Washington University Department of Genetics Seminar Series Schedule Spring 2012   Edit Date Location - Time Speaker Topic Host 2012-01-12 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Peter W. Reddien, Ph.D - Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA The cellular and molecular basis for planarian regeneration Steve Johnson 2012-01-19 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Thomas J. Baranski, M.D., Ph.D. - Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO You are what you eat: A Drosophila model of diet-induced diabetes Steve Johnson 2012-01-26 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Joshua M. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D. - Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA Integrative Functional Genomics in Neurodegenerative Disease: Human Endophenotypes & Validation in Drosophila Jeff Milbrandt 2012-02-02 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Maja Bucan, Ph.D. - Professor of Genetics, Department of Genetics and Interim Director, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, Philadelphia, PA Genomic architecture of neuropsychiatric disorders: Early lessons from family-based sequencing Steve Johnson 2012-02-09 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D. - Scientific Director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO Hox genes and head development: A story in segments Jeff Milbrandt 2012-02-16 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Kris Wood, Ph.D. - Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA Defining the genes and pathways governing therapeutic response in melanoma using miniaturized functional genomics Jeff Milbrandt 2012-02-23 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Chaolin Zhang, Ph.D. - Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York Global RNA regulatory networks in the mammalian brain: insights from an integrative systems biology approach Jeff Milbrandt 2012-03-01 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Timothy Holy, Ph.D. - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Omics-envy: steps towards watching (small) brains compute Steve Johnson 2012-03-06 Cori Auditorium - 4:00pm Kenneth Y. Kwan, Ph.D. - Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Post-transcriptional regulation in human neural circuit development and fragile X syndrome Jeff Milbrandt 2012-03-08 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D. - Director, High Throughput Biology Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD Synthesizing and scrambling a eukaryotic genome Ting Wang 2012-03-15 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm S. Kerry Kornfeld, M.D., Ph.D. - Departmental of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Reproductive aging in C. elegans: How and Why Steve Johnson 2012-03-22 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Eyleen J. ORourke, Ph.D. - Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Surviving without food Jeff Milbrandt 2012-03-29 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Krishanu Saha, Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells Using New Models and Biomaterials Jeff Milbrandt 2012-04-05 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Heather Lawson, Ph.D. - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Genetic risk factors for metabolic disorders depend on diet: Lessons from the mouse Jeff Milbrandt 2012-04-12 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Stephen Quake, D.Phil. - Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Co-chair - Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Single Cell, Single Molecule Genomics Robi Mitra 2012-04-19 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Coleen Murphy, Ph.D. - The Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ TBA Jim Havranek 2012-04-26 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Erik Herzog, Ph.D. - Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO How a neuropeptide and a genetic oscillator schedule your day and wreck your trip to Paris Steve Johnson 2012-05-03 Cori Auditorium - 12:00pm Timothy M. Miller, M.D., Ph.D. - Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO RNA-targeted therapies for neurodegeneration Joe Dougherty 2012-05-10 - - 2012-05-17 - -