Previous Cell Bio / BCMP Seminars

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST (Dept) Sept 7, 2023 Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D. The mechanism of RNA capping by SARS-CoV-2 Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) Sept 14, 2023 Nicholas Bellono, Ph.D. Taste by touch in octopus Jon Clardy (BCMP) Sept 29, 2023 Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D.   Epigenetic moonlighting: Histone modifiers' catalytic- independent functions in the regulation of transcription, providing new insight for cancer therapeutics Karen Adelman (BCMP) Oct 5, 2023 Alec Kimmelman, M.D., Ph.D. Identifying Metabolic Dependencies in Pancreatic cancer Brendan Manning (Cell Bio) Oct 26, 2023 Frank Uhlmann, Ph.D. Why do chromosomes look like chromosomes (and not like a ball of yarn)? Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) Nov 16, 2023 Anders Hansen, Ph.D. Dynamics of 3D Genome Structure and Function Brad Bernstein (Cell Bio) Nov 30, 2023 Polly Fordyce, Ph.D. Microfluidics for high-throughput and quantitative biophysics and biochemistry Nick Polizzi (BCMP) Dec 7, 2023 Elçin Ünal, Ph.D. From Unconventional Gene Regulation to Cellular Rejuvenation: Insights from Meiosis Dan Finley (Cell Bio) Jan 4, 2024 Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D. Inner Workings of Microbial Ion Channels Steve Liberles (Cell Bio) Jan 11, 2024 Cees Dekker, Ph.D. Nanotechnology for single-molecule biology: from nanopore protein sequencing to chromosome organization Wesley Wong (BCMP) Jan 25, 2024 Judith Varner, Ph.D. PI3 Kinases and other molecules controlling macrophage-mediated cancer immune suppression Jean Zhao (BCMP) Jan 18, 2024 Iain Cheeseman, Ph.D. Rewiring Cell Division Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) Feb 8, 2024 Brittany Adamson, Ph.D. Mapping the Cellular Determinants of Genome Editing in Human Cell Johannes Walter (BCMP) Feb 15, 2024 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. Tissue Stem Cells: Making Choices and Living with Them in Good Times and Bad Joan Brugge (Cell Bio) Feb 29, 2024 Kole Roybal, Ph.D. Toward the Development of Synthetic Immunity to Cancer Steve Blacklow (BCMP) Mar 7, 2024 David Pagliarini, Ph.D. Wiring mitochondria: The biochemistry and biosynthesis of coenzyme Q Nika Danial (Cell Bio) Mar 14, 2024 Juli Feigon, Ph.D. Structural biology of telomerase mechanism and interactions at telomeres Gerhard Wagner (BCMP) Mar 21, 2024 Denise Montell, Ph.D. Harnessing fundamental cell biology in Drosophila for improved treatments of cancer and neurodegenerative disease David Pellman (Cell Bio) Apr 4, 2024 Harmit Malik, Ph.D. Genetic conflicts during meiosis drive the rapid evolution of essential chromatin proteins Nipun Basrur (Liberles postdoc, Cell Bio) Apr 11, 2024 Jason Cyster, Ph.D. Multifaceted roles of heterotrimeric G-protein signaling in immunity Sun Hur (BCMP) Apr 25, 2024 Geeta Narlikar, Ph.D. ATP-dependent remodeling of hexasomes, nucleosomes and chromatin condensates Lucas Farnung (Co-hosted by Cell Bio and BCMP) May 2, 2024 Barbara Meyer, Ph.D. X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation: A Single Molecule Perspective Kevin Struhl (BCMP) May 6, 2024 Kevin Weeks, Ph.D. Structure-based discovery and manipulation of new functions in large RNAs Sun Hur (BCMP) May 9, 2024 Shirin Bahmanyar, Ph.D. The nuclear envelope: a paradigm for membrane dynamics and function Radhika Subramanian (Cell Bio) May 16, 2024 Jamie Spangler, Ph.D. Reprogramming the immune response through biomolecular engineering Meredith Skiba (Kruse Lab, BCMP) June 6, 2024 Bing Ren, Ph.D. Role of Enhancers and Chromatin Architecture in Gene Regulation and Lineage Determination Karen Adelman (BCMP) June 10, 2024 Torben Heick Jensen , Ph.D. Nuclear sorting of RNA Sun Hur (BCMP) June 13, 2024 Amita Sehgal, Ph.D. Unlocking the Metabolic Mysteries of Sleep: Before and After the Zzzs Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio) June 20, 2024 Alessandro Costa, Ph.D. Activation of a Eukaryotic Origin of Replication Visualised by Cryo-EM Johannes Walter (BCMP)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 8, 2022	Jeremy Nathans	Molecular Genetic Studies of CNS Vascular Development	Chen Ran (Cell Bio, Liberles Lab postdoc)
Sep 22, 2022	Mike Lampson	Violation of Mendel's First Law: Centromere Drive and Suppression in Meiosis	Radhika Subramanian (Cell Bio)
Oct 13, 2022	Jeff Gordon	Developing Microbiome-directed Therapeutics for Treating Child Undernutrition	Sloan Devlin (BCMP)
Oct 20, 2022	Jim Wells	Probing and Attacking the Cancer Surfaceome	Xin Zhou (BCMP)
Oct 27, 2022	Judy Lieberman	Lighting a Fire: Pyroptosis in the Immune Response to Infection and Cancer	Nika Danial (Cell Bio)
Nov 10, 2022	Asifa Akhtar	Epigenetic Regulation by Histone Acetylation at Crossroads of Metabolic Control	Lucas Farnung (Cell Bio)
Nov 17, 2022	John Rubenstein	V-ATPase: the birth, life, death, and rebirth of a proton pump	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Nov 28, 2022 (Mon)	Doug Green	Persister Act: Near Death Experiences in Cancer Cells	Joan Brugge (Cell Bio)
Dec 15, 2022	Cigall Kadoch	Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer	Annie Hsieh (Cell Bio, Haigis Lab postdoc)
Jan 5, 2023	Eric Schmidt	Biosynthetic Potential of the Animal World	BCMP Trainee Committee
Jan 12, 2023	Dan Nomura	Imagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms	Steve Gygi (Cell Bio)
