Past Seminars:

Dr. Wen-hong Li
Tracking dynamic cell-cell communication in vivo by fluorescence imaging and photo-activation
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Dr. Paolo P. Provenzano
Using Mechanics and Microscopy to Understand Cellular Responses to Breast Tissue Density
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Dr. Jeff Salisbury
Licensing of Centriole Duplication by Centrin Phosphorylation
11 am
Forchheimer 614
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Dr. Wei-Li Lily
Dissecting transcription assemblies that govern selective cellular development
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Dr. Peter M. Carlton
Chromosome structure and dynamics visualized with structured illumination and fast live imaging
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Dr. Arne Gennerich
Molecular Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dr. James Bamburg
Wiring and Unwiring the Brain: ADF/Cofilin in Growth Cone Pathfinding and Neurodegeneration
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Dr. Michael Kiebler
Dendritic RNA localization: from neuronal RNA granules to dentritic spine morphogenesis
12 Noon
907 Kennedy Center
Friday, October 26, 2007

Dr. Linda M. Hendershot
Protein Biosynthesis in the Secretory Pathway: Life and Death Decisions
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Sir Paul Nurse, PhD.
Controlling the Cell Cycle
12 Noon
Riklis Auditorium
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Dr. David Hokanson
Promiscuous Myo1c and Its Main Squeeze PIP2: It's All About the Tail
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, May 14, 2007

Dr. Anna Irene Proietto
The role of dendritic cells in the selection of naturally occurring T regulatory cells in the thymus
3 pm
Forchheimer 614
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Dr. Rainer Heintzmann
Fluorescence microscopy with the help of computational spectacles
11 am
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Dr. Peter Walter
The Unfolded Protein Response: How the Endoplasmic Reticulum Talks to the Nucleus
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Dr. Elzbieta Wyroba
Self-assembly and multidomain structure of dynamins - the features enabling their multiple functions
4 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, April 23, 2007

Dr. Lin Ji
Study of the Mechanics and Dynamics of Cell Migration by Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy
1:30 pm
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, April 23, 2007

Dr. Joshua Z. Rappoport
Imaging Endocytosis and Cell Motility
1:30 pm
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Dr. Yun Chen
Nanoscale signal transduction across the plasma membrane: How GPI-anchored Proteins in Rafts Accomplish Transmembrane Signaling
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Dr. Peter Kner
New Advances in Microscopy for Live Imaging: Applying adaptive optics to wide-field fluorescence microscopy
10:30 am
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Dr. Ilia Ichetovkin
Detecting fetal cells in maternal circulation
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Emerging Fluorescence Technology for the Analysis of Protein Localization and Organelle Dynamics
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Dr. Petr Kalab
The mitotic function of Ran-regulated gradients
1:30 pm
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Ryan J. Petrie
Lipid rafts link the netril-1 receptor DCC to axon guidance by regulation of intracellular signalling and receptor trafficking
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, March 19, 2007

Dr. Bojana Gligorijevic
Quantitative Spinning Disc Confocal Microscopy of Live Intraerythrocytic Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum
12 Noon
Forchheimer 614
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Dr. Gaudenz M. Danuser
The mechanochemistry of actin-mediated cell protrusion: What microscopes and computers tell
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Dr. Alpha Yap
Cadherin-cytoskeletal cooperativity: a tale of two myosins
11 am
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, March 12, 2007

Dr. Christine Feig
Early Fas (CD95) Signaling Occurs in Supramolecular Surface Structures Serving as Internalization Platforms
1 pm
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Dr. Margot E. Quinlan
Developing polarity - two polarity factors, Spire and Cappuccino, regulate the actin cytoskeleton during oogenesis
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Dr. Andres E. Leschziner
Structural studies of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Dr. Shawn A. Galdeen
Localization and function of a Myosin VII homolog in Dictyostelium
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, February 12, 2007

