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Modern Cell Biology using Microscopic, Biochemical and Computational Approaches
2005 Course Schedule


Schedule Archives: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008


(all lectures 1.5 hrs unless indicated)

DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION

Sat., June 11 7:00 p.m. Course Introduction
Ron Vale (UCSF)

Lillie Auditorium
8:30 p.m. Social

Loeb
Week 1
Sun., June 12 5:00 p.m. Interfacing biology and computation - Tim Mitchison (Harvard)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. BBQ Party

Crane House
Mon., June 13 9:00 a.m. Image Formation - Ted Salmon (UNC, Chapel Hill)

Lillie
Tues., June 14 9:00 a.m. Fluorescence - Nico Stuurman (UCSF)

Lillie
Wed., June 15 9:00 a.m. Digital Image Processing- Jennifer Waters (Harvard Med Sch Imaging Facility)

Lillie
Thurs., June 16 9:00 a.m. Microscopy Sectioning/Pragmatics - Ted Salmon (UNC, Chapel Hill)

Lillie
Fri., June 17 9:00 a.m. Statistical Mechanics
of Sloppy Models - Kevin Brown (Harvard)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Friday Lecture:
Unresolved Mysteries About Parasites and our Oldest Ancestors - Mitchell L. Sogin (MBL)

Lillie
Sat., June 18 9:00 a.m. Cellular Nutrient Homeostasis - Erin O'Shea (UCSF)

Lillie

Week 2
Sun., June 19 10:00 a.m. All Course Brunch

Swope
Mon., June 20 9:00 a.m. Intro to Session I

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Molecular mechanisms of bacterial swimming and tumbling - Keiichi Namba (Osaka Univ.)

Lillie
Tues, June 21 9:00 a.m. The immunological synapse as a model for cell-cell communication - Mike Dustin (NYU)

Lillie
Wed., June 22 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture - Keiichi Namba (Osaka Univ.)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Polarization microscopy - Shinya Inoué (MBL)

Whitman
Thurs, June 23 9:00 a.m. Single molecule analysis and spatial patterning of molecules during T cell signaling - Ron Vale (UCSF)

7:00 p.m. DIC microscopy- Ted Salmon (UNC, Chapel Hill)

Lillie
Fri., June 24 9:00 a.m. Tim Mitchison (Harvard)
Lillie
8:00 p.m. Porter Lecture:
Cell Division: From Inoué to New Cancer Drugs -Tim Mitchison (Harvard)

Lillie
Sat., June 25 9:00 a.m. Noisy Business: Genetic Switches, Signal Propagation & Cellular Polarization - Alexander van Oudenaarden (MIT)

Lillie

Week 3
Sun., June 26 DAY OFF

Lillie
Mon, June 27 9:00 a.m. Rama Ranganathan (UT Southwestern)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Wetware: the basis of cell computations - Dennis Bray (Cambridge)

Lillie
Tues., June 28 9:00 a.m. Karel Svoboda (Cold Spring Harbor)

Lillie
Wed., June 29 9:00 a.m. Using fluorescence to study bacterial behavior - Howard Berg (Harvard)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Computational Evening- Dennis Bray (Cambridge)

Physiology Classroom
Thurs., June 30 9:00 a.m. Peter Sorger (MIT)

Lillie
Fri., Jul 1 9:00 a.m. Cell biology of complex cells in context: systems cell biology - Ira Mellman (Yale)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Friday Lecture:
Overwintering in the Arctic: Animal Strategies for Surviving the Long, Cold, and Dark - Brian M. Barnes (U. Alaska)

Lillie
Sat., Jul 2 1:00 p.m. Session I: Symposium

Lillie
4:30 p.m. Softball

Bell Tower
7:00 p.m. BBQ

TBA

Week 4
Sun, Jul 3 DAY OFF

Mon, Jul 4 9:00 a.m. Session Introduction

Lillie
12:00 p.m. 4th of July parade

Tues, Jul 5 9:00 a.m. Garry Odell (U. Washington)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Intracellular vesicle traffic: Mechanism and disease implications - Randy Schekman (UC Berkeley)

Lillie
Wed., Jul 6 9:00 a.m. Frontiers - Randy Schekman (UC Berkeley)

Lillie
Thurs., Jul 7 9:00 a.m. Lecture - Clare Waterman-Storer (Scripps)

Lillie
Fri., Jul 8 9:00 a.m. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Glassman Lecture:
Parallel Paths in the Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: Use of Modern Vaccinology and Genomics vs. Basic Parasitology and Entomology to Realize the Goal - Stephen L. Hoffman (Sanaria Inc.)

