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Life Sciences Division Seminars

The weekly Life Sciences Division Seminars are scheduled on Tuesdays, from 4 to 5 p.m. at 717 Potter Street, room 141, Berkeley, CA 94710. Exceptions to day, time or location are indicated in orange text in the seminar schedule below.

Speakers and details are subject to change. This page is updated regularly, but you may also contact seminar coordinator Ciccina Guagliardo at fguagliardo@lbl.gov for further details and confirmation. If you are interested in meeting with the speaker on the day of the seminar, please contact the host.

Berkeley Lab continues to welcome off-site visitors. Whether you plan to drive or take the Berkeley Lab shuttle to 717 Potter Street, please contact the seminar coordinator at least twenty-four hours prior to each seminar to arrange building access. The Berkeley Lab Potter/JBEI shuttle route information can be found here. UC Berkeley staff and students can use their UC ID card to obtain access; others, please contact the seminar coordinator for shuttle access.

 

Date
 Speaker Seminar Title
 Affiliation Host
 Location
   

Spring 2013

      
Jan 8
Informal reception follows		 Margaret Torn The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Implications for Climate Feedbacks and Mitigation Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory William Moses Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 15
Informal reception follows		 John Tainer Envisioning Complexes Controlling Biological Outcomes at the DNA Replication-repair Interface Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 22 Jeanne B. Lawrence Regulating the Epigenome via Chromosomal RNAs: Implications for Genome Biology and Chromosome Pathology University of Massachusetts Mina Bissell and Mark LaBarge Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 29 Ross Cagan Rational Polypharmacology and Multigenic Modeling: A Drosophila Approach to Cancer Therapeutics Mt Sinai Hospital Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 5 Peter Jones The Cancer Epigenome University of Southern California Paul Yaswen and Claudia Wiese Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 12
Informal reception follows		 Martyn Smith Characterizing the Exposome to Complement the Genome University of California, Berkeley Gary Karpen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 19
Informal reception follows		 Thomas Kornberg The Direct-delivery Mechanism of Cell Signaling University of California, San Francisco Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 26 Denise Montell Life, Death and Resurrection at the Cellular Level University of California, Santa Barbara Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 5
Informal reception follows		 Helen M. Blau Regulating Regeneration: Stem Cells, Newts and Niches Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine Mark LaBarge Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 12
Informal reception follows		 Wallace Marshall How Cells Regulate Organelle Size University of California, San Francisco Ken Downing Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 19
Informal reception follows		 Claudia Wiese Unraveling the Biology of NUCKS, a Highly Modified and Vertebrate-specific DNA-binding Protein Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 26
Informal reception follows		 Bruce Alberts

Science and the World's Future

Abstract & Flyer

 Science magazine and University of California, San Francisco Early Career Scientists Society LBNL on the Hill
Bldg 66
Auditorium
April 2 John Gerdes Novel Fluorine-18 PET Imaging Tracers for Assessments of CNS Neurotransmitter Networks University of Montana James P. O'Neil Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 9 Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Key Role of DNA Damage in Cancer and Aging Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 16 Wendy Bickmore Chromatin Folding in Development and Disease MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh Claudia Wiese and Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 23
Informal reception follows		 William W. Moses Radiotracer Imaging of Microbial Systems Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Stephen Derenzo Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 30
Informal reception follows		 Dan Fletcher Grace Under Pressure: Mechanical Regulation of the Cytoskeleton Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley Gary Karpen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 7 Christopher Marx Mathematical Models and Experimental Evolution to Study Genetic Interactions and Evolution of Synthetic Microbial Communities Harvard University Trent Northen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 14 James Brewer Quantitative Neuroimaging in the Clinical Setting: Toward an Earlier and More Accurate Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disease University of California, San Diego William Jagust Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 21 Satoshi Minoshima Molecular Imaging of Dementia: Past, Present, and Future University of Washington, Seattle William Jagust Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 28
Informal reception follows		 Jennifer Doudna RNA-programmed Genome Defense and Editing HHMI, University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Eva Nogales Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
June 4 Susan Gasser Sequestering Heterochromatin Through Development: Roles for Histone Methylation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland Priscilla Cooper and Janice Pluth Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
June 11
Informal reception follows		 Oliver Rando Epigenetic Inheritance from Yeast to Mouse University of Massachusetts Early Career Scientists Society Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
           
