Bauer Forum

Bauer Forum talks are informal scientific seminars designed to foster communication and collaboration among people with an active interest in genomics and systems biology. The talks are held on Fridays at 4:00pm in Northwest Lab, Room 425, 52 Oxford Street.

Suggestions for speakers should be sent to the organizer: Bodo Stern (bstern@cgr.harvard.edu).

Friday, July 18, 3:00pm
Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute)

Friday, July 25, 3:00pm Alex Meissner (Developmental and Regenerative Biology Department, Harvard)

"Dissecting the mechanism of Reprogramming"

Friday, August 8, 3:00pm
Martin Loose (MPI Dresden)

"Spatial regulators for bacterial cell division self-organize into
surface waves in vitro"

Friday, August 22, 3:00pm
Laura Munteanu (FOM-Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam )

"At the tip of dynamic microtubules"

Friday, August 29, 3:00pm
Sean Megason (Department for Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School)

“The Digital Fish project: In toto imaging and FlipTraps for an imaging-based approach to systems biology”

Friday, Sept 19, 3:00pm
Johan Thevelein (University of Leuven)

"Novel plasma membrane nutrient sensors in yeast"

Friday, September 26, 3pm, Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
Amy Caudy (Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)

"Computationally driven experiments discover 109 genes
with roles in mitochondrial biogenesis"

Friday, Oct 3, 3:00pm
Brad Bernstein (MGH, Harvard)

"Epigenetic mechanisms of ES cell pluripotency"

Friday, Oct 10 4:00pm
SysBio Program student/faculty talk

Friday, Oct 17 3:00pm
Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)

"Prediction of Environmental Changes by Micro-Organisms"

Friday, Oct 24 3:00pm
Pascal Braun (Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute)

"Interactome mapping - where are we and how do we move forward"

Friday, Nov 7, 3pm, Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
David Gresham (Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)

"Genomic studies of adaptive evolution in defined environments"

Friday, Nov 14
Retreat HMS Department of Systems Biology

Friday, Dec 5, 3:00pm
Calin Guet (Cluzel lab, FAS Center for Systems Biology)

" A single-cell view of multiple antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli"

Friday, Dec 12 4:00pm
SysBio Program student/faculty talk

Friday, Dec 19, 3:00pm
Kevin Verstrepen (on the way to University of Leuven)

"Repeats-containing, fast-evolving and maltose-eating social yeast"

Friday, Jan 9 4:00pm
SysBio Program student/faculty talk

Friday, Jan 16, 4:00pm
Lydia Robert (Radman lab, Paris, visitor in Jun lab)

"Phenotypic variability in adaptation to environmental fluctuations in E.coli"

Friday, Jan 23,
One-day conference "Cells, Circuits, and Computation"

Friday, Jan 30, 4:00pm
Andy Christoforou (Cambridge Center for Proteomics, University of Cambridge, UK)
"High-throughput mapping of sub-cellular localization of organelle proteins "

Friday, Feb 6, 4:00pm
internal Bauer Forum: Michael Rust and Vikram Vijayan (O'Shea lab)
"The Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock in vitro and in vivo"

Friday, Feb 13, 4:00pm
SysBio Program student/faculty talk

Friday, Feb 20,
no Bauer Forum

Friday, Feb 27, 4:00pm
Petra Ann Levin (WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis)

"Size matters: Cell growth and the bacterial cell cycle"

Friday, March 20, 4:00pm Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
Mona Singh (Department of Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)

"From biological networks to cellular organization and functioning"

Friday, March 27, 4:00pm
John Rinn (HMS Department of Pathology, Broad Institute)
"Large intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNA): From discovery to mechanism"

Friday, April 3, 4:00pm
Shari Grossman (Sabeti lab)

"Localizing signals of selection in the human genome"

Friday, April 10, 4:00pm
SysBio Program student/faculty talk

Friday, April 17, 4:00pm
Ethan Garner

"In vitro reconstitution of DNA segregation: Kinetically dissecting a plasmid actin spindle"

Friday, April 24, 4:00pm
Edoardo Airoldi "Statistical Methods in Systems Biology research" Friday, May 1, 4:00pm
Martin Jonikas (Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF)
"The anatomy of a cellular folding compartment: Genetic dissection of protein folding in the secretory pathway."

Friday, May 15, 4:00pm, Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
Coleen Murphy (Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)
"What we can learn about aging from C.elegans"