Seminars Oct 2010 - June 2011
October 2011
October 21st 2011
"Biological characterization of mutations responsible for Perrault syndrome: challenges of phenotypic, allelic, and locus heterogeneity"
Sarah Pierce, PhD
Research Scientist, Medical Genetics
November 2011
November 4th 2011
"A Molecular Geneticist's View of Parkinson Disease"
Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D.
Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Medicine
Chief, Medical Genetics
UCSF Institute for Human Genetics
November 18th 2011
Hunter Underhill, MD, PhD
Resident, Medical Genetics
December 2011
December 2nd 2011
"Complex traits are complicated: Lessons from Alzheimer's disease"
Elizabeth Marchani, PhD
Senior Fellow, Medical Genetics
December 9th 2011
Jimmy Bennett, MD, PhD
Resident, Medical Genetics
December 16th 2011
"The Molecular Genetic Basis of Pentosuria: Studies of Garrod's Fourth Inborn Error of Metabolism from 1908 to 2011"
Mary-Claire King, PhD
Professor, Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences
Arno G. Motulsky, MD
Professor Emeritus, Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences
January 2012
January 6th 2012
Faculty meeting/No Seminar
January 13th 2012
"Genetic Variation in the Human Transcriptome"
Vivian G. Cheung, MD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
January 20th 2012
Su-In Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences and Computer Science & Engineering
January 27th 2012
Wylie Burke, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Bioethics and Humanities
Malia Fullerton, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioethics and Humanities
Kelly Edwards, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioethics and Humanities
February 2012
February 3rd 2012
John McPherson, PhD
Genome Technologies Director
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
February 10th 2012
Stanley Fields, PhD
Professor, Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences
February 17th 2012
"Emerging RNA Interference-based Gene Silencing Therapy for Dominant Genetic Disease of Muscle"
Joel Chamberlain, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics
February 24th 2012
"A Tale of Two Exomes: Familial Dyskinesia with Facial Myokymia X-Linked Parkinsonian Syndrome"
Wendy Raskind, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine/Medical Genetics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Olena Korvatska, PhD
Research Scientist, Medical Genetics
March 2012
March 2nd 2012
Diane Genereux, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Biology
March 9th 2012
"Genomics for Gene Discovery in Epilepsy"
Heather Mefford, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Genetic Medicine
March 16th 2012
"Adenovirus-based cancer therapeutics: The uphill road from the bench to the bedside"
Andre Lieber, MD, PhD
Professor, Medical Genetics
March 23rd 2012
William Catterall, PhD
Chair and Professor
Department of Pharmacology
March 30th 2012
David Emery, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Medical Genetics
April 2012
April 6th 2012
Faculty meeting/No Seminar
April 13th 2012
Ocular pathogen detection and discovery using biome representational in silico karyotyping
Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD
Boyd K. Bucey Professor and Chair
Department of Ophthalmology
April 20th 2012
Reprogramming, Dedifferentiating and Epigenetics: How to grow a new heart
Robb MacLellan, MD
Robert A. Bruce Professor of Medicine
Head, Division of Cardiology
April 27th 2012
Ethanol, toxic metabolism and DNA repair
K. J. Patel, MD, PhD
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom