February 6, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UChicago Committee on Cancer Biology (Student Research Presentations)
MLL-Rearrangements Result in Upregulation of miR-9 and Subsequent Inhibition of the Tumor Suppressor TGFBI; and Contributions of the Microenvironment to Chemoresistance in Ovarian Cancer
Colles Price, Graduate Student (Chen/Rowley Laboratory) and Wesley Jun, Graduate Student (Lengyel Laboratory), University of Chicago
Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W301/303, University of Chicago

February 6, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UChicago Department of Chemistry
Signal Dynamics at the Single-Cell Level
Prof. Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology
Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120, University of Chicago

February 6, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UChicago Committee on Immunology
A Metagenomic View of Nutrition and Drug Metabolism
Peter Turnbaugh, PhD, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University
Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 115, University of Chicago

February 6, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UChicago Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Cross-talk Between Cancer Cells and Adipocytes
Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology, The University of Chicago
Medical Center (= Billings), Room M-170, University of Chicago

February 7, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UChicago Department of Pathology
Nosologic & molecular dissection of urachal neoplasms: Do we need a classification system?
Gladell Paner, M.D., Department of Pathology, University of Chicago
Medical Center (= Billings), Godfrey Getz Conference Room, AMB P-315, University of Chicago

February 7, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UChicago Ecology & Evolution
A cure for the plague of parameters: Constraining models of population dynamics with allometric and food web data
Dr. Daniel Reuman, Lecturer, Imperial College London, UK
Zoology, Lillie Room, Second floor , University of Chicago

February 7, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UChicago Center for Integrative Neuroscience & Neuroengineering Research
Selectivity, tolerance & speed in visual object recognition
Gabriel Krieman, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston
Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 205, University of Chicago

February 7, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UChicago Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
What I saw when I watched some evolution
Michael Desai, Harvard University
Cummings Life Science Center, Room 101, University of Chicago

February 8, 2012
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
UChicago Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
The Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism
Morris J. Birnbaum M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103, University of Chicago

February 8, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UChicago Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Structures and Mechanism of Lin28, a Multifunctional MicroRNA Regulator
Yunsun Nam, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W301 , University of Chicago

February 9, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UChicago Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Autism Genetics
Edward H. Cook, Jr., M.D., Earl M. Bane Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Medical Center (= Billings), Room Dora De Lee, L-168 , University of Chicago

February 9, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UChicago Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology
MicroRNA regulation of autophagy
Zili Zhai, Medicine / GI , University of Chicago
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103, University of Chicago

February 9, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UChicago Committee on Neurobiology
Building blocks for cerebellum-dependent learning
Jennifer Raymond, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 205, University of Chicago

February 9, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UChicago Department of Surgery
Developmental Evolution of the Superorganism: A Hierarchical Expansion of the Gene Regulatory Network Perspective
Manfred D. Laubichler, PhD, Theoretical Biology and History of Biology, School of Life Sciences and Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University
Cummings Life Science Center, Room 119, University of Chicago

February 9, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
UChicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology
The role of fluid forces in aquatic animal morphogenesis
John Dabiri, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Hinds Geophysical Sciences, Room 176 , University of Chicago

February 10, 2012
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
UChicago Institute for Integrated Physiology (IIP) and The Center of Systems Biology of O2 Sensing
Neural control of breathing: new insights from optogenetics
Patrice G. Guyenet, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology, University of Virginia
Medical Center (= Billings), Room N-701, University of Chicago

February 10, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UChicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC)
Racial disparities in outcome in neuroblastoma: A role for genetics; and, New ways of identifying genetic risk factors for cancer
Susan Cohn, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Nancy Cox, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103, University of Chicago

February 22, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
NU Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery (CMIDD)
Protein-driven Strategies for Drug Discovery
Lurie Medical Research Center, Northwestern University (Chicago campus)

March 3, 2012
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
UChicago Department of Chemistry
Strategies and Methods for Natural Product Synthesis
Regan Thompson, Northwestern University
Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120, University of Chicago

April 16, 2012 to April 19, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
NU Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
Third Annual Science of Team Science Conference
Wyndham Hotel, 633 North Saint Clair Street, Chicago

May 10, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UIC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Chicago Symposium on Cell Signaling
TBA, Northwestern University (Chicago campus)