School of Medicine
Seminar Series 2000
January 25
Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics
University of Utah
"How do HOX genes specify our body plan"
Host: Ray Gesteland, Human Genetics
February 1
Paul Schimmel, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry
Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology
Scripps Research Institute
"RNA-dependent amino acid discrimination in translational editing"
Host: Brenda Bass, Biochemistry
February 8
Jean-Marc Lalouel, M.D., D.Sc.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Human Genetics
University of Utah
"Angiotensinogen in essential hypertension: From genetics to mechanism of disease"
Host: Ray Gesteland, Human Genetics
February 15
Andrew Murray, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
"Pushing yeast out of mitosis: A cautionary tale about a phosphorylation site"
Host: Marty Rechsteiner, Biochemistry
February 22
A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
"Recursive splicing in large introns and developmental regulation of splice site choice"
Host: Carl Thummel, Human Genetics
February 29
M. Catherine Bushnell, Ph.D.
Harold Griffith Professor of Anesthesia
McGill University
"Forebrain mechanisms of pain and cognitively-induced analgesia"
Host: Ben Kater, Neurobiology and Anatomy
March 14
Raymond L. White, Ph.D.
Founding Director and Senior Director for Science
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Chairman, Department of Oncological Sciences
University of Utah
"APC, Axin and b-catenin: A complex node in a signaling network"
Host: Jerry Kaplan, School of Medicine
March 21
Frederick W. Alt, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics
Children's Hospital, Harvard University
"A critical role for DNA end-joining in lymphogenesis and neurogenesis"
Host: John Weis, Pathology
March 28
Barbara J. Meyer, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Genetics
University of California, Berkeley
"Sex and death in C. elegans"
Host: Susan Mango, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics
April 4
Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
McGill University
"The mRNA 5'-cap binding protein, eIF4E: Regulation of gene expression and cell growth"
Host: Elizabeth Leibold, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics
April 11
Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Genomics and bacterial pathogenicity"
Host: Merle Sande, Internal Medicine
April 18
Al Zelicoff, M.D.
Senior Scientist
Sandia National Laboratories
"Biological weapons: Terrorism, proliferation and international restraints"
Host: Jeff Botkin, Human Genetics
April 25
Michael D. Gershon, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
"Development and functional independence of the enteric nervous system"
Host: Ben Kater, Neurobiology and Anatomy
May 9
Edward R.B. McCabe, M.D., Ph.D.
Physician-in-Chief, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
"Genetic Testing: Technological advances and public perspectives"
Host: Jeff Botkin and Ed Clark, Pediatrics
May 16
Warner C. Greene, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, San Francisco
"New perspectives on the molecular basis of AIDS"
Host: Merle Sande, Internal Medicine
May 23
Leonard I. Zon, M.D.
Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital, Harvard University
"Dissecting development and disease using the Zebrafish"
Host: Mark Keating, Human Genetics
