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SUMMARY:Genetics\, Development and Evolution Symposium
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LOCATION:2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Bart: "High throughput genome sequencing of geographically and temporally diverse bacterial strains"\, PMB-Staskawicz\nPhillip Cleves: "Developmental genetics of evolved tooth gain in sticklebacks"\, MCB-Miller\nCharles Denby: "Negative feedback confers mutational robustness in yeast transcription factor regulation"\, MCB-Brem\nGregory Finnigan: "Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine"\, MCB-Thorner\nMounia Lagha: "The promoter regulates the dynamics of gene activation in development"\, MCB- Levine\nTeresa Lee: "Chromosome architecture & crossover recombination"\, MCB-Meyer\nNicholas Matzke: "Evolution of patterns on Conus shells"\, IB-Huelsenbeck\nJoshua Schraiber: "Admixture inference using a sequentially Markov coalescent"\, IB-Slatkin\nAlex Schultink: "Identification of novel glycosyl transferases allows for targeted alteration of plant cell wall polysaccharides"\, PMB-Pauly\nJulia Serano: "The development and evolution of arthropod appendages: Insights from the functional analysis of Hox genes in Parhyale"\, MCB-Patel\nJerome Teuliere: "The storkhead-box protein HAM-1 controls the apoptotic fate in C.elegans asymmetrically dividing Q.a neuroblasts"\, MCB-Garriga\nJohn Young: "Noggin is required for normal development of the cranial skeleton but not neural induction in the frog Xenopus tropicalis: Analysis of mutants generated from zinc-finger nucleases\, MCB-Harland\nAssaf Zemach: "Unraveling the role of Snf2 chromatin remodelers in targeting DNA methylation"\, PMB-Zilberman\n\n
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X-UCBCN-ADMISSION:Registration Recommended\nRegistration Info: Register by May 15\, 2012. <a href="http://mcb.berkeley.edu/groups/gdmess/">online</a>
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DTSTAMP:20120416T234958Z
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SUMMARY:Second Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses
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LOCATION:105 Berdahl Auditorium Stanley Hall
DESCRIPTION:Peter Barry\, UC Davis\nJoseph DeRisi\, UCSF\nShirit Einav\, Stanford\nBecket Feierbach\, Genentech\nLaura Hertel\, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute\nYoshihiro Izumiya\, UC Davis\nChris Jones\, Novartis\nKarla Kikergaard\, Stanford\nFenyong Liu\, UC Berkeley\nLeor Weinberger\, UCSF\nQiang Zhou\, UC Berkeley\n\nA one-day conference featuring presentations by leading Bay Area university and industry scientists\, a session of postdoc / grad student talks\, a poster session\, and opportunities for networking.
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X-UCBCN-ADMISSION:Registration Required: Free \nRegistration Info: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFBZ3VrMU5SVXVJSVZwM2h3X291TEE6MQ">online</a>
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DTSTAMP:20120403T215850Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120518T140000
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SUMMARY:DNA-Engineered Plasmonic Nanogap Bioprobes: Nano Seminar Series
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LOCATION:390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jwa-Min Nam\, Seoul National University\, Chemistry\n\nSurface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based signal amplification and bio-detection methods using SERS-active plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) have been of paramount interest and importance\, and it has been known that SERS effect is intense when Raman dyes are located within sub-1-nm inter-particle junction. However\, these SERS-active NPs and SERS-active NP-based detection strategies have not been practically useful because there is no straightforward method to synthesize desired SERS-active nanostructures in a high yield\, great precision and nm-level controllability. \n\nFor these reasons\, reproducible and quantitative SERS signal generation from SERS probes is very challenging and the widespread and practical use of SERS nanoprobes has been largely limited.\n\nHere\, I will describe DNA-based synthetic strategies to build up new types of plasmonic nanogap Au/Ag structures. The use of these plasmonic nanostructures as excellent optical signal enhancement platforms to address the above-mentioned issues in SERS will be mainly shown. \n\nBiosensing applications using these plasmonic nanogap structures will also be shown and discussed.\n****\nProf. Nam was a postdoctoral researcher in Jay Groves' lab back in 2005.
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SUMMARY:2012 UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
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LOCATION:105 Stanley Hall
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Atala\, Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine\, Wake Forest University\nJay Keasling\, Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering\, University of California\, Berkeley\nNancy Allbritton\, Chair of University of North Carolina / North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering\, University of North Carolina\n\nA three-day conference for UC-wide Bioengineering students\, faculty and staff\, as well as local industry guests. The annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium is an opportunity for the bioengineering communities of the entire University of California system to come together to share knowledge\, best practices\, and to forge stronger relationships and collaborations.
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X-UCBCN-ADMISSION:Attendance Restrictions: Open to UC students\, faculty and staff in bioengineering-related areas\, and to alumni and industry guests working in the area of bioengineering.\nRegistration Required\nRegistration Info: <a href="http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/2012systemwide/registration">online</a>
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DTSTAMP:20120502T213058Z
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SUMMARY:Berkeley ∗Seq I: Tools and Workflows for RNA-Seq Analysis
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LOCATION:105 Stanley Hall
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley ∗Seq I\, the inaugural workshop on analysis of Next Generation sequencing data at UC Berkeley\, will take place on June 30\, 2012. This first year\, the workshop is being organized by Lior Pachter and will focus on analytical tools and workflows for RNA-Seq experiments. The one-day meeting will feature a morning of talks\, an on-site lunch\, and afternoon live demonstrations of the Cufflinks and eXpress software packages. Participants should familiarize themselves with the software packages prior to the meeting.\nRegistration\n\nMembers of the academic and broader scientific communities are invited to participate. A registration fee is required to help cover the costs associated with the workshop. Registration fees are below. Your registration fee includes participation in the workshop (unless you opt for the Remote Viewing option)\, lunch\, and on-demand access to a recording of the workshop and downloadable slides for two weeks.\n\nRegister at:\n\nhttp://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1090661
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SUMMARY:Molecular Engineering and Evolution of New Viruses for Therapeutic Gene Delivery: Nano Seminar Series
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LOCATION:390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
DESCRIPTION:Prof. David Schaffer\, UC Berkeley\, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\, and Bioengineering\n\nTherapeutic gene delivery is increasingly succeeding in clinical trials\, and vehicles or vectors based on viruses offer the potential for safe and efficient gene transfer. \n\nFor example\, the majority of the human population has been previously exposed to adeno-associated viruses (AAV)\, which are not associated with any disease. Vector nanoparticles based on AAV have shown positive results in clinical trials for hemophilia\, Parkinson’s disease\, and Leber’s congenital amaurosis. \n\nDespite this promise\, several challenges impede broader implementation of AAV gene therapy\, including the pre-existing exposure and immunity to these human viruses\, low gene delivery efficiency to a number of therapeutically relevant cell and tissue types\, a lack of targeted delivery to specific cell types\, and an inability to overcome physical and cellular barriers to gene transfer in vivo. \n\nThese challenges arise since the demands we place on AAV vectors are often different from or even at odds with the properties nature endowed to their parent viruses. In addition\, there is insufficient mechanistic knowledge of virus structure-function relationships to empower rational design with the capacity to engineer improved properties.\n\nWe have therefore developed viral directed evolution – the iterative generation of large\, diverse libraries of viral mutants and selection for variants with specific properties of interest – as a biomimetic approach to create new “designer” viruses that address these shortcomings. This approach has made strong progress in creating or “synthesizing” novel AAV variants with advantageous in vitro and in vivo gene delivery properties\, as well as strong clinical potential.\n\n**********\nProf. Schaffer is Director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center\nhttp://stemcellcenter.berkeley.edu/
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