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Physiology

Course Date: June 11 - July 30, 2005

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All lectures held at 9:00 AM in the Lillie Auditorium, unless otherwise noted.
2005 Lecture Schedule


Sat., June 11
7:00 PM

Ron Vale, UCSF

Course Introduction
Sun., June 12
5:00 PM

Tim Mitchison
Harvard University

Interfacing biology and computation
Mon., June 13 Ted Salmon
UNC, Chapel Hill
Image Formation
     

Tues., June 14

Nico Stuurman
UCSF

Fluorescence
Wed., June 15

Jennifer Waters
Harvard Medical School Imaging Facility

Digital Image Processing

Thurs., June 16

Ted Salmon
UNC, Chapel Hill

Microscopy Sectioning/Pragmatics
Fri, June 17

Kevin Brown
Harvard

Statistical Mechanics of Sloppy Models

  
Fri, June 17
8:00 PM
Friday Lecture:
Mitchell L. Sogin
MBL
Unresolved Mysteries About Parasites and our Oldest Ancestor
 
   
Sat., June 18

Erin O'Shea
UCSF

Cellular Nutrient Homeostasis
 

Mon., June 20

4:00 PM

Keiichi Namba
Osaka Univ.

Molecular mechanisms of bacterial swimming and tumbling


Tues, June 21 Mike Dustin
NYU
The immunological synapse as a model for cell-cell communication

Wed., June 22
9:00 AM


7:00 PM

Keiichi Namba
Osaka Univ.

Shinya Inoué, MBL

Frontiers Lecture


Polarization microscopy

Thurs, June 23
9:00 AM


7:00 PM


Ron Vale
UCSF

Ted Salmon
UNC, Chapel Hill

Single molecule analysis and spatial patterning of molecules during T cell signaling

DIC microscopy

Fri., June 24
9:00 AM


8:00 PM

Tim Mitchison
Harvard

Tim Mitchison
Harvard

TBA


Porter Lecture:
Cell Division: From Inoué to New Cancer Drugs

Sat., June 25 Alexander van Oudenaarden
MIT
Noisy Business: Genetic Switches, Signal Propagation & Cellular Polarization

Mon, June 27
9:00 AM

4:00 PM
Rama Ranganathan
UT Southwestern

Dennis Bray
Cambridge
TBA


Wetware: the basis of cell computations

Tues., June 28 Karel Svoboda
Cold Spring Harbor
TBA

Wed., June 29
9:00 AM


7:00 PM
Physiology Classroom

Howard Berg
Harvard

Dennis Bray
Cambridge

Using fluorescence to study bacterial behavior


Computational Evening

Thurs., June 30 Peter Sorger
MIT
TBA

Fri., Jul 1
9:00 AM


8:00 PM

Ira Mellman
Yale

Friday Lecture:
Brian M. Barnes (U. Alaska)

Cell biology of complex cells in context: systems cell biology

Overwintering in the Arctic: Animal Strategies for Surviving the Long, Cold, and Dark

Sat., Jul 2
1:00 PM


Session I Symposium


Mon, Jul 4 Session II Introduction

Tues, Jul 5
9:00 AM


4:00 PM

Garry Odell
U. Washington

Randy Schekman
UC Berkeley

TBA


Intracellular vesicle traffic: Mechanism and disease implications

Wed., Jul 6 Randy Schekman
UC Berkeley
Frontiers

Thurs., Jul 7 Clare Waterman-Storer
Scripps
TBA

Fri., Jul 8
9:00 AM


8:00 PM

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH)

Glassman Lecture:
Stephen L. Hoffman
Sanaria Inc.

TBA


Parallel Paths in the Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: Use of Modern Vaccinology and Genomics vs. Basic Parasitology and Entomology to Realize the Goal

Sat., Jul 9
10:00 AM

Embryology Symposium
Session I:

Marc Kirschner
Harvard Med School

Garry Odell
U. Washington

Cliff Tabin
Harvard Medical School




Accuracy of timing in the eukaryotic cell cycle


Pinocchio is starting to twitch. Computer simulation as a tool for comprehending cytoskeletal dynamics

Patterning the limb and gut during vertebrate development

Sat., Jul 9
2:30 PM

Embryology Symposium
Session II:

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
NIH


Scott Fraser
California Institute of Technology

Eric Wieschaus
Princeton




Cell compartmental-ization in the absence of plasma membrane boundaries in the early Drosophila syntial blastocyst

Imaging the developmental mechanics of the vertebrate embryo


Morphogen Gradients and Size Regulation in Drosophila

Mon., Jul 11
9:00 AM


4:00 PM

Bruce Alberts
NAS and UCSF

Jim Spudich
Stanford

Innovation and Risk Taking in Science- Innovation and Risk Taking in Science

Single molecule mechanics of myosin motors: How cells sense and set tension

Tues., Jul 12
4:00 PM

Scholar's Lecture
Avram Hershko
Hebrew University , Israel

Wed., Jul 13 Jim Spudich
Stanford Univ
Frontiers Lecture

Thurs., Jul 14 Dyche Mullins
UCSF
Self-assembly and self-destruction of cytoskeletal networks

Fri., Jul 15
9:00 AM


8:00 PM

Marileen Dogterom
FOM Inst, Netherlands

Lang Lecture:
Mark F. Bear
MIT, HHMI


TBA


Modification of the cerebral cortex by experience

Sat., Jul 16 Session II Symposium

Mon., Jul 18
9:00 AM

4:00 PM

Session III Introductions

Ruth Lehmann
Skirball, NYU



Navigating the embryo: germ cell migration in Drosophila

Tues., Jul 19 Tony Hyman
Max-Planck, Dresden
Cell polarity in C.elegans embryos

Wed., Jul 20 Naama Barkai
Weizmann Inst, Israel
Evaluating putative mechanisms of the mitotic spindle checkpoint

Thurs., Jul 21
9:00 AM


7:00 PM
Physiology Classroom

Rebecca Heald
UCB

Naama Barkai
Weizmann Inst, Israel

Mechanisms and molecules of mitosis


Computational Evening

Fri., Jul 22
9:00 AM


8:00 PM

Francois Nedelec
EMBL, Germany

Forbes Lecture:
Roger Y. Tsien
UCSD, HHMI

TBA


Building Synthetic Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors

Sat., Jul 23 Andrew Murray
Harvard
A night at the singles bar: finding out how yeast cells meet their mates

Mon., Jul 25
9:00 AM


4:00 PM

Xiaowei Zhuang
Harvard

Per Brandtzaeg
Univ. Oslo

Single molecule and single particle imaging in solution and in live cells

Is there a role for secretory immunity in mucosal defence

Tues., Jul 26
9:00 AM


7:00 PM
Physiology Classroom

Robert Goldman
Northwestern

Francois Nedelec
EMBL, Germany

Intermediate Filaments: Dynamic Components of the Nucleus and Cytoplasm

Computational Evening

Wed., Jul 27 Roy Kishony
Harvard
Epistatic interaction networks and biological function

Fri., Jul 29 Session III Symposium



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