Marc Freeman, Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School Neuron-glia communication after acute nerve injury in Drosophila
(hosted by department graduate students)
October 10 - BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES GRADUATE PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM
Keynote Speaker: Yixian Zheng, Howard Hughes Investigator, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, Maryland
October 16
Steve Hubbard, Department of Pharmacology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine Structural basis for protein recruitment to the activated insulin receptor
(hosted by Holger Sondermann)
October 23
Joe Fetcho, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell Optical and genetic approaches toward understanding motor system function and dysfunction
(hosted by Linda Nowak)
October 30
Bill Horne, Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell Structure and function of Ca2+ channel beta subunit A domains
(hosted by the Field of Pharmacology)
NOVEMBER
November 6
Todd Miller, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine Substrate recognition and processive phosphorylation by nonreceptor tyrosine kinases
(hosted by Holger Sondermann)
November 13
Bonnie Sloane, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University School of Medicine Images of cleavage: Tumor proteases in action
(hosted by Ruth Collins)
November 20
John Sondek, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine Dbl proteins and Rho GTPase activation
(hosted by Rick Cerione)
November 27
Michael White, Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Ras-like G-proteins: Corrupting the exocyst in cancer
(hosted by Ruth Collins and Rick Cerione)
DECEMBER
December 4
Josep Rizo, University of Texas, Southwestern Structural insights into the mechanism of neurotransmitter release
(hosted by William Horne)