Jan 19, 2023	Joe Yeeles	Priming in the Eukaryotic Replisome	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Jan 26, 2023	Laura Kiessling	Glycans in Cell Recognition	Marcia Haigis (Cell Bio)
Feb 2, 2023	Babis Kalodimos	The Conformational Landscape of Protein Kinases in Physiology and Disease	Hari Arthanari (BCMP)
Feb 9, 2023	Jochen Zimmer	Building an Extracellular Matrix: Insights into Hyrluranon Synthesis and Length Control	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Feb 16, 2023	David Bartel	Regulation of mRNA Translation and Decay	Sun Hur (BCMP)
Feb 23, 2023	Chantal Abergel	The Concept of Virus in the Giant Virus Era	Amy Lee (Cell Bio)
Mar 2, 2023	Sarah Woodson	Dynamics of RNA-Protein Assembly during Transcription	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Mar 16, 2023	Alanna Schepartz	Delivering Proteins to the Cytosol and Nucles, for Real	Sloan Devlin (BCMP)
Mar 23, 2023	Charles Zuker	The Body-Brain Axis	Steve Liberles (Cell Bio)
Apr 6, 2023	Sean Morrison	The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche	Pere Puigserver (Cell Bio)
Apr 13, 2023	James Bardwell	Curing Nicotine Addiction through Directed Evolution	(BCMP)
Apr 20, 2023	Julius Brennecke	Evolution of Endogenous Retroviruses in Drosophila	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Apr 27, 2023	James Fraser	Finding new ligands to the SARS CoV 2 Macrodomain using Fragments, Neutrons, and Entropy	Nick Polizzi (BCMP)
May 11, 2023	Melanie Ohi	Characterizing the structural building block of caveolae - from blobs to atoms and back to blobs	Sun Hur (BCMP)
June 1, 2023	Alberto Kornblihtt	Chromatin, transcript elongation and alternative splicing at the base of a combined therapy for spinal muscular atrophy	Josefina del Marmol (BCMP)
June 15, 2023	Claudio Joazerio	Ribosome-associated Quality Control: Mechanisms, Evolution and Role in Disease	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
June 26, 2023	Alex Marson	Decoding and Reprogramming Human T Cell Circuits with CRISPR	Xin Zhou (BCMP)
June 29, 2023	Ibrahim Cisse	Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells	Karen Adelman (BCMP)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 16, 2021	John Tesmer, PhD	Structure and function of G protein-coupled receptor kinases	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Sep 23, 2021	Anthony A Hyman, PhD	Condensates in physiology and disease	Tobi Walther (Cell Bio)
Sep 27, 2021	Samara Reck-Peterson, PhD	RNA Recoding of the Intracellular Transport Machinery	Radhika Subramanian (Cell Bio)
Sep 30, 2021	Steve Hahn, PhD	Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation and coactivator specificity	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Oct 14, 2021	Rebecca Heald, PhD	Fun experiments you can only do with frogs	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
Oct 21, 2021	Victor Corces, PhD	Mechanisms of transgenerational inheritance of obesity epiphenotypes	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Oct 28, 2021	Xavier Darzacq, PhD	Live cells single molecule biochemistry: what can we learn by interrogating molecular interactions in their cellular context?	Lucas Farnung (Cell Bio)
Nov 04, 2021	Kevan Shokat, PhD	Discovering and Deploying Chemical Strategies to Drug KRAS: The Formerly Undruggable Oncogene	Eric Fischer (BCMP)
Nov 10, 2021	Gira Bhabha, PhD	How microsporidia pathogens use ballistic organelles to invade host cells	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Nov 18, 2021	Daniela Nicastro, PhD	Probing the molecular organization of cells and organelles using cryo-electron tomography	Alan Brown (BCMP)
Dec 02, 2021	Job Dekker, PhD	Chromosome folding throughout the cell cycle and across the tree of life	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Dec 09, 2021	Jeff Gordon, MD	Cancelled	Sloan Devlin (BCMP)
Dec 16, 2021	Elly Tanaka, PhD	Cellular and molecular determinants of regeneration ability	Randy King (Cell Bio)
Jan 06, 2022	Rotem Sorek, PhD	Rescheduled	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Jan 13, 2022	David Holtzman, MD	The role of APOE in Aβ and tau mediated pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease	John Flanagan (Cell Bio)
Jan 20, 2022	John Rubenstein, PhD	Rescheduled	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Jan 27, 2022	Yanhui Xu, PhD	Structural Insights into assembly of Mediator-bound preinitiation complex	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Feb 03, 2022	James Bardwell, PhD	Rescheduled	Jean Zhao(BCMP)
Feb 17, 2022	Allison Williams, PhD	Rescheduled	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Feb 24, 2022	Eric N Olson, PhD	New Insights into Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration	Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio)
Mar 03, 2022	Sarah O'Connor, PhD	Harnessing the chemistry of medicinal plants	Phil Cole (BCMP)
Mar 10, 2022	Anne Brunet, PhD	Mechanisms of aging	Brendan Manning (Cell Bio)
Mar 17, 2022	Amy Keating, PhD	Navigating landscapes of protein-peptide interaction specificity	Tim Springer (BCMP)
Mar 24, 2022	Peter Walter, PhD	Targeting the Cell’s Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit	Bob Farese (Cell Bio)
Apr 07, 2022	Lily Jan, PhD	Unexpected ion channel functions	Marito Hayashi (Cell Bio Trainee)
Apr 14, 2022	Craig Cameron, PhD	Antiviral therapy: Towards the Personal and the Precise	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Apr 21, 2022	Navdeep Chandel, PhD	Mitochondrial control of physiology and disease	Ed Chouchani (Cell Bio)
