Lily Huang and Mike White
Tuesdays, 9:30 - 10:30, K2.610
Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
Victoria Esser and Russell DeBose Boyd
Tuesdays, 9:00 - 10:00, L4.162
Protein Machines
David Chuang and Mischa Machias
Tuesdays, 10:00 - 11:00, NB10.606
Chemical and Biologial Approaches to Targeted Therapies for Cancer
Marc Mumby and Kathlynn Brown
Wednesdays, 9:00 - 10:00, NB7.606
The Nuclear Pore Complex and Nucleocytoplasmic Transport
Yuh-Min Chook and Beatriz Fontoura
Fridays, 10:00 - 11:00, NB10.606
Pharmacological Sciences
David Mangelsdorf and Rama Ranganathan
Tuesdays, 8:30 - 9:30, ND7.218
Chemistry Journal Club/WIP
Jef DeBrabander
Tuesdays, 12:00 - 1:00, L4.162
Biochemical Regulation & Metabolism WIP
Mondays, 12:00 - 1:00, ND8.218
Cell Biology WIP
Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00, K2.600
Cell Signaling WIP
Fridays, 11:00 - 12:00, ND7.218
Genetics & Development Program
Genetics & Development WIP
Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00, NB2 Auditorium
WIP Schedule
Journal Club Schedule and Leaders
Immunology Program
Immunology WIP Schedule
Mondays, 4:00 - 5:00, NA7.206 Auditorium
Integrative Biology Program
Molecular Biophysics Program
Molecular Biophysics Program Calendar
Molecular Biophysics Discussion Group
Seminars are held 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in ND13.218
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Intermediates In and Regulations of SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusions
Yeon Kyun Shin, Ph.D.
Iowa State University
Host: Jose Rizo-Rey, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
On the architecture of membrane tethering complexes
Karin Reinisch, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Yuh Min Chook, Ph.D.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Tanja Kortemme, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biopharamceutical Sciences
University of California-San Francisco
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Alexandra Newton, Ph.D.
Professor, Pharmacology
Cancer Biology Program
University of California, San Diego
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tobin Sosnick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
University of Chicago
Friday, May 16, 2008
MB Research Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Ian Wilson, Ph.D.
Molecular Biophysics JC/WIP
Computational Biology Discussion Group Schedule
Monday, September 10, noon
Junmei Wang, PhD
Encysive Pharmaceuticals
“Computer-aided drug design: my understanding, experience and thinking”
NB11.120 Conference Room
Rama Ranganathan, host
Monday, Septmeber 24, noon
Andrei Osterman, PhD
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
“A continuing pursuit of missing genes in metabolic subsystems”
NB11.120 Conference Room
Hong Zhang, host
Monday, October 15, 11am
Yang Zhang, PhD
The University of Kansas
“New approaches to protein structure prediction”
ND8.218
Nick Grishin, host
Monday, January 28, noon
Thomas D. Tullius, PhD
Boston University
NB11.120 Conference Room
Zbyszek Otwinowski, host
Monday, May 19, noon
Aviv Regev, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
TBA
NB11.120 Conference Room
Lani Wu, host
Invited speakers:
Willy Wriggers, PhD
D. E. Shaw Research
Arne Strand, host
Molecular Microbiology Program
Student Seminars held Fridays, 12:00 – 1:00, NA6.214
Neuroscience Program
JCs and WIPs are on alternating Mondays, 12:00 - 1:00. WIPs meet in NA4.218.
Neuro I - Behavior & System, McClung & Cooper (NC5.710)
Neuro II - Cell Biology & Synaptic Function, Li & Hiesinger (NA4.218)
Neuro III - Neurobiology of Learning, Memory & Plasticity (ND4.218)
Neuro IV - Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Development & Function, Henkemeyer & Terman (NB4.122)