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KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

KITP Bio Seminar Series

September 2004 on

Coordinator: B. Shraiman

Time Speaker Title
10/12, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Joel Rothman
Department of MCD Biology, UCSB
Developmental Switches and Gene Regulatory Networks in the Most Completely Described Animal, the Nematode C. Elegans[Slides]
10/26, 2:00 p.m. Dr. M. Elowitz
Caltech
Speed Limits for Accurate Transcriptional Regulation[Aud]
11/23, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Massimo Vergassola
Institute Pasteur, Paris
Regulatory Modules in the Early Development of Drosophila Melanogaster[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/15, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Gyan Bhanot
IBM Watson Research Center
Accurate Diagnosis and Staging: Statistical Techniques to Distinguish Cancer Types from Protein Mass Spec and Gene Array Data[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Albrecht Ott
University of Bayreuth
Axis Definition in Hydra Regeneration[Aud][Cam]
6/14, 2:00 p.m. Dr. William Smith
MCDB, UCSB
The Ascidian Embryo: A Model for Animal Morphogenesis and Self-Assembly[Aud][Cam]
6/15, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Thorsten Pöschel
Humboldt-Universität/Charité
Kinetic Model of Prion Aggregate Growth[Slides]
8/25, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alex Sigal
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Widespread Cell Cycle Dependence and Persistent Memory of Nuclear Proteins: Results from Single Cell Dynamic Proteomics[Aud][Cam]
10/11, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Todd Oakley
UCSB Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Examining Origins of Evolutionary Novelty: Genes, Cells and Eyes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/08, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Mark Goulian
University of Pennsylvania
Perturbing, Modeling, Imaging, and Evolving Cell Signaling Circuits in Bacteria[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Erez Braun
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Population View of Gene Regulation: Gene Recruitment and Adaptive Dynamics of Genetic Regulatory Networks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/28, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Chen-Shan Jason Chin
University of California, San Francisco
Building a Quantitative Understanding of Gene Regulation at the Systems Level
5/02, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Gürol Süel
Caltech
Single Cell Dynamics of Cellular Differentiation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/16, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Chris Wiggins
Columbia
Predicting Expression and Evolution in Biological Networks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/14, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Eric Mjolsness
UC Irvine
Physical Methods for Modeling Biological Development[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
02/07, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Christopher Gabel
Harvard University
The Study of Neurocircuitry and Neural Regeneration in C. elegans Using Femtosecond Laser Surgery[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/03, 11:00am Hernan Garcia
Princeton
How, when and where in pattern formation: Spying on embryonic development one molecule at a time[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/13, 4:00pm Arieh Warmflash
Rockefeller University
Embryonic Patterning in Time and Space
2/18, 12:00pm Julien Ayroles
Harvard U
The complex genetics of complex traits: Understanding the dynamic nature of the genotype-phenotype map[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/20, 4:00pm Sergey Kryazhimskiy
Harvard U
Epistasis and predictability of adaptation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/20, 12:00pm Askin Kocabas
Harvard U
Controlling neural dynamics to evoke complex behaviors in C.elegans[Cam][Aud][Cam]
3/03, 2:00pm Paul Rainey
Massey Univ. & KITP
Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of Darwinian individuality
3/11, 11:00am Dr. Megan McClean
Lewis-Sigler Inst for Integrative Genomics, Princeton U.
Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of Darwinian individuality[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/07, 11:00am Dan Needleman
Harvard University
Physical Aspects of Mitotic Spindle Assembly[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/02, 11:00am Aaron Streets, Huang Lab
BIOPIC, Peking Univ.
Single-Cell Analysis with RNA sequencing, quantitative imaging, and microfluidics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/09, 11:00am Guillaume Lambert
University of Chicago
QBio Seminar - Change is the Only Constant in Life[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/11, 11:00am Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
BMSE & QBio Joint Seminar - Adventures at the Interface of Quantitative Biology and Physics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/23, 11:00am Albert Siryaporn
Princeton University
QBio Special Seminar: Regulation of bacterial pathogenesis by mechanical cues[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/25, 11:00am Annalise Paaby
NYU
BMSE & QBio Joint Seminar: Cryptic genetic variation and genetic complexity in the evolution of quantitative traits[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/04, 2:00pm Nikolai Slavov
Harvard
QBio Special Seminar: Principles of ribosome-mediated translational regulation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/17, 12:30pm Gyuri Barabás
University of Chicago
QBio Special Seminar: Ecology for an uncertain world[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/19, 12:30pm Andrew Gordus
Rockefeller University
QBio Special Seminar: The Influence of Dynamic Neuronal States on Perception[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/03, 12:30pm Elizabeth Wilbanks
Caltech
QBio Special Seminar: Hunting the wild microbe: Decoding microbial interactions from metagenomics to ecophysiology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/02, 12:30pm Jonas Cremer
UCSD
Hydrodynamic forces shape growth and composition of microbiota in the human large intestine
2/06, 12:30pm Sasha Levy
Stony Brook University
The determinants of genetic diversity during the early stages of clonal evolution
2/14, 12:30pm Will Ludington
MCB, UC Berkeley
Gut Microbiome Foodwebs Impact Host Fitness
2/21, 12:30pm Sebastian Streichan
KITP
Tissue flow genetics: Mapping the forces that shape complex organs
2/23, 12:30pm Kelley Harris
Stanford
Rapid evolution of the human mutation spectrum
2/27, 12:30pm Kristofer Bouchard
LBNL
Organization, dynamics, and coordination of cortical networks in humans and rodents
3/01, 12:30pm Jennifer Wisecaver
Vanderbilt U
The Evolution of Chemodiversity in Eukaryotes
3/27, 2:00pm L. Mahadevan
Harvard
Some physical aspects of morphogenesis: guts and brains[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/12, 12:00pm Cengiz Pehlevan
Flatiron Institute
Uncovering how the brain learns[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/15, 12:15pm Benjamin Good
Berkeley
Evolutionary dynamics and ecological diversification in rapidly adapting populations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/01, 12:15pm Maxwell Wilson
Princeton
Engineering natural cell behaviors using optogenetics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/06, 12:00pm Pulin Li
Caltech
Understanding and programming multicellular patterning from the bottom up

Some previous KITP programs in Biology:

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