Apr 28, 2022	Roshanak Irannejad, PhD	Regulation of BPCR signaling by transporters	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
May 05, 2022	Rachel Klevit, PhD	BARD1: Out from behind BRCA1's shadow	Dan Finley (Cell Bio)
June 02, 2022	Leemor Joshua-Tor	A Shape-shifting Nuclease Unravels Structured RNA	BCMP
June 09, 2022	Brian Shoichet, PhD	Following the Rabbit into Chemical Space	Hari Arthanari (BCMP)
June 16, 2022	Eva Nogales	Functional Modules in Large Transcriptional Co-activator Complexes	Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio)
June 23, 2022	David Olson, PhD	Psychedelics and Related Plasticity-Promoting Neurotherapeutics	Sloan Devlin (BCMP)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 10, 2020	Brendan D Manning, PhD	PI3K-mTOR Signaling and the Metabolic Control of Cell Growth	Wade Harper (Cell Bio)
Sep 25, 2020	Seychelle Vos, PhD	Pause & Go: Visualizing Early Mammalian Transcription Elongation Regulation	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Oct 01, 2020	Liang Tong, PhD	Molecular insights into human pre-mRNA 3'-end processing	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Oct 15, 2020	Michael Summers, PhD	Structural basis and mechanism of HIV-1 genome packaging	Gerhard Wagner (BCMP)
Oct 22, 2020	Russell A DeBose-Boyd, PhD	UBIAD1, a Vitamin K Synthetic Enzyme that Moonlights as Regulator of HMG CoA Reductase Degradation and Cholesterol Synthesis	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Nov 05, 2020	Eric N Olson, PhD	New Insights into Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration	Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio)
Nov 12, 2020	Titia de Lange, PhD	The role of CST/Pola/primase at telomeres and DSBs	Joe Loparo (BCMP)
Dec 03, 2020	Mande Holford, PhD	Venom Attacks Cancer	Jon Clardy (BCMP)
Dec 17, 2020	Anja Groth, PhD	Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Jan 07, 2021	Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD	Understanding the source of regenerative potential in animals	Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cell Bio)
Jan 14, 2021	Mark Dawson, PhD	Identifying non-genetic features of malignant clonal dominance at single cell resolution	Karen Adelman (BCMP)
Jan 21, 2021	Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD	Biology and Therpeutic Targeting of Cohesin Mutations in Myeloid Malignancies	Joan Brugge (Cell Bio)
Jan 28, 2021	Jonathan Javitch, MD, PhD	Single-molecule FRET to study the organization and dynamics of receptors and transporters	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Feb 04, 2021	Vanessa Ruta, PhD	Theme and Variations: Mechanisms of Behavioral Evolution	Steve Liberles (Cell Bio)
Feb 11, 2021	Genevieve Almouzni, PhD	Histone H3 variants and partners in the nucleus	Karen Adelman (BCMP)
Feb 18, 2021	Olivia Rissland, PhD	Destruction of Maternally Deposited RNA Binding Proteins during Embryogenesis	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
Feb 25, 2021	Sonya Neal, PhD	Rhomboid pseudoprotease Dfm1 ERADicates multi-spanning membrane substrates	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Mar 05, 2021	Wendy Bickmore, PhD	The role of spatial proximity in genome regulation	Lucas Farnung (Cell Bio)
Mar 11, 2021	Robert Tjian, PhD	From Biochemistry to Live Cell Single Molecule Imaging: Shifting Paradigms in Transcriptional Control Mechanisms	BCMP Trainee Committee
Mar 18, 2021	Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD	Remembrance of Things Past	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Mar 25, 2021	Scott Blanchard, PhD	Variant Ribosomal RNA Alleles Are Conserved, Exhibit Context-Specific Expression and have the potential to Regulate Gene Expression	Sun Hur (BCMP)
Mar 30, 2021	Navdeep Chandel, PhD	Cancelled	Ed Chouchani (Cell Bio)
Apr 01, 2021	Dan Littman, MD, PhD	Networking of microbiota and the immune and nervous systems in homeostasis and disease	Jean Zhao (BCMP)
Apr 08, 2021	Bil Clemons, PhD	A detailed look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - from opisthokonts to protists to plants	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Apr 15, 2021	Karolin Luger, PhD	Unfinished business: nucleosome assembly and remodeling	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Apr 22, 2021	M. Madan Babu, PhD	Data Science Approaches to GPCR Signaling	Hari Arthanari (BCMP)
Apr 29, 2021	Karen Oegema, PhD	Lessons from an organelle knockout	Randy King (Cell Bio)
May 06, 2021	Elizabeth Villa, PhD	Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-electron tomography	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
May 17, 2021	Helen Hobbs, MD	Fatty liver disease: from ancestry to biochemistry	Tobi Walther (Cell Bio)
May 20, 2021	Alanna Schepartz, PhD	Cancelled	Sloan Devlin (BCMP)
May 27, 2021	Carlos Bustamante, PhD	Ribosomes shift into low gear in response to stable mRNA secondary structures	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Jun 03, 2021	Michael Snyder, PhD	Big Data, Health and COVID-19	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Jun 10, 2021	Alex Schier, PhD	Cancelled	Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 12, 2019	Ailong Ke, PhD	From Mechanism and Structural Insights to Applications for CRISPR-Cas3	Hao Wu (BCMP)
Sep 19, 2019	Rachel Green, PhD	Collided ribosomes function as a hub for the regulation of protein synthesis	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
