| Fall Term 2021 | |
| September 29, 2021 | Chris Plaisier Arizona State University Finding new therapies for mesothelioma |
| October 13, 2021 | TRACE Oregon State University TRACE COVID Community Surveillance Project |
| October 27, 2021 | David Garcia University of Oregon Prion-based forms of RNA-modifying enzymes |
| November 10, 2021 | Ya-chieh Hsu Harvard University Deep: Stem Cells at the Nexus of the Niche, Physiology, and the External Environment |
| Winter Term 2022 | |
| January 5, 2022 | TBD |
| January 19, 2022 | Carrie Hanna Oregon Health and Science University Using genome editing technology to create biomedical models in the nonhuman primate |
| February 2, 2022 | Jennifer Nemhauser University of Washington Babbage’s Cabbage: The Logic of Information Processing In Plants |
| February 16, 2022 | Yanming Di Oregon State University What is a replicate? |
| March 2, 2022 | Dr. Shobhan Gaddameedhi North Carolina State University Environmental Regulation of Genomic Stability and Human Health through the Circadian Clock |
| Spring Term 2022 | |
| March 30, 2022 | Mike Harms University of Oregon Ensembles, epistasis, and evolution: how biophysics shapes evolutionary outcomes |
| April 13, 2022 | Andrew Gentles Stanford University Atlas of Clinically Distinct Cell States and Cellular Ecosystems Across Human Solid Tumors |
| April 27, 2022 | CANCELLED – Yehenew Agazie West Virginia University TBD |
| May 18, 2022 (rescheduled for Fall2022) | Elias Fernandez University of Tennessee TBD |
| June 1, 2022 (rescheduled for Fall2022) | Sourav Ghosh Yale School of Medicine TBD |
Tag Archives: Seminar
CGRB Seminar Series 2020-2021
| Fall Term 2020 | |
| September 30, 2020 | Liang Huang Oregon State University Fighting COVID-19 with RNA Folding and RNA Design |
| October 14, 2020 | Mak Saito Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Host: Steve Giovannoni Exploring the use of metals in biogeochemically important enzymes in the oceans, and development of the Biogeochemical AUV Clio and the Ocean Protein Portal |
| October 28, 2020 | Scott Doney University of Virginia Host: Kim Halsey Developing models of marine planktonic systems |
| November 18, 2020 | A. Murat Eren University of Chicago Host: Maude David and Steve Giovannoni High-resolution insights into the genomic dynamism of closely related gut microbial populations in unrelated humans |
| December 2, 2020 | Katherine Amato Northwestern University Host: Tom Sharpton A case for comparative research: Using primates to gain insight into the human gut microbiome |
| Winter Term 2021 | |
| January 20, 2021 | Maria Clara Franco (Maca) Oregon State University Host: Michael Freitag The relevance of oxidatively-modified proteins as therapeutic tumor-directed targets |
| February 3, 2021 | Bruce Hungate Northern Arizona University Host: David Myrold Frontiers in ecosystem science: microbial ecology to biogeochemistry |
| February 17, 2021 | Yuanchao Wang Nanjing Agricultural University Host: Brett Tyler The story of XEG1: From a core effector to broad spectrum resistance |
| March 3, 2021 | Francesca Marassi Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Host: Elisar Barbar |
| Spring Term 2021 | |
| March 31, 2021 | Martin Egan University of Arkansas Host: Weihong Qiu Forging the Rings of Power – Formation and remodeling of higher-order septin structures for plant invasion by the blast fungus |
| April 14, 2021 | Clare Bird University of Stirling Host: Jennifer Fehrenbacher The microbiomes of single cells |
| April 28, 2021 | Zachary Lippman Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host: Steven Strauss Dissecting and exploiting mechanisms of quantitative trait variation in pl |
| May 12, 2021 | Xiangshu Xiao Oregon Health & Science University Host: Siva Kolluri Cancer Drug Discovery Targeting Transcription and DNA Repair |
| May 26, 2021 | Peter Ralph University of Oregon Host: Aaron Liston |
CGRB Seminar Series 2019-2020
| Fall Term 2019 | |
| October 9, 2019 | Marilyn Roossinck The Pennsylvania State University Lessons in Virus Ecology from Forty Years of Research Host: Jerri Bartholomew |
| October 23, 2019 | Ran Blekhman The University of Minnesota Population and Functional Genomics of Host-Microbiome Interactions Host: Tom Sharpton |
| November 6, 2019 | Mark Farman UC Davis Telomeric transposons: major drivers of fungal genome evolution and guards against genome change Host: Michael Freitag |
| December 4, 2019 | Carolina Tropini The University of British Columbia Physical perturbations to the gut microbiota during health and disease Host: Natalia Shulzhenko |
| Winter Term 2020 | |
| January 8, 2020 | Chris Hittinger University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Joey Spatafora Genomic and metabolic evolution across budding yeasts |
| January 22, 2020 | Audrey Gasch University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Michael Freitag The genetic basis of aneuploidy tolerance in wild yeast |
| February 19, 2020 | Jill Banfield UC Berkeley Host: Steve Giovannoni |
| March 4, 2020 | Josh Cuperus University of Washington Host: Molly Megraw, John Fowler |
| Spring Term 2020 | |
| April 1, 2020 | Pankaj Kapahi USC Leonard Davis Host: Jaga Giebultowicz |
| April 15, 2020 | Jose Dinneny Stanford University Host: John Fowler |
| May 13, 2020 | TBD |
| May 27, 2020 | TBD |
CGRB Seminar Series 2018-2019
| Fall Term 2018 | |
| September 26, 2018 | Andrew Cato Karlsruhe Institutue of Technology, Germany Development of Bag-1L as a Therapeutic Target in Androgen Receptor-Dependent Prostate Cancer Host: Siva Kolluri |
| October 10, 2018 | Samara Reck-Peterson UC San Diego Molecular mechanisms of microtubule-based motors: how teams of motors work Host: Michael Freitag |
| October 24, 2018 | Siobhan Brady UC Davis From networks to switches: systems approaches to unravel the control of biological processes necessary for plant life Host: John Fowler/Molly Megraw |
| November 7, 2018 | Fitnat Yildiz UC Santa Clara Mechanisms and regulation of biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae Host: Claudia Hase |
| Winter Term 2019 | |
| Feruary 8, 2019 | William Hersh OHSU Three amazing ideas about microbial biogeography that will blow your mind Host: Denise Hynes |
| March 6, 2019 | Nadja Cech University of North Carolina – Greensboro Anti-Virulence Strategies Against Drug Resistant Superbugs Host: Sandra Loesgen |
| Spring Term 2019 | |
| April 3, 2019 | Chris Marx University of Idaho Phenotypic heterogeneity between genetically identical cells permits growth with letal levels of formaldehyde stress Host: Patrick de Leenheer |
| April 17,. 2019 | Melissa Haendel OHSU/OSU The Yellow Brick Road of Open Science: Barriers to bringing data to its highest valued use Host: Brett Tyler |
| May 1, 2019 | Kristine Alpi OHSU Host: Melissa Haendel |
| May 15, 2019 | Lucia Carbone OHSU Host: Tom Sharpton |
| May 29, 2019 | Andrew Kern University of Oregon Putting the HAL in Haldane: leveraging supervised machine learning for population genetics Host: Aaron Liston |
CGRB Seminar Series 2017-2018
| Fall Term 2017 | |
| September 27, 2017 | Geoffrey Wahl The Salk Institute Understanding Intra-tumoral heterogeneity using a developmental lens Host: Arup Indra |
| October 11, 2017 | David Thomas Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota Muscle Protein Structural Dynamics and Therapeutic Discovery Host: Weihong Qiu |
| October 25, 2017 Cosponsored by the Departments of Microbiology and Chemistry ROOM CHANGE **Withycombe 109** | Paul Jensen Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine UC San Diego Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on secondary metabolism in marine actinobacteria Host: Sandra Loesgen |
| November 8, 2017 | Brenna Henn Stony Brook University What do we gain by studying African genomes? : Examples from human evolution Host: Thomas Sharpton |
| December 6, 2017 | Pat Schloss University of Michigan Understanding Disease through the Lens of the Microbiome Host: Thomas Sharpton |
| Winter Term 2018 | |
| February 7, 2018 | Scott Landfear Dept of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology OHSU Critical Roles for Glucose Transporters in Parasitic Protozoa: From Cell Biology to Drug Discovery Host: Sandra Loesgen |
| February 21, 2018 | Jason Slot Fungal Evolutionary Genomics The Ohio State University Investigating fungal chemical ecology with evolutionary genomics Host: Michael Freitag |
| March 7, 2018 | Rosalie Sears Molecular and Medical Genetics OHSU Modeling and targeting intra-tumor phenotypic heterogeneity and cellular plasticity Host: Siva Kolluri |
| Spring Term 2018 | |
