Dr. Pablo Cardenas
Cornell University
“Evo-epidemiological models explore determinants of pathogen evolution and immunity”
June 3, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Past GS Seminars
2026
Dr. Koseki Kobayashi
University of Chicago
Raman2RNA: Non-destructive label-free prediction of single-cell expression profiles with Raman microscopy
May 13, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Richard Sever
openRxiv
May 6, 2026 3:03 pm – 4:03 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mark Kokoris
Roche
sponsored jointly with UW Bioengineering
April 30, 2026 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Fiona Kaper
Ilumina
Illumina Insight Ecosystem – The path from innovation to impact
April 22, 2026 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Murray
Harvard University
Beyond DraftKings: Yeast cells also hedge their bets
Postdoc-Invited Speaker
April 15, 2026 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Steven McCarroll
HHMI, Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School
The ticking DNA clock: Lifelong somatic expansion of DNA repeats and the genesis of Huntington’s disease
April 8, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Huaiying Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University
Formation and Function of Chromatin-Associated Condensates
April 1, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Timothy Yu
Boston Children’s Hospital
Interventional neurogenetics
February 11, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Marion Pepper
University of Washington
T cell evolution in time and space
February 4, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gavin Sherlock
Stanford University
Evolution at the centromere kinetochore interface
January 14, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2025
Dr. Susanne Rafelski
Allen Institute
Toward a holistic and dynamic stem cell state landscape
November 19, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Timothy Cherry
University of Washington
Modeling Non-Coding Genetic Risk in CNS Development and Disease
November 5, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Trygve Bakken
Allen Institute
Cellular and genomic diversity in the mammalian brain
October 29, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Cameron Myhrvold
Princeton University
CRISPR-based technologies for studying RNA
October 15, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li
FHCC
Permutation Enhances the Rigor of Single-Cell Data Analysis
October 8, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Amy Ikui
Brooklyn College
ORC1 Localization Dynamics During Multiple Fission: Clues to the Evolution of DNA Replication
October 1, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rebecca Price
University of Washington, Bothell
Scientific teaching: impacts on service, professional development, and faculty affairs
September 24, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Riddhiman Garge
University of Washington, Shendure Lab
Multi-omic approaches in stem cell models to understand early embryonic development
August 27, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Krishna Niyogi
UC Berkeley
Understanding and altering chloroplast photoprotection to improve photosynthesis
May 28, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Tami Lieberman
MIT
Community assembly in microbiomes at the strain level
May 21, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Zan Armstrong
Data Visualization for Discovery
May 14, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Erez Lieberman Aiden
Baylor College of Medicine
Fossils of Ancient Chromosomes
May 7, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Noah Zaitlen
UCLA
Genetic Subtyping of Complex Traits with a Focus on Treatment Selection
April 30, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Soumya Raychaudhuri
Broad Institute, Harvard University
Defining the molecular effects of immune-mediated disease alleles
April 23, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Frank Uhlmann
The Francis Crick Institute
Why does a chromosome look like a chromosome? (and not like a ball of yarn)
April 9, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Leslie Babonis
Cornell University
Understanding novelty, one cell at a time
April 2, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Modzelewski
University of Pennsylvania
Rewired regulatory pathways involving retrotransposons secure early developmental homeostasis
March 12, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jennifer Brophy
Stanford University
Engineering environmentally resilient plants with synthetic biology
March 5, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Anders Sejr Hansen
MIT
Dynamics of 3D Genome Structure and Function
February 26, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Katia Koelle
Emory University
Constraints on influenza A virus antigenic evolution
February 12, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister
University of Guelph
Proteomics of Fungal Disease in One Health
February 5, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nir Hacohen
Harvard University, Broad Institute
Learning the rules of human immune system
January 29, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Winston Timp
Johns Hopkins University
Decoding the Central Dogma with Single Molecules
January 15, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2024
Dr. Nipam Patel
Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago
Insights from Emerging Research Organisms: From Germline Regeneration to the Physics of Beauty
December 4, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute
Understanding the Sources Of Regenerative Capacities In Animals
November 20, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kyle Loh
Stanford University
A developmental roadmap for how diverse human cell-types form
November 13, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Philip Remes
Thermo Fisher Scientific
You Can Do Anything but Can You Do Everything? Solutions for LC/MS Proteomics Assays
November 6, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Natalie Stanley
University of North Carolina
Generating robust biological clocks and predictors of clinical outcome from single-cell data
October 30, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ludmil Alexandrov
UC San Diego
Understanding the known and unknown mutagenic causes of cancer
October 23, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jim Jarvis
University of Washington
Inquiries Into Genetic Mechanisms Driving Autoimmune Disease Risk
October 16, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alice Accorsi
UC Davis
Apple snails: looking at regeneration with a new pair of eyes
October 2, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matthew Anderson
University of Wisconsin
American Indian microbiomes harbor distinct community signatures
September 25, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Shawn Fayer
Fowler Lab and Starita Lab, University of Washington
Using genomic technology to transform how genetics is used to diagnose and treat disease
September 4, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Anupama Jha
Noble Lab, University of Washington
Integrative models of nuclear DNA organization
August 28, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Yu-Ying Phoebe Hsieh
Malik Lab, FHCC
Fungal-bacterial interactions alter microbial fitness and the evolution of antibiotic resistance
August 21, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Xiaoyi Li
Shendure Lab, University of Washington
Chromatin context-dependent regulation and epigenetic manipulation of prime editing
August 14, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chengxiang Qiu
Shendure Lab, University of Washington
Single-cell Analysis Reveals the Molecular Roadmap of Mouse Development
August 7, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rajiv McCoy
Johns Hopkins University
Human genome evolution within and across generations
May 29, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeff Carroll
University of Washington
Huntington’s Disease in the Post-GWAS Era
May 22, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Dan Landau
New York Genome Center
Mapping human somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics
May 15, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Needhi Bhalla
UC Santa Cruz
A Tale of Two Checkpoints
May 1, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Blake Meyers
UC Davis
Phased, secondary siRNAs in plant reproduction and other pathways
April 24, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Raul Andino
UC San Francisco
SARS-CoV-2 evolution: variant replacement and their replication in airway epithelia
April 17, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Emili
Oregon Health & Science University
Network Systems Biology: Mapping Macromolecular Interactions Relevant to Human Health & Disease
April 10, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeannette Tenthorey
FHCC alum | flier
Taking a leap: evolving de novo antiviral functions
April 3, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maitreya Dunham
10:30 | Foege Auditorium | flier | seminar recording
Yeast genome evolution in and out of the lab
April 3, 2024 10:30 am – 11:30 am | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Casey Gifford
Stanford University
Cardiac Organoids Unveil Novel Mechanisms Associated with Heart Development and Disease
March 27, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ashley Laughney
Weill Cornell Medicine
Tackling the genotype-to-phenotype problem in cancer evolution
March 6, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Barbara Wakimoto
University of Washington
Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture: Our Privileged Genetic Inheritance
February 28, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Saori Sakaue
Integrating human genetics and single-cell genomics to define causal mechanisms of autoimmune diseases
February 21, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. William DeWitt
UC Berkeley
Dynamics, prediction, and computation for evolutionary mechanisms in immune responses
February 14, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Braden Tierney
Weill Cornell Medical College and Harvard Medical School
Monitoring and modulating human and planetary health via data-driven microbiology
February 7, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Brielin Brown
New York Genome Center and Columbia University
Towards large-scale causal models integrating complex biological systems with disease
January 31, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chelsea Lowther
Disruption of three-dimensional genome organization as a noncoding mechanism of disease in human
developmental disorders
January 24, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mary Gehring
MIT
Genetics conflicts and seed development
January 17, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Luca Fornelli
University of Oklahoma
Novel strategies for characterizing proteoforms: from targeted to omics analysis
January 10, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2023
Dr. Nels Elde
University of Utah
Evolutionary Infection Biology
December 6, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. James Gagnon
University of Utah
Defending animal development from a hostile
world
November 29, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Hannah Seidel
Eastern Michigan University
How to make a striped snake: Genetics of coloration in ball pythons
November 15, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Laura Landweber
WiGS/COGS-invited speaker
Natural Genome Editing in the Ciliate Oxytricha
November 8, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stephen Bell
MIT
Bending, sliding, flipping, closing: Single-molecule studies of origin licensing
November 1, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Claudia Vasquez
University of Washington
