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Modern Cell Biology using Microscopic, Biochemical and Computational Approaches
2004 Course Schedule

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(all lectures 1.5 hrs unless indicated)

DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION

Sat., June 12 7:00 p.m. Course Introduction
Ron Vale (UCSF)

Lillie Auditorium
Sun., June 13 10:00 a.m. All MBL Course Brunch and Orientation

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Tour MBL - Lenny Dawidowicz,
MBL Course Director

5:00 p.m. Intro to Research Program - Session I
Ron Vale (UCSF), Alexander Van Oudenaarden (MIT), Dyche Mullins (UCSF)

Lillie
6:30 p.m. Course BBQ

TBA
Mon., June 14 9:00 a.m. Cell Biology and Computation - Tim Mitchison (Harvard)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Overview of Cytoskeletal and Membrane Dynamics - Ron Vale (UCSF)

Loeb Classroom
Tues., June 15 9:00 a.m. Biology and Biophysics of Molecular Motor Proteins - Ron Vale (UCSF)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Welcoming Reception

Swope
7:00 p.m. Intro to Mitosis
Tim Mitchison (Harvard University)

Loeb Classroom
Wed., June 16 9:00 a.m. How Do You Build a Meiotic Spindle?
Tim Mitchison (Harvard University)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Actin and Migration
Dyche Mullins (UCSF)

Loeb Classroom
Thurs., June 17 9:00 a.m. Building Actin Filaments and Networks
Dyche Mullins (UCSF)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Intro to Signaling Systems
Alexander Van Oudenaarden (MIT)

Loeb Classroom
Fri., June 18 9:00 a.m. Information Storage and Propagation in Gene Networks
AlexanderVan Oudenaarden (MIT)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Friday Evening Lecture
Kenneth Miller (Brown University)
Title: Time to Abandon Darwin? The Challenge from 'Intelligent Design.'

Lillie
Sat., June 19 9:00 a.m. Biosensor Designs - a Multipurpose Toolchest for Dynamic Signaling in Living Cells
Klaus Hahn (Univ. North Carolina)

Lillie
Sun., June 20 NO SCHEDULE

Mon., June 21 9:00 a.m. History of Microtubules and Motors
Ed Taylor (Northwestern University)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Parpart Lecture
Tim Hunt (London Research Institute)
Title: Controlling the Cell Cycle

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Image Formation/ Koehler/Diffraction
Ted Salmon (Univ. North Carolina)

Loeb Classroom
Tues., June 22 9:00 a.m. Intracellular Signaling In a Molecular Jungle: Insights From Bacterial Chemotaxis
Dennis Bray (Cambridge, UK)

Lillie
3:00 p.m. How Do Living Cells Compute?
Dennis Bray (Cambridge, UK)

Loeb Classroom
7:00 p.m. Polarization
Shinya Inoue (MBL)

Loeb Classroom
Wed., June 23 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture
Tim Hunt (London Research Institute)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. DIC microscopy
Ted Salmon (Univ. North Carolina)

Loeb Classroom
Thurs., June 24 9:00 a.m. Fluorescent Probes and High Throughput Microscopy
Nico Stuurman (UCSF)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Optical Sectioning
Jennifer Waters-Schuler (Harvard Imaging Center)

Loeb Classroom
Fri., June 25 9:00 a.m. Systems Integration in Directed Cell Motility
Clare Waterman-Storer (Scripps Institute)

Lillie
6:00 p.m. Digital Imaging
Jennifer Waters-Schuler (Harvard Imaging Center)

Loeb Classroom
8:00 p.m. Friday Evening Lecture
Jerry Melillo (MBL)
Title: Biology, Earth's Atmosphere, and Climate Change: Making Connections and Looking to the Future

Lillie
Sat., June 26 1:00 p.m. Research Symposium- First Session

Lillie
5:30 p.m. Course BBQ

TBA
Sun., June 27 NO SCHEDULE

Mon., June 28 9:00 a.m. Protein Biochemistry and Cell Signaling by Modular Domains Using In Vitro Expression Approaches - Mike Yaffe (MIT)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Isenberg Lecture
Andrew Murray (Harvard University)
Title: How Yeast Cells Find a Mate:Studies on a Model Module