Sep 26, 2019	Ning Zheng, PhD	Targeting Ubiquitin Ligases: Themes and Variations	Eric Fischer (BCMP)
Oct 2, 2019	Virginijus Šikšnys, PhD	Mining CRISPR-Cas diversity: Cas9s and beyond	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
Oct 10, 2019	James Munro, PhD	Single-molecule conformational-change imaging of viral glycoproteins labeled with non-canonical amino acids	Tim Springer (BCMP)
Oct 31, 2019	Julie Theriot, PhD	Cooperation, Competition and Conviction in Decision-Making for Motile Cells	Randy King (Cell Bio)
Nov 7, 2019	Jian Payandeh, PhD	TBA	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Nov 14, 2019	Brenda Schulman, PhD	How a ubiquitin-like protein brings ubiquitylation to life	Bob Farese (Cell Bio)
Nov 21, 2019	Jin Zhang, PhD	Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell	Phil Cole (BCMP)
Dec 5, 2019	Daniel Gerlich, PhD	Mechanics of nuclear assembly	Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
Dec 12, 2019	Cori Bargmann, PhD	Organizing behavior across timescales	Tim Springer (BCMP)
Jan 9, 2020	Heran Darwin, PhD	Regulating the Regulation by the Pup-Proteasome System in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Dan Finley (Cell Bio)
Jan 16, 2020	James Berger, PhD	(Un?)structural mechanisms for initiating DNA Replication	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Jan 23, 2020	Olga Boudker, PhD	Toward development of activators of glutamate transporters	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Jan 30, 2020	David Cortez, PhD	Replicating damaged DNA: A new story about an ancient mechanism	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Feb 6, 2020	Hongtao Yu, PhD	Folding the Genome by Cohesin	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Feb13, 2020	Eranthie Weerapana, PhD	Chemical-proteomic strategies to investigate reactive cysteines	Sara Buhrlage (BCMP)
Feb 24, 2020	Vishva Dixit, MD	Shedding light on Ubiquitin Modification in Neurodegeneration and Cancer	Alexandra Whiteley (Finley Lab)
Feb 27, 2020	Ben Garcia, PhD	Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding Cancer Epigenetics	Phil Cole (BCMP)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 20, 2018	Hiten D Madhani, MD, PhD	Musings on the mesmerizing mystery of the missing methylase in a menacing meningitis microbe	Yang Shi (Cell Bio)
Oct 3, 2018	Bernd Bukau, PhD	The busy life of nascent chains revealed by ribosome profiling: how newly synthesized proteins make it to the native state	Wade Harper (Cell Bio)
Nov 1, 2018	Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski, PhD	How the Genome is Reorganized during Zygotic Reprogramming to Totipotency	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Nov 15, 2018	Tony Hunter, PhD	New signal transduction targets in cancer therapy	Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio)
Dec 6, 2018	Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD	Lung stem cells, their niches, and cancer at single cell resolution	Steve Liberles (Cell Bio)
Dec 13, 2018	Agnel Sfeir, PhD	Maintaining our genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial	Joe Loparo (BCMP)
Dec 20, 2018	Rudolf Jaenisch, PhD	Stem cells and epigenetic regulation in development and disease	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Jan 10, 2019	Thomas Langer, PhD	Proteolytic control of mitochondrial plasticity	Tobi Walther (Cell Bio)
Jan 17, 2019	Taekjip Ha, PhD	DNA Biophysics in Chromatin Function & Cellular Mechanics	Tim Springer (BCMP)
Jan 24, 2019	Nieng Yan, PhD	How is electrical signal generated? Structural and mechanistic investigations of Nav channels	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Jan 31, 2019	Lori Passmore, PhD	The end of the message: Mechanistic Insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Feb 7, 2019	Stephen Quake, PhD	The Cell is a Bag of RNA	Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
Feb 14, 2019	Chris Voigt, PhD	Systematic Discovery of Molecules Produced by the Human Microbiome, and Engineered Microbial Interventions	Jon Clardy/Sloan Devlin (BCMP)
Feb 21, 2019	Jack Szostak, PhD	The Origin of Cellular Life	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Feb 28, 2019	Cynthia Wolberger, PhD	The role of H2B ubiquitination in histone methylation and nucleosome dynamics	Phil Cole (BCMP)
Mar 7, 2019	Manajit Hayer-Hartl, PhD	Cellular Machineries for the Biogenesis and Condensate Formation of RuBisCO: the Most Abundant Protein in Nature	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
Mar 14, 2019	Demet Arac, PhD	Cellular Communication via Adhesion	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Mar 28, 2019	Simon Boulton, PhD	Single molecule analysis of homologous recombination	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Apr 11, 2019	John Diffley, PhD	How our genomes are copied	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Apr 24, 2019	Christopher Vakoc, MD, PhD	Novel transcription factor dependencies in cancer	BCMP Trainee Committee
Apr 29, 2019	Cynthia Kenyon, PhD	The Plasticity of Aging	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
May 2, 2019	Juergen Knoblich, PhD	Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture	John Flanagan (Cell Bio)
May 16, 2019	Anjana Rao, PhD	TET methylcytosine oxidases, cell lineage specification and cancer	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
May 23, 2019	Dario Alessi, PhD	Control of Rab GTPases by the LRRK2 protein kinase	Nathanael Gray (BCMP)
