September 26, 2006
Randy Seeley, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Genome Research Institute, University of Cincinnati
“How Obesity Went to Our Heads.”
Hosted by: Jared Rutter, Biochemistry
October 10, 2006
Richard J. Traystman, Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President for Research Planning and Development
and Associate Dean for Basic Research, School of Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
“Genes and Gender Can Alter Outcome from CPR after Cardiac Arrest.”
Sponsored by the Benning Society
Hosted by: J. Michael Dean, Pediatrics
October 24, 2006
David D. Moore, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Nuclear Hormone Receptors in Liver Growth and Cancer.”
Hosted by: Carl Thummel, Human Genetics
November 14, 2006
Jasper Rine, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics and Development
University of California, Berkeley
“Epigenetic Inheritance of Transcriptional States.”
Hosted by: David Stillman, Pathology
November 28, 2006
Carl S. Thummel, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Human Genetics
University of Utah
“Mechanisms of Hormone Signaling and Nuclear Receptor Function in Drosophila.”
December 12, 2006
Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and HHMI
University of Utah
“dsRNA Binding Proteins in RNA Editing and RNA Interference.”
January 9, 2007
William Biagio Guggino
Professor and Director of Physiology, Vice-Chair for Research in Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Department of Physiology.
“Molecular Regulation of the Cystic Fibrosis Channel.”
Hosted by: David Virshup and Anne Moon
January 23, 2007
Pietro De Camilli, M.D.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University School of Medicine
“Endocytic Mechanisms and Phosphoinositide Metabolism at Neuronal Synapses.”
Hosted by: Erik Jorgensen and Jerry Kaplan (with the Neuroscience Seminar Series)
February 13, 2007
Roger Kornberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Stanford University
“Chromatin and Transcription.”
Sponsored by the Benning Society
Hosted by: Chris Hill, Biochemistry
February 27, 2007
Stanislas Leibler, Ph.D.
Gladys T. Perkin Professor
The Rockefeller University
“Noise, Information and Survival: Some Lessons from Bacteria.”
Hosted by: Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Neurobiology and Anatomy
March 13, 2007
Beatrice H. Hahn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Origins of HIV: Expect the Unexpected!”
Sponsored by the Benning Society
Hosted by: Wes Sundquist, Biochemistry
March 27, 2007
Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D.
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor.
Head, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Rockefeller University
“Function of Diverse Coactivators in Transcriptional Regulation in Animal Cells.”
Hosted by: Dean Tantin, Pathology
April 10, 2007
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
Professor, HHMI Investigator
HHMI, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
“Tissue Homeostasis and Regeneration in the Planarian Schmidtea Mediterranea.”
April 24, 2007
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
Sterling Professor, Genetics, Medicine and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry;
Chairman of Genetics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Yale University School of Medicine
“Genes for Heart, Kidney and Bone Disease: New Insights from Human Genetic Studies.”
Sponsored by the Benning Society
Hosted by: Jean-Marc Lalouel, Human Genetics
May 8, 2007
Bruce Freeman, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Pharmacology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“Anti-Inflammatory Signaling Actions of Nitric Oxide Metabolites.”
Hosted by: John Hibbs, Infectious Diseases
May 22, 2007
Morris F. White, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
“Insulin and IRS2 Signaling in the Coordination of Lifespan and Nutrient Homeostasis.”
Hosted by: E. Dale Abel, Internal Medicine and Biochemistry
