Spring 2011

December

7th-

Jeannie Lee
Mass General Hospital/Harvard Med.
Investigator, HHMI
2010 Molecular Biology Prize from the National Academy of Sciences


January

18th-

“Silencing in the germ line”

Ruth Lehmann
NYU Med School
Investigator, HHMI
Director, The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine
at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
Member, National Academy of Science

 


February

1st-

“Genomic and Epigenetic Approaches to Unraveling the Complexity of Sex-differences in the Liver”

David J. Waxman, Ph.D.

POSTPONED TO MARCH 15

15th-

Next Gen Sequencing Working Group:  Computational Resources at BUMC
Andi Broka and Anita DeStefano
LinGA High Performance Compute Cluster


March

1st-

“Bacteria are different – observations from population genetics and population genomics”

Bill Hanage, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology

15th-

“Genomic and Epigenetic Approaches to Unraveling the Complexity of Sex-differences in the Liver”

David J. Waxman, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, Boston University
Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Associate Director for Basic Research, Boston University Cancer Center


April

5th-

“Complete Human Genome Sequencing to Advance Disease Research”
Donald A. Skifter, Ph.D., MBA
Complete Genomics

 

19th-

“Chip or Seq: Helping clients choose an RNA profiling platform”

Don Baldwin, Ph.D.
Facility Director, Microarray Core Facility
University of Pennsylvania


May

3rd-

“Computational Analysis of Human Epigenome and Regulomes”
Ziping Weng, Ph.D.

UMass Medical School
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

17th-

“What we learned about chromatin after 1000 ChIP-chip experiments”

Peter J. Park, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics
Children’s Hospital Boston | Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology