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Tuesday, February 21

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Title: Specification of cortical interneurons
Speaker: John L.R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D. , Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry University of California at San Francisco
Host: Dr. Ulrich Mueller, Department of Cellular Biology
Sponsor: DNC Neuroscience Seminar
Location: Dorris Center Auditorium

Wednesday, February 22

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: Studies and Surprises with Natural Products
Speaker: Erick M. Carreira, Ph.D. , Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Host: K.C. Nicolaou and Phil Baran
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

Thursday, February 23

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Title: Regulation of nucleic acid-sensing Toll-like receptors
Speaker: Cythia Leifer, PhD , College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Sponsor: Immunology Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Title: Biomimetic Catalysis in Green Organic Transformations
Speaker: Prof. Jan-E. Bäckvall , Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University
Sponsor: Chemistry Department Lecture
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Title: Thesis Presentation: Stable and Homogeneous HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trimers as Vaccine Candidates and Target of Inhibitors
Speaker: Daniel Leaman
Sponsor: Kellogg School for Science and Technology
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Title: Mechanisms and regulation of cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases
Speaker: Dr. Raymond Deshaies , Professor, CALTECH, Division of Biology
Host: Dr. Curt Wittenberg
Sponsor: Molecular & Cellular Biology Affinity Group
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

Thursday, March 1

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Title: Histamine-releasing factor: a novel mechanism in asthma and allergy
Speaker: Toshi Kawakami, MD, PhD , Professor, Allergy & Asthma Research, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
Sponsor: Immunology Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Title: The molecular architecture of the 26S proteasome determined by an integrative approach
Speaker: Dr. Andrej Sali , UCSF
Host: Dr. Ian Wilson
Sponsor: Structure and Chemistry Affinity Group
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

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Thursday, February 23

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: “Roles of CREB and dynorphin in dysregulation of motivation”
Speaker: William Carlezon, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry McLean Hospital, Behavioral Genetics Lab Harvard University
Host: Dr. Laura Bohn
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, March 1

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: “Postsynaptic MAGUK Associated Signaling Complexes underlie the organization and evolution of behavior”
Speaker: Seth Grant, PhD Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine Centre for Neuroregeneration
Host: Dr. Gavin Rumbaugh
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, March 8

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Nevin Lambert, PhD Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Georgia Health Sciences University
Host: Dr. Kirrill Martemyanov
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, March 15

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Tom Muir, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor, Head of the Selma and Lawrence Ruben Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry The Rockefeller University
Host: Dr. Paul Thompson
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, March 22

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Kristin Baldwin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology The Scripps Research Institute
Host: Dr. Gavin Rumbaugh
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, March 29

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Jeremy Nicholson, Ph.D. Chair of Biological Chemistry Head of The Department of Surgery and Cancer Surgery and Cancer Clinical Programme Group/Stratified Medicine Research Leader, Faculty of Medicine ~ Imperial College London
Host: Dr. Bill Ja
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, April 5

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: ”Is schizophrenia a systemic disorder?: multifaceted translational approach"
Speaker: Akira Sawa, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry Director, Program in Molecular Psychiatry Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Neuroscience John Hopkins Hospital
Host: Dr. William Ja
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, May 3

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Monsef Benkirane, PhD Director Laboratory of Molecular Virology Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier, France
Host: Dr. Susana Valente
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, May 10

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Robert Batey, PhD Associate Professor Molecular Biophysics Program University of Colorado Boulder
Host: Dr. Matthew Disney
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, May 17

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: Genome-wide approaches to understanding nuclear receptor function"
Speaker: Christopher Glass, MD, PhD Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Professor of Medicine University of California San Diego
Host: Dr. Kendall Nettles
Location: Building B, Room 158

Thursday, May 24

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: “The Genetics of Innate Behavior: Smell, Sex, and Eating”
Speaker: Leslie Vosshall, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Robin Chemers Neustein Professor Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior
Host: Dr. William Ja
Location: Building B, Room 158