May 30, 2019	Baljit Khakh, PhD	Cells that Tile Your Brain: astrocyte roles in neural circuits	Steve Liberles (Cell Bio)
Jun 6, 2019	David Eisenberg, PhD	Reversible amyloid-like fibrils formed by the interactions of low-complexity protein domains	Gerhard Wagner (BCMP)
Jun 14, 2019	Karen Vousden, PhD	Metabolic control of ROS and tumour progression	Joan Brugge (Cell Bio)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 7, 2017	Abby Dernburg, PhD	Counting to One: Meiotic crossover control through a liquid crystalline interface between chromosomes	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Sep 14, 2017	William Sellers, MD	Linking the discovery of cancer vulnerabilities to therapeutic development	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Sep 28, 2017	Sean Brady, PhD	Watch your step, there is new chemistry everywhere.	Jon Clardy (BCMP)
Oct 25, 2017	Alex Stark, PhD	Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Drosophila	Karen Adelman (BCMP)
Nov 9, 2017	Tracy Handel, PhD	Structure, Activation and Inhibition of Chemokine Receptors	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Nov 16, 2017	Arshad Desai, PhD	New Horizons for the Chromosome Segregation Machinery	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Nov 30, 2017	John Lis, PhD	Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription & Its Regulation In Cells	Karen Adelman (BCMP)
Dec 7, 2017	John A G Briggs, PhD	Determining the structures of coated vesicles and enveloped viruses “in situ" using Cryo-electron tomography	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Dec 14, 2017	Elaine Ostrander, PhD	Dog Genes Tell Surprising Tales: Genetic Origins and Diversity of Dog Breeds	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Jan 18, 2018	Andrea Musacchio, PhD	Reconstitution of (very small parts of) cell division	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Jan 25, 2018	Alex Dunn, PhD	Mechanosensing at cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions	Tim Springer (BCMP)
Feb 1, 2018	Ruth Lehmann, PhD	Protecting Immortality: Germline Mitochondrial Inheritance and Function	Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio)
Feb 8, 2018	Kathrine Henzler-Wildman, PhD	NMR insights into the transport mechanism of the small multi drug efflux pump, EmrE	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Feb 15, 2018	Gabriel Waksman, FMedSci, FRS	Structural and molecular biology of type IV secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Feb 22, 2018	David Agard, PhD	Protein folding as an allosteric strategy: the yin and yang of chaperone-mediated client activation	BCMP Trainee Committee
Mar 1, 2018	Fred Hughson, PhD	Chaperoning SNARE assembly to control membrane fusion	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
Mar 8, 2018	Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD	Targeting glyco-immune checkpoints for cancer therapy	Bob Farese & Tobi Walther (Cell Bio)
Mar 15, 2018	James Haber, PhD	Stability and Instability in the Repair of a Broken Chromosome	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Mar 22, 2018	Patrick Cramer, PhD	Transcription of the genome – from molecular movies to regulatory systems	Sun Hur (BCMP)
Mar 29, 2018	Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD	Cellular Ecology	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
Apr 12, 2018	Daniel Fletcher, PhD	Mind the gap: Physical segregation of proteins at cell-cell interfaces	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
Apr 19, 2018	Michael Rape, PhD	The other code: ubiquitylation and its roles in neuronal differentiation and survival	Eric Fischer (BCMP)
Apr 26, 2018	Huda Zoghbi, MD	Equilibrium in the brain: Lessons from a balance disorder	Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cell Bio)
May 3, 2018	Hopi Hoekstra, PhD	The genetic basis of parental care	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
May 10, 2018	David Julius, PhD	Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway: Exploiting Toxins to Understand Gut Feelings	Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
May 17, 2018	Lewis Kay, PhD	Seeing the invisible by NMR spectroscopy: An application to p97	Gerhard Wagner (BCMP)
May 31, 2018	Benjamin F Cravatt, PhD	Activity-based proteomics – protein and ligand discovery on a global scale	Heeseon An (Cell Bio Trainee)
Jun 7, 2018	Melina Schuh, PhD	New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes	Randy King (Cell Bio)
Jun 21, 2018	Diana Bautista, PhD	Molecular mechanisms of itch, touch and pain.	Stephen Liberles (Cell Bio)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 15, 2016	David Liu, PhD	Protein Evolution and Engineering to Enable Biotechnology and Novel Therapeutics	Sloan Devlin (BCMP)
Sep 22, 2016	Dame Carol Robinson, DBE FRS FMedSc	Mass spectrometry - its roles in structural biology and drug discovery	Wade Harper (Cell Bio)
Sep 29, 2016	Bryan Roth, MD, PhD	Structure-guided and structure-inspired GPCR drug discovery	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Oct 6, 2016	Ardem Patapoutian, PhD	How do you feel? Ion channels that feel the force	Steve Liberles (Cell Bio)
Oct 27, 2016	Joseph (Jody) Puglisi, PhD	The molecular choreography of translation	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Nov 3, 2016	Jodi Nunnari, PhD	Mitochondrial Behavior	Nika Danial (Cell Bio)
