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GDCB
Department Schedule
Department lectures are held
Fridays at 4:10 pm in 1414 Molecular Biology Building, unless otherwise noted.
January 15, 2010 Dr. Ian Schneider
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University
"Spatial and temporal organization of subcellular dynamics: How growth factors and extracellular matrix regulate cell migration"
Host:
January 22, 2010 Dr. Lyric Bartholomay
Department of Entomology, Iowa State University
"Tug of War: Antiviral responses and egg development in the mosquito ovary"
Host:
January 29, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. James V. Moroney
Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"CO2 concentrating mechanisms: How cyanobacteria and algae enhance photosynthetic CO2 fixation"
Host: Dr. Steve Rodermel and Dr. Martin Spalding
February 05, 2010 Dr. Fred Janzen
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
"Genetic insights into the evolutionary interplay of sex ratio and environmental sex determination in a changing global climate"
Host:
February 12, 2010 Dr. Ning Fang
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"An imaging platform for diciphering motions in living cells"
Host:
February 19, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Ursula Goodenough
Department of Biology, Washington University-St Louis
"Fats vs. Carbs: Lipid bodies from wild-type and starchless Chlamydomonas and implications for algal biodiesel research"
Host: Dr. Martin Spalding
February 24, 2010 Dr. John A. Morgan
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering
"Prediction and determination of metabolic fluxes in photosynthetic microbes"
Host: Joint GDCB and Chemical and Biological Engrg Dept Seminar
Note different day and time: Wednesday at 4:00pm
February 26, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Tom Brutnell
Dept of Plant Breeding, Boyce Thompson Inst, Cornell University
"The maize leaf transcriptome"
Host: Dr. Erik Vollbrecht
March 05, 2010 Dr. Steven D. Clouse
Department of Horticulture Science, North Carolina State University
"The role of receptor kinase phosphorylation in Arabidopsis signal transduction pathways"
Host: Dr. Yanhai Yin
March 12, 2010 Dr. Gaya Amarasinghe
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University
"Role of Ebola VP35 in immune evasion"
Host:
March 26, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Zhonglin Mou
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville
"Systemic acquired resistance and its regulating components"
Host: Dr. Bing Yang
April 02, 2010 Dr. Mei Hong
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Structure and dynamics of complex biological solids from NMR: From virus proteins to plant cell walls"
Host:
April 09, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Chris Kearney
Department of Biology, Baylor University
"A suite of viral deletion vectors for screening or inducible protein expression in plants"
Host: Dr. Robert Thornberg
April 16, 2010 Dr. Keith Mostov
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, UCSF
"Formation of Multicellular Epithelial Structures"
Host: Dr. Jeff Essner
April 30, 2010 Dr. Robert Jernigan
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University
"Investigations of the ribosome mechanism"
Host:
August 19, 2010 Dr. Dan Theodorescu
University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Novel Paradigms in Personalized Cancer Therapy"
Host: Dr. Volker Brendel
Novel Paradigms in Personalized Cancer Therapy
August 27, 2010 Dr. Matthew Wilkerson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Cancer genomics: detection, validation, and characterization of lung squamous cell carcinoma subtypes"
Host: Dr. Volker Brendel
GDCB Seminar-Wilkerson
September 03, 2010 W. Jay Ramsey
NewLink Genetics
"HyperAcute-Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy: Basic Science to Bedside"
Host: Dr. Volker Brendel
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September 07, 2010 Dr. Jeff Ross-Ibarra
University of California, Davis
"Population genetic approaches to studying maize: a haplotype map and a second look at maize origins"
Host: Dr. Carolyn Lawrence
September 17, 2010 Dr. Jo Anne Powell-Coffman
Iowa State University
"HIF-1 regulatory networks and their roles in C. elegans stress response"
Host:
September 24, 2010 Dr. Kayla Bayless
Texas A&M University
"Role of Intermediate Filaments in Activation of the Angiogenic Switch"
Host: Dr. Jeffrey Essner
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October 01, 2010 Dr. Jeffrey Essner
Iowa State University
"Endothelial tube formation and tumor induction in zebrafish"
Host:
October 08, 2010 Dr. Clark Coffman
Iowa State University
"Life and Death Decisions: Elucidating the signaling networks that control cell migration and programmed cell death of Drosophila germ cells"
Host:
October 15, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Joseph Kieber
University of North Carolina
"The ins and outs of cytokinin signaling"
Host: Dr. Mike Muszynski
October 29, 2010 Dr. Barry Stoddard
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Reseach Center
"Structure, function, engineering and evolution of homing endonucleases"
Host: Dr. Bing Yang
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November 12, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Hank W. Bass
Florida State University
"Meiotic Telomere Functions; Lessons from Maize"
Host: Dr. Erik Vollbrecht
November 19, 2010 Dr. Christine Peterson
Iowa State University, Veterinary Pathology
"How sweet it is: Immune modulation by simple pathogen-derived sugars"
Host: Dr. Erik Vollbrecht
December 03, 2010 Dr. Smadar Ben-Tabou DeLeon
California Institute of Technology
"Information Processing in Gene Regulatory Networks for Animal Development"
Host: Dr. Jeff Trimarchi
December 10, 2010 Loomis Lecture
Dr. A. Mark Settles
University of Florida
"Seed mutants reveal developmental roles for RNA splicing in maize"
Host: Dr. Phil Becraft
January 21, 2011 Dr. Michael Dyer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"Retinoblastoma: Bridging Developmental Neurobiology and Cancer Genetics"
Host: Maura McGrail
February 18, 2011 Dr. Susan Carpenter
Iowa State University
"Virus Dynamics and Immune Evasion During Persistent Lentivirus Infection"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
February 25, 2011 Dr. Ling Li
Iowa State University
"Uncovering novel signaling interactions in plant metabolic networks"
Host: Dr. Erik Vollbrecht
March 04, 2011 Dr. Cagla Eroglu
Duke University
"How do astrocytes control central nervous system synapse formation?"
Host: Dr. Jeff Trimarchi
March 11, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. David Stern
Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell University
"Chloroplast antisense RNA: Removed by RNA surveillance or retained for regulation?"
Host: Dr. Steve Rodermel
March 14, 2011 Ueli Grossniklaus
University of Zurich
"Sex and defense: unexpected similarities between pollen tube reception and fungal invasion"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
March 25, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. James Alfano
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
"Disabling surveillance: Pseudomonas syringae type III effectors and the plant innate immune system"
Host: Dr. Bing Yang
April 01, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Katherine Osteryoung
Michigan State University
"How do chloroplasts divide?"
Host: Dr. Steve Rodermel
April 08, 2011 Dr. Joe Corbo
Washington University, St. Louis
"The systems biology of photoreceptor patterning and cis-regulation"
Host: Dr. Drena Dobbs
April 15, 2011 Dr. Monica Vetter
University of Utah
"Becoming neural in the developing retina"
Host: Dr. Jeff Trimarchi
April 22, 2011 Dr. William B. Wood
University of Colorado Boulder
"Changing the way we teach: why we should and how we can"
Host: Dr. Jo Anne Powell-Coffman
April 29, 2011 Dr. Inanc Birol
BC Cancer Agency
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Host: Taner Sen
September 02, 2011 Dr. Diarmuid O`Donoghue
National University of Ireland
"Algorithmic Explorations on Biologically Inspired Genetic Repair using Ancestral Templates"
Host: Reid Palmer
September 16, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Burkhard Schulz
Purdue University, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
"Brassinosteroids control sex determination in maize"
Host: Phil Becraft
September 23, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. James Alfano
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Disabling surveillance: Pseudomonas syringae type III effectors and the plant innate immune system"
