Many faces of filopodia

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | August 26 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Tatyana Svitkina, University of Pennsylvania, Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Replication fork stability, cancer and aging

Seminar: Division of Genetics Genomics & Development | August 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Eric J. Brown , Abramson Family Cancer Research Insitutute, Dept. of Cancer Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Visualizing and manipulating neural mechanisms for song learning

Seminar: Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Inst | August 28 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Richard Mooney, Duke University, Neurobiology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Intracellular inorganic chemistry in development, cancer and infectious disease

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | August 31 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Thomas O'Halloran, The Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Dynamic pathway modeling identifies feedback regulation restraining TGFbeta signaling in hepatocytes

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | September 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Ursula Klingmüller, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Epigenetic silencing across generations

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | September 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Vicki Chandler, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Personalized medicine and global health: Genetic markers that predict risk for disease, drug efficacy and toxicity

Seminar: Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases | September 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Tom White, Celera Corporation

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Microbial Biology Seminar Series

Small RNAs and the bacterial response to stress

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | September 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Susan Gottesman, National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Molecular Biology & National Cancer Institute

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Roger Y. Stanier Memorial Lecture

Modeling gene regulatory networks

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | September 14 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

What can we learn about TB in a very high burden environment?

Seminar: Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases | September 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Paul Van Helden, University of Stellenbosch

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Microbial Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization of polarity during chemotaxis

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | September 16 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Orion Weiner, University of California at San Francisco, CVRI & Department of Biochemistry

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

From high-density genetic interaction maps to a genome wide strategy for monitoring protein translation: New tools for probing biological systems

Seminar: Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | September 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Jonathan Weissman, University of California San Francisco/HHMI

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Environmentally-controlled protein/protein interactions: Nature's way of building biological switches

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | September 21 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Kevin Gardner, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Biochemistry

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

An unexpected role of Ap1 heterogeneity in immune lineages decisions

Seminar: Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis | September 22 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Kenneth Murphy, Washington University School of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Cross-talk between cell adhesion complexes in the control of morphogenetic cell movements

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | September 23 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: James Nelson, Stanford University School of Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Asymmetric patterning and morphogenesis of the gut

Seminar: Division of Genetics Genomics & Development | September 24 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Cliff Tabin, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Astrocyte regulation of cerebral blood flow

Seminar: Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Inst | September 25 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Brian MacVicar, University of British Columbia, Brain Research Centre

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Interactions and reactions in model membrane assemblies

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | September 28 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Steven Boxer, Stanford University, Chemistry

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Genetic and optogenetic analysis of zebrafish behavior

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | October 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Herwig Baier, University of California at San Francisco, Department of Physiology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Structural insights into the dynamic process of G protein coupled receptor activation

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | October 5 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Brian Kobilka, Stanford University, Medicine and Molecular & Cellular Physiology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

P. syringae phytotoxic peptides: Biosynthetic studies

Seminar: Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases | October 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Christopher Walsh, Harvard University

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Microbial Biology Seminar Series

p53 and p63: Deciphering roles in apoptosis, adhesion and cancer using mouse models

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | October 7 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Laura Attardi, Stanford University, Department of Radiation & Cancer Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Splicing correction as a therapeutic strategy for spinal muscular atrophy

Seminar: Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | October 8 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

CANCELED - Repressor functions underlying cellular plasticity

Seminar: Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Inst | October 9 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Gail Mandel-CANCELED, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Dynamics of ribosome assembly in vitro and in cells

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | October 12 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: James Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute, Chemistry & Molecular Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Fluorescent reporters of protein trafficking and interactions, and applications to imaging studies of synapse development

Seminar: Marian E. Koshland Memorial Lecture Series | October 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Alice Ting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemistry

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

A Scientist Addresses Science Education

Seminar: Other | October 14 | 4-5 p.m. | International House, Auditorium

Featured Speaker: Leon Lederman, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Hitchcock Lectures

A Sense of Wonder

Seminar: Other | October 15 | 4-5 p.m. | International House, Auditorium

Featured Speaker: Leon Lederman, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Hitchcock Lectures

Enzymes as escorts in organometallic cofactor trafficking

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | October 19 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Ruma Banerjee, University of Michigan Medical Center

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

RNA polymerase II pausing limits HIV transcription

Seminar: Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases | October 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Andrew Henderson, Boston University

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Microbial Biology Seminar Series

The DNA damage response: How four amino acids changed my life

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | October 21 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

C. H. Li Memorial Lectures

Adventures in mammalian genetics: Genetic mining of the cancer genome

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | October 22 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

