Seminars at The Jackson Laboratory

January 2013

Guest Seminar Thursday, January 24, 10:30 am, LCC Auditorium
Alexander Ploss, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Title: Development of humanized mouse model for the study of human hepatotropic pathogens

March 2013

Guest Seminar Friday, March 15, 12:00-1:00pm, LCC Auditorium
Charles Farber, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Title: Systems Genetics of Complex Skeletal Phenotypes

Guest Seminar Thursday, March 21, 10:30 am, LCC Auditorium
Akiko Shimamura, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Title:  Marrow failure and MDS: Wherefore ribosomes?

Guest Seminar Thursday, March 28, 10:30 am, LCC Auditorium
Simon Gregory, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Title: In pursuit of mechanism - from association to function in multiple sclerosis 

April 2013

Guest Seminar Thursday, April 5, 10:30 am, LCC Auditorium
Andres Buonanno, Ph.D., NICHD, Section of Molecular Neurobiology, NIH
Title: Regulation of synaptic plasticity, neural network activity and behaviors by Neuregulins: Potential implications for psychiatric disorders

Guest Seminar Thursday, April 11 10:30 am LCC Auditorium
Jason Stumpff, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Title: Centering the genome: Molecular control of mitotic chromosome alignment

Guest Seminar Thursday, April 25 10:30 am LCC Auditorium
Maricel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Title: A Protein-Domain Approach for the Analysis of Disease Mutations

Guest Seminar Friday, April 26 12:00-1:00 pm LCC Auditorium
Holly Van Remmen, The Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies,
Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress and age-related disease