Watching and learning how cells build functional organs
October 25, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nicholas Riley
University of Washington
Systems glycobiology enabled by innovations in mass spectrometry and chemical biology
October 11, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sheila Teves
UW alum
Transcriptional memory and dynamics in embryonic stem cells
October 4, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeffrey Bailey
Brown University
High-throughput” malaria parasite genomics to understand drug and diagnostic resistance evolving in Africa
September 22, 2023 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Diego Calderon
The continuum of gene regulation at single cell resolution, from
September 6, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Pravrutha Raman
Evolutionary innovations in eukaryotic histone repertoires drive biological novelties
August 30, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ran Zhang
Integration and imputation of functional genomics data across modality, time, and species
August 23, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Renee Geck
University of Washington, Dunham Lab “Improving interpretation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variation”
Improving interpretation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variation
August 16, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Christoph Bock
Center for Molecular Medicine, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Looking into the past and future of cells – High-throughput analysis of epigenetic cell states for precision
medicine and cell-based therapy
May 31, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Beth Dumont
The Jackson Laboratory
Laboratory Mouse Genomes: Reservoirs of mutation accumulation
May 24, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Xin Chen
Stanford University
Breaking Symmetry: Asymmetric Histone Inheritance
May 17, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ruth Huttenhain
Stanford University
Mapping the Diversity in Spatiotemporal Regulation of G Protein-Coupled Receptors
May 17, 2023 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Todd Michael
Salk Institute
Scalable carbon capture with plants-a pangenome perspective
May 10, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Brown University
Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Modern Humans: An Evolutionary History of Recurrent Introgression and Natural
Selection
May 3, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ophir Klein
Cedars-Sinai
Renewal and plasticity in oral and gastrointestinal epithelia
April 26, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rupa Sridharan
University of Wisconsin
Identifying cell state transitions in the acquisition of pluripotency
April 19, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Barak Cohen
Washington University
Integration of Cis-Regulatory Information in the Genome
April 18, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Benjamin Wolfe
Tufts University
Evolution in your kitchen: how microbes adapt to fermented food environments
April 12, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Danny Miller
University of Washington
Streamlined genetic testing: the promise of long-read sequencing
April 5, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mona Singh
Princeton University
Predicting the impact of protein mutations: from interaction specificity to cancer
March 29, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ian Ehrenreich
University of Southern California
Characterizing genotype-phenotype relationships in yeast using CRISPRi and chromosome synthesis
March 8, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sizun Jiang
Harvard Medical School
Interrogating Host-Disease Interactions in situ
March 1, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nancy Chen
University of Rochester
Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population
February 15, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gregory Cooper
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Genomic approaches to the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders
February 8, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nicholas Banovich
Translational Genomics Research Institute
Using single cell and spatial genomics to dissect the molecular underpinnings of pulmonary fibrosis
February 1, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chia-Lin Wei
The Jackson Laboratory
Advancing Genomic Technologies for Insights into Genome Organization and Transcription
January 25, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eimear Kenny
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Population Genetics in an Era of Genomic Health
January 18, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Tomi Pastinen
Genomics of rare and functional variation in disease
January 4, 2023 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2022
Dr. John Ray
Benaroya Research Institute
Discovering genetic mechanisms of immune-mediated diseases
November 30, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Melissa Gymrek
University of Wisconsin
Dissecting the role of the repeat-ome in complex traits
November 16, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ahna Skop
University of Wisconsin
Too Creative for Science
November 16, 2022 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium
November 10, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sina Ghaemmaghami
University of Rochester
Global Analysis of Protein Folding Stabilities
November 2, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Ellington
University of Texas
Is a blind watchmaker the same as a blind neural net?
October 26, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eszter Posfai
Princeton University
Advancing genome engineering in early mouse embryos
October 12, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Stern
Janelia
Toward a mechanistic understanding of plant gall induction by aphids
October 5, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Cassandra Extavour
GSAIMS-invited speaker | flier
Building an embryo: understanding through quantitative imaging and mathematical modeling
September 28, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sanjay Srivatsan
Cellular cartography: Building the next generation of biological maps
August 31, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Junhong Choi
University of Washington, Shendure Lab
Molecular recording via precision genome editing
August 10, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nicolas Altemose
Foege Auditorium
Long-read sequencing methods for studying centromere organization, evolution, and function
June 23, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrea Gomez
UC Berkeley
Alternative splicing choices for synaptic function
May 25, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andre Green
Foege Auditorium | flier | student-invited speaker
Making a Migratory Monarch
May 18, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Yukiko Yamashita
Foege Auditorium | flier
Function of junk: satellite DNA in cell biology and speciation
May 11, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Doris Bachtrog
Tales of the Y chromosome: heterochromatin, aging, and conflicts
May 4, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Thelma Madzima
Foege Auditorium | flier | GSAIMS-invited speaker
Epigenetic & abiotic stress mediated transcriptional regulation in maize plants
April 27, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeffrey Chamberlain
University of Washington
Current challenges to gene therapy for muscular dystrophy
April 6, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Amy Goldberg
lunch discussion hosted by Zorian Thornton & Luke Zhu
Evolutionary perspectives on malaria: humans, primates, and the parasites we share
March 30, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Shapiro
lunch discussion hosted by Sriram Pendyala
Genetic and developmental basis of diversity in domestic pigeons
March 9, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Juan Lucas Argueso
lunch discussion hosted by Yuzhen Liu
Characterization of bursts of structural genomic variation in budding yeast
March 2, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Keriann Backus
lunch discussion hosted by Sophie Moggridge
Expanding the Activity-Based Chemoproteomic Toolbox
February 23, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Dan Voytas
lunch discussion hosted by Morgan Hamm
Overcoming bottlenecks in plant gene editing
February 9, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Lacy Barton
New York University School of Medicine
Old hormones, new tricks: Juvenile Hormones ensure primordial germ cells populate the developing somatic gonad
February 2, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ronghui Li
Synthetic Embryos from Cultured Cells Models Early Embryogenesis
January 26, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nobuhiko Hamazaki
Reconstitution of the mammalian life cycle in vitro
January 19, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Min Yang
Rockefeller University
Utilizing Human Stem Cell Models to Study Reproductive Biology
January 12, 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2021
Dr. Kaela Singleton
Emory University
Systems Biology approach to cellular and molecular phenotypes in neurodevelopmental disorders
December 8, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Robert Fernandez
GSAIMS-invited speaker
Building molecular maps to study the male
December 1, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Karsten Borgwardt
12:00 | held remotely | flier | lunch discussion hosted by Mu Yang
Machine learning in medicine: sepsis prediction and antibiotic resistance prediction
November 3, 2021 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Katrina Claw
Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine with Indigenous communities
October 27, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jonathan Weissman
MIT
Following tumor evolution and metastasis with a single cell “molecular flight recorder
October 20, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jian Ma
Carnegie Mellon University
Computational methods for multiscale analysis of nuclear organization
October 6, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Katherine Pollard
UC San Francisco
Sequence-Structure-Function modeling for DNA
September 29, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Silvia Domcke
University of Washington
Single cell perturbomics of the transcription factor – chromatin landscape
September 8, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Pengyao Jiang
University of Washington
Natural variation in the mutation rate and spectrum in
September 1, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeannette Tenthorey
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The host strikes back: Strategies for evolutionary warfare vs. pathogens
August 25, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Yang Lu
University of Washington
Interpretable and reproducible pattern discovery from genomics and proteomics data
August 11, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Pagliarini
Wiring the powerhouse: systems biochemistry approaches for defining mitochondrial protein function
June 2, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Melissa Wilson
Sex-biased genome evolution
May 26, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Elçin Unal
LUTI mRNAs: a fresh perspective on gene regulation
May 19, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Molly Schumer
The genetic architecture of a lethal hybrid incompatibility
May 12, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins
Engineering the repetitive 3D genome in human disease
April 28, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Edward Buckler
How can transferable biology and breeding contribute to improving food systems and climate change?
April 14, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Anna Gloyn
Stanford University
From genetic association to disease mechanism: Bridging the gap for type 2 diabetes
April 7, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Peter Nemes
Single-cell Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Metabolites for Profiling Cell Differentiation
March 31, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Todd Nystul
Unexpected findings about the regulation of cell fate in epithelial stem cell lineages
March 3, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Lea Starita
Technology development for public health at scale
March 3, 2021 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | faculty candidate seminar
Dr. Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong
Mechanisms underlying genetic and environmental control of complex diseases
February 24, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | faculty candidate seminar
Dr. Philip Abitua
Cellular innovations in chordate development
February 24, 2021 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | faculty candidate seminar
Dr. Jessica Ware
Insect evolution: termite and dragonfly systematics
February 17, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jacob Musser
Few cell types, many functions: The evolutionary origin of division of labor among animal cells
February 17, 2021 9:00 am – 10:00 am | .
Dr. Molly Przeworski
Causes and consequences of recombination hotspot evolution in vertebrates
February 10, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | student-invited speaker
Dr. Lauren Booth
Sexual interactions induce early death in nematodes
February 10, 2021 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | faculty candidate seminar
Dr. Michael Yaffe
Cell Stress and Injury Responses Determine Cancer Progression and the Responses to Treatment
January 27, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jef Boeke
New York University
Tormenting Genomes
January 6, 2021 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2020
Dr. Sarah Zanders
wtf selfish genes
December 9, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Van Valen
Single-cell Biology in a Software 2.0 World
December 2, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Hongkui Zeng
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Understanding Brain Cell Type Diversity
November 18, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Arjun Raj
Emergent cellular ecosystems in melanoma revealed by single cell analysis
October 28, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Audrey Gasch
Coordination and heterogeneity in growth versus stress-defense responses in
October 21, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ophir Shalem
CRISPR screens, proteostasis and the rapid control and measurement of proteins at scale
October 14, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Patrick Cramer
9:30 a.m. | remote presentation link | flier
Transcription of the genome: from molecular movies to regulatory systems
September 30, 2020 9:30 am – 10:30 am | .
Dr. Courtney Schroeder
Genetic innovation reveals novel biological functions for cytoskeletal proteins
September 9, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kevin Forsberg
Malik Lab
Revealing Hidden Strategies for Overcoming CRISPR-Cas9 in the Human Microbiome
September 2, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Bryce Taylor
Developing yeast experimental evolution research experiences for high school classrooms
August 26, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. PingHsun Hsieh
Understanding Biology and Evolution through the Lens of Population Genetics and beyond Single Nucleotide Variation
August 19, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. William Fondrie
Noble Lab
Learning from Mass Spectra
August 12, 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2019
Dr. Kateryna Makova
Penn State
Long-read sequencing technology indicates genome-wide effects of non-B DNA on polymerization speed and error rate
June 5, 2019 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Martha Bulyk
Transcription factor – DNA interactions: unraveling new twists in molecular recognition, genetic variation, and
gene regulation
April 3, 2019 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Benjamin Garcia
University of Pennsylvania
Quantitative proteomics for understanding epigenetic mechanisms
February 27, 2019 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Steve Gygi
Harvard University
BioPlex: Towards a Genome-scale, Protein-protein Interaction Network
January 30, 2019 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jimmie Ye
UC San Francisco
Constructing the Human Immune Census
January 16, 2019 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2018
Dr. Sarah Tishkoff
University of Pennsylvania
Human evolution and complex trait mapping inferred from African Genomics Analyses
May 30, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gautam Dantas
Washington University
Predicting and Combating Pathogenic and Abiotic Disruptions to Diverse Microbiomes
May 23, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sekar Kathiresan
Massachusetts General Hospital, Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School
Genetic basis for heart attack
May 16, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Erich Jarvis
The Rockefeller University
The Reference Vertebrate Genomes Project- Implications for biology and beyond
May 2, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Suleyman Gulsuner
University of Washington Medical Genetics
Genomic approaches to Schizophrenia
April 25, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. John Marioni
University of Cambridge
Using single cell genomics to understand cell fate decisions
April 23, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rick McLaughlin
PNRI
The coevolution of retroelements and their hosts: conflict and co-option
April 4, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Daniel MacArthur
Broad Institute
Leveraging massive-scale genomic data to interpret human genetic variation
March 28, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Paul Blainey
Broad Institute
Advancing genomic and screening technologies for the life sciences
March 14, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joshua Elias
Stanford University
Strategies for uncovering antigen presentation biases with mass spectrometry: Lessons learned from the neoantigen
hunt
March 7, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maria Barna
Stanford University
Ribosome Diversity: Implications for translation of the genetic code & organismal life
February 28, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Bassik
Stanford University
Development of new CRISPR/Cas9-based tools to study the cellular response to drugs and endocytic
pathogens
February 14, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Emily Leproust
Twist Bioscience
February 7, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Casey Gifford
UC San Francisco
Oligogenic Inheritance and Effects of Modifier Genes in Cardiovascular Disease
January 29, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Brian Beliveau
Harvard University
Oligo-based technologies for visualizing genome organization in individual cells
January 25, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Terry Orr-Weaver
MIT
Developmental Regulation of DNA Replication to Control Cell Size and Gene Copy Number
January 24, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kirsten Frieda
Caltech
Seeing cell histories with MEMOIR
January 18, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. William Gahl
NIH
The NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program and Network
January 17, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars: Dr. Liana Lareau and Dr. Emma Farley
Dr. Liana Lareau
Evolutionary footprints of splicing and translation
Dr. Emma Farley
Regulatory specificity during animal development
January 10, 2018 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2017
Dr. Bin Ma
University of Waterloo
De novo peptide and protein sequencing with mass spectrometry
December 6, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sally Aitken
University of British Columbia
Detecting climate adaptation in the giga-genomes of conifers
November 29, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Agata Smogorzewska
The Rockefeller University
Genome maintenance during DNA replication
November 15, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Paul Valdmanis
University of Washington Medical Genetics
Fighting tiny battles: Competition between small RNAs in combating disease
November 8, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Strome
UC Santa Cruz
Transmitting an epigenetic “memory of germline” from parents to offspring in
November 1, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Julia Cooper
NIH
Centromeres impersonating telomeres, and other forms of deception at the chromosome end
October 25, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Lea Goentoro
Caltech
Revisiting D’Arcy Thompson: Why are jellyfish round?
October 18, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gill Bejerano
Stanford University
One genome to rule them all, one genome to find them
October 11, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eimear Kenny
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Embracing diversity in genomic medicine
October 4, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joshua Rabinowitz
Princeton University
Metabolism Revisited
September 27, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Caiti Smukowski Heil
Dunham Lab, University of Washington
Adaptation and genome evolution in hybrids
September 6, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Damien Wilburn
Swanson Lab, University of Washington
From Molecules to Mating: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Rapidly Coevolving Reproductive Proteins
August 30, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Josh Cuperus
Fields Lab, University of Washington
Analyzing yeast and plant gene regulation with deep sequencing data
August 16, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Orjan Carlborg
Uppsala University
Complex trait genetics – what is there beyond additivity
May 31, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Brian Chait
The Rockefeller University
Integrative Methods for Elucidating the Structure & Function of Cellular Machines
May 24, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stanislav Shvartsman
Princeton University
Quantitative biology of developmental abnormalities
May 17, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Konstantin Khrapko
Northeastern University
Many Faces of mtDNA mutations: From Aging to Evolution
May 10, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Timothy Donohue
University of Wisconsin
Mining Genomes for Fuels and Bioproducts
May 3, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Daniela Witten
University of Washington
Statistical Methods for Problems in Genomics and Neuroscience
April 26, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Tony Papenfuss
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Dissecting the evolution of cancer
April 19, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ting Wu
Harvard University
Imaging the genome & a 300 million year old mystery
April 12, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joseph DeRisi
UC San Francisco
Genomics and Infectious Disease
April 5, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gurol Suel
UC San Diego
The bacterial brain: Electrical signaling in biofilms and beyond
March 29, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Leonid Mirny
MIT
Genome in 3D: biophysical models of chromosome folding
March 8, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Pontus Skoglund
Harvard University
Ancient genomes and the human past
March 2, 2017 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Foege Auditorium faculty candidate seminar
Dr. Laura Landweber
Columbia University
RNA-guided Large-Scale Genome Rearrangement in the Ciliate
March 1, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Priya Moorjani
Columbia University
Molecular clocks of human evolution
February 23, 2017 9:00 am – 10:00 am | ., Foege Auditorium faculty candidate seminar
Dr. Joshua Denny
Vanderbilt University
Big Data for Precision Medicine and the PMI All of Us
February 22, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Savage
UC Berkeley
Fixed: Synthetic biological approaches for probing cellular physiology
February 15, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Lea Starita
University of Washington
Multiplex assays for measuring variant effects
February 14, 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Foege Auditorium flier
Two Seminars: Dr. Kelley Harris and Dr. Tuuli Lappalainen
Dr. Kelley Harris
Rapid evolution of the human mutation spectrum
Dr. Tuuli Lappalainen
Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome
February 8, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kirk Lohmueller
UCLA
The population genomics of deleterious mutations
February 6, 2017 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Foege Auditorium faculty candidate seminar flier
Dr. Nuno Bandeira
UC San Diego
Revealing deep diversity in the human proteome with mass spectrometry big data
February 1, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alice Ting
Stanford University
Directed evolution of molecular tools for probing living cells and neurons
January 25, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Garry Nolan
Stanford University
The Heterogeneity Illusion: High Parameter Imaging of Cancer & Immunity
January 18, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Pedro Beltrao
European Bioinformatics Institute
Evolution, dynamics and genetics of protein post-translational regulation
January 11, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sergei Doulatov
University of Washington
Modeling and drug discovery for blood disorders using pluripotent stem cells
January 4, 2017 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2016
Dr. Michael Elowitz
Caltech
The design of mammalian communication and memory systems
December 7, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Irene Chen
UC Santa Barbara
Evolution in the prebiotic RNA World
November 30, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. José Dinneny
Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University
Putting things into context: the systems biology of plant-environment interactions
November 16, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Fiona Brinkman
Simon Fraser University
Overcoming data integration and visualization challenges in genomics – applications and insights re infectious disease evolution
November 9, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Hao Yuan Kueh
University of Washington
Immune cell fate control: insights from single cell tracking studies
November 2, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Anne Goriely
University of Oxford
Ageing men, their selfish testes and human disease
October 26, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Marian Walhout
University of Massachusetts Medical School
C. elegans Gene Regulatory and Metabolic Networks
October 19, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Lin
Stanford University
Molecular engineering of optical and chemical interfaces with biology
October 12, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alice Berger
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
High-Throughput Phenotyping of Somatic Mutations for Cancer Precision Medicine
October 5, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Angela DePace
Harvard University
Integrating regulatory information away from equilibrium
September 28, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sandra Zimmerman
postdoctoral fellow, Berg Lab, University of Washington
Proteomics analysis reveals role for novel growth factors in tube morphogenesis
August 29, 2016 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Foege Auditorium flier
Dr. Max Libbrecht
postdoctoral fellow, Noble Lab, University of Washington
August 15, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mark Chaisson
postdoctoral fellow, Eichler Lab
Resolving human genetic variation with single-molecule sequencing
August 1, 2016 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Foege Auditorium flier
Dr. Jenny Graves
LaTrobe University
Genetic and epigenetic sex determination in weird animals
June 27, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium flier
Dr. Christine Vogel
New York University
The Ups and Downs of Protein Expression Regulation
May 25, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Erez Lieberman-Aiden
Baylor College of Medicine
May 11, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Dennis Kim
MIT
Microbial Modulation of Neuroendocrine Physiology and Behavior of
May 4, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Roger Deal
Emory University
Gene regulatory mechanisms in plant development
April 27, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jacob Jaffe
Broad Institute
Proteomic Connectivity Maps of Drugs, Disease, Genomics, and Beyond
April 20, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Liangcai Gu
University of Washington
April 13, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium
April 6, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maria Dominguez-Bello
New York University
The early and the ancient human microbiome
March 9, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Slaugenhaupt
Harvard University / Massachusetts General Hospital
Treating mRNA splicing disorders using splice modulator compounds
March 2, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Hana El-Samad
UC San Francisco
Anticipators and Procrastinators: Cellular Decision Making in Multivariate Environments
February 24, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki
University of British Columbia
Evolutionary connectivity and constraints in functional transition of enzyme functions
February 17, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Su-In Lee
University of Washington
Learning the human chromatin network from all ENCODE ChIP-seq data
February 10, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eric Alm
MIT
Bugs as Drugs: Lessons learned from the use of fecal transplants to cure recurrent Clostridium difficile
infection
February 3, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nicole King
UC Berkeley
Bacteria as master regulators of choanoflagellate multicellularity and mating
January 27, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Daniel Voytas
University of Minnesota
The genome engineering revolution and plant agriculture
January 20, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeff Barrick
University of Texas
Evolutionary opportunities and obstacles in synthetic biology
January 13, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stephen Jones
Washington State University
Chromosomes, Community and Bread
January 6, 2016 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2015
Dr. Marta Luksza
Institute for Advanced Study
Predicting the evolution for influenza
December 9, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Elissa Hallem
UCLA
The neural basis of parasitic behaviors
December 2, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chris Marx
University of Idaho
Novel induction of cell stasis to protect the cell from a toxic central metabolic intermediate
November 18, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Robert Sclafani
University of Colorado
Exploitation of DNA Replication Stress and Repair Mechanisms for Cancer Chemoprevention
November 12, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Mia Levy, MD, PhD
Director of Cancer Clinical Informatics and Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center
Integrated genomic approaches to identify cancer targets
November 10, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeanne Lawrence
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Regulating the Epigenome via Chromosomal RNAs: Implications for Genome Biology and Chromosome Pathology
November 4, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Christopher Link
University of Colorado
TDP-43, RNA metabolism, and ALS
October 28, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Rosenberg
Baylor College of Medicine
How bacteria and cancer cells regulate mutagenesis and their ability to evolve
October 21, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kirsten Bomblies
Harvard University
Adaptive evolution of meiosis in Arabidopsis arenosa
October 14, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Ellington
University of Texas
October 7, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Melissa Kemp
Georgia Tech
September 30, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rick McLaughlin
Malik Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The coevolution of primates and endogenous retroelements: conflict and co-option
August 19, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Karen Avraham
Tel Aviv University
Genomics of Hereditary Hearing Impairment
June 10, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alexander Stark
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
May 27, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Adam Arkin
UC Berkeley
Knowledge, Context and Process: Building a Foundational Infrastructure for Engineering Cells for Use in an Uncertain World
May 20, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Craig Mello
University of Massachusetts; HHMI
RNA memories and secrets of inheritance and immortality
May 11, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rob Martienssen
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Heterochromatin reprogramming with histone variants and small RNA
May 6, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Scott Edwards
Harvard University
Linking genome history and function in the comparative genomics of birds
April 29, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nadav Ahituv
UC San Francisco
Functional characterization of gene regulatory elements
April 22, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Denise Montell
UC Santa Barbara
Mechanisms governing cell movement and survival
April 8, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Charles Boone
University of Toronto
Modeling the Cell with a Global Genetic Interaction Network
April 1, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Beer