Nov 9, 2016	Michael Elowitz, PhD	Design principles for signaling, memory, and cell state control pathways in mammalian cells	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Nov 17, 2016	Pamela Bjorkman, PhD	A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System Versus HIV	Piotr Sliz (BCMP)
Dec 1, 2016	Rama Ranganathan, PhD	Protein mechanics: the link between structure, function and evolvability	William Shih (BCMP)
Jan 9, 2017	David Baker, PhD	Post-Evolutionary Biology: Design of novel protein structures, functions and assemblies	Eric Fischer (BCMP)
Jan 12, 2017	Sjors Scheres, PhD	How cryo-EM is revolutionising structural biology: the structure of human gamma-secretase as an example	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Jan 26, 2017	Andrew Dillin, PhD	Orchestrating aging across a troubled soma	Tobi Walther (Cell Bio)
Feb 2, 2017	Clifford Brangwynne, PhD	RNA/protein droplets: Moving through intracellular phase space	Piotr Sliz (BCMP)
Feb 16, 2017	Adam Frost, MD, PhD	How do mitochondria divide? A fresh look at dynamin-family GTPases	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Feb 23, 2017	Daniel Herschlag, PhD	Adventures in the RNA World, Past, Present and Future	Matt Sonnett (Cell Bio Trainee)
Mar 2, 2017	K. Dane Wittrup, PhD	Synergistic Innate and Adaptive Immunotherapy for Cancer	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
Mar 9, 2017	Roy Parker, PhD	RNP Granules in Health and Disease	Wade Harper (Cell Bio)
Mar 16, 2017	Daniel Rosenbaum,	Structure-function of integral membrane receptors and transporters involved in human disease	BCMP Trainee Committee
Mar 23, 2017	Elena Conti, PhD	The RNA exosome - ribosome connection: coupling the RNA degradation and translation machineries	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Mar 30, 2017	Ron Breaker, PhD	Discovering and Drugging Ligand-binding Riboswitches	Richard Gregory (BCMP)
Apr 6, 2017	David Ron, MD	Short-term regulation of protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum	Susan Shao (Cell Bio)
Apr 13, 2017	Lewis Cantley, PhD	PI 3-Kinase and Cancer Metabolism	Jon Clardy (BCMP)
Apr 21, 2017	Judith Frydman, PhD	Proteostasis function and dysfunction: the delicate art of maintaining a healthy proteome	Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio)
Apr 27, 2017	Karlene Cimprich, PhD	The Causes and Consequences of Replication Stress	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
May 4, 2017	Gia Voeltz, PhD	Unraveling the mechanism of ER-associated organelle division	Bob Farese (Cell Bio)
May 11, 2017	Michael Yaffe, MD, PhD	Using Systems Biology of Signaling to Improve Cancer Treatment	Jean Zhao (BCMP)
May 18, 2017	Sue Biggins, PhD	Reconstituting kinetochore functions in vitro	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Jun 1, 2017	Tony Hyman, PhD	biomolecular condensates, organizers of cellular biochemistry	Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
Jun 8, 2017	Sebastian Seung	AI and the connectome	BCMP Trainee Committee
Jun 15, 2017	Dyche Mullins, PhD	Heraclitus and the Cytoskeleton: Physics of self-assembling materials	David Pellman (Cell Bio)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 10, 2015	Bradley Bernstein MD, PhD	Cancer stem cells and drug resistance mechanisms in glioblastoma	Andrew Lassar (BCMP)
Sep 17, 2015	Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD	The Non-Coding RNA revolution in biomedical research	Marcia Haigis (Cell Bio)
Sep 21, 2015	Karen Adelman PhD	Controlling transcription elongation of coding and non-coding RNAs	Richard Gregory (BCMP)
Oct 1, 2015	Gerd A. Blobel, MD, PhD	Propagating transcriptional patterns through mitosis	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Oct 8, 2015	Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD	X inactivation as a model for Epigenetic regulation by long Noncoding RNA	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Oct 22, 2015	Gerald Crabtree, MD	Chromatin regulation: New methods and new concepts from the genomics of human disease	Cell Biology Postdoc Committee
Nov 12, 2015	Christopher D. Lima, PhD	Ubiquitin-like proteins: From conjugation to recognition	Wade Harper (Cell Bio)
Dec 3, 2015	Rick Young, PhD	Control of Gene Expression Programs	Joan Brugge (Cell Bio)
Dec 10, 2015	Christine Mayr, MD, PhD	Alternative 3'UTRs mediate protein-protein interactions and regulate protein localization and protein functions	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Dec 17, 2015	K. Christopher Garcia, PhD	Tuning cell surface receptor signaling through ligand engineering: dimeric receptors versus GPCR	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
Jan 7, 2016	Angelika Amon, PhD	The Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Jan 14, 2016	Anna Pyle, PhD	The molecular mechanism of RNA detection by the RIG-I antiviral sensor: new insights into nanomechanical function and immune modulation	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Jan 21, 2016	Taekjip Ha, PhD	Mechanobiology at the Single Molecule Level	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Jan 28, 2016	Jared Rutter, PhD	Mitochondria, Metabolism and Cellular Decisions: Entwined in Health and Disease	Nika Danial (Cell Bio)
Feb 4, 2016	Nenad Ban, PhD	Beyond the prokaryotic ribosome: structural and functional insights into eukaryotic and mitochondrial ribosomes	Piotr Sliz (BCMP)
Feb 18, 2016	Phil Sharp, PhD	The functions of small and large non-coding RNAs in gene regulation	Richard Gregory (BCMP)
