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Thursday Seminar Series – Focus on Aging: Vilhelm Bohr | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, NIH | |
| TALK TITLE: | Nuclear DNA damage signaling to mitochondrial dysfunction in aging and neurodegeneration | |
| HOSTS: | Gerald Shadel | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
First Friday Seminar: Lisa Giocomo | ||
| WHEN: | Friday, February 14, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Lisa Giocomo, Stanford University | |
| TALK TITLE: | Multiple maps for spatial memory and navigation | |
| HOSTS: | Kay Tye | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
First Friday Series: Steve Lisberger | ||
| WHEN: | Friday, February 21, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Steve Lisberger – Duke University | |
| TALK TITLE: | Principles of operation of a learning neural circuit | |
| HOST: | Terry Sejnowski | |
| LOCATION: | Sanford Consortium-Conference Room 1013 | |
First Friday Series: Jack Feldman | ||
| WHEN: | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Jack Feldman – University of California, Los Angeles | |
| TALK TITLE: | Breathing Matters | |
| HOST: | Eiman Azim and Sung Han | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Anne Churchland | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Anne Churchland, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor | |
| TALK TITLE: | Decisions, movements and wholistic behavior | |
| HOSTS: | Kay Tye | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
March of Dimes Lecture: Lew Cantley | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, March 12, 2020 | |
| SPEAKER: | Lew Cantley, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine | |
| TALK TITLE: | PI 3Kinase and Disease | |
| HOST: | Geoffrey Wahl, Greg Lemke | |
| LOCATION: | Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Trey Ideker | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Trey Ideker, PhD, UC San Diego | |
| TALK TITLE: | Interpreting the cancer genome through physical and functional models of the cancer cell | |
| HOSTS: | Tony Hunter | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Bernardo Sabatini | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Bernardo Sabatini, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School | |
| TALK TITLE: | Action Selection and Evaluation in the Basal Ganglia | |
| HOSTS: | Sung Han | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Orgel Lecture: Rachael Greene | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, April 16, 2020 | |
| SPEAKER: | Rachael Greene, John Hopkins University School of Medicine | |
| TALK TITLE: | The Colliding Ribosome as a Hub for Translational Regulation | |
| HOST: | Gerald Joyce, Vicki Lundblad | |
| LOCATION: | Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Bernardo Sabatini | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Denis Duboule, PhD, University of Geneva | |
| TALK TITLE: | Long range gene regulation during embryo and embryoid development | |
| HOSTS: | Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Alice Ting | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Alice Ting, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine | |
| TALK TITLE: | Optogenetic and chemogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular interactions | |
| HOSTS: | Gerald Shadel | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Xavier Darzacq | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Xavier Darzacq, PhD, UC Berkeley | |
| TALK TITLE: | Visualizing nuclear organization and transcription regulation dynamics | |
| HOSTS: | Jesse Dixon, Clodagh O’Shea | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Eva Nogales | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Eva Nogales, PhD, UC Berkeley | |
| TALK TITLE: | Structure, interactions and dynamics in macromolecular assemblies visualized by cryo-EM | |
| HOSTS: | Dmitry Lyumkis | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series – Focus on Aging: John Morrison | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | John Morrison, PhD, UC Davis | |
| TALK TITLE: | Synaptic Health, Cognitive Aging, and Monkey Models of Alzheimer’s Disease | |
| HOSTS: | John Reynolds | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
Thursday Seminar Series: Jeffrey Long | ||
| WHEN: | Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Jeffrey Long, PhD, UCLA | |
| TALK TITLE: | TOPLESS exposes new links between plant development and chromatin | |
| HOSTS: | Jan Karlseder | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
First Friday Seminar: Lisa Giocomo | ||
| WHEN: | Friday, February 14, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Lisa Giocomo, Stanford University | |
| TALK TITLE: | Multiple maps for spatial memory and navigation | |
| HOSTS: | Kay Tye | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
First Friday Series: Steve Lisberger | ||
| WHEN: | Friday, February 21, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Steve Lisberger – Duke University | |
| TALK TITLE: | Principles of operation of a learning neural circuit | |
| HOST: | Terry Sejnowski | |
| LOCATION: | Sanford Consortium-Conference Room 1013 | |
First Friday Series: Jack Feldman | ||
| WHEN: | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. | |
| SPEAKER: | Jack Feldman – University of California, Los Angeles | |
| TALK TITLE: | Breathing Matters | |
| HOST: | Eiman Azim and Sung Han | |
| LOCATION: | Trustees’ Room | |
| Neural Circuits Symposium | |
| WHEN: | February 18, 2020 |
| HOSTS: | Kay Tye |
| LOCATION: | February 18, 2020: Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium |
| REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: | https://www.salk.edu/ncs2020 |
| Plant Carbon Drawdown Symposium 2020 | |
| WHEN: | March 5-6, 2020 |
| HOSTS: | Wolfgang Busch & Joe Noel |
| LOCATION: | March 5, 2020: Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium March 6, 2020: San Diego Botanic Garden |
| REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: | https://www.salk.edu/pcdd2020 |
| The La Jolla Aging Meeting | |
| WHEN: | Friday, March 27, 2020 |
| HOST: | Jan Karlseder |
| REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: | https://www.salk.edu/events/science-events/la-jolla-aging-meeting/ |
| LOCATION: | Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium |
| Challenging Neurodegeneration Symposium | |
| WHEN: | April 14, 2020 |
| HOST: | Nicola Allen |
| LOCATION: | Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium |
| REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: | https://www.salk.edu/cns2020 |
| 2020 Cell Cycle Meeting | |
| WHEN: | June 23-26, 2020 |
| HOST: | Tony Hunter |
| LOCATION: | Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium |
| REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: | https://www.salk.edu/cellcycle2020 |
| 2020 Post-translational Regulation of Cell Signaling (PRCS) Meeting | |
| WHEN: | August 4-7, 2020 |
| HOST: | Tony Hunter |
| LOCATION: | Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium |
| REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: | https://www.salk.edu/prcs2020 |