Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in room S175 in the Coverdell Center at 11:00 AM.

The Department of Cellular Biology is proud to host the Ritter Lecture Series. Past lectures have been given by: Marc Kirschner (2000), Gunter Blobel (2001), Randy Schekman (2002), Edward O. Wilson (2003), Philip Beachy (2004), Arthur Kornberg (2005), Robert Weinberg (2007), Elaine Fuchs (2008), Douglas Melton (2010). Click here for more information.

Previously featured
Date Speaker Topic Host
Jan. 24 DR. AARON BEEDLE
Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
"Modeling Dystroglycan-Related Muscular Dystrophy in the Mouse" Dr. Marcus Fechheimer
Jan. 31 DR. DAVID HANSEN
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
"Maintenance of the Stem Cell Population in the C. elegans Germ Line" Dr. Edward Kipreos
Feb. 7 DR. WALLACE MARSHALL
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA
"Pattern Formation and Regeneration in a Single Cell" Dr. Mark Farmer
Feb. 16, Please note that this seminar is on a Thursday JOB CANDIDATE VISIT - TBA
 
Feb. 23, Please note that this seminar is on a Thursday DR. DANIEL BEITING
Department of Biology, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute
“Pathogens as Perturbagens: Exploiting Genomic Technologies to Identify Novel Regulators of Host Immunity”
Feb. 28 JOB CANDIDATE VISIT - TBA
Mar. 6 DR. SAMARA RECK-PETERSON
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
"How Molecular Motors Work" Dr. Jacek Gaertig
Mar. 13 SPRING BREAK
Mar. 20 DR. ANN SLUDER
Department of Biochemistry, Scynexis, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC
"Academic Syntax and Industrial Grammar: Adventures in Translation" Dr. Rick Tarleton
Mar. 27, *Note special time and location DR. VIRGINIA M.-Y. LEE
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
"Transmission of Neurodegenerative Disease: A Common Mechanism of
Pathogenesis"
2012 RITTER LECTURE, *4:00p.m., Room 404B, Biological Sciences Bldg.
Apr. 3 DR. THOMAS KORNBERG
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA
"Direct Delivery Mechanisms of Morphogen Dispersion" Dr. Judy Willis
Apr. 10 DR. JULIA KUBANEK
School of Biology and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
"Antifungal Chemical Cues as Leads for Drug Discovery" Dr. Boris Striepen
Apr. 17 DR. JAMES W. TRUMAN
Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA
"Neuronal Stem Cells in Drosophila: Their Utility for Understanding the
Development, Evolution and Functioning of the Insect CNS"
Dr. Ping Shen
Apr. 24 DR. HANNELE RUOHOLA-BAKER
Department of Biochemistry and the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
"MicroRNAs and Hypoxia in Stemness and Re-programming" Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association

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