C. H. Li Memorial Lectures

Necrotic cell injury in virus-induced inflammation

Seminar: Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis | October 27 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Francis Chan, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Pathology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Springs and struts in the mitotic spindle

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | October 28 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Kerry Bloom, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Tingling tongues and star-nosed moles: Probing mammalian touch transduction

Seminar: Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Inst | October 30 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Diana Bautista, University of California at Berkeley

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Randomness and predictability of cellular response in bacteria

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | November 2 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Philippe Cluzel, Harvard University

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Regulation of cell shape and virulence by temperature

Seminar: Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Anita Sil, University of California San Francisco

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Microbial Biology Seminar Series

Metabolite-sensing Riboswitches: Molecular fossils from the RNA world?

Seminar: Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Ronald Breaker, Yale University, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Allan C. Wilson Memorial Lectures

Discovery and analysis of extraordinary noncoding RNAs

Seminar: Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | November 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Ronald Breaker, Yale University, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Allan C. Wilson Memorial Lectures

The logic of cortical plasticity

Seminar: Other | November 6 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain and Cognitive Science

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Discovery of potent enzyme inhibitors guided by free-energy calculations

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | November 9 | 4-5 p.m. | 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: William Jorgensen, Yale University

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Discovery of potent enzyme inhibitors guided by free-energy calculations

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | November 9 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: William Jorgensen, Yale University, Chemistry

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

The unicellular ancestry of animal development

Seminar: Division of Genetics Genomics & Development | November 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Nicole King , University of California at Berkeley, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Analysis of natural variation in yeast

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | November 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Barak Cohen, Washington University Medical School, Department of Genetics

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Tales of a dynamic niche in the Drosophila ovary: Competition, cooperation and cell adhesion

Seminar: Other | November 13 | 10-11 a.m. | 547 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Todd Nystul, University of California at San Francisco, Anatomy

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Clathrin is not required for clathrin-mediated endocytosis

Seminar: Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Inst | November 13 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Erik Jorgensen, University of Utah, Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Molecular basis of biological movement

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | November 16 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Ronald Vale, University of California at San Francisco, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Cynthia A. Chan Memorial Lecture

T cell homeostasis: Memories are made of this?

Seminar: Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis | November 17 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Stephen Jameson, University of Minnesota, Center for Immunology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Centrioles, cilia, and the cell cycle

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | November 18 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Tim Stearns, Stanford University, Departments of Biological Sciences & Genetics

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Protein synthesis defects and neurodegeneration

Seminar: Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | November 19 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Susan Ackerman, The Jackson Laboratory/HHMI

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Regulation of synapse formation and number by Ephs and ephrins

Seminar: Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Inst | November 20 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Matthew Dalva, University of Pennsylvania, Neuroscience

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Evolution of natural chemodiversity: Emergence and adaptive refinement of stereospecificity and catalytic efficiency during plant flavonoid M

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | November 23 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Joseph Noel, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Chemical Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

TAM receptor regulation of the innate immune response

Seminar: Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis | November 24 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Greg Lemke, The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Sensing of DNA in the innate immune system

Seminar: Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis | December 1 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Katherine Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Marian E. Koshland Memorial Lecture

Seminar: Marian E. Koshland Memorial Lecture Series | December 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Greg Wray, Duke University, Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases Seminar

Seminar: Departments of MCB, PMB, Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases | December 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Featured Speaker: Ferric Fang, University of Washington

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Microbial Biology Seminar Series

Coordination of chromosome segregation and cytokinesis relative to each other by the NoCut pathway

Seminar: Division of Cell & Developmental Biology | December 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Yves Barral, ETH Zürich, Institute of Biochemistry

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Mechanism of formation of branched actin filament networks prior to actin-based motility

Seminar: Other | December 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 177 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Laurent Blanchoin, CEA Grenoble

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Membrane dynamics at sites of endocytosis

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | December 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Pietro De Camilli, Yale University School of Medicine/HHMI, Dept. of Cell Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Spontaneous activity and memory

Seminar: Other | December 4 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Larry Abbott, Columbia University, Physiology and Cellular Biophysics

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Heat and spice: Setting the sensitivity of TRP channels

Seminar: Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar Series | December 7 | 4-5 p.m. |  Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

Featured Speaker: Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, Molecular and Cell Biology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

Memory T cell development: A life or death decision

Seminar: Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis | December 8 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Sue Kaech, Yale University School of Medicine, Immunobiology

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH

Normal and Neoplastic stem cell

Seminar: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology | December 9 | 4-5 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg.

Featured Speaker: Irving Weissman, Stanford School of Medicine, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Sponsor: Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of