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Week
Date
Speaker
Title
Link
1
2/2
 No Speaker  All Bio871 students are required to attend the first week of class to obtain enrollment/course information.  
2
2/9
Deb Wadford Postdoctoral Research Associate, Public Health Microbiology II, CA Dept of Health Services

"Evolution of HIV Reverse Transcriptase in the Chimeric Virus RT-SHIV" 

Student lunch: 12pm Franciscan Building Room 1 please RSVP to Dr. Ramirez (rramirez@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

  Publications
3
2/16
Michael Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University

 "Ethanol-Induced Virulence of Acinetobacter baumannii"

Student lunch: 12pm Franciscan Building Room 1 please RSVP to Dr. Ramirez (rramirez@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

Publications
4
2/23
Joseph Chen Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology, Stanford University

"Regulation of polarity and subcellular
architecture in Caulobacter crescentus"

Student lunch: 12pm Franciscan Building Room 1 please RSVP to Dr. Ramirez (rramirez@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

Publications
5
3/2
Elizabeth A. Joyce Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College

"A New Look at an Old Bug: The Importance of Asymptomatic Carriage for
Pneumococcal Disease"

Student lunch: 12pm Franciscan Building Room 1 please RSVP to Dr. Ramirez (rramirez@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

Publications
6
3/9
Alfred L. Roca Scientist II, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Institutes of Health

"Evolutionary genomics: from elephants to viruses"

Student lunch: Friday 3/10 12pm Franciscan Building Room 1 please RSVP to Dr. He (zhe@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

  Publications
7
3/16

Margaret Fuller Professor of Development Biology and Genetics, Stanford University MARC/RISE Speaker

"Regulation of adult stem cell self renewal and differentiation"
  Publications
8
3/23

Douda Bensasson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London

"Genomic diversity and its functional effects in natural populations"

Student lunch: Friday 3/24 12pm Franciscan Building Room 1 please RSVP to Dr. He (zhe@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

 Publications
9
3/30
     
 
4/6
 SPRING BREAK    
10
4/13
Thomas Wu Senior Scientist, Dept. of Bioinformatics, Genentech
 "Analysis of Microarrays for the Study and Treatment of Cancer"
  Publications
11
4/20
Baldomero M. Olivera Professor, University of Utah MARC/RISE Speaker

 "Using Venomous Fish-hunting Cone Snails to Probe Nervous Systems"

Student lunch: Thurs 4/20 12pm Hensill Hall Rm 544 please RSVP to Dr. Chu (chud@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

Publications
12
4/27
Robert Deschenes Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Biochemistry Medical College of Wisconsin
"Subcellular localization of the Ras oncogene proteins. New targets for cancer drug design"
Publications
13
5/4
David Jablons Professor Thoracic Oncology Program, UCSF
"Targeting Wnt Signaling in Cancer"
Publications
14
5/11
     
15
5/18
Susan Forsburg Professor of Biological Sciences, USC

 "Replication, recombination and genome integrity in S. pombe"

Student lunch sponsored by Fisher Scientific. 12pm Hensill Hall Rm 501 please RSVP to Dr. Chu (chud@sfsu.edu) if you would like to attend.

Publications