   

Archive Fall 2012

      
Sept 18 Charlotte Kuperwasser Recapturing Pluripotency: Links Between Cellular Reprogramming and Breast Cancer Heterogeneity Tufts University School of Medicine Paul Yaswen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Sept 25 Claire Tomlin Insights Gained From Mathematical Modeling of HER2 Positive Breast Cancer University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 2 Robert Mach Differential Distribution of Dopamine D2 and D3 Receptors in the Brain Measured with PET and Autoradiography Washington University School of Medicine William Jagust Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 9 Daniel Segre Towards Dynamical Models of Ecosystem-Level Metabolism Boston University Ben Bowen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 16 Anthony Hyman Beyond Stereo-Specificity: Liquids and Mesoscale Organization of Cytoplasm Max Planck Institute, Germany Eva Nogales Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 23 John Conboy Regulation of Alternative Splicing by Intronic Elements Near and Far Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 30 Bruce Cohen Next Generation Nanocrystals for Cellular Imaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Andy Wyrobek and Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 6
Moved to Oct 29
(Monday)		 Maria Jasin Protecting the Genome by Homologous Recombination Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Priscilla Cooper and Claudia Wiese Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 13 Andrew McCulloch Multi-Scale Modeling of the Failing Heart: From Mouse to Man University of California, San Diego Grant Gullberg Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 20 Norbert Pelc Recent Progress and Future Directions in X-Ray CT Technology Stanford University Grant Gullberg Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 27 Valerie Weaver Forcing Transformation University of California, San Francisco Mark LaBarge Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Dec 4 Stephen Kowalczykowski Single Molecule Visualization of Protein-DNA Complexes: Watching Molecular Machines at Work University of California, Davis John Tainer Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Dec 11 Doris Doudet Noradrenaline and the Mechanisms of Action of Electric and Magnetic Stimulation Therapies University of British Columbia James P. O'Neil Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Dec 18 Don Weeks Massive Transcriptome Changes During Activation of the CO2-concentrating Mechanism (CCM) in Microalgae and Development of TAL Effector Nucleases (TALENs) for Targeted Gene Knockout for Yeast and Rice University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bahram Pavin and Joel Hyman Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
           
   

Archive Spring 2012

      
Jan 10 Jodi Nunnari The Behavior of Mitochondria University of California, Davis Eva Nogales Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 17 David J. Brenner A Two-Edged Sword: Risks and Benefits Associated with Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation Columbia University Medical Center Cynthia McMurray Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 24 Moshe Szyf DNA Methylation as a Molecular Link between Environment (Nurture) and DNA (Nature) McGill University, Canada Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 31 Garry Nolan Deep Structure of Trans-cellular States in Cancer and Immunity via Single Cell Mass Cytometry Stanford School of Medicine Mark LaBarge Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 7 Simon Cherry Faster than the Speed of Light: In Vivo Imaging of Radionuclides with Cerenkov Radiation University of California, Davis Grant Gullberg Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 14 William Dynan Understanding and Re-Engineering the DNA Double-Strand Break Nanomachine Georgia Health Sciences University Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 21 Christer Jansson Biosynthesis of Alkane Biofuels in Cyanobacteria and Tobacco Earth Sciences Division Bahram Parvin Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 28 Jason Lieb Chromatin Dynamics in Cell Fate Specification and Maintenance University of North Carolina Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 6 Peter Walian Proteomics of Membrane Protein Complexes Life Sciences Division Ken Downing Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 13 Jay Keasling Synthetic Biology for Synthetic Chemistry: Biological Production of Hydrocarbons Physical Biosciences Division, Joint Biosciences Institute Gary Karpen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 20 Doris Doudet Understanding the Mechanisms of Action of Electric and Magnetic Stimulation Therapies for Depression University of British Columbia Bill Jagust Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Mar 27 Haifin Lin A Novel Small RNA-mediated Epigenetic Program Related to Stem Cells Yale University School of Medicine Gary Karpen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 3 Bill Jagust Amyloid, Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease Life Sciences Division and UC Berkeley Steve Derenzo Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 10
To be rescheduled		 Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers The Keyrole of DNA Damage in Health and Disease Erasmus MC, Department of Genetics, The Netherlands Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 17 Peter Nico The New View of Soil Carbon and Why You Should Care Earth Sciences Division Jim P. O'Neil Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 24 David C. Lyden Melanoma Exosomes Educate Bone Marrow Progenitor Cells Toward a Pro-metastatic Phenotype Through MET Weill Cornell Medical College Life Sciences Division Postdoc Society Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 1
No Seminar		          
May 8 Elliot Botvinick Optical Tweezers in the Study of Mechanobiology University of California, Irvine Mark LaBarge Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 15 Ann Chambers Tumor Metastasis and Dormancy London Regional Cancer Program, London, Ontario, Canada Life Sciences Division Postdoc Society Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 22 Cynthia McMurray From Molecules to Man: Genomic Instability to Neurodegeneration and Aging Lifes Sciences Divsion Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 29
To be rescheduled		 Charlotte Kuperwasser Understanding the Connection between Cellular Reprogramming and the Development of Breast Cancer Tufts University School of Medicine Paul Yaswen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
June 5 Priscilla Cooper Novel Intersections of DNA Repair with Replication and Transcription in Mammalian Cells Life Sciences Division Andrew Wyrobek Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
June 12 Peter Fraser Nuclear Genome Organization and Gene Expression: from Cell Populations to Single Molecule Analysis of Chromosome Folding Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK John Conboy Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
           
