Seminars begin at 4PM on Thursday in the Trustees Room unless otherwise specified. Named lectures are presented in the Frederic de Hoffmann Auditorium.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| Sept. 1, 2011 |
Ajit Varki
UCSD | Adventures in Anthropogeny: from Sialic Acids to Human Origin |
Rusty Gage |
| Sept. 8, 2011 |
Kier Pearson
University of Alberta | |
Martyn Goulding |
Oct. 27, 2011
|
Paul Ekman
Cancelled |
Understanding Emotion: A Fifty Year Journey |
Ursula Bellugi and Terry Sejnowski |
| Nov. 15, 2011 |
Vogt Lecture
Anton Berns
The Netherlands Cancer Institute |
Mouse Models for Lung Cancer: What do They Teach Us? |
Inder Verma and Tony Hunter |
| Dec. 15, 2011 |
Michael Shadlen
University of Washington School of Medicine |
Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making |
John Reynolds |
| Jan. 18, 2012 |
Brenner Lecture
Jules A. Hoffmann
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
|
Phylogenetic Perspectives of Innate Immunity: Studies with Drosophila Melanogaster |
Inder Verma |
| Jan. 26, 2012 |
Umesuno Lecture
Roger D. Kornberg
Stanford School of Medicine |
The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription |
Ron Evans |
| Feb. 2, 2012 |
Marc Vidal
Harvard Medical Center |
Interactome Networks and Human Disease |
Joseph Ecker |
| Feb. 9, 2012 |
Crick Lecture
Brian Greene
Columbia University |
Cosmology, Dark Energy, and String Theory |
Inder Verma |
| Feb. 22, 2012 |
Dulbecco Lecture
Owen Witte
University of California, Los Angeles |
Prostate Stem Cells and Cancer Progression |
Tony Hunter and Inder Verma |
| Mar. 1, 2012 |
Takao Kondo
Nagoya University
|
Circadian Pacemaker of Cyanobacteria Ticked with KaiC ATPase |
Satchin Panda |
| Mar. 8, 2012 |
Dennis Bray
University of Neuroscience
|
|
Tatyana Sharpee |
| Mar. 15, 2012 |
Josh Huang
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
|
Axel Nimmerjahn |
| Mar. 22, 2012 |
Tom Jessell
Columbia University
|
|
Inder Verma |
| Mar. 29, 2012 |
Orgel Lecture
Norman Pace
University Colorado Boulder |
|
Inder Verma |
| Apr. 3, 2012 |
Tom Rapoport
Harvard Medical School |
How the ER Gets Into Shape |
Martin Hetzer |
| Apr. 5, 2012 |
Ben Barres
Stanford School of Medicine |
What Do Astrocytes Do? |
Axel Nimmerjahn |
| Apr. 12, 2012 |
Virginia Zakian
Princeton University
|
|
Jan Karlseder |
| Apr. 19, 2012 |
Thomas Langer
University of Cologne |
|
Andrew Dillin |
| Apr. 26, 2012 |
Michale Fee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
John Reynolds |
| May 3, 2012 |
Botond Roska
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research |
|
EJ Chichilnisky |