| April 4, 2018 | John Taylor UC Berkeley The species problem for fungi in the era of genomics Host: Nik Grünwald |
| April 18, 2018 | Catherine Royer Biological Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Pressure-based mapping of protein conformational landscapes Host: Elisar Barbar |
| May 2, 2018 | Maret Traber Linus Pauling Institute Oregon State University Ferroptosis, Mechanism of Cell Death in Vitamin E Deficiency During Embryogenesis? |
| May 16, 2018 | Steve Reichow Chemistry Portland State University Native Lens Gap Junctions Visualized at Near-Atomic Resolution by CryoEM Host: Elisar Barbar |
| May 29, 2018 NOTE: Date change Tuesday, May 29 3:30-4:30 ALS 4001 | Rebecca Fry Environmental Sciences and Engineering UNC Chapel Hill The placental epigenome as a driver of early and later life health effects Host: Molly Kile |
CGRB Seminar Series 2016-2017
| Fall Term 2016 | |
| September 28, 2016 | Matthew Andrews Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Administration OSU, Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics Genes that control hibernation in mammals |
| October 12, 2016 | Zhongchi Liu University of Maryland Genomic approaches to identify genes and gene networks that regulate strawberry fruit development Host: Steve Strauss |
| October 26, 2016 | Susannah Tringe Joint Genome Institute Microbial communities and greenhouse gas cycling in coastal wetlands Host: Dave Myrold |
| November 9, 2016 | William Cresko University of Oregon The genomic basis of stickleback evolution in 50 years Host: Brett Tyler |
| December 7, 2016 | Speaker rescheduled to February 1, 2017 |
| Winter Term 2017 | |
| January 18, 2017 | Keith Dunker Indiana University A Toolkit for Developmental Biology: Intrinsically Disordered Protein, Alternative Splicing, and Post-translational Modification (IDP-AS-PTM) Host: Andy Karplus |
| February 1, 2017 | Liang Huang OSU, Computer Science Linear-Time Prediction of RNA Secondary Structures |
| February 15, 2017 | Sue Biggins Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center How do cells get the right chromosomes? Host: Michael Freitag |
| March 7, 2017Special Seminar 4:00 – 5:00 pm ALS 4001 | Yuanchao Wang Nanjing Agricultural University, China Defense and counter-defense during Phytophthora infection Host: Brett Tyler |
| March 15, 2017 | Aaron Wright Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Activity-based profiling of nutrient acquisition and metabolism in microbes and microbial communities Host: Dave Myrold |
| Spring Term 2017 | |
| April 5, 2017 | Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder Searching for simplicity amidst the complexity of the soil microbiome Host: Thomas Sharpton |
| April 19, 2017 | Lisa Fauci Tulane University Explorations in the bio-fluid-mechanics of locomotion Host: Juan Restrepo |
| May 3, 2017 | John Reinitz University of Chicago From Drosophilidae to Sepsidae…and Back Again Host: David Hendrix |
| May 17, 2017 | Laura Heiser Oregon Health & Science University An integrative systems biology approach to study therapeutic response in breast cancer Host: Siva Kolluri |
| May 31, 2017 | June Medford Colorado State University Plant Synthetic Biology: From Computational Protein Designs and Engineering Approaches comes a pathway to sustainable systems Host: Molly Megraw |
CGRB Seminar Series 2014-2015
| Fall Term 2014 | |
| October 1, 2014 | Robert Cardiff Center for Comparative Medicine University of California, Davis Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in Cancer: Lessons from the Mouse Host: Siva Kolluri |
| October 15, 2014 | John Hammer Molecular Cell Biology Section NIH: National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute Using mouse coat color mutants to explore motor protein: organelle interactions Host: Valerian Dolja |
| October 29, 2014 | Jennifer Pett-Ridge Physical & Life Sciences Directorate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory From cradle to grave: Microbial C transformations in the rhizosphere Host: David Myrold |
| November 12, 2014 | James Van Etten Department of Plant Pathology University of Nebraska-Lincoln Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses Host: Thomas Wolpert |
| Winter Term 2015 | |
| January 21, 2015 | A.S.N. Reddy Department of Biology Colorado State University Global analysis of targets of a splicing regulator in Arabidopsis: Implications in stress responses Host: Sergei Filichkin |
