MIT Department of Biology: Biology Colloquium

The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout the academic year, featuring distinguished speakers in many areas of the biological sciences, from universities and institutions worldwide. More information on speakers, their affiliations, and titles of their talks will be added as available. Please check back regularly!

The Colloquium takes place at the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium, 32-123, at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. (Please note some location changes as indicated below)

Also see information on these and other events on our Department Calendar

Spring 2010
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Title	host
Jan 19 Room Change: 34-101	Angus Lamond, Wellcome Trust UK: Second generation proteomics, "super experiments" and new approaches for studying dynamic cell processes	Phil Sharp
Jan 26 Room Change: 34-101	Linda Van Aelst, Cold Spring Harbor: Regulators of Rho GTPases in neuronal development and disease	Elly Nedivi
Feb 2	Jonathen Weissman, University of California San Francisco: Biology Without Bias: New Tools for Probing Biological Systems	Chris Burge
Feb 9	David Largaespada, University of Minnesota: Transposon Based Screens for Cancer Pathway Genes.	Michael Hemann
Feb 16 Postdoc Lecture	George Church, Harvard Medical School: Technologies for the Reading, Writing and Arithmetic of Omes	Michael Goldberg
Feb 23	David Kingsley, Stanford University:	Monty Krieger
March 2	Stephen Harrison, Harvard: Dynamics of macromolecular disassembly	Thomas Schwartz
March 9	Juergen Knoblich, The Institute of Moleculer Biotechnology :	Troy Littleton
March 16	Amy Wagers, HMS Joslin Diabetes Center: Reversing dysfunction of aged stem cells	David Page
March 30	No Colloquium
Apr 6	Mariana Wolfner, Cornell University: Battle and ballet: molecular interplay between the sexes in Drosophila	Terry Orr-Weaver
Apr 13 Rich Lecture	Ned Seeman, NYU:	Tom RajBhandary
Apr 20	Genhong Cheng, UCLA:	Jianzhu Chen
Apr 27	Tim Hunt, London Research Institute:	Angelika Amon
May 4 Sackler Lecture	Alan Bradley, Sanger Institute	Phil Sharp
May 11 Holt Lecture	Jeffrey Settleman, MGH Department of Medicine:
5/18	Gregory Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor: Conserved roles of small RNAs in genome defense

Fall 2009
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Title	host
Sept 22 Glenn Lecture	Douglas Wallace, University of California: A Mitochondrial Paradigm for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer and Aging	Leonard Guarente
Sept 29	Mark Davis, Stanford University: Better chemistry through imaging: T cell receptor binding in situ and plasma membrane organization.	Phillip Sharp
Oct 6	Alex Schier, Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology: Morphogens, microRNAs and chromatin in embryogenesis.	Richard Young
Oct 13	No Colloquium
10/20 Buchanan Lecture	Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology: How the ribosome facilitates selection of the right tRNA during decoding of the message	Tom RajBhandary
Monday Oct 26 in 34-101 Mayer Lecture	Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University: Kir and Kv Channels: Nature's Diodes and Transistors	Allan Gurtan
Nov 3	Darrell Irvine, MIT Biological Engineering: The bionic immune system: Using biomaterials to empower and understand immunity	Doug Lauffenburger
Nov 10	Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute: Protein Folding Sculpting Evolution	David Bartel
Nov 17 Luria Lecture	Cliff Tabin, Harvard Medical School: Patterning and Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Limb and Gut	Bob Weinberg
Dec 1	Terry Orr-Weaver, Whitehead Institute: Developmental Dynamics of DNA Replication	Gerry Fink
Dec 8	Greg Lemke, Salk Institute: TAM Receptor Regulation of the Innate Immune Response	Hidde Ploegh
Dec 15 Schmitt Lecture	Erik Jorgensen, University of Utah: Clathrin is not required for clathrin-mediated endocytosis	Troy Littleton

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this page updated 08/25/08