BETH PRUITT, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Attend Dr. Pruitt's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Kenneth Campbell's seminar, "Sarcomere Level Function in Human Heart Failure", to be held Thursday, October 2nd.
WILLIAM GREENLEAF, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Attend Dr. Greenleaf's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Bing Ren's seminar, "Regulation of the 3D Genome", to be held Thursday, October 23rd.
Upi Singh
Atul Butte
Stephen Skirboll
Euan Ashley
Mindie Nguyen
Daniel Jarosz
Roeland Nusse
Sean Wu
Daniel Madison
Alan Cheng
Kevin Wang
Manish Butte
OLGA BOUDKER, CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Glutamate transporters are responsible for clearance of the neurotransmitter glutamate from the synaptic cleft following rounds of neurotransmission. They maintain steep concentration gradients of glutamate by coupling its uptake to symport of sodium ions and protons and to antiport of potassium ions. Dr. Boudker's lab has been investigating the molecular mechanism of this family of transporters.
Dr. Tycko will describe the highlights of his lab’s studies of amyloid structures, beginning with investigations of β-sheet organization in fibrils formed in vitro and culminating in structural studies of fibrils derived from AD brain tissue.
JULIA KALTSCHMIDT, MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
The regulation of information flow by local inhibitory microcircuits has a fundamental role in shaping animal behavior. In the mammalian spinal cord GABAergic inhibitory interneurons serve key functions in sensory-motor transformation.
FRED RIEKE, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Dr. Rieke will describe recent work that links circuit mechanisms in the retina that mediate rod-cone interactions with human perception.
JEFFREY HUBBELL, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Dr. Hubbell's group is particularly interested in therapeutic vaccination in cancer, and they have determined that the tumor-draining lymph node is a particularly opportune lymphoid target for cancer vaccination.