Johns Hopkins University
Predicting the Impact of Regulatory Mutations from DNA Sequence
March 18, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Yaniv Erlich
Whitehead Institute, MIT
Dissecting the genetic architecture of complex traits with millions of people
March 11, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Dana Pe’er
Columbia University
Dimensionality in data: the power of single cells
March 4, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gloria Brar
UC Berkeley
Ribosome profiling reveals surprises in meiotic translation
February 25, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Crowder
University of Washington
Mitochondrial protein misfolding contributes to hypoxic cell death
February 18, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Senko
ThermoFisher Scientific
The Evolution of Third Generation Proteomics Instrumentation
February 11, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jim Gallarda
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
February 4, 2015 10:30 am – 11:30 am | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gunnar Rätsch
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
January 28, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chang Liu
UC Irvine
Orthogonal Replication for Rapid Evolution and Synthetic Genetics
January 21, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Aviv Regev
Broad Institute
Towards a human cell atlas
January 14, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Julie Segre
NHGRI
Microbial genomics: Tracking Multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens and human skin microbiome
January 7, 2015 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2014
Dr. Frank Alber
University of Southern California
Exploring the dynamic landscape of 3D genome structures by population-based modeling
December 3, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matthias Mann
Max Planck Institute
Mass spectrometry as a bridge between the genome and proteome
November 19, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rama Ranganathan
UT Southwestern Medical Center
November 12, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
12th Annual Genome Sciences Symposium
November 10, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mary Relling
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Pharmacogenomics of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
November 5, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sohini Ramachandran
Brown University
Signatures of the great human expansion
October 29, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Curtis Huttenhower
Harvard University
Biogeography and strain-level profiling of the gut microbiome
October 22, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Catherine Ball
Ancestry.com
Adventures in Consumer Genomics
October 15, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Houra Merrikh
University of Washington
The impact of replication-transcription conflicts on genome and evolution of bacteria
October 8, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Hopi Hoekstra
Harvard University
Digging for genes that affect mammalian behavior
October 1, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stirling Churchman
Harvard University
Visualizing transcription at nucleotide resolution using nascent transcript sequencing
September 24, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Wenxiu Ma
Noble Lab, University of Washington
August 28, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sarah Zanders
Malik Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Genetic conflict and the evolution of infertility
August 18, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kiersten Henderson
Gottschling Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mother-Daughter Asymmetry of pH Underlies Aging and Rejuvenation
August 11, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Julie Ahringer
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Genome organization, boundaries, and the landscape of RNA polymerase II transcription in
July 21, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sarah Otto
University of British Columbia
Genomic scope of adaptive mutations to different environments
June 4, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Fischbach
UC San Francisco
Insights from a global view of secondary metabolism: Small molecules from the human microbiota
May 28, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Boehnke
University of Michigan
Identifying and Correcting for Sample Contamination in DNA Sequencing Studies
May 21, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Lior Pachter
UC Berkeley
Quantifying the Extent of Geographic Signature in the Human Genome
May 14, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Goodman
Yale University
Causes and consequences of interpersonal microbial variation
May 7, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Brook Nunn
University of Washington
Using proteomics to understand the fate of carbon and nitrogen in the ocean: From Bloom to Burial
April 30, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Steven Carr
Broad Institute
Quantitative Proteomics in Biology, Chemistry and Medicine
April 30, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Goldstein
Duke University
Toward precision medicine in neuropsychiatric disease
April 23, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alla Grishok
Columbia University
Insights into gene regulation by RNAi, chromatin and Forkhead transcription factors
April 16, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Cliff Tabin
Harvard University
April 9, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
(finals week) – Dr. Oliver Rando
University of Massachusetts
Structural biology of the yeast genome
March 19, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. William Greenleaf
Stanford University
‘Off-label’ uses of high-throughput sequencing: from assaying chromatin structure with transposes to hijacking sequencers for massively parallel, quantitative biophysics
March 12, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Katherine Pollard
UC San Francisco
March 5, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Elaine Ostrander
NHGRI
Good Dogs with Bad Genes Informing Human Health
February 26, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gavin Sherlock
Stanford University
Attack of the Clones: tracking adaptive evolution in real time and at high resolution
February 19, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Lisa Stubbs
University of Illinois
Rapidly evolving transcription factors and developmental diversity
February 12, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Virginia Zakian
Princeton University
Pif1 DNA helicases promote fork progression past hard-to-replicate sites
February 5, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. John Novembre
University of Chicago
Addressing challenges for population genetic inference from next-generation sequencing
January 29, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars: Dr. Cole Trapnell and Dr. Asher Cutter
Dr. Cole Trapnell
Mapping Regulatory Networks with Single-Cell Transcriptomics in Cell Differentiation and Disease
Dr. Asher Cutter
Hyperdiversity and hypodiversity in genome evolution of Caenorhabditis nematodes
January 22, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars: Dr. Dengke Ma and Dr. Marc Vidal
Dr. Dengke Ma
Understanding the Genome for the Control of Animal Physiology and Behavior
Dr. Marc Vidal
Interactome Networks and Human Disease
January 15, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Prashant Mali
Harvard University
Cas9 as a versatile tool for engineering biology
January 13, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Polly Fordyce
UC San Francisco
High-throughput Mapping of Protein Energy Landscapes Using Novel Microfluidic Tools
January 8, 2014 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2013
Dr. Stanley Prusiner
UC San Francisco
How and why prions cause many different neurodegenerative diseases
December 4, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matthew State
UC San Francisco
The Tipping Point: Rare Mutations, Gene Discovery and the Emerging Biology of Autism Spectrum Disorders
November 20, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Daniel Bolon
University of Massachusetts
Systematic exploration of relationships between genotype, phenotype, and experimental fitness
November 13, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Cisca Wijmenga
University Medical Center Groningen
A genomics approach to celiac disease
November 6, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Cisca Wijmenga
University Medical Center Groningen
A genomics approach to celiac disease
November 6, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Arjun Raj
University of Pennsylvania
Non-local cis gene regulation at the single cell, single chromosome, single molecule, and single base
level
October 30, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jonathan Eisen
UC Davis
Phylogeny-Driven Approaches to Genomics and Metagenomics
October 23, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Wenying Shou
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Survival of the Most Cooperative
October 16, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jason Bielas
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
DNA Mutagenesis: Insights into Human Aging, Carcinogenesis, and Novel Anticancer Therapies
October 9, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jonathan Weissman
UC San Francisco
Monitoring protein synthesis one codon at a time through ribosome profiling
October 2, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Richard Gibbs
Baylor College of Medicine
Genomic Futurism
September 25, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maulik Patel
Genetic conflicts shape mitochondrial function
July 29, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Richard Youle
NIH
Role of Pink1 and Parkin in mitochondrial quality control and Parkinson’s disease
June 5, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
May 29, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alea Mills
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
May 22, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Cori Bargmann
Rockefeller University
May 15, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Beth Shapiro
UC Santa Cruz
Ligers, tigons and bears (Oh my!): The genomic consequences of inter-species hybridization
May 1, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. James Noonan
Yale University
April 24, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stephen Quake
Stanford University
Dissecting Genome Mixtures
April 17, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Charles Rotimi
NHGRI
Genome Science and Health Disparities: A Growing Success Story?
April 3, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars: The More-or-Less 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Sequence and Dr. Justin Fay
The More-or-Less 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Sequence with a Discussion and Q&A: Dr. Mary-Claire King, Dr. Maynard Olson, and Dr. Robert Waterston
Dr. Justin Fay
When does change in gene expression matter?
February 27, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium
all day, Foege Auditorium
February 20, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Silvere van der Maarel
Leiden University Medical Center
Macrosatellite Repeats in Health and Disease
February 13, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Silvere van der Maarel
Leiden University Medical Center
Macrosatellite Repeats in Health and Disease
February 13, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Audrey Gasch
University of Wisconsin
Functional Genomics of Stress Defense in Yeast
February 6, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Bing Ren
UC San Diego
The 3D Genome Landscape and Transcriptional Control in Mammalian Cells
January 30, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ileana Cristea
Princeton University
Emerging roles for acetylation in regulating host defense mechanisms against viral infection
January 23, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Angelika Amon
MIT
Consequences of Aneuploidy
January 16, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Charles Kurland
Genome Content Phylogeny of the Three Superkingdoms: Phylogenetic reconstruction for genomicists and consenting adults
January 14, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jennifer Van Eyk
Johns Hopkins University
A protein centric road to individualizing medicine: brain and myocardial injury biomarkers
January 9, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2012
Dr. Andrew Clark
Cornell University
Analysis of X chromosome inactivation by RNA-sequencing in mouse, horse and opossum
December 5, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Becket Feierbach
Genentech
CMV: The Most Dangerous Pregnancy Complication You’re Never Heard Of
November 28, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Biggins
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
How do cells get the right chromosomes?
November 14, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Steve Altschuler
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Phenotypic variation in cellular models of disease and differentiation: which differences make a difference?