   

Archive Fall 2011

      
Oct 4 Sharmila Majumdar Morphological and Functional Imaging of Bone University of California, San Francisco Grant Gullberg Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 11 Julie Price Methodology Challenges in PET Amyloid Imaging University of Pittsburgh Jim P. O'Neil Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 18
Rescheduled to 2012		 Anthony Hyman Beyond Stereo-specificity: Liquids and Mesoscale Organization of Cytoplasm Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Eva Nogales / Ken Downing Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Oct 25 No Seminar        
Nov 1 Sylvain Costes Assessing the DNA Damage Response to Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Gary Karpen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 8 Edward H. Egelman Conservation and Polymorphism in Protein Polymers: Implications for Evolutionary Divergence University of Virginia, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Ken Downing Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 15 Thomas Helleday Homologous Recombination: from Basic Understanding to Anti-cancer Treatments University of Oxford, Cambridge, UK Priscilla Cooper / Judith Campisi Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 22 R. Scott Williams DNA Repair at the Interface of Genotoxic Stress and Neurological Disease Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institutes of Environmental Health Science John Tainer Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Nov 29 Jonathan Sweedler Metabolomics and Chemical Imaging for Probing Cellular Heterogeneity University of Illinois Trent Northen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Dec 6
CANCELED		 Steve Long TBD University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Steve Derenzo Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Dec 13 Len A. Pennacchio Beyond Exomes: Noncoding In Vivo Function and Human Disease Genomics Division/DOE Joint Genome Institute Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
           
           
   

Archive Spring 2011

      
Jan 11 Kandice Tanner The Role of Angular Morphomechanics on Self Assembled Multi-cellular Architecture Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Mina Bissell Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Jan 18 Michael Snyder Personal and Non-Personal Genomes: Their Analysis and Variation Stanford University Susan Celniker Bldg 66 Aud.
Jan 25 John Boone Breast CT: True 3D Breast Imaging University of California, Davis William Moses Bldg 66 Aud.
Feb 1 David Relman The Human Body and its Microbiome as Ecological Study Site Stanford University Tamas Torok Bldg 66 Aud.
Feb 8 Gary Karpen Chromatin Regulation of Genome Stability Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
Feb 15 Robert Koeppe PET Scanning in Large Multi-center Trials: Lessons Learned from the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Intitative (ADNI) University of Michigan William Jagust Bldg 66 Aud.
Feb 22 John Katzenellenbogen Imaging Steroid Receptors and Receptor Function in Endocrine-Responsive Cancers University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jim P. O'Neil Bldg 66 Aud.
March 1 Judy Wall Energy Generation in Sulfate-reducing Bacteria of the Genus Desulfovibrio University of Missouri-Columbia Ken Downing Bldg 66 Aud.
March 8 Keith Caldecott New Protein Components of DNA Strand Break Detection and Repair University of Sussex, U.K. Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
March 15 Simon N. Powell Understanding the Connections in the BRCA1-BRCA2 Pathway of Homologous Recombination: Implications for Breast Cancer Development Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center David Schild Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
March 22 Nitin Baliga Systems Approaches to Tackle Biological Complexity Institute for Systems Biology Steve Yannone Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
March 29 Frank McCormick New Approaches to Targeting Ras Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF Mina Bissell Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 5 Ron Zuckermann
 Protein Mimetic Materials from the Self-assembly of Bio-inspired Peptoid Polymers The Molecular Foundry, Berkeley Lab Cynthia McMurray Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 12 Jerry Nickles Electrophilic Radio-halogens: Sweetening the Sour Grapes University of Wisconsin Jim P. O'Neil Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 19 Joann Sweasy Base Excision Repair Germline Variants and Cancer Risk Yale University School of Medicine Priscilla Cooper Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
April 26 No Seminar        
May 3 Jan Löwe Actin-like Proteins of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, U.K. Ken Downing Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 10
Rescheduled to Spring 2012		 Haifin Lin   Yale University Gary Karpen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 17 Da-Neng Wang Structural Basis of the Selectivity and Gating Mechanism of the Organic-ion Channel, FocA New York University Manfred Auer Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 24 Hoi-Ying Holman Label-free Monitoring of Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Cells During Stress-adaptive Response Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Ken Downing Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
May 31 Donald Bryant Photosynthesis in the (near) dark: biosynthesis, structure, and evolution
of the most powerful light-harvesting antenna system, the chlorosomes of
green chlorophototrophic bacteria		 The Pennsylvania State University and Montana State University Trent Northen Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
June 7 Barbara Wold Connecting Transcription Factor Binding with Function California Institute of Technology Susan Celniker Potter St.
Bldg 977
Rm 141
   

Fall 2010

      
Sept 7 Eva Harth Advances in Delivery of Therapeutics with Nanosponges and Nano-devices for Imaging Vanderbilt University Manfred Auer Bldg 66 Aud.
Sept 14 Yaakov Stern Cognitive Reserve: from Theory to Intervention Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons Bill Jagust Bldg 66 Aud.
Sept 21 No Seminar        
Sept 28 Carol Prives Lessons Learned from Studies on the p53 tumor suppressor Network Columbia University Mina Bissell Bldg 977-120
video conf. to
Bldg 84-318
Oct 5 Steve Yannone The Artemis Gene: At the Crossroads of Immunity and DNA Repair Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Ken Downing Bldg 66 Aud.
Oct 12 No Seminar        
Oct 18
Monday		 Eric Brown Replication Stress Responses in the Suppression of Cancer and Aging University of Pennsylvania Priscilla Cooper/Judy Campisi Bldg 66 Aud.
Oct 26 Jeanne Link PET Imaging Probes for Imaging Cancer Phenotypes and Response to Therapy University of Washington Medical Center Jim P. O'Neil Bldg 66 Aud.
Nov 2
Canceled		 Mark LaBarge   Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Priscilla Cooper Bldg. 66 Aud.
Nov 9 No Seminar        
Nov 16
New Date		 Judith Campisi Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons The Buck Institute for Aging Research; Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Priscilla Cooper Bldg 66 Aud.
Nov 23 Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado Regeneration, Stem Cells and the Planarian Schmidtea Mediterranea HHMI; University of Utah School of Medicine Cynthia McMurray Bldg 66 Aud.
Nov 30
Rescheduled to May 24		 Hoi-Ying Holman Real-time Molecular Measurements of Cellular Chemistry During Stress-adaptive Response Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Ken Downing Bldg 66 Aud.
Dec 7 Alfonso Bellacosa Demethylation of DNA by Base Excision Repair in Mammalian Development Fox Chase Cancer Center Priscilla Cooper Bldg 66 Aud.
Dec 14 Grant Gullberg Molecular Imaging In Vivo Gives Insights to Heart Failure Life Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab Stephen Derenzo Bldg 66 Aud.