Spring 2005

The Life Sciences and Genomics Division Seminars and the Biosciences Distinguished Lectures are usually scheduled for Tuesday afternoons, from 4pm to 5pm. The talks are usually held in Building 66-Auditorium. Exceptions to time or location are indicated in RED text below. Speakers and details are subject to change. This page is updated regularly, but you may also contact Gail Mosley at (510) 495-2981 or glmosley@lbl.gov for further details and confirmation.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory continues to welcome off-site visitors. However, during these times of heightened security, site access procedures have been adjusted. Whether you plan to drive or take the LBNL shuttle, please contact Gail Mosley at (510) 495-2981 or glmosley@lbl.gov at least twenty-four hours prior to each presentation to arrange site access.

If you are coming from off-site, please consider taking the LBNL-Strawberry Canyon shuttle bus to the seminar (http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/Facilities/Support/Busses/off-site.html). We encourage seminar attendees from UC Berkeley campus to use the LBNL Strawberry Canyon shuttle bus that departs from Gayley Road, across from the Greek Theater, every 15 minutes (refer to the online bus schedule for more information).


Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Affiliation

Host

Location

Jan 4, 2005

Peter Agre

Distinguished Lecturer

Aquapor in Water Channels - From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine

Johns Hopkins University

John Conboy

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Jan 14, 2005

Stephen West

Distinguished Lecturer

Double-strand Break Repair in Mammalian Cells

Cancer Research UK

Priscilla Cooper

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Jan 18, 2005

Tom Hei

Radiation Induced Bystander Effects:
Mechanisms and Implications for Radiation Risk Assessment

Columbia University

Amy Kronenberg

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Jan 21, 2005

Thomas Jenuwein

The Indexing Potential of Histone Lysine Methylation

The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology - IMP

Gary Karpen

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Jan 25, 2005

Eric Reiman

Distinguished Lecturer

TBD

Translational Genomics Research Institute

 

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Feb 1, 2005

Mark D'Esposito

Is Functional MRI the New Phrenology?

University of California, Berkeley

William Jagust

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Feb 8, 2005

Gregory Wray

TBD

Duke University

 

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Feb 15, 2005

Karlene Cimprich

Sensing and Responding to DNA Damage

Stanford University

Amy Kronenberg

Bldg 66 Auditorium

POSTPONED, Feb 22

Howard Ochman

The Evolution of Defective Genes and Genomes

University of Arizona

Pilar Francino

Bldg 66 Auditorium

March 1, 2005

Steve Almo

Structural Basis for T-cell Costimulation

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Ken Downing

Bldg 66 Auditorium

March 8, 2005

Mitch Sogin

What Molecular Evolution and Genomics Tells Us about the Evolution of Eukaryotes

The Marine Biological Laboratory

Monica Medina

Bldg 66 Auditorium

Thursday, March 10, at 12 noon

Alan Tomkinson

Keeping the genome together: repair of DNA strand breaks

University of Maryland

Priscilla Cooper

Bldg 66 Auditorium

March 15, 2005

Tom Misteli

Genome Function in the Context of Architecture

National Cancer Institute

Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

Bldg 66 Auditorium

March 22, 2005

G. Shyamala

Mammary Development and Carcinogenesis: Impact of erbB2/c-neu on Estrogen Dependent Epithelial Cell Proliferation

Life Sciences Division, LBNL

Judy Campisi

Bldg 66 Auditorium

March 29, POSTPONED to May 17

Rebecca Heald

Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Function

University of California, Berkeley

Sharon Krauss

Bldg 66 Auditorium

April 5, at 10 AM

Robin Allshire

RNA Interference, Silent Chromatin and Centromere Architecture

University of Edinburgh

Abby Dernburg

Bldg 66 Auditorium

April 12, 2005

John Sedivy

Effectors of Senescent States in Human Cells

Brown University

Judy Campisi

Bldg 66 Auditorium

April 19, 2005

Michael Jordan

Bayesian Bioinformatics

University of California, Berkeley

Saira Mian

Bldg 66 Auditorium

RESCHEDULED to December 20; No seminar on April 26

Phyllis Wise

Do Estrogens Protect the Brain against Neurodegeneration and Injury? Insights Derived from Animal Models

University of California, Davis

Judy Campisi

Bldg 66 Auditorium

May 3, 2005

Jeffrey Fessler

Physics-Based Image Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

University of Michigan

Ron Huesman

Bldg 66 Auditorium

May 10, 2005

Scott Taylor

Development of an Imaging Agent Target: Apoptosis

Life Sciences Division, LBNL

Tom Budinger

Bldg 66 Auditorium

POSTPONED, May 17

Rebecca Heald will speak instead (see March 29)

Doug Hanahan

TBD

University of California, San Francisco

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff

Bldg 66 Auditorium

POSTPONED, May 24, 2005

Richard Gibbs

Distinguished Lecturer

Genomes and Genetics

Baylor College of Medicine

 

Bldg 66 Auditorium

May 31, 2005

 

No Seminar

 

 

 

June 7, 2005

Paul Fraser

The Presenilin Complex and Alzheimer's Disease

University of Toronto

Bing Jap

Bldg 84 room 318

 

Previous Seminar Schedules:
Fall 2004 Schedule
2002/2003 Schedule
2001/2002 Schedule