| Fall Term 2015 | |
| September 30, 2015 | Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center High-resolution mapping of epigenome dynamics Host: Molly Megraw |
| October 14, 2015 | Bruce McDonald Dept of Environmental Systems Science ETH ZurichThe genetic basis of pathogen adaptation in agroecosystems Host: Nik Grunwald |
| October 28, 2015 | Eric Gouaux Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University Principles of signal transduction at the chemical synapses of the brain Host: Andy Karplus |
| Winter Term 2016 | |
| January 6, 2016 | Julie Pfeiffer UT Southwestern Medical Center How gut microbes enhance enteric virus infectivity Host: Natalia Shulzhenko |
| January 20, 2016 | Weihong Qiu OSU, Dept of Physics Single-molecule studies of plant kinesin motor proteins |
| February 3, 2016 | Nathan Swenson Department of Biology University of Maryland Transcriptomic analyses of tree communities: moving beyond functional traits and phylogenetic relatedness Host: Andy Jones |
| February 17, 2016 | Marian Waterman UC Irvine, Cancer Research Institute Wnt Signaling in Stem Cells and Cancer Host: Chris Mathews |
| February 22, 2016Special Seminar2:00 – 3:00 pm ALS 4001 | Eugene Koonin National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH Discovery of new genome editing systems and novel viruses by genome and metagenome mining Host: Valerian Dolja |
| March 2, 2016 | David Hendrix OSU, Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Biological Discovery Through Bioinformatics: From Deep Sequencing to Deep Learning |
| March 8, 2016Special Seminar3:30 – 4:30 pm ALS 4001 | Frank Kempken Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany Secondary metabolites from marine and terrestrial fungi – genome analysis and biological function Host: Michael Freitag |
| Spring Term 2016 | |
| March 30, 2016Knudson Lecture | Richard Lenski Michigan State University Host: Brett Tyler |
| April 27, 2016 | Matthew Revington University of Windsor Structural and Dynamic Studies of Proteins using NMR Host: Elisar Barbar |
| May 11, 2016 | Sara A. Courtneidge Oregon Health & Science University The Control of Invasion and Metastasis Host: Siva Kolluri |
| May 25, 2016 | Steven Almo Albert Einstein College of Medicine High-throughput Approaches for Enzyme Functional Annotation and Metabolism Discovery Host: Stephen Giovannoni |
Category Archives: Seminar
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 |