OCTOBER 6

12:00 noon
Department of Pharmacology
Reunion Hall, John Morgan Bldg.
Dr. Rusty Lansford (Caltech)
“Dynamic analysis of embryogenesis”

12:00 noon
Vision Seminar
Barchi Library
140 John Morgan Bldg.,
Dr. Bruce Cumming (NEI, NIH)
“Where do correlations between neuronal activity and sensory decisions originate?”

12:00 noon
Seminars in Organic Chemistry
Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex
Dr. John Wai (Merck)
“Second generation HIV-1 integrase inhibitors”

12:15 p.m.
Genetics/Cell and Developmental Biology
Aud., BRB II/III
Dr. Michael Lampson (Penn)
“Sensing centromere tension: mechanical forces and chromosome segregation”

2:00 p.m.
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Austrian Aud., Clin. Res. Bldg.
Dr. Heike Folsch (Northwestern)
“Molecular mechanisms of polarized membrane trafficking in epithelial cells”

OCTOBER 7

8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine First Annual Scientific Retreat
Aud., BRB II/III
for more info or to register: www.irm.upenn.edu/Retreat.shtml
Keynote speaker: Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger (Harvard)
“TBA”

12:00 noon
Hematology-Oncology/AFCRI
Austrian Aud., Clin. Res. Bldg.
Dr. Jonathan M. Kurie (Texas)
“Mouse models of lung cancer”

4:00 p.m.
Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
302 Clin. Res. Bldg.
Dr. Nancy Cooke (Penn)
“Long-range activation of the human growth hormone gene cluster”

4:00 p.m.
Immunology Colloquium
Austrian Aud., Clin. Res. Bldg.,
Dr. Ann Feeney (Scripps)
“Influence of BCR repertoire on β cell fate decisions”

4:00 p.m.
2008 DuPont-Marshall Lecture
Room 102, Chemistry Bldg.,
Dr. W.E. Moerner (Stanford)
“Single-molecule optical spectroscopy and imaging: from early steps to recent advances”

OCTOBER 8

12:00 noon
Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health
251 BRB II/III
Dr. Douglas L. Black (UCLA)
“Alternative splicing and the regulation of neuronal gene expression”

12:00 noon
Seminars in Microbiology
Austrian Aud., Clin. Res. Bldg.
Dr. Thomas Kristie (NIH)
“Multi-point control alpha-herpesvirus infection by the transcriptional coactivator HCF-1”

3:15 p.m.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Wu and Chen Aud., Levine Hall
Dr. Cherie Kagan (Penn)
“Engineering charge transport and energy flow in molecular and nanoscale materials and devices”

4:00 p.m.
Neuroscience Colloquium Series
Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Bldg.
Dr. Marie Filbin (CUNY)
“Signaling axonal regeneration in the adult CNS”

4:00 p.m.
The Wistar Institute Lecture
Joseph N. Grossman Aud., Wistar Inst.
Dr. Kanta Subbarao (NIAID, NIH)
“Immune responses to influenza A H5N1 viruses and vaccines”

OCTOBER 9

OCTOBER 10

12:00 noon
Prokaryotic Seminar Series
209 Johnson Pav.
Ansel Hsiao (Zhu Lab)
“Regulation of anti-virulence factors during Vibrio cholerae infection”

12:15 p.m.
Institute for Environmental Medicine
1 John Morgan Bldg.
Dr. Charles Steenbergen (Johns Hopkins)
“Cardioprotection and altered mitochondrial transport”