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September 2011
September 7, 2011: Dr. Carlos Bustamante
"Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the Inter-Subunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase "
September 14, 2011: Dr. Ron DePinho
"Genotoxic Stress Meets Mitochondria: Integrating Aging Mechanisms"
September 28, 2011: Dr. Antonios Mikos
"Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering"
October 2011
October 5, 2011: Dr. L. Mario Amzel
"Activation of PI3Kalpha by Physiological Effectors and by Oncogenic Mutations: Structural and Dynamic"
October 12, 2011: Dr. Russ Altman
"The Emerging Network of Data for Understanding the Interactions of Genes and Drugs"
November 2011
November 2, 2011: Dr. Kenneth Fischbeck
"Developing Treatment for Hereditary Neuromuscular Disease"
November 16, 2011: Dr. Jonathan Weissman
"New Strategies for Decoding Genomes"
November 30, 2011: Dr. Diane Griffin
"Virus Clearance: It Isn't Easy"
December 2011
December 7, 2011: Dr. Gerald Hart
"Bittersweet Roles of O-GlcNAcylation in Diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer"
December 14, 2011: Dr. Victor Corces
"Throwing Transcription for a Loop: The Role of Chromatin Insulators in the 3D Nucleus"
January 2012
January 4, 2012: Dr. David Botstein
"Evolution and Cancer"
January 11, 2012: Dr. Gary Gibbons
"Cardiovascular Health Disparities: Integrating Genomic and Social Determinants"
January 23, 2012: Dr. Jacques Banchereau
"Will Dendritic Cell Subsets Help Us Address the Challenges of Cancer, Autoimmunity and Chronic Viral Diseases?"
January 25, 2012: Dr. Anthony Atala
"Regenerative Medicine: Current Concepts and Changing Trends"
February 2012
February 1, 2012: Dr. Bonnie Berger
"Computational Biology in the 21st Century: Making Sense out of Massive"
February 8, 2012: Dr. Karen Guillemin
"Molecular Dialogues with the Microbiota: Insights from the Zebrafish Intestine"
February 15, 2012: Dr. Lewis Kuller
"The Obesity Epidemic: Why Have We Failed?"
February 22, 2012: Dr. Wei Yang
"Genome Integrity and Cancer Prevention: Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Repair"
March 2012
March 1, 2012: Dr. Jo Handelsman
"Phalanx or Traitor? Impact of Gut Microbial Communities on Insect Health"
March 7, 2012: Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic
"Wizardry of Tissue Repair and Regeneration: A Tale of Skin Cells When Their Magic is All But Gone"
March 14, 2012: Dr. C. Garrison Fathman
"Understanding Peripheral Tolerance and Autoimmune Disease"
March 21, 2012: Dr. Salvatore DiMauro
"Mitochondrail DNA: Prometheus' Gift or Pandora's Box?"
March 22, 2012: Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim
"Tenofovir Gel: New Hope for HIV Prevention in Women"
March 28, 2012: Dr. Marina Picciotto
"What Doesn't Kill you Makes you Fatter: Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying Effects of Nicotine on Addiction and Appetite"
April 2012
April 4, 2012: Dr. Melanie Cobb
"Beta Cell ERKonomics"
April 11, 2012: Dr. Stephen Goff
"Retroviral Restriction Factors: ZAP, ZFP809, and New Aspects of Innate Immunity"
April 18, 2012: Dr. Randy Jirtle
"Epigenetics: How Genes and Environment"
April 25, 2012: Dr. Witold Filipowicz
"Regulating the Regulators: Mechanisms Controlling Function and Metabolism of microRNAs"
May 2012
May 2, 2012: Dr. Martha Farah
"Twenty-first Century Neuroscience: From Lab and Clinic to Home, School and Office"
May 9, 2012: Dr. Bernardo Sabatini
"Self Stimulation-How Positive Feedback Loops Wire the Brain"
May 16, 2012: Dr. Erich Jarvis
"Of Mice, Birds and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System has Features Once Throught Unique to Humans and Song Learning Birds"
May 23, 2012: Dr. Pawan Sinha:
"Learning to See Late in Life"
May 30, 2012: Dr. Levi Garraway
"Integrative and Functional Genomic Studies of Human Cancer"
June 2012
June 6, 2012: Dr. Peter Hotez
"Antipoverty Vaccines for the World's Neglected Diseases"
June 13, 2012: Dr. Craig Thompson
"IDH Mutations: Oncometabolite Deregulation of Epigenetic"
June 20, 2012: Dr. Atul Butte
"Translational Bioinformatics: Transforming 300 Billion Points of Data into Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and New Insights into Disease"
