GSI Seminar Series

 

A semimonthly series held on the first and third Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00pm in X 714-715.  The dual goals of this seminar series are to invite extramural speakers who are internationally recognized researchers at the vanguard of genetics and genomics research, and to sponsor intramural speakers in an effort to build interactions and collaborations among Boston University investigators engaged in genetics and genomics research.

To help increase the accessibility of the GSI Seminar Series, they will be broadcast online.  For more information please visit the Webinar Page.

If you would like to join the GSI Seminar Committee, have suggestions for invited speakers, or if you would like to present an intramural seminar, please email gsi@bu.edu.

For a list of past seminars, please visit the Past Seminars page.

To get more information, click on speakers name to link to their website.

Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

October

2nd-

Topic:  Reconstructing regulatory circuits: lessons from the immune system

Aviv Regev, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Klarman Cell Observatory
Broad Institute

16th-

Topic: Biogenesis and Function of small regulatory RNAs

Eric C. Lai, Ph.D.
Developmental Biology Program
Center for Stem Cell Biology
Sloan Kettering

November

6th

Ion Proton – Single day workflows enabling an array of Applications; from Transcriptome profiling and characterization to Whole Genome Sequencing

Alexander Robertson
Scientific Project Coordinator
Ion Torrent
Next Generation Sequencing

February

5th-

Topic:  Genome-wide comparison of genetic and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in primates

Yoav Gilad, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics
The University of Chicago

March

19th-

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

Topic:  Where is the rest of the human genome?

Steven A. McCarroll, Ph.D.
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Harvard Medical School
Broad Institute

April

5th-

Topic:  Regulatory DNA:  From chromatin structure to common disease

John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Ph.D.
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

16th-

Topic: Maintaining immortality:  transcriptional and translational control in the germ line

Prashanth Rangan, Ph.D.
University at Albany, State University of New York
The RNA Institute
Department of Biological Sciences

May

7th-

Topic:  A new twist to post-translational modification of DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase1 and epigenetic inheritance

Sriharsa Pradhan, Ph.D.
New England Biolabs

21st-

 

Topic: TBA

Matthew Meyerson, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

June

 

4th-

 

Topic:  TBA

Alex Meissner, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Broad Institute

18th-

 

Topic:  Where is the rest of the human genome?

Steven A. McCarroll, Ph.D.
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Harvard Medical School
Broad Institute