Host: Bing Yang
September 30, 2011 Dr. Diane Bassham
Iowa State University
"Function and regulation of autophagy in Arabidopsis"
Host: Don Sakaguchi
October 07, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Zhenbiao Yang
University of California, Riverside
"Auxin acts as a self-organizing hierarchical signal in Arabidopsis leaves"
Host: Steve Rodermel
October 14, 2011 Dr. Sarah Siegrist
University of California, Berkeley
"Termination of neurogenesis during development"
Host: Stephan Schneider
Invited speaker in the Seminar Series for Promising Postdoctoral Fellows and Future Faculty in the Basic Life Sciences
October 21, 2011 Dr. Nick Marsh-Armstrong
Johns Hopkins University
"Phagocytic Astrocytes and Glaucoma"
Host: Jeff Trimarchi
November 04, 2011 Dr. Maura McGrail
Iowa State University
"Identification of a novel zebrafish model of the pediatric cancer Retinoblastoma"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
November 11, 2011 Loomis Lecture
Dr. Gwyneth Ingram
University of Edinburgh
"Endosperm development: a matter of death and life"
Host: Phil Becraft
November 18, 2011 Dr. Brian Link
Medical College of Wisconsin
"Polarized signaling and organelle dynamics cooperate to regulate neurogenesis in the retina"
Host: Jeff Trimarchi
December 02, 2011 Dr. Jessica Whited
Harvard Medical School
"Getting a leg up: novel approaches for understanding the mysteries of limb regeneration"
Host: Jeff Trimarchi
Invited speaker in the Seminar Series for Promising Postdoctoral Fellows and Future Faculty in the Basic Life Sciences
January 27, 2012 John F. Rawls
University of North Carolina
"Microbial and developmental regulation of vertebrate energy balance"
Host: Julie Kuhlman
February 24, 2012 Mark Martindale
University of Hawaii
"The evolution of complex traits: a developmental perspective"
Host: Stephan Schneider
co-sponsored by EEOB
March 09, 2012 David Feldheim
UC Santa Cruz
"Mechanisms of mammalian visual system development"
Host: Jeff Trimarchi
March 23, 2012 Loomis Lecture
David Sanders
Purdue University
"The Arsenate Bacteria Hoax: Ethical Responsibilities of Authors, Publishers, the Media, and the Scientific Community"
Host: Mike Muszynski
CELT and Walter and Helen Parke Loomis funded
March 30, 2012 Loomis Lecture
Mike Scanlon
Cornell University
"Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Maize Leaf Development"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
IG and Walter and Helen Parke Loomis funded
April 06, 2012 Bryan Phillips
University of Iowa
"Asymmetric cell division in C. elegans: the Wnts of change"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
April 13, 2012 Bo Huang
Depts of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
"Molecular complexes under the light: super-resolution microscopy"
Host: Diane Bassham
co-sponsored by Plant Sciences Institute, Imaging and computational modeling of plant growth and development team
April 20, 2012 Cathy Miller
Iowa State University
"TBA"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
May 04, 2012 Alternate location: 003 Physics
Sebastian Bednarek
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Seeing Stars: Clathrin-dependent membrane trafficking during plant cytokinesis and cell expansion"
Host: Diane Bassham
co-sponsored by Plant Sciences Institute, Imaging and computational modeling of plant growth and development team
September 14, 2012 Bing Yang
Iowa State University
"P&T Seminar - TAL effectors: from pathogenesis to genome editing"
Host:
September 21, 2012 Shiu-Lok Hu
University of Washington, Seattle
"Prime-boost immunization against HIV/AIDS: Lessons from non-human primate models"
Host: Michael Cho
co-sponsored by Biomedical Sciences
October 05, 2012 Laura S. Gammill
University of Minnesota
"Beyond gene expression: post-translational regulation of neural crest development"
Host: Clark Coffman
October 12, 2012 Cedric Feschotte
University of Utah
"Genomes without borders: mobile DNA, horizontal transfer, and the origins of genetic novelty"
Host: Erik Vollbrecht
October 26, 2012 Loomis Lecture
Jay Hollick
Ohio State University
"Epigenetic Mechanisms that Generate and Maintain Heritable Phenotypic Variation in Maize"
Host:
co-sponsored with Interdepartmental Genetics
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