Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

**Beginning Fall 2009 all departmental seminars, faculty meetings and chalk talks will be held on Mondays. Seminars will begin at 4:00pm, in the RC1 South, 9th floor conference room.
Faculty meetings and chalk talks will begin at noon, 10th floor conference room.

(click here for the Friday Research Report Schedule )

Fall 2009	Date	Speaker	Topic	Host	Location
August	11	Paul Megee	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	18	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	31

Sept	7	NO SEMINAR/ University Holiday
	14	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	21	James Sikela UC Denver Pharmacology	"DUF 1220 protein domains: linking human brain evolution and cognitive disease"	Johnston	**
	28	Elan Eisenmesser	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106

October	5	Charlie Boone University of Toronto Banting and Best Dept of Medical Research	"Global Mapping of the Genetic Landscape of a Cell"	Johnston	**
	12	Rob Mitra Washington University Dept of Genetics	"New technologies for the analysis of gene regulatory networks"	Johnston	**
	19	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	26	Nancy Hollingsworth Univ of Stony Brook	"Phosphorylation and the regulation of recombination"	Sclafani	**

November	2	Rui Zhao	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	9	Andy Bergland Univ of Oregon Molecular Biology	"The mechanisms of MBNL1 regulated alternative splicing and a small molecule that reverses the splicing defects associated with myotonic dystrophy "	Zhao	**
	16	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	23	Susan Epperson	"Reflections on Epperson vs. Arkansas"	DeGregori	**
	30	Mark Johnston	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	30	Kirk Hansen UC Denver Proteomics Core Director			**

December	1	Kirk Hansen UC Denver Proteomics Core Director	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	7	Barak Cohen Washington University Dept of Genetics	"Analysis of natural variation in yeast"	Johnston	**
	14				**
	21	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	28	No Seminar

Winter 2010	Date	Speaker	Topic	Host	Location
January	4	Mingxia Huang	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	11	Richard Spritz UC Denver Human Medical Genetics Program		Johnston	**
	18	UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY			L18-10106
	25	Rosalie Sears Oregon Health & Science University Molecular & Medical Genetics	“Phosphorylation sites on c-Myc regulate its oncogenic activity”	DeGregori	**

February	1	Nick Seeds	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	8				**
	15	UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY			L18-10106
	22	Hiten Madhani UCSF Biochemistry and Biophysics	"Control of heterochromatic gene silencing by nucleosome positionining and identity: lessons from three different yeasts"	Bentley	**

March	1	Changwei Liu	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	8	Carla Finkielstein Virginia Tech	"Circadian Regulation of Cellular Homeostasis"	Zhao	**
	15	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	22	Dong-Er Zhang Univ California San Diego Cancer Center		Liu	**
	29				**

April	5	Jessica Tyler	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	12	Phil Anderson University of Wisonsin Department of Genetics	"mRNA surveillance by the C. elegans smg genes"	Johnston	**
	19	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	26				**

May	3	Robert Sclafani	Chalk Talk-BMG Faculty Only		L18-10106
	10	Thomas Wilson University of Michigan Pathology	"Genome resequencing for investigating induced alterations of the human and yeast genomes"	Johnston	**
	17	Faculty Meeting			L18-10106
	24
	31	NO SEMINAR/ University Holiday			**