Lillie
Sat., Jul 9 10:00 a.m. Embryology Symposium, Session I:
"Accuracy of timing in the eukaryotic cell cycle" - Marc Kirschner (Harvard Med School)

"Pinocchio is starting to twitch. Computer simulation as a tool for comprehending cytoskeletal dynamics" - Garry Odell (U Washington)

"Patterning the limb and gut during vertebrate development" - Cliff Tabin (Harvard Medical School)

Lillie
12:30 p.m. Lunch (to be arranged individually)

2:30 p.m. Session II

"Cell compartmental-ization in the absence of plasma membrane boundaries in the early Drosophila syntial blastocyst" - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH)

Title - "Imaging the developmental mechanics of the vertebrate embryo" - Scott Fraser (California Institute of Technology)

"Morphogen Gradients and Size Regulation in Drosophila" - Eric Wieschaus, (Princeton)

5:00 p.m. Social

TBA

Week 5
Sun., Jul 10 DAY OFF

Mon., Jul 11 9:00 a.m. Innovation and Risk Taking in Science- Bruce Alberts (NAS and UCSF)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Single molecule mechanics of myosin motors: How cells sense and set tension - Jim Spudich (Stanford)

Lillie
Tues., Jul 12 4:00 p.m. Scholar's Lecture - Avram Hershko (Hebrew
University , Israel
)

Lillie
Wed., Jul 13 9:00 a.m. Frontiers Lecture - Jim Spudich (Stanford Univ)

Thurs., Jul 14 9:00 a.m. Self-assembly and self-destruction of cytoskeletal networks - Dyche Mullins (UCSF)

Lillie
Fri., Jul 15 9:00 a.m. Marileen Dogterom (FOM Inst, Netherlands)

Lillie
8:00 p.m. Lang Lecture:
Modification of the cerebral cortex by experience - Mark F. Bear (MIT, HHMI)

Lillie
Sat., Jul 16 1:00 p.m. Session II Symposium

Lillie
4:30 p.m. Softball

Bell Tower
7:00 p.m. BBQ

TBA

Week 6
Sun., Jul 17 DAY OFF

Mon., Jul 18 9:00 a.m. Session III Introductions

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Navigating the embryo: germ cell migration in Drosophila - Ruth Lehmann (Skirball, NYU)

Lillie
Tues., Jul 19 9:00 a.m. Cell polarity in C.elegans embryos - Tony Hyman (Max-Planck, Dresden)

Wed., Jul 20 9:00 a.m. Evaluating putative mechanisms of the mitotic spindle checkpoint - Naama Barkai (Weizmann Inst, Israel)

Lillie
Thurs., Jul 21 9:00 a.m. Mechanisms and molecules of mitosis - Rebecca Heald (UCB)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Computational Evening- Naama Barkai (Weizmann Inst, Israel)

Physiology Classroom
Fri., Jul 22 9:00 a.m. Francois Nedelec (EMBL, Germany)

Lillie
Sat., Jul 23 8:00 p.m. Forbes Lecture:
Building Synthetic Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors - Roger Y. Tsien (UCSD, HHMI)

Lillie
9:00 a.m. A night at the singles bar: finding out how yeast cells meet their mates - Andrew Murray (Harvard)

Lillie

Week 7
Sun., Jul 24 DAY OFF

Mon., Jul 25 9:00 a.m. Single molecule and single particle imaging in solution and in live cells - Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard)

Lillie
4:00 p.m. Is there a role for secretory immunity in mucosal defence - Per Brandtzaeg (Univ. Oslo)

Lillie
Tues., Jul 26 9:00 a.m. Intermediate Filaments: Dynamic Components of the Nucleus and Cytoplasm - Robert Goldman (Northwestern)

Lillie
7:00 p.m. Computational Evening- Francois Nedelec (EMBL, Germany)

Physiology Classroom
Wed., Jul 27 9:00 a.m. Epistatic interaction networks and biological function - Roy Kishony (Harvard)

Lillie
Thurs., Jul 28 NO LECTURE

Fri., Jul 29 9:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.
Clean-up

Session III Symposium

Students Depart

Loeb

Lillie

TBA
Sat., Jul 30 Students Depart




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