Feb 25, 2016	Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD	Navigating the cellular landscape through new imaging technologies	Tobi Walther & Bob Farese (Cell Bio)
Mar 3, 2016	Ting Wu, PhD	Space and Time: Chromosomes at super-resolution and a 300 year old mystery	Jean Zhao (BCMP)
Mar 10, 2016	Eva Nogales, PhD	Visualizing structure and function of large molecular assemblies by cryo-EM	Maofu Liao (Cell Bio)
Mar 17, 2016	Nahum Sonenberg, PhD	Translational control of cancer and autism	Gerhard Wagner (BCMP)
Mar 24, 2016	Christine Jacobs-Wagner, PhD	Intracellular partitioning and patterning: Lessons from tiny cells	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Mar 31, 2016	Leslie Vosshall, PhD	Building a mosquito sensory system to hunt humans	BCMP Trainee Committee
Apr 14, 2016	Harry Noller, PhD	RNA Mechanics and Translation	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Apr 28, 2016	Michael Rosbash, PhD	The Circadian Clock: Connections to Neuronal Function and RNA	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
May 5, 2016	Eric Betzig, PhD	Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution	Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
May 12, 2016	Brian Shoichet, PhD	Structure-based discovery of new chemotypes with new GPCR phamacology	Andrew Kruse (BCMP)
May 19, 2016	Andreas Martin, PhD	Constructed to Deconstruct: The 26S proteasome as a coordinated degradation machine	Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio)
May 23, 2016	Yamuna Krishnan, PhD	DNA nanodevices to measure protein activity in vivo	Jon Clardy (BCMP)
Jun 9, 2016	Anne Brunet, PhD	Epigenetic and metabolic regulation of aging	Yang Shi (Cell Bio)
Jun 16, 2016	Dirk Görlich, PhD	Transport selectivity of nuclear pore complexes	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 11, 2014	Rebecca Heald, PhD	Mechanisms of mitosis and size control in Xenopus	Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio)
Sep 25, 2014	Russell DeBose-Boyd, PhD	Regulation of cholesterol synthesis through ER-associated degradation	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) and HMS Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership
Oct 9, 2014	James Bardwell, PhD	New Chaperone Discovery	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Oct 30, 2014	Catherine Drennen, PhD	Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Capturing Snapshots of Metalloenzymes in Action	Steve Blacklow (BCMP)
Nov 13, 2014	Thomas Schwartz, PhD	Taming a Monster: Toward the Structure of the Nuclear Pore Complex	Piotr Sliz (BCMP)
Nov 20, 2014	Frederic de Sauvage, PhD	Targeting the Hedgehog Pathway in Cancer: From Bench to Clinic	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
Dec 4, 2014	Juli Feigon, PhD	To be announced	Gerhard Wagner (BCMP)
Dec 10, 2014	Ronald D. Vale, PhD	Reconstituting T cell Signaling	Samara Reck-Peterson (Cell Bio)
Dec 18, 2014	Craig Peterson, PhD	Chromatin dynamics and transcriptional homeostasis	Steve Buratowski (BCMP)
Jan 8, 2015	Brendan D. Manning, PhD	Metabolic control of cell growth by the TSC-mTOR signaling network	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Jan 15, 2015	Robert T. Sauer, PhD	Machines of protein destruction	Stephen Harrison (BCMP)
Jan 22, 2015	Scott Emr, PhD	Sorting out membrane traffic: Ubiquitin-mediated membrane protein quality control and sorting systems	Wade Harper (Cell Bio)
Jan 29, 2015	Judith Campisi, PhD	Cancer and aging: Rival demons?	Andrew Lassar (BCMP)
Feb 5, 2015	Denise Montell, PhD	Life, death, and resurrection at the cellular level	Joan Brugge (Cell Bio)
Feb 26, 2015	Job Dekker, PhD	Two ways to fold the genome	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Mar 5, 2015	Mark Von Zastrow, MD, PhD	Endocytic membrane traffic and receptor-mediated cellular signaling	Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
Mar 12, 2015	Graham C. Walker, PhD	Translesion DNA Polymerases: From Cancer Chemotherapy to Bactericidal Antibiotics	Joseph Loparo (BCMP)
Mar 19, 2015	Michael K. Rosen, PhD	Physical mechanisms of cell organization on micron length scales	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Mar 26, 2015	Robert H. Singer, PhD	Imaging the regulation of single mRNA molecules in living cells	BCMP Trainee Committee
Apr 2, 2015	Ning Zheng, PhD	Driving protein deubiquitination with propellers	Dan Finley (Cell Bio)
Apr 9, 2015	Michelle Wang, PhD	Single molecule mechanics - towards high throughput	BCMP Trainee Committee
Apr 16, 2015	Gary Ruvkun, PhD	C. elegans surveillance of core cellular components to detect and defend pathogen attacks, real or imagined	Junying Yuan (Cell Bio)
Apr 23, 2015	Seth Darst, PhD	Structural studies of bacterial transcription	Sun Hur (BCMP)
Apr 30, 2015	Edith Heard, PhD	Epigenetic mechanisms in development and disease: Lessons from the inactive X chromosome	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
May 7, 2015	Wei Yang, PhD	Chemistry of DNA transactions	Joseph Loparo (BCMP)
May 14, 2015	Jennifer A Doudna, PhD	The world of CRISPRs: From biology to breakthrough technology	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
May 28, 2015	Bruce Beutler, MD	Forward genetic analysis of mammalian immunity in real time	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Sep 12, 2013	Ramanujan Hegde, FRS	Membrane protein biogenesis and quality control	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Sep 19, 2013	Xi He, Ph.D.	Understanding Wnt signaling in development and disease	Andrew Lassar (BCMP)
