Weekly Seminar Program
2014 - 2015
Seminars are held in Becton - Dickinson Hall (W1020) at 12:00 PM, unless stated otherwise.
September 15, 2014
4:00 pm
Sheldon Hall, W1214
The 24th Annual Larry L. Ewing Lecture
Allan C. Spradling, PhD
"Role of somatic genome instability during oogenesis"
Carnegie Institution / Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Department of Embryology
September 29, 2014
Jeremy Nathans, PhD
“Frizzled signaling in development and disease”
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
October 6, 2014
Alan K. Meeker, PhD
“Telomere ALTercations in Cancer”
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - Department of Pathology, Oncology and Urology
October 13, 2014
Duojia Pan, PhD
“Hippo signaling in development and disease”
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - Department of Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
October 27, 2014
Photini Sinnis, PhD
"The Establishment of Malaria Infection in the Mammalian Host"
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
November 3, 2014
Alex Bortvin, PhD
"Hopes and Fears - Transposon Activity in the Mouse Germline"
Carnegie Institution for Science - Department of Embryology
November 10, 2014
George Dimopoulos, PhD
"New and unexpected players in innate immunity"
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
November 14, 2014
Margaret T. Fuller, PhD
"Regulation of proliferation and differentiation in the male gem line adult stem cell lineage"
Stanford University School of Medicine- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Sheldon Hall, W1214
November 19, 2014
Milos Pekny, MD, PhD, Professor
"Reactive astrocytes in CNS regeneration – a novel therapeutic target"
Director of the Laboratory of Astrocyte Biology and CNS Regeneration
Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Sheldon Hall, W1214
December 8, 2014
Mary Lilly, PhD
"The GATOR complex: Integrating metabolic and developmental signals during oogenesis"
NICHD - Department of Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch
December 15, 2014
Anne Gocke, PhD
"Antigenic stimulation of Kv1.3-deficient helper T cells gives rise to a novel population of Foxp3-independent regulatory T cells"
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Department of Neurology
January 5, 2015
Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS
"The Role of Patient Advocacy in Laboratory Research-- Impacting Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment"
Johns Hopkins University - Surgery and Oncology
January 12, 2015
Mark Donowitz, MD
"NHE3 Signaling Complexes in GI Physiology and Drug Development"
Johns Hopkins University - Hopkins Center for Epithelial Disorders
January 26, 2015
Kenneth Pienta, MD
"The miasma of cancer: how tumor ecosystems kill the patient"
Johns Hopkins University – Department of Urology
February 2, 2015
Kyung S. Lee, PhD
“Polo-like kinases 4 and 1: From centriole duplication to mitotic control”
National Cancer Institute – Laboratory of Metabolism
February 9, 2015
Svetlana Lutsenko, PhD
"The Role of Copper Transport in Human Physiology"
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - Department of Physiology
February 23, 2015
Jennifer Kavran, PhD
"TMs together: How ligands activate the Insulin family of receptors"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
March 9, 2015
Jeremy Wilusz, PhD
"RNAs of all shapes and sizes"
U Penn, Perelman School of Medicine, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
March 23, 2015
Gino Cingolani, PhD
"A new class of NLSs that target Membrane Proteins to the Nucleus"
Thomas Jefferson University, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
March 25, 2015
Xiaomin Bao, PhD
"Gene Regulation of Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation"
University of Stanford, Department of Dermatology
March 30, 2015
Michael P. Terns, PhD
"CRISPR-Cas: Small RNA-Mediated Prokaryotic Immune Systems"
University of Georgia, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genetics and Microbiology
April 6, 2015
David Fushman, PhD
"Towards understanding ubiquitin signaling: unexpected ubiquitin binders and non-canonical polyubiquitin chains"
University of Maryland, Dept. Chemistry & Biochemistry
April 13, 2015
Erika Matunis, PhD
"Stem cell regeneration in the Drosophila testis"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Cell Biology
April 23, 2015
1pm
Tilghman Auditorium
Guy Poirier, PhD
"Writers and readers of poly(ADP-ribose) during DNA repair and cell death”
University of Laval
April 27, 2015
Neil Hunter, PhD
"Local and Global Regulation of Meiotic Prophase by Post-Translational Protein Modification"
UC Davis/HHMI, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
April 29, 2015
4:00 pm
Sheldon Hall, W1214
Dr. Cecile M. Pickart Pickart Distinquished Lecture
Judith Frydman, PhD
“Molecular Origami: Protein Folding and Misfolding in Health and Disease"
Stanford University, Department of Biology
May 4, 2015
Katherine Wilson, PhD
"Emerin, intrinsic disorder and pathogenic bacterial targeting of the nuclear envelope"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Cell Biology
May 11, 2015
Jacquetta Trasler, M.D., Ph.D.
"Intergenerational Consequences of Environmental and Intrinsic Factors that Shape the Male Germ Cell Epigenome"
McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
May 18, 2015
Fengyi Wan, PhD
"Dissecting cellular signaling in response to DNA damage"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
June 1, 2015
Charles J. Bieberich, PhD
"Engineering urologic pathologies in mice: new models of lethal prostate cancer and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome"
UMBC, Department of Biological Sciences