| Fall Term 2012 |
| October 3, 2012 | Sean Megason
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Harvard Medical School“In toto imaging and modeling reveal higher scale principles of embryonic patterning”
Host: Robert Tanguay |
| October 17, 2012 | Axel Brunger
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University“Insights into the molecular mechanism of synaptic vesicle fusion”Host: Andy Karplus |
| October 31, 2012 | Yanming Di
Department of Statistics
Oregon State University
“Statistical methods for gene mapping with pedigree data: linkage, association and identity-by-descent (IBD)” |
| November 14, 2012 | Dennis Carson
Moores Cancer Center
University of California – San Diego
“Cancer stem cells as therapeutic targets”
Host: Siva Kolluri |
November 28, 2012
| Richard Caprioli
Department of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
“Molecular Imaging of Tissue Sections by Mass Spectrometry”
Host: Craig Marcus |
 Winter Term 2013 |
| January 9, 2013 | Victor Nizet
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California – San Diego
“Probing the Host-Pathogen Interface for New Therapeutic Targets“
Host: Luiz Bermudez |
| January 23, 2013 | Iain Cheeseman
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research “Generating a Dynamic Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface”Host: Michael Freitag |
| February 6, 2013 | Yi Liu
Physiology
Univsity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center“Less is more, codon usage regulates protien expression, structure and function”
Host: Michael Freitag |
| February 20, 2013 | Mark Martindale
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
University of Florida“The jelly ball genome: insights from a ctenophore, an early metazoan lineage”Host: Barbara Taylor |
| March 6, 2013 | Eli Meyer
Department of Zoology
Oregon State Univeristy“2b-RAD, a cost effective method for genome-wide SNP genotyping” |
March 20, 2013
Additional seminar | Yuanchao Wang
Department of Plant Pathology
Nanjing Agricultural University, China“Functional analysis of Phytophthora sojae RxLR effectors” |
| Spring Term 2013 |
| April 3, 2013 | Jeffrey Bennetzen
Department of Genetics
University of Georgia“Mechanisms and rates of local genome rearrangement in angiosperms”Host: Pankaj Jaiswal |
| April 17, 2013 | Richard Hamelin
Department of Forest Sciences
University of British Columbia“A tale of two poplar pathogens”Host: Nik Grunwald |
| May 1, 2013 | Vitaly Citovsky
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Stony Brook University“Plant-Pathogen Arms Race: How Agrobacterium Subverts Host Defense”Host: Valerian Dolja |
| May 15, 2013 | Eric Selker
The Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Oregon“Genome defense, gene silencing and epigenetic dynamics in Neurospora”
Host: Michael Freitag |
| May 29, 2013 | Robbie Waugh
Cell and Molecular Sciences
The James Hutton Institute“Post domestication selection and adaptation in cultivated barley“
Host: Pat Hayes |
May 30, 2013 11:00 – noon LPSC 402
Additional seminar | Gitta Coaker
Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis“Unraveling Plant Immune Perception and Signaling”
Host: Jeff Chang |