September 10

September 17

James M. Ervasti, Professor, Department of Physiology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Costameres: The Achilles' Heel of Herculean Muscle

Host: R.A. Anderson

September 24

Richard R. Burgess, Professor, Department of Oncology,
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Transcription Factor-RNA Polymerase Interaction as a Target for Drug Discovery

Host: S. Miyamoto

October 7

Monday
12:00 Noon

Fluno Center

Eric N. Olson, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center****
Dr. Olson is the Keynote Speaker and Karl Beyer Lecturer for the 2nd Annual Signal
Transduction Research Training Symposium
Transcriptional Control of Cardiac Development and Disease

Host: P.J. Keely

October 8

Robert Corn, Professor, Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Surface Plasmon Resonance Measurements of Bioaffinity Interactions on DNA, Peptide, Protein and Carbohydrate Microarrays

Host: B. Weisblum

October 15

Harinder Singh, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology,
University of Chicago, Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute**
Transcriptional Regulation of Cell Fates and Gene Expression in the Immune System

Host: E.H. Bresnick

October 22

Robert Kingston, Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School* and ***
Towards Establishing a Biochemical System to Understand Maintenance of Body Pattern

Host: E.H. Bresnick
Student Host: H. Im

October 29

Frank Gertler, Associate Professor, Department of Biology,
MIT***
Regulation of Cell and Neuronal Growth Cone Motility by Ena/VASP Proteins

Host: P.J. Keely
Student Host: A.S. Ada Nguema

November 5

Eric Baehrecke, Associate Professor,
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Center for Biosystems Research
Steroid Regulation of Programmed Cell Death during Development

Host: D.A. Wassarman

November 12

Cynthia McMurray, Professor,
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics,
Mayo Clinic***
Genetics and Pathophysiology of Huntington’s Disease

Host: R.S. Tibbetts
Student Host: S. Venkataraman

November 19

Christopher E. Turner, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology,
SUNY Upstate Medical University***
Paxillin and Focal Adhesion Signaling

Host: R.A. Anderson
Sutdent Host: R. Doughman

November 26

James L. Keck, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mechanisms of Cellular Genome Maintenance

Host: R.S. Tibbetts

December 3

Sankar Ghosh, Professor, Section of Immunobiology,
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Yale University School of Medicine
NF-_B: An Evolutionarily Conserved Mediator of Immune and Inflammatory Responses

Host: S. Miyamoto

December 10

Andrew J. Morris, Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill***
Synthesis and Inactivation of Lysophosphatidic Acid

Host: R.A. Anderson
Student Host: M. Bunce

December 17

David Toczyski, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Cancer Research Institute, University of California-San Francisco***
Dividing with Broken Chromosomes

Host: D.A. Wassarman
Student Host: T. Huang