Oct 3, 2013	Adam Cohen, Ph.D.	Bringing bioelectric phenomena to light	Joseph Loparo (BCMP)
Oct 24, 2013	Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D.	Slicer and the Argonautes	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Oct 31, 2013	Michael Green, Ph.D.	Tumor Suppressor Genes: Mechanisms of Inactivation, Discovery and Therapeutic Potential	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Nov 7, 2013	Diane Mathis, Ph.D.	T cell control of organismal metabolism	Bruce Spiegelman (Cell Bio)
Nov 14, 2013	Phil Cole, M.D., Ph.D.	Chemical Approaches to Understanding and Modulating Cell Signaling	Stephen Blacklow (BCMP)
Nov 21, 2013	Mike Levine, Ph.D.	Mechanisms of transcriptional precision in the Drosophila embryo	Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio)
Dec 5, 2013	Samie Jaffrey, Ph.D.	Imaging RNA and RNA biology using RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein	John Flanagan (Cell Bio)
Dec 12, 2013	Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.	Yeast to human IPS cell discovery platform for protein folding diseases	Sun Hur (BCMP)
Jan 9, 2014	Christopher Hill, Ph.D.	Proteasome Associations	Stephen Blacklow (BCMP)
Jan 16, 2014	Sangeeta Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D.	Building Hepatic Tissues for Disease Modeling and Therapy	Cell Bio Graduate Students
Jan 23, 2014	Daniel Durocher, Ph.D.	Cell cycle regulation of DNA double - strand break repair	Johannes Walter (BCMP)
Feb 6, 2014	Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D.	Bug Exterminators: A New Immune Defense Against Bacteria	Timothy Springer (BCMP)
Feb 20, 2014	Jonathon Howard, Ph.D.	Ciliary and flagellar motility: From single molecules to collective motion	David Pellman (Cell Bio)
Mar 6, 2014	Shelley Berger, Ph.D.	Epigenetic regulation of aging and senescence: and its not all bad news!	Richard Gregory (BCMP)
Mar 13, 2014	Ron Breaker, Ph.D.	Riboswitches, Ribozymes, and the Ancient RNA World	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Mar 20, 2014	Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D.	Structural Basis of Voltage-Dependent Gating in Ion Channels and Enzymes	James Chou (BCMP)
Mar 27, 2014	Steve Jacobsen, Ph.D.	Genetics and genomics of gene silencing	Yang Shi (Cell Bio)
Apr 3, 2014	Yi Zhang, Ph.D.	Mechanism and function of dynamic regulation of DNA methylation by TET and TDG proteins	Stephen Buratowski (BCMP)
Apr 10, 2014	Sandra Schmid, Ph.D	Star-Gazing: Insights into the regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis from quantitative live cell imaging	Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
Apr 17, 2014	Robert Roeder, Ph.D.	Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Animal Cells	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Apr 24, 2014	Daniel Louvard, Ph.D.	Plasticity and repair of intestinal mucosa is mediated by actin microfilaments	Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cell Bio)
May 1, 2014	Doug Melton, Ph.D.	Making Pancreatic Beta Cells	George Daley (BCMP)
May 8, 2014	Dan Gottschling, Ph.D.	Organelle deterioration with age: The limits of an interconnected cellular system	Dan Finley (Cell Bio)
May 15, 2014	John Kuriyan, Ph.D.	Structural Mechanisms in CAMK-II Regulation	Stephen Harrison (BCMP)
May 21, 2014	David Agard, Ph.D.	Structural mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and prokaryotic tubulin polymerization	Samara Reck-Peterson (Cell Bio)
May 29, 2014	Joan Steitz, Ph.D.	Noncoding RNAs: with a Viral Twist	Stephen Buratowski (BCMP)
Jun 5, 2014	Peter Walter, Ph.D.	Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Jun 12, 2014	Jim Wells, Ph.D.	New Engineered Tools for Signaling	Stephen Blacklow (BCMP)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST (Dept)
Jan 10, 2013	Rachel Green, Ph.D.	Kevin Struhl (BCMP)
Jan 17, 2013	Scott Sternson, Ph.D.	Stephen Liberles (Cell Bio)
Jan 31, 2013	Kathryn Anderson, Ph.D.	Cilia, centrosomes and signaling in the mouse embryo	Adrian Salic (Cell Bio)
Feb 7, 2013	Jue Chen, Ph.D.	James Chou (BCMP)
Feb 21, 2013	Walter Chazin, Ph.D.	Y. Dimitrova (BCMP)
Feb 28, 2013	Amita Sehgal, Ph.D.	Genetic Basis of Sleep, Wake Cycles, Control of Timing and the Need to Sleep	Cell Biology Graduate Students
Mar 14, 2013	Joe DiRisi, Ph.D.	Strange Tails in Viral Discovery	Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio)
Mar 18, 2013	Patrick Cramer, Ph.D.	Gene Transcription: From Molecular Movies to Regulatory Systems	Stephen Buratowski (BCMP)
Mar 28, 2013	Maria Carmo-Fonseca, M.D., Ph.D.	Fidelity of Gene Expression	Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio)
Apr 4, 2013	Bob Weinberg, Ph.D.	Steve Harrison (BCMP)
Apr 11, 2013	Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D.	Characterization of Human Regulatory RNAs & RNA-Binding Proteins	Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio)
Apr 25, 2013	Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D.	Examining Mechanisms Underlying the Self- Organized Assembly of the Cell Division Apparatus	Samara Reck-Peterson (Cell Bio)
May 2, 2013	Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.	RNA-mediated genome defense in bacteria	Sun Hur (BCMP)
May 16, 2013	Chris Burge, Ph.D.	Diverse Functions of Splicing Factors & Alternative mRNA Isoforms	Richard Gregory (BCMP)
May 30, 2013	Steven Bell, Ph.D.	Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication	BCMP Trainee Committee