Dr. Dan Liu
The role of senescent fibroblasts in tumor formation
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Dr. Mark Howarth
Single molecule imaging of receptor trafficking using biotin ligase, quantum dots and re-engineered streptavidin
10:30 am
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Dr. Louis Hodgson
New windows on living cells: Complementary Approaches to imaging signaling protein activity
1:30 pm
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, January 22, 2007

Dr. Ching-Hsuan Tung
Managing diseases using fluorescence lights
10:30 am
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Dr. Samara L. Reck-Peterson
The Molecular Mechanism of Dynein-Based Microtubule Transport
1:30 pm
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, January 08, 2007

Dr. Sung Chang
In vivo optical molecular imaging of VEGF for monitoring response to cancer treatment
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Dr. Jeffrey L. Salisbury
Centrin-based control of centriole duplication in normal and cancer cells
3 pm
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Dr. Rajat Varma
Compartmentalization of signaling and degradation in the immunological synapse
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Dr. Faisal Chaudhry
Arabidopsis Cyclase-Associated Protein 1 is a Plant Actin-Binding Protein that Enhances Nucleotide Exchange on Monomeric Actin
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, November 20, 2006

Dr. Edward B. Salmon
A view of kinetochore from the Ndc80 complex
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Dr. Krystina Opalski
Cell polarity in fungal pathogenesis and plant defense
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, November 06, 2006

Dr. Barbara E. Tanos
Role of Abl tyrosine kinase and its targets in the regulation of EGFR endocytosis
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, October 30, 2006

Dr. Thanassis Dovas
Regulation of RhoA by PKCalpha during syndecan-4 – mediated cell adhesion
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Dr. Yashuhiro Sawada
Exploration of mechanotransduction in cells and implications in fundamental cellular functions: Demonstation of p130Cas as a direct mechano-sensor by in vitro stretching of single molecules
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Dr. Helene Peche
Modulation of heart allograft rejection by allogeneic exosomes or syngeneic dendritic cells
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, October 09, 2006

Dr. Aurelia Lahoz Ruano
Cytokinesis and morphogenesis regulators in Shizosaccharomyces pombe
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, October 02, 2006

Dr. Nita Maihle
Profiling ERBB/EGF Receptors: Serum and Tumor Biomarkers in Cancer
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Dr. Giorgio Scita
Eps8- and Abi1-based signalling complexes: different facets of actin dynamics regulation
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Dr. Alan Hall
Regulation of cell shape and cell polarity by Rho GTPases
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Dr. Matt P. Gordon
Applications of single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Proteomics and Genomics
10:30 am
Forchheimer 614
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Dr. Robert S. Garofalo
High resolution dynamics of the transcriptional response to nutrition in Drosophila
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Dr. William Muller
Targeted Disruption of b1-integrin in a transgenic mouse model of human breast cancer reveals an essential role in mammary tumor induction
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Dr. Alfred Goldberg
Functions of the proteasome in protein degradation and antigen presentation
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Dr. Erdinc Atilgan
Why is lamellipodium a flat organelle
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, April 24, 2006

Dr. David Weitz
Mechanics of Actin Networks: The comparison of in vitro models with cell behavior
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Dr. Monica Bessler
Telomeres in human health and disease
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Dr. Joel Swanson
The Coordination of Phagocytosis by Phosphoinositides and Small GTPases
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Dr. Ruth Muschel
Tumor-host interactions during metastasis
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Dr. Amy H. Bouton
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Dr. Yi-Tao Yu
RNA modification and pre-mRNA splicing regulation
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Dr. Angus Lamond
Protein Dynamics in the Cell Nucleus
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Dr. John A. Sidles
Past, Present, and Future Tools for Atomic-Resolution Microscopy: The Coming Reunion of Molecular Biology, System Biology, and Field Ecology
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Dr. Moshe Levi
How do perturbations in membrane lipid composition and membrane microdomains (lipid rafts) modulate renal NaPi transport protein activity and dynamics
10:30 am
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, December 19, 2005

