Overview of IGP Seminars

IGP STUDENT-HOSTED SEMINARS

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program supports a number of activities that encourage scientific exchange; one of them being the Student-Hosted Seminar Series.  Twice a year, IGP students meet and decide on a prominent scientist to invite as a seminar speaker.  Past guests include:

Erin O'Shea, HHMI, University of California - San Francisco (2002)

Jeff Wrana, Mount Sinai Hospital - Toronto (2002)

Tim Stearns, Stanford University Medical School (2003)

Stephen Elledge, HHMI, Baylor College of Medicine (2003)

Timothy Mitchison, Harvard Medical School (2004) 

Gregory Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2004)

Peter Walter, HHMI, University of California - San Francisco (2005)

Barbara Meyer, HHMI, University of California - Berkeley (2005)

Anton Berns, Netherlands Cancer Institute (2006)

Upcoming:  Frank Gertler, MIT (November 2006)

Upcoming:  David Livingston, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (January 2007)

Upcoming:  Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University (Fall 2007)

IGP WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES

As part of the annual student requirements, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program sponsors a weekly seminar series for the students to present their research.  The Fall 2006 schedule is below.  The "( )" represents the lab in which the student is currently performing their thesis research.

9/12/06:     Tuba Bas (Kobertz), Satoe Takahashi (Pryciak)

9/19/06:     Soyoung Kim (Mello), Mary Chau (Bao)

9/26/06:     Ming Chung Kan (Richter), Susan Heilman (Chen)

10/3/06:     No seminar

10/10/06:    Ahmed Elewa (Mello), Jennifer Yearley (Desrosiers), Xiaofang Yang (Peterson)

10/17/06:    Dingding Shi (Grossman), Kathryn Richards (Clapham)

10/24/06:    David Burns (Richter), Megha Ghildiyal (Zamore), Alison Burkart (Corvera)

10/31/06:    Christian Grove (Walhout), Kamna Aggarwal (Silverman)

11/7/06:      Ramesh Kovi (Grossman), Jaspreet Khurana (Theurkauf), Melissa Grabowski (Tissenbaum)

11/14/06:     Postdoc Seminar - Victor Sanchez-Merino (Luzuriaga)

11/21/06:     Rajarshi Ghosh (Urano), Matthew Child (Hagstrom), Keith Clem (Ip)

11/28/06:     Chun-Ti Chen (McCollum), Wade Huber (Green)

12/5/06:      Yibin Yang (Kelliher), Swarna Mehrotra (Altieri), Deniz Erturk-Hasdemir (Silverman)

12/12/06:     Matt Evans (Androphy), Efsun Arda (Walhout)

12/19/06:     Kyle Draheim (Kelliher), Minakshi Guha (Altieri), Nana Hagan (Czech)