Bulletin: Health Sciences Seminars
Tuesday February 09, 2010
12:00 p.m. Pelton Auditorium, Weintraub Bldg., FHCRC
Basic Sciences Seminar Series
"The Social Life of Bacteria: A New Twist on Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing"
Peter Greenberg -
Department of Microbiology, UW
Tuesday February 09, 2010
4:00 p.m. T-639 HSB
Department of Microbiology
"Human papillomavirus Pathogenesis: Relevance of Cellular Alterations to Viral Life Cycle Versus Oncogenesis"
Ann Roman, Ph.D. -
Chancellor's Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Indiana University
Tuesday February 09, 2010
8:30-9:20 a.m. K-069 HSB
Cardiovascular Center Breakfast Club
"Biomechanics in carotid atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms"
Gador Canton, Ph.D. -
Senior Fellow Vascular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, UW
Tuesday February 09, 2010
12:30-1:20 p.m. 261 Bagley Hall, UW
Center for Nanotechnology
"Optical Microscopy of Cells in Capillary Tubes for Advanced Clinical Cancer Diagnosis"
Eric J. Seible -
Professor Mechanical Engineering, UW
Tuesday February 09, 2010
4:00 p.m. Physics/Astronomy Auditorium A102
Department of Biology Co-hosted by the Developmental Biology Training Grant
"Small RNA-Directed Silencing jPathways in Plants"
Dr. James Carrington -
Professor; Director Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
Wednesday February 10, 2010
4:30 p.m. K-069 HSB
Department of Pathology
"Common disease - Multiple Rare Alleles: Understanding the Genetic Basis of Complex Human Traits"
Mary-Claire King, Ph.D. -
American Cancer Society Professor Departments of Medicine and Genome, UW
Wednesday February 10, 2010
3:30-4:30 p.m. S-060 Foege Auditorium, Genome Sciences Building
Department of Genome Sciences
"Microbial Transformations of Nitrogen: from Genomes to Global Processes"
David Stahl, Ph.D. -
Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW
Wednesday February 10, 2010
10:30-11:30 a.m. S060 Foege Auditorium, Genome Sciences Building
Department of Genome Sciences
"Deciphering Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks Conservation and Diversification Using Lysate Microarrays"
Alejandro Wolf-Yadlin, Ph.D. -
Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Thursday February 11, 2010
09-10 SEMINAR SERIES
Seeking the function of CD133/Prominin-1 - a marker of stem cells and cilia.
Mark Bothwell -
Professor University of Washington
Thursday February 11, 2010
5:15 p.m. K-069 HSB
Department of Neurology Grand Rounds
"Work-Related Neuropathology - Causation in 3 Easy Steps"
Jordan Firestone, M.D. -
Assistant Professor Department of Medicine; Clinical director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UW, HMC
Thursday February 11, 2010
11:30 a.m. T-625 HSB
Department of Biological Structure
"Modeling the differentiation of thymic epithelium and the establishment of self-tolerance-do we have it right?"
Andrew Farr, Ph.D. -
Professor Department of Biological Structure
Thursday February 11, 2010
2:00 p.m. N130 Foege Bioengineering Building, UW
Department of Biological Structure
"Structure and function of otoferlin - a C2 domain protein of synaptic vesicles in hair cells"
Tobias Moser, MD -
Professor Auditory Neuroscience, InnerEarLab, Department of Otolaryngology and Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience University of Goettingen
Thursday February 11, 2010
4:00 p.m. Hitchcock 132, UW
Department of Biology
"Adaptation to Thermal Change: Physiological Strategies and Their Ecological Implications"
Michael Anfilletta, Jr. - Faculty Candidate -
Indiana State University
Thursday February 11, 2010
4:15 p.m. K-069 HSB
Department of Neurology Grand Rounds
"Fatigue"
Nate Watson, M.D. -
Associate Professor Department of Neurology, UW, HMC
Thursday February 11, 2010
8:00-9:00 a.m. T-625 HSB
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
"Genetics of Autism"
Fuki M. Hisama, MD -
Associate Professor of Medicine (Genetics) and Neurology; Medical Director, Genetic Medicine Clinic University of Washington School of Medicine, and Medical Center
Thursday February 11, 2010
4:00 p.m. 815 Mercer St, Administration Building, Orin Smith Auditorium
South Lake Union Group - Tapas
"Hemodynamic factors in cardiovascular disease: Bridging the gap between engineering and medicine"
David Steinman, Ph.D. -
Professor of mechanical and Biomedical Engineering University of Toronto
Wednesday February 17, 2010
7:00 p.m. Kane Hall, Room 120, UW
Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures Research Serving Humanity
"The Development of Thinking about People: From Behavior to Brain"
Jessica A. Sommerville -
Associate Professor Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, UW
Wednesday February 17, 2010
7:00 p.m. Kane Hall, Room 120, UW
Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures Research Serving Humanity
"The Development of Thinking about People: From Behavior to Brain"
Rebecca R. Saxe -
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Fred and Carole Middleton Career Development; Professorship, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute for Technology
Thursday February 18, 2010
3:00-4:00 p.m. S060 Foege Auditorium, Genome Sciences Building
Department of Genome Sciences
"Molecular Profiling of Breast Cancer from a Protomics Perspective"
Sharon Pitteri, Ph.D. -
Post Doctoral Research Fellow Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Thursday March 04, 2010
09-10 SEMINAR SERIES
One channel, one vesicle; two channels, two vesicles: synaptic transmission at an analog synapse in the mammalian retina
Josh Singer -
Assistant Professor Northwestern University
Thursday March 11, 2010
09-10 SEMINAR SERIES
Spatiotemporal regulation of cAMP/PKA and ERK activities induced by GPCRs: implication in heart failure and Alzheimer’s diseases
Kevin Xiang -
Univ. of Illinois