2014-2015
DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
SEMINAR SERIES CALENDAR
2014
October 9-10
Biochemistry/Pharm Retreat
October 16
Open
October 23
Graduate School Symposium
October 30
Shobita Parthasarathy, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan
November 6
Michael Rosen, Ph.D., Prof. & Dist. Chair in Biochemistry Depart. of Biophysics, Biochem., Green Center for Systems
Biology University of Texas Southwestern
November 13
Christopher Potter, Ph.D., Asst. Prof., Dept. of Neuroscience, Ctr. for Sensory Biology, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
November 20
Francis Valiyaveetil, Ph.D., Asst. Prof., Prgrm. in Chemical Biology Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon
Health and Science University
December 4
Houra Merrikh, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Department of Microbiology
2015
January 8
Nigel Goldenfield, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
January 15
Faculty Recruitment - Open
January 22
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Ph.D., D.V.M., Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
January 29
Erez Aiden, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. of Mol. & Human Genetics, McNair Scholar CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, BCM
February 12
Jessica Tyler, Ph.D., Prof. of Biochem. & Molec. Biol. Co-Director of the Ctr for Cancer Epigenetics, M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center
February 19
Faculty Recruitment - Open
February 26
Faculty Recruitment - Open
March 5
Faculty Recruitment - Open
March 12
McLEAN LECTURE Randy Schekman, Ph.D., Investigator HHMI, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California,
Berkeley
Beth Levine, M.D., Investigator HHMI, Prof. of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, Charles Cameron Sprague
Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, and Director of the Center for Autophagy Research at UT Southwestern
Medical Center in Dallas
March 19
Faculty Recruitment - Open
March 26
Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
April 2
Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D., Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Head, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology The Rockefeller University
April 9
Faculty Recruitment - Open
April 16
Scott D. Emr, Ph.D., Director, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology & Department of Molecular Biology and
Genetics, Cornell University
April 23
Kwanghun Chung, Ph.D., Helmholtz Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
April 30
Ronald V. Swanson, Senior Director, Biologics Research, Janssen R&D