Seminar « Center for Quantitative Life Sciences

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

*Fall Term 2013*
October 2, 2013	William Muller Department of Biochemistry McGill University, Quebec, Canada Oncogene-mediated signal transduction in transgenic models of breast cancer Host: Siva Kolluri
October 16, 2013	Steve DiFazio Department of Biology West Virginia University Population Genomics of Populus trichocarpa Host: Steve Strauss
October 30, 2013	Jamie Cate Department of Molecular & Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley From Neurospora to yeast: Pathways to sustainable biofuels Host: Jon Galazka
November 13, 2013	Vladimir Botchkarev Boston University Epigenetic regulation of Keratinocyte differentiation and reprogramming Host: Arup Indra
*Winter Term 2014*
January 8, 2014	Vanessa Sperandio Department of Microbiology UT Southwestern Medical Center EHEC sings: Pour some sugar on me Host: Luiz Bermudez
January 22, 2014	Trent Northen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Metabolic dark matter: mass spectrometry explorations of bacterial metabolism Host: Steve Giovannoni
February 5, 2014	John Taylor Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California, Berkeley Population genomics of fungi: divergence, adaptation and genome wide association Host: Joey Spatafora
February 19, 2014	Nick Grishin Department of Biochemistry UT Southwestern Medical Center Is bioinformatics beyond BLAST useful? Host: Andy Karplus
March 5, 2014	Weihong Qiu Department of Physics Oregon State University Shining Light on the Mechanism of Molecular Motor Proteins
*Spring Term 2014*
April 2, 2014	Robin Buell Department of Plant Biology Michigan State University Exploring the diversity of wild and cultivated potato through genomics Host: Elizabeth Savory
April 16, 2014	Nancy Keller Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology University of Wisconsin – Madison Insights into the fungal secondary metabolome Host: Joey Spatafora
April 30, 2014	No seminar
May 14, 2014	Eric Nielsen Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology University of Michigan The roles of CSLD proteins in polarized cell wall deposition in Arabidopsis Host: Valerian Dolja
May, 21, 2014Special Seminar3:30 – 4:30 pm Crop Science Bldg Room 122	Biswarup Mukhopadhyay Department of Biochemistry Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Development of biological sulfate reduction and thioredoxin systems and methanogenic archaea
May 28, 2014	Colin Johnson Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics Oregon State University The Emerging Roles of the Ferlin Family of Proteins in Membrane Trafficking and Human Disease

*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
~~December 1, 2010~~ 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

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

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