| February 4, 2015 | Daniel Bikle Department of Medicine & Dermatology University of California, San Francisco The vitamin D receptor as a tumor suppressor in skin Host: Arup Indra |
| February 18, 2015 | Jason Stajich Plant Pathology and Microbiology Dept University of California, Riverside Evolutionary and functional genomics in early diverging fungi Host: Nik Grünwald |
| March 4, 2015 | Ilya Shmulevich Institute for Systems Biology Integrative Analysis of Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas Host: Stephen Ramsey |
| March 10, 2015 | C. Titus Brown UC Davis Genome Center Concepts and tools for exploring very large sequencing data sets: how can we move more quickly to hypotheses? Host: Thomas Sharpton |
| Spring Term 2015 | |
| April 1, 2015 | Mike Waterman National Academy of Sciences Member Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science University of Southern California Using Word Counts for Alignment Free Sequence Analysis Seminar co-sponsors: Mathematics Department, Statistics Department, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering |
| April 15, 2015 | No seminar |
| April 29, 2015 | Adam Bogdanove Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Cornell University Diversity of TAL effectors in nature in relation to their utility in genome editing and other DNA targeting applications Host: Steve Strauss |
| May 13, 2015 | Susan Tilton Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Oregon State University An integrative systems toxicology approach to understanding environmental risk factors in lung disease |
| May 27, 2015 | Adreas Bäumler Dept of Medical Microbiology & Iummunology University of California, Davis How the host response feeds Enterobacteriaceae Host: Luiz Bermudez |
CGRB Seminar Series 2013-2014
CGRB Seminar Series 2012-2013
CGRB Seminar Series 2010-2011
| Fall Term 2010 | |
| October 6, 2010 | Sophien Kamoun The Sainsbury Laboratory John Innes Centre Norwich, United Kingdom “The secrets of a plant killer: Evolution and function of Phytophthora effectors” Host: Niklaus Grunwald |
| October 20, 2010 | Matteo Pellegrini Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology University of California, Los Angeles “Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Profiling using Illumina Sequencers” Host: Jim Carrington |
| November 3, 2010 | Canceled |
| November 17, 2010 | Judith Berman Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development University of Minnesota “Centromeres and neocentromeres in Candida albicans” Host: Michael Freitag |
Postponed to January 26, 2011 | Inder Verma Laboratory of Genetics The Salk Institute for Biological Studies “Cancer: a malady of genes” Host: Arup Indra |
| Winter Term 2011 | |
| January 12, 2011 | Cancelled |
| January 26, 2011 | Inder Verma Laboratory of Genetics The Salk Institute for Biological Studies “Cancer: a malady of genes” Host: Arup Indra |
| February 9, 2011 | W. Kelley Thomas Hubbard Center for Genome Studies University of New Hampshire “Ultra-deep 454 sequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, promises and pitfalls” Host: Dee Denver |
| February 23, 2011 | Cancelled |
| March 9, 2011 CANCELLED | Danny Schnell Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Massachusetts at Amherst “Studies of Chloroplast Protein Targeting and Membrane Expansion as a Model for Understanding Organelle Biogenesis and Homeostasis” Host: Valerian Dolja |
| Spring Term 2011 | |
| April 6, 2011 | Ruedi Aebersold Institute of Molecular Systems Biology Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Zürich, Switzerland “Proteomics and Systems Biology” Host: Mark Leid |
| April 20, 2011 | Jeffrey Townsend Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University “Phylogenetic and comparative transcriptomic analysis of fungal fruiting body development”Host: Joey Spatafora |
| Friday, April 29, 2011 | Ellen Rothenberg Division of Biology California Institute of Technology“ Transcriptional control of T-cell lineage identity” Host: Mark Leid |
| June 1, 2011 | Graham Hatfull Department of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh “Exploration and Exploitation of Mycobacteriophages” Hosts: Dee Denver, Theo Dreher and Barbara Taylor |