November 7, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Molly Przeworski
University of Chicago
Learning about modes of adaptation from genetic variation data in apes
October 24, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Howard Chang
Stanford University
Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs
October 17, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Edward Marcotte
University of Texas
Deeply conserved gene modules and disease
October 10, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Leonid Kruglyak
Princeton University
Causes and Consequences of Natural Genetic Variation
October 3, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ewan Birney
European Bioinformatics Institute
ENCODE: Understanding our genome
July 9, 2012 10:30 am – 11:30 am | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Anne-Claude Gingras
University of Toronto
Navigating signaling interactomes
May 30, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. John Moran
University of Michigan
Studies of a Human Retrotransposon
May 23, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Amy Caudy
Princeton University
Riboneogenesis – A New Pathway to Convert Glucose to Ribose that Preserves Redox Balance
May 16, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Bret Payseur
University of Wisconsin
Microsatellites as Targets of Natural Selection
May 9, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Panel Discussion: The Future of Genome Sciences
7:00 pm, Kane Hall 120
May 7, 2012 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Kane Hall 120 no registration required
Dr. Arend Sidow
Stanford University
May 2, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nicole Soranzo
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
From GWAS to function and beyond
April 25, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maria Barna
University of California, San Francisco
Decoding the genomic template into morphology: specialized ribosomes and cell signaling conduits
April 18, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joseph Thornton
University of Oregon
April 11, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gerald Rubin
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Studying the
April 4, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Lynch
Indiana University
Mutation, Drift, and Evolution at the Subcellular Level
March 28, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Pathology & Genome Sciences Seminar
Dr. Jenny Graves
March 14, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alan Shuldiner
University of Maryland
March 7, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars: Dr. Sylvia Fischer and Dr. Ed Lein
Dr. Sylvia Fischer
Dr. Ed Lein
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Spatiotemporal mapping of the developing brain transcriptome from mice to humans
February 29, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. R. Scott Hawley
The Stowers Institute
The Molecular Genetics of Meiosis
February 22, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Felicity Jones
The Genomics of Adaption and Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks
February 16, 2012 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alan Aderem
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
A Systems Approach to Dissecting Immunity
February 15, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Douglas Fowler
Deep Mutational Scanning to Analyze Protein Function
February 9, 2012 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Helen Blau
Stanford University
Regulating Regeneration: Stem Cells, Newts, and Niches
February 8, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Lott
February 6, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rick Myers
Hudson Alpha Institute
Genetics and epigenetics of human gene regulation
February 1, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chaolin Zhang
Global RNA Regulatory Networks in the Mammalian Brain: Insights from an Integrative Systems Biology Approach
January 12, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Christina Smolke
Stanford University
Designing synthetic regulatory RNAs: new tools for temporal and spatial control in biological systems
January 11, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Koen Venken
Genome Engineering Approaches to Manipulate Fruit Flies
January 9, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Carolyn Brown
University of British Columbia
Spreading the Silence: X-Chromosome Inactivation in Humans
January 4, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2011
Dr. Judit Villen
University of Washington
Food, trash and phosphorylation: a proteomic view
December 7, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
University of Washington
November 30, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Eisen
UC Berkeley
Embryos start your engines: Transcription activation and regulation at the beginning of Drosophila development
November 16, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nicholas Katsanis
Duke University
Modeling the Morbid Human Genome
November 9, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matthew Farrer
University of British Columbia
Parkinson’s genetics: an embarrassment of riches
November 2, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Roger Brent
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
October 12, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
The Larry Sandler Lecture: Dr. Michael Levine
University of California, Berkeley
October 5, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maynard Olson
Stan Gartler: A Scientific Appreciation
January 28, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi
Director, The Molecular Foundry
Chemical Approaches for Imaging and Profiling Protein Glycosylation
January 5, 2011 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2010
Dr. Mirela Andronescu
Noble Lab, University of Washington
August 25, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gill Bejerano
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Computer Science, Stanford University
Seeing the wood for the trees: Interpreting ChIP-Seq peaks and similar glimpses of human cis-regulation
July 15, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Quaid Morris
Predicting the targets of mRNA-binding proteins
June 24, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alison Motsinger-Reif
North Carolina State University
The Impact of Retrospective Sampling on Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction
June 23, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ruth Ley
Cornell University
Host-microbiome interactions in the gut and metabolic diseases
May 26, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars: Dr. Jenny Graves and Dr. Elhanan Borenstein
Dr. Jenny Graves
Dr. Elhanan Borenstein
University of Washington
Systems Biology of Microbes and Microbiomes: Reverse Ecology, Super-Metabolism, and Metagenomic Analysis
May 19, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jay Parrish
University of Washington
Genetic and genomic analysis of developmental transitions in Drosophila neurons
April 28, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Drew Endy
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Work towards an 8-bit Engineered Genetic Combinatorial Counter
April 21, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Anne Bowcock
Washington University
April 14, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Catherine Peichel
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Genetics of speciation in sticklebacks
March 31, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sean Eddy
HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
HMMER3: A New Generation of Sequence Homology Search Software
March 10, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joan Bennett
Doing science with two X chromosomes
March 4, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Shao-En Ong
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Hitting the Target with Quantitative Proteomics: Applications in
March 1, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Clark
Cornell University
February 24, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mathew Sowa
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
February 24, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sharon Pitteri
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Molecular Profiling of Breast Cancer from a Proteomics Perspective
February 18, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Manolis Kellis
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
February 17, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alejandro Wolf-Yadlin
Department of Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Deciphering Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks Conservation and Diversification Using Lysate
Microarrays
February 10, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eric Green
Director, NHGRI
January 27, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chris Burge
Global Analysis of RNA Processing in Health and Disease
January 20, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Greg Gibson
Professor and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, Department of Biology, Georgia Tech
Geographical Genomics, Human Transitions, and the Origins of Chronic Disease
January 13, 2010 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2009
Dr. David C. Schwartz
University of Wisconsin
A Singular View of the Genome
December 9, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Thomas Schwarz
Harvard Medical School / Children’s Hospital
Two Problems for a Neuron: Moving Mitochondria and Building Synapses
November 18, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sharad Ramanathan
FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University
Evolution of Protein Kinase Pathways
November 4, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Victoria Prince
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Using Zebrafish to Learn How to Build a Pancreas
October 28, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Dmitri Petrov
Stanford University
October 21, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Kun Zhang
Targeted Methylome Analysis of Human Pluripotent and Adult Cells
October 14, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Barak Cohen
Washington University Medical School
Analysis of Natural Variation in Yeast
October 7, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Edward Ramos
Science Policy Analyst and Research Fellow
From Bench to Bills (and back): the intersection of science and policy
October 1, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Su-In Lee
Visiting Assistant Professor
Gene Regulation and Individual Genetic Variation: From Networks to Mechanism
May 21, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium
April 30, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Arlene Blum
Breaking Trail: Molecules and Mountains
April 22, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Aimee Dudley
Institute for Systems Biology
Integrating spatial dynamics and genetic variation into systems biology
April 1, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Nadia Singh
The Importance of Scale in
March 12, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sherry Yen
GPS: A Genomic Approach for Measuring Regulated Protein Turnover
March 9, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Judit Villen
Elucidating Signaling Events through Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
March 4, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Alon Keinan
Evolutionary History of Modern Humans: A Genomic Perspective
February 26, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Steven McCarroll
Broad Institute
Structural and Regulatory Variation in Human Genomes
February 11, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Elhanan Borenstein
Stanford University
Reverse Ecology: From Large-Scale Analysis of Metabolic Networks, Growth Environments and Seeds Sets to Species Interaction and Metagenomics
February 4, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Grimson
Animal MicroRNAs: Their Ancient Origins and Contemporary Targets
February 2, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Bret Pearson
University of Utah
Adult Stem Cells, Tumor Suppressors and Regeneration in Planarians
January 29, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Ferdig
Associate Professor, Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biology, University of Notre Dame
Dissecting the complexity of malaria drug resistance: integrating gene expression levels and chromosome structural variation
January 28, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Leonie Moyle
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
Genetics, genomics,and the origin of species
January 21, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gautam Dantas
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Functional Microbiomics: Harnessing the Chemical Potential of the Microbial World
January 20, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Fire
Stanford University
Structure-based genome surveillance mechanisms (or ‘How the genome got its
stripes’)
January 14, 2009 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2008
Dr. Leigh Anderson
Protein Quantitation through Targeted Mass Spectrometry: The Way Out of Biomarker Purgatory
December 10, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. John Roth
UC Davis
Positive selection for deleterious chromosome rearrangements
November 19, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Chan
Mitochondrial dynamics in development and disease
November 5, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Daniel Gottschling
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
How do cellular sub-systems breakdown with age?
October 29, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jeff Long
University of Michigan
Natural Selection for an Allele (ALDH2-2) that Blocks Ethanol Metabolism
October 22, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jon Beckwith
American Cancer Society Professor
Evolution and Diversity of Pathways for Protein Disulfide Bond Formation and Reduction in Bacteria
October 15, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
October 1, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joshua Coon
Characterizing the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Proteome with an ETD-Enabled Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer
September 11, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Katherine Friedman
Vanderbilt University
Finding the right balance: Mechanisms of telomere length homeostasis in yeast
May 19, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Community Panel Discussion
April 23, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Richard Lewontin
Harvard University
Frequency and Population Context Dependent Fitness
April 16, 2008 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | 2:30 pm
Dr. James Bruce
Proteomics on the brain – The role of autophagy (self-eating) in axons
March 10, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Charles Kurland
Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Are Archaea and Bacteria pre-Karyotes or post-Karyotes?
January 17, 2008 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2007
Dr. Jonathan Sebat
November 29, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Edward Rubin
Extreme Comparative Genomics:
Microbes to Neanderthals
November 15, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Patrick Griffin
Probing the mechanism of partial agonist activation of PPARy
November 8, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genomic Medicine Seminar Dr. Terry Hassold
Washington State University
Aneuploidy in humans: where we’ve been, where we’re going
November 1, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Muddiman
Novel Chemical and Instrumental Approaches Coupled to
ESI-FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry to Effectively Address Proteomics Questions
October 25, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Richard Smith
Biological Variation and Proteome Biomarker Discovery
October 18, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Chris Ponting
University of Oxford
Recombination and rapid evolution of genes and chromosomes
October 1, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Lindquist
MIT
The Surprising Biology of Protein Misfolding
May 29, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Scott Edwards
Harvard University
Genome evolution in Reptilia, the sister group of mammals
May 23, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Chisholm
University of California, San Diego
Regeneration and repair of C. elegans neurons and skin
May 16, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan
Duke University
Intellectual Property and Genomic Innovation: DNA Science, Patents and Money
May 15, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Amy Pasquinelli
University of California, San Diego
MicroRNAs: A Small Contribution from Worms
May 9, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genomic Medicine Seminar
Dr. Carole Ober
Genome-Wide Association Studies in a Founder Population
May 2, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium
Pests, Plagues and Plants: Genomics and Global Health
April 25, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Susan Mango
University of Utah
Making and shaping the digestive tract
April 11, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genomic Medicine Seminar Dr. David Altshuler
Genome sequence variation and the inherited basis of common disease
April 4, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Maggie Werner-Washburne
University of New Mexico
Differentiation of quiescent and
non-quiescent yeast cells: Novel model systems for critical eukaryotic processes
March 28, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matthew Saunders
Human Nucleotide Variability and Signatures of Natural Selection
March 7, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jay Shendure
January 31 – Dr. Patrick Brown
Technologies & Tools for the Next Generation of DNA Sequencing
February 5, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jenny Graves
Professor, Comparative Genomics, Australian National University
Genome of Weird Australian Mammals
January 29, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Daniel Pinkel
UC San Francisco
Genetic variation and human disease
January 17, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jonathan Pritchard
University of Chicago
Genetic Variation and Natural Selection in the Human Genome
January 10, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genomic Medicine Seminar Dr. Huntington Willard
January 3, 2007 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2005
“Genes, chromosomes and cells, then and now: some historical perspective”
James F. Crow, Emeritus Professor of Genetics and Medical Genetics
Stan Gartler, Professor, Genome Sciences and Medical Genetics
Arno Motulsky, Professor, Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences
Iris Sandler, Affiliate Instructor, Genome Sciences
David Stadler, Professor, Genome Sciences
May 26, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Erin O’ Shea, UC San Francisco
High-Dimension and Low-Sample Size Settings, With Applications to
Analysis of the Budding Yeast Proteome
May 25, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Frontiers in Biomedical Research Symposium
May 23, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
GENOME SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM
May 18, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Augustine Kong
Studying Recombination Rate as a Phenotype
May 11, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jo Handelsman
Conversions with the Silent Majority: Signaling and Robustness in Microbial Communities
May 4, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Arend Sidow
Functional and Comparative Dissection of Gene Regulation in Ciona
April 27, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Zhiping Weng
April 20, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ulf Landegren
New Tools to Probe Molecular Composition and Architecture
April 13, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Edward Marcotte
Organization and Dynamics of the Yeast Proteome
April 6, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
GENOME TRAINING GRANT SYMPOSIUM
Hogness Auditorium (Health Sciences A-420)
April 5, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Marco Marra
University of British Columbia
A strategy for cloning genome rearrangements in follicular lymphoma
March 30, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Zhenglong Gu
Evolution of Duplicate Genes and Evolution of Laboratory Yeast
March 9, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
Putting the ‘omics’ in Aging Research: A Genome-Wide Hunt for Conserved Regulators of Longevity
March 7, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Richard Bonneau
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Two Examples of Computational Systems Biology
March 4, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jing Yang
Molecular Dissection of Multi-Step Tumor Metastasis
March 3, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos
Using Chromatin Structure to Map the Cis-regulatory Genome
March 1, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Duncan Odom
Control of Liver and Pancreas Gene Expression by Transcriptional Master Regulators
February 16, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Paul Sternberg
Signaling and Transcriptional Networks Controlling
February 9, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Dee Denver
Spontaneous Mutation and Genome Evolution in Caenorhabditis elegans
February 7, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Sebastian Zoellner
Mapping Complex Disease Genes
February 2, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mark Johnston
Feasting, Fasting, and Fermenting: Glucose Sensing and Signaling in Yeast
January 19, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mark Johnston
Feasting, Fasting, and Fermenting: Glucose Sensing and Signaling in Yeast
January 19, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael Lynch
The Origins of Gene and Genome Complexity
January 12, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Martin Kreitman
Deciphering rules governing enhancer functional evolution
January 5, 2005 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2004
Dr. Mariana Wolfner
Seminal Influences: How Proteins Donated by Males During Mating Females-a Genetic/Genomic Analysis in Drosophila
December 8, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Rick Myers
Genome-wide analysis of human transcriptional regulatory elements
December 1, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jennifer Graves
Exploring Kangaroo and Platypus Genomes
November 17, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Edward Kravitz
Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club
November 10, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Marc Van Gilst
Function and Evolution of Dietary Sensing Nuclear Receptors in Nematodes: Fat Regulation, Gene Duplication, and More…
November 3, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Catherine Peichel
Fishing for the Secrets of Speciation: Genetic Analysis of Reproductive Isolation in Sticklebacks
October 27, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Thomas Gingeras
Empirical Analysis of Sites of RNA Transcription for 30% of the Human Genome: The Changing Landscape of the Human Genome Annotations
October 20, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mark Shriver
Ancestry and admixture mapping methods in the search for genes affecting complex disease risks
October 13, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Marc Vidal
Interactome Networks
October 6, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Charles Aquadro
Genome Scans for Footprints of Selection in Drosophila: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities for Revealing the Functional Basis of Adaptation
September 29, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jianming Zhang
The Origin And Evolution Of A New Chimerical
September 20, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
40 Years of the Yeast Genome
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
September 3, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Oliver King
Binding Sites and Barcodes
August 9, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Robin Dowell
Feasible structural alignment of RNAs
July 29, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ting Wu
Transvection: A Pairing-Mediated Homology Effect
June 28, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars:
Informal Seminar:
Dr. John Yates
Towards Comprehensive Proteomics of Cells
Dr. Charles Sugnet
Discovery and Detection of Alternative Splicing in Humans and Mice
June 23, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Matthew Bogyo
Small Molecule Probes of Protease Function: Applications from Cancer to Malaria
June 2, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Scott Fraser
Imaging Developmental Mechanics and Mechanical Influences on Development in the Vertebrate Embryo
May 26, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. George Church
New Technologies for Analyzing, Constructing, and Regulating Biological ‘Operating Systems’
May 24, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Tim Ting Chen
De Novo Peptide Sequencing and Peptide Identification via Tandem Mass Spectrometry” (revised title)
May 21, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium
May 19, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Thomas Muir
The Chemical Biology of Protein Splicing
May 12, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Zemer Gitai
Understanding the Mechanisms that Determine Cell Polarity
May 11, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Charles Langley
The Impact of Strong Selection on Population Genomic Variation
May 5, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Andrew Fire
Ratcheted DNA and Maintenance of Genetic Activity in the C. elegans Germline
April 28, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. William Talbot
Genetic Analysis of Gastrulation in the Zebrafish
April 21, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jay Hirsh
Flies (& Mice) as Models for Studying Cocaine Response Pathways
April 14, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Howard Jacob
Application of Comparative Genomics to Common Complex Disease
April 7, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Christine Wu
Proteomic Tools for the Cell Biologist
April 5, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Paul Horton
WoLF+PSORT system for protein localization prediction
April 2, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Coleen Murphy
Genes That Act Downstream of the DAF-16 FOXO Transcription Factor to Influence the Lifespan of C. elegans
March 31, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Seminars:
Dr. Benjamin Turk
Novel Peptide Library Approaches for Functional Profiling of Proteases and Protein Kinases
Dr. Asa Ben-Hur
Protein sequence motifs: predicting protein function, remote homology, and protein-protein interactions
March 17, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Amy Kiger
Inside-Out: Investigating Cell Shape Using Genome-Wide RNAi
March 10, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Joshua Akey
Computational Studies of Genetic Variation: Searching For Signatures of Selection in Humans and Mapping Gene Expression QTL in Yeast
March 3, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Siavash Kurdistani
Mapping Global Acetylation Patterns to Gene Expression
March 1, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Noah Rosenberg
Genome-wide Analysis of Human Variation and Population Structure
February 25, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Steve Warren
The FMR1 Gene: Two Diseases and Two Mechanisms
February 18, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stephen Proulx
The Evolution of Genome Complexity: The Rise and Proliferation of Genetic Interactions
February 12, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | 4:30, T-739 Health Sciences
Dr. Sean Eddy
Computational Analysis of Noncoding RNA Genes
February 11, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jane Gitschier
Absolute Pitch: Genetics and Perception
February 4, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Marcus Feldman
Some Perspectives on the Genetic Structure of Human Populations
January 28, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Brian Chait
Proteomic Tools for Dissecting Cellular Function
January 21, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Terry Speed
Incorporating Dependence Into Models for Biomolecular Motifs
January 14, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eric Green
Multi Species Comparative Sequencing: Using Evolution to Decode the Human Genome
January 7, 2004 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2003
Dr. Jonathan Pritchard
Linkage Disequilibrium in the Human Genome, and Implications for Complex Trait Mapping
December 10, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Victor Ambros
Small Noncoding RNA’s and Animal Development
December 3, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gisela Storz
Regulating With Noncoding RNAs
November 19, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Simon Tavare
Approximate Bayesian Computation in Population Genetics
November 12, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. James Kent
The Gene Family Browser and other Recent Research at genome.ucsc.edu
November 5, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mario Capecchi
Gene Targeting Into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Psychiatric Disorders
October 29, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Terry Hwa
Complex Transcriptional Logics From Simple Molecular Interactions
October 22, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Eric Selker
Genome Defense and DNA Methylation in Neurospora
October 15, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Ajit Varki
Multiple Differences in Sialic Acid Biology Between Humans and Great Apes
October 8, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Mark Chee
Accessing Genetic Information: Technology for Large Scale SNP Genotyping
October 1, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Shozo Yokoyama
Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Color Vision in Vertebrates.
July 14, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Deirdre Meldrum
Microsystems and Applications for Life-on-a-Chip
June 4, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Martin Yanofsky
Flower and Fruit Development in Arabidopsis
May 28, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Gabriel Guarneros
Minigenes as Models for the Effect of Early Codon Composition on Protein Synthesis
May 21, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Genome Sciences Symposium: “Human – Mouse Comparative Biology”
May 14, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Jay Heinecke
Oxidants Restrain Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity by Making Kinky Proteins
May 7, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. John Carlson
Odor and Taste Receptors in Drosophila: Genetics and E-genetics
April 30, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Robert Darnell
Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders: Windows Into Neuron-Specific Regulatory Systems and Tumor Immunity
April 23, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Randy Schekman
Mechanism of Cargo Sorting in the Secretory Pathway
April 16, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Phil Benfey
Identifying Transcriptional Networks Using Cell-type Specific Expression Profiling
April 9, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Speakers:
Dr. Karen Mohlke
Evaluating a Complex Trait: Evidence for Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Genes in Finns
Dr. Terry Gaasterland
Computational Analysis of Splicing in Mouse and Trypanosomes
April 2, 2003 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Bradley Bernstein
Global Approaches for the Study of Chromatin
March 31, 2003 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | K-069
Dr. Scott Seiwert
Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids for Biosensor Applications
March 24, 2003 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | J-280
Two Speakers:
Dr. Robin Allshire
Silencing In and Out of Fission Yeast Centromeres
Dr. Kara Koehler
The Incredible Egg: Modeling Human Aneuploidy in the Mouse
March 19, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Two Speakers:
Dr. David Wang
A Viral Genomics Approach to Pathogen Detection
Dr. Kerry Kim
Characterization and Analysis of Temporal Contrast Adaptation in the Salamander Retina
March 17, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Michael J. MacCoss
Technological Advances in the Measurement of Proteins and Protein Modifications in Complex Mixtures by Mass Spectrometry
February 24, 2003 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | ., K-069
Dr. Charles Kurland
Origins of Eukaryotes and the Vanished Role of HGT
January 24, 2003 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | 3:30 K-069
Dr. John Storey
Exploratory Detection of Differential Gene Expression in DNA Microarray Experiments
January 22, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Bradley D. Preston
Mutator Mice: When DNA Replication Fidelity Fails
January 15, 2003 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2002
Dr. Andrew Clark
Comparative Genomics and Molecular Population Genetics of the Drosophila Y Chromosome
December 11, 2002 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. Stephen Altschul
Assessing the Accuracy of Database Search Methods, and Improving the Performance of PSI-BLAST
October 16, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Dr. David Pollock
Evolutionary Genetics and Biochemistry: Coevolution Among Protein Residues and Mutation Gradients in Vertebrate Mitochondria
October 9, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Chris T. Amemiya
Genomic Approaches to Problems in Evolution and Development
June 12, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | 4:30, J-280 “Genomic Approaches to Problems in Evolution and Development”
Stanislas Leibler
Space, Time and Genetic Networks
June 5, 2002 9:45 am – 10:45 am | 5:00
Gary Ruvkun
The Tiny RNA World
May 22, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Stuart Kim
Global Analysis of Gene Expression in C. elegans
May 15, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
James Dahlberg
Proofreading During Nuclear Export of tRNA and Ribosomes
May 8, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Daphne Preuss
Sexual Signaling on a Cellular Level: Lessons from Arabidopsis Reproduction
May 1, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Liqun Luo
From Single Neuron to Neural Circuits: Genetic Analysis of Brain Development in Drosophila
April 24, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Jack Szostak
Directed Evolution: From RNA to Protein to Cells
April 10, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
David Eisenberg
Protein Interactions
April 3, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Ronald Davis
Use of the Whole Genome Set of Yeast Deletion for Saturation Genetic Analysis and Multigenic Traits
March 13, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Harry Noller
Crystal Structure of the Ribosome, and its Interactions with mRNA and tRNA
March 6, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Samuel Karlin
Overlapping Gene Groups in Human Chromosomes 21 and 22, and Disease Associations
March 4, 2002 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | ., Health Sciences J-280 Sponsored by Genome Sciences and HHMI
Kathryn Anderson
Patterning the Mouse Spinal Cord: Perspectives from New Mutants
February 27, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Evan Eichler
Duplications, Disease, and the Evolution of the Human Genome
February 20, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Mitzi Kuroda
Epigenetic Spreading of Chromatin Organization in Drosophila
February 13, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Andrew Link
Systematic Analysis of Protein Complexes Using Mass Spectrometry
February 6, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Mark Boguski
Bioinformatics: Past, Present and Future
January 30, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Sean Eddy
The Modern RNA World: Computational Genomic Screens for Noncoding RNAs
January 23, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Edward M. Rubin
Biological Jewels in Interspecies Sequence Data
January 9, 2002 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
2001
Michael Snyder
Large Scale Analysis of Genome 2 Proteomes: A Tale of Two Chips
December 12, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Gerald Rubin
Experimental and Computational Approaches for Interpreting the Drosophila Genome Sequence
December 5, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Matthew Stephens
Estimating Haplotypes from Population Genotype Data
November 28, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Gary Stormo
Experimental and Computational Studies of DNA-Protein Interactions
November 21, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Geoffrey Duyk
Genetics in a Post-Genomics Era: Lessons from Model Systems
November 14, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
K. Dane Wittrup
Antibody Engineering by Yeast Surface Display
November 7, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Virginia Zakian
Regulation of Telomere Replication in Yeast
October 31, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Joe Felsenstein
An Unintended Encounter: Molecular Biology Meets Population Biology
October 17, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
John Yates
Towards Comprehensive Analysis of Cells and Tissues
October 10, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium
Leroy Hood
Systems Approaches to Biology
October 3, 2001 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Foege Auditorium