Dr. Susan Lindquist
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Dr. Erik Snapp
Photobleaching: Methods and Analysis
10:30 am
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Dr. Gabriela Rozenberg
1 pm
Forchheimer 614
Monday, October 10, 2005

Dr. Noo Li Jeon
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Dr. Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Effects of Human CARMIL Protein on Capping Protein Function
1 pm
ASB Conference Room, Forchheimer 614
Monday, August 22, 2005

Dr. Banghe Zhu
12 Noon
ASB Conference Room, Forchheimer 614
Monday, July 25, 2005

Ghassan Mouneimne
Study of the regulation of directional sensing during carcinoma cell chemotaxis
11:30 am
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Friday, July 08, 2005

Dr. Richard Hynes
Angiogenesis in the CNS and Lymphangiogenesis in Metastasis
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum
Lessons learned from the structure and function of the endothelial glycocalyx and their amazing application
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hal
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Dr. Sally Parsons
EGF receptor/c-Src synergy, cell survival, and chemotherapeutic resistance in breast cancer
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Dr. Thomas Parsons
Cell Migration: a problem of signaling in time and space
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Dr. Klaus Hahn
Watching proteins in the wild-new windows on signaling in living cells
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Dr. James F. Dice
Mechanisms on Protein Degradation by Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy
10:30am
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Thursday, May 26, 2005

AECOM 4 Day Symposium
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Dr. Kristen Verhey
Regulation of Kinesin-I transport in neuronal cells
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Dr. Catherine Galbraith
How Sideways Polymerization Can Move Cells Forward
11am
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Dr. Katherine Anderson
The Cell Biology of Hedgehog Signaling
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Dr. Mark Bowen
Molecule Studies of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion
11am
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Dr. Mina Bissell
Tissue Polarity and Signaling in Normal and Malignant Breast: Context is the Message
1pm
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Dr. Bruce Cohen
Lighting Up Proteins, Inside and Out: New Fluorescent Probes for Exploring Protein Function
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Dr. Keith A. Lidke
Multi-modal discrimination in fluorescence microscopy using quantum dots
10:30am - Noon
Forchheimer, 3rd floor lecture hall
Thursday, February 10, 2005

Dr. Diane S. Lidke
Real-time visualization of erbB1 dynamics reveals new insights into receptor-mediated signal transduction
10:30am - Noon
Forchheimer, 3rd floor lecture hall
Thursday, February 10, 2005

Dr. Albert Claude Boccara
Full Field Optical Coherence Tomography at the Cellular Level
2:30pm
Forchheimer, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
Friday, February 04, 2005

Dr. Lawrence W. Miller
Selective chemical labeling of proteins in vivo
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Forchheimer, 3rd floor lecture hall
Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Dr. Joseph Sisson
Alcohol and Cilia Motility
2:30pm
ASB Conference Room
Friday, January 28, 2005

Dr. Vladislav Verkhusha
Selected Properties and Applications of Anthozoa GFP-like Proteins
1:30pm
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Thursday, December 16, 2004

Dr. Olivier Pertz
Spatio-temporal analysis of RhoA activity reveals complexity of RhoA signalling in cell migration
12 Noon
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Dr. Chris Janetopoulos
Polarity Circuits in Migrating and Dividing Cells
1:30pm
Forchheimer, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, November 22, 2004

Dr. Jeffrey R. Kuhn
Measuring Actin Filament Dynamics with Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscopy
1:30pm
Forchheimer, 5th Floor Lecture Hall
Friday, November 19, 2004

Dr. Dierk Niessing
Structural and Functional Studies of the Novel RNA-Binding
Friday, July 16, 2004

Dr. Charlotte M. Vines
The Role of Arrestins in the Regulation of N-Formyl Peptide Receptor Mediated Signaling Events
Thursday, July 15, 2004

Dr. Volker Westphal
Imaging Far Beyond the Diffraction Limit with Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Microscopy
Monday, July 12, 2004