PETER S. KIM, DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Attend Dr. Kim's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Olga Boudker's seminar, "Membrane Transporters Beyond Crystal Structures: Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Glutamate Transporters", to be held Thursday, June 4th.
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.
LYNETTE CEGELSKI, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Attend Dr. Cegelski's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Rob Tycko's seminar, "Molecular Structural Basis for Amyloid Formation in Alzheimer’s Disease", to be held Thursday, May 7th.
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.
BEN BARRES, DEPARTMENTS OF NEUROBIOLOGY, OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, AND OF NEUROLOGY
Attend Dr. Barres's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Julia Kaltschmidt's seminar, "Molecular Mechanisms in the Assembly of a Presynaptic Inhibitory Microcircuit", to be held Thursday, April 9th.
The Bio-X Program would like to announce the 10th call for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program with funding available starting in the summer of 2015.
Complete applications must be received, not postmarked, by March 30, 2015 at 5:00 pm PST.
The Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 12th annual competition for Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships.
Complete applications must be received by March 12, 2015 at 5:00 pm PST.
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.
E.J. CHICHILNISKY, DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY
Attend Dr. Chichilnisky's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Fred Rieke's seminar, "Parallel Processing and Computation in Neural Circuits", to be held Thursday, March 12th.
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.
