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Events

2013

Date	Description
JAN. 16	Dr. Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, "Genomic instability in cancer and normal cells", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
JAN. 23	Dr. Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NLM/NIH, "Evolution of antivirus defense systems, virus-host arms races in prokaryotes, Lamarckian evolution and life-death decisions", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
FEB. 06	Dr. Doug Black, UCLA, "Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and the regulation of neuronal gene expression", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
FEB. 27	Dr. Kristen Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, "Mechanisms of Alternative Splicing in Human T cells", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAR. 27	Dr. Paul Kenny, Scripps Florida, "MicroRNAs in drug addiction", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
APR. 03	Dr. Wolfram R. Zueckert, University of Kansas, "How to Build a Host Pathogen Interface: Lipoprotein Secretion in Borrelia burgdorferi",4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
APR. 17	Dr. Michael Teitell, University of California, Los Angeles, “Photothermal Nanoblade and RNA Import into Mitochondria”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
APR. 24	Dr. Anatol Kreitzer, University of California, San Francisco, “Mechanisms of Motor Control and Reinforcement in the Basal Ganglia”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAY. 01	Dr. Chris Hughes, UC Irvine, "The angiogenic microenvironment: probing the cellular and molecular interactions that regulate vascular sprouting”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAY. 15	Dr. Michael McClelland, UC Irvine, "Salmonella: Comparative Genomics and High Throughput Genetics”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAY. 22	Dr. Kristin Bedard, Kineta, Inc., "Small molecule drugs induce innate immunity through IRF-3”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114, Co-Sponsored by the Center For Virus Research and NIH T32 Training Grant “Molecular Biology of Eukaryotic Viruses”
MAY. 29	Dr. Shannon Bennett,California Academy of Sciences, "The evolutionary dynamics of dengue virus and other zoonotic diseases”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114

2012

Date	Description
JAN. 18	Dr. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, “Induction of type I interferon by RNA Viruses”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114 (CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR VIRUS RESEARCH).
FEB. 15	Dr. Ming Tan & Dr. Rozanne Sandri-Goldin, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, “Pathogens & You: Chicken Pox and Shingles”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
FEB. 29	Dr. Jeremy Sanford, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Protein-RNA interactions in gene expression and genetic disease”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAR. 14	Dr. Davide Ruggero, University of California, San Francisco, “When Cancer is Addicted to Translation and its Therapeutic Implications”, 4 p.m. NELSON AUDITORIUM
MAR. 28	Dr. Denise Monack, Stanford University, “Salmonella's alternative lifestyle: mechanisms of persistence”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
APR. 11	Dr. Amy Pasquinelli, UC San Diego, “Pinning down miRNA targets in vivo”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
APR. 25	Dr. Schahram Akbarian, University of Massachusetts, “The Epigenetics of Major Psychiatric Disease”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAY. 09	Dr. Lori Isom, University of Michigan, “Role of sodium channel SCN1A and SCN1B in inherited epilepsy”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAY. 16	Dr. Channing Der, University of North Carolina, “Aberrant Ras and Rho Signaling: Opportunities for Cancer Treatment”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-110
JUN. 06	Dr. Manny Ares Jr., UC Santa Cruz, “Mechanisms that influence splicing decisions”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
SEP. 26	Dr. John Dani, Baylor College of Medicine, “Nicotinic Cholinergic & Dopaminergic Mechanisms in the CNS”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
OCT. 10	Dr. Donald McDonald, UCSF, "Overcoming Resistance to Angiogenesis Inhibitors in Cancer", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
OCT. 24	Dr. Scott Baraban, UCSF, "Inhibition and Epilepsy: Genes, Synapses and Cell Transplantation", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
NOV. 07	Dr. Tom Blumenthal, University of Colorado, "Eukaryotic operons and the mechanism of trans-splicing", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
DEC. 05	Dr. Ian Clarke, University of Southampton, U.K., "Transformation of Chlamydia trachomatis: development of the chlamydial plasmid as a vector", 1 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114

2011

Date	Description
OCT. 14	Dr. Leigh Knodler, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, "The intracellular lifestyle of Salmonella enterica: what’s new?” FRIDAY, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.
OCT. 19	Dr. Carl Ware, LIAI/Burnham Medical Research Institute, “How Viruses Rewire Cytokine Communication Networks” 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.
NOV. 02	POSTPONED Dr. Lori Isom, University of Michigan, “Role of Voltage-gated sodium channels in pediatric epilepsy” 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.
NOV. 16	Dr. Stewart Shuman, Sloan-Kettering Institute, “RNA repair: hiding in plain sight”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.
NOV. 29	Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, “Twisted tales of DNA: (i) Minivectors for transfection and gene therapy; (ii) SNPs in the bacterial pangenome associated with antibiotic resistance”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.
NOV. 30	Dr. Anthony Maurelli, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, "How to grow within a mammalian cell: Lessons learned from Chlamydia", 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.
DEC. 14	Dr. Alexander Serganov, Sloan Kettering Institute, ““Riboswitches: from structure to function”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114.