SUMMER SCIENCE SEMINARS

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Summer '13 Seminar Series

All seminars held at noon in 107 Shanklin*      

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

5 June

Barbara Baird

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell University 

Zooming In on Receptor-Mediated Cell Signaling

Christina Othon

12 June

 

TBA

 

 

19 June

 

Lee Ligon '87

Department of Biology

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tubulin post-translational modifications: road signs in the cell?

Ishita Mukerji

26 June

Joanna Radin

History of Medicine

Yale School of Medicine 
Mining For Malaria: Finding New Uses for Old, Frozen Blood Jill Morawski

3 July

 

Nancy Hollingsworth

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Stony Brook University

Phosphorylation and the regulation of meiotic recombination in yeast

 

Amy MacQueen

10 July

Kristen Martins-Taylor Ph D '07

Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology

UConn Stem Cell Institute 

Using induced pluripotent stem cells to model Prader-Willi Syndrome

Scott Holmes

17 July

 

TBA

 

TBA

TBA

24 July

 

Christopher Cowan

Department of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School

McLean Hospital 

Molecular mechanisms of drug addiction

Janice Naegele

1 August

THURSDAY *150 Exley

 

Fred Cohan

Wesleyan University

Department of Biology

 

Biology, Baseball, and Big Data

Michael Weir