Lillie
Tues., June 29 9:00 a.m. Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Function
Rebecca Heald (UC Berkeley)

Lillie
Wed., June 30 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture
Andrew Murray (Harvard University)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. In Silico Evening: When Physics Meets Biology: Understanding Cellular Machines
Francois Nedelec (EMBL)

Loeb Classroom
Thurs., July 1 9:00 a.m. Biological Insights from Modeling the Wnt Signaling Pathway
Marc Kirschner (Harvard Medical School)

Lillie
Fri., July 2 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture
Marc Kirschner (Harvard Medical School)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Friday Evening Lecture
Catherine Carr (University of Maryland) Title: Sound Localization in Owls and Alligators

Lillie
Sat., July 3 9:00 a.m. Mitotic Spindles Bit by Bit
Francois Nedelec (EMBL)

Lillie
Sun., July 4 NO SCHEDULE

Mon., July 5 9:00 a.m. Noise in Transcriptional Networks
Erin O'Shea (UCSF)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Waxler Lecture
Martin Raff (University College, London)
Title: Controls on Cell Size and Cell Number

Lillie
Tues., July 6 9:00 a.m. Frontier Lecture
Martin Raff (University College, London)

Lillie
Wed., July 7 9:00 a.m. Creating Biological Switches in the Cell Cycle
Jim Ferrell (Stanford Medical School)

Lillie
Thurs., July 8 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture
Jim Ferrell (Stanford Medical School)

Lillie
Fri., July 9 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Light Microscopy Symposium in Honor of Shinya Inoue (MBL)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Keith Porter Lecture (Friday Night Lecture)
Ron Vale (UCSF)
Title: Molecular Motor Proteins: A Story Home-Grown from the Marine Biology Laboratory

Lillie
Sat., July 10 1:00 p.m. Research Symposium- Session II

Lillie
5:30 p.m. Course BBQ

TBA
Sun., July 11 NO SCHEDULE

Mon., July 12 9:00 a.m. Spatial and Temporal Control in Signal Transduction
Tobias Meyer (Stanford University)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Hayashi Lecture
Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
Title: Centrosomes and Cell Division in C.elegans Embryo

Lillie
Tues., July 13 9:00 a.m. The Ubiquitin System for Protein Degradation and Some of its Roles in Cell Cycle Control - Avram Hershko (Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel)

Lillie
Wed., July 14 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture
Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. In Silico Evening- Theoretical Approaches to Physiology: Why ? Where ? What ? When ? How ? - L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Loeb Classroom
Thurs., July 15 9:00 a.m. New Advances in Optical Microscopy of Living Cells
Sunnie Xie (Harvard University)

Lillie
3:00 p.m. Single Molecule Enzymology
Sunnie Xie (Harvard University)

Loeb Classroom
Fri., July 16 9:00 a.m. Force Generation and Large-Scale Self-Organization by Actin Polymerization
Julie Theriot (Stanford Medical School)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Friday Evening Lecture
Mark Hughes (Genesis Genetics Institute)
Title: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: The Technology, the Medicine and the Bioethic

Lillie
Sat., July 17 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture
Julie Theriot (Stanford Medical School)

Lillie
Sun., July 18 NO SCHEDULE

Mon., July 19 9:00 a.m. Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Actin Filament Dynamics at the Leading Edge of Motile Cells - Tom Pollard (Yale University)

Lillie
Tues., July 20 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture: Cytokinesis
Tom Pollard (Yale University)

Lillie
Wed., July 21 9:00 a.m. Mechanics of Macromolecular Assemblies: Order, Disorder, Statics, Dynamic - L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Lillie
Thurs., July 22 9:00 a.m. Building Actin Networks in Yeast
Rong Li (Harvard)

Lillie
Fri., July 23 9:00 a.m. Using lithography to investigate the spatial control of signaling networks
Jay Groves (UC Berkeley)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Friday Evening Lecture
Arnold Levine (Institute for Advanced Study)
Title: From the Human Genome Project to Cancer Susceptibility Genes

Lillie
Sat., July 24 1:00 p.m. Research Symposium- third session

Lillie
5:00 p.m. Farewell dinner

TBA
Sat., July 25 STUDENTS DEPART







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