Spring 2014

January 21

Topic: Predicting the functional impact of genetic variants obtained from high-throughput sequencing data

Daniel MacArthur, Ph.D.

Group Leader, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, MGH
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT


February 6

3-4pm in Keefer Auditorium, E111
Reception following in the Wilkins Board Room E120

Building a Biotech Company from the Ground Up: The Story of Regeneron

George Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.

President, Regeneron Laboratories
Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Member, National Academy of Sciences


March 4

Fishing for Effective Therapeutics for T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia

 Hui Feng M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Cancer Research Center
Boston University School of Medicine

March 10

(3-4 pm in Keefer Auditorium, E111)

Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Cas9

Feng Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
McGovern Institute, MIT and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard


May 6

Evolution and function of mammalian exons

(Note: to be held in L112)

Christopher Burge, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Director, Computational and Systems Biology Ph.D. Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 20

Noncanonical Diversification of the DNA Binding Specificities of Transcription Factor Paralogs

(Note: To be held in L311)

Martha L. Bulyk, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine
Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard