Date

Speaker

Title

Speaker's Host

Jan. 3

Benjamin E. Turk
Yale University School of Medicine
Speaker's website

Topic: Kinases

Purnima Bhanot

Jan. 17

Neal Fan-Nan Lue
Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Speaker's website

Themes and variations at the ends: the remarkable composition of yeast telomeres

Katsunori Sugimoto

Jan. 24

Robert Bonomo
Cleveland Clinic 
Speaker's website

The Big three: MDR P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii and K. pneumoniae

Barry Kreiswirth

Jan. 31

Laurie Krug
Stony Brook University
Speaker's website

Topic: Viral Gene Regulation

David Lukac

Feb. 7

Lars Dietrich
New York University
Speaker's website

Biological shape and pattern formation

David Dubnau

Feb. 14

Jean-Laurent Casanova
The Rockefeller University   
Speaker's website

Genetics of human disposition to pediatric infectious diseases

David Kaback

Mar. 6

Todd B. Reynolds
University of Tennessee
Speaker's website

The role of phosphatidylserine synthesis in the virulence of C. albicans

Chaoyang Xue

Mar. 13

Frederick M. Hughson
Princeton University 
Speaker's website

To be announced

Matthew Neiditch

Apr. 10

Ileana M. Cristea
Princeton University 
Speaker's website

Topic: Proteomics and Genomics

David Dubnau

Apr. 17

Michael Federle
University of Illinois at Chicago
Speaker's website

To be announced 

Matthew Neiditch

May 1

Michael W. Young
The Rockefeller University
Speaker's website

The genetics of sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila

David Kaback

May 8

Sean Murray
California State University Northridge
Speaker's website

Caulobacter crescentus SpoT is essential
for preventing the over-initiation of
DNA replication during fatty acid starvation

Vivian Bellofatto

May 15

Oliver Hobert
Columbia University Medical Center
Speaker's website

Gene regulatory mechanisms that build nervous systems

David Kaback

May 22

Clifford V. Harding
Case Western Reserve University
Speaker's website

Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipoprotein LprG: bacterial functions and host responses

Yuri Bushkin