Spring 2009
Wednesdays, 4:15 p.m. in Galileo-Pryne, Harvey Mudd
(snacks provided at 4:00 p.m.)

January 21
Dr. Harry Taylor
Meharry Medical College
"The Secret Lives of HIV-1 and Cholesterol: The Twain have Met!" 

January 28
TBA

February 4
TBA

February 11
Dr. Bob Gaines
Dept. of Geology, Pomona College
"The Cambrian Explosion and the fossil record of Utah, British Columbia, and South China" 

February 18
Dr. Karl Johnson
Dept. of Biology and Neuroscience Program, Pomona College
"Neuronal guidance in Drosophila"

*Robbins Lectures at Pomona College Featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna (Dept of Chemistry, UC Berkeley)

Mon. February 23 (8 pm, Seaver North Auditorium, Pomona College)
"The many lives of RNA"


Tues. February 24 (4:30 pm, Seaver North Auditorium, Pomona College)
"Hijacking the ribosome: how viruses use RNA to control protein synthesis"


Wed. February 25 (4:30 pm, Seaver North Auditorium, Pomona College)
"Dissecting dicer: toward an understanding of DNA-regulated gene expression"


Thurs. February 26 (4:30 pm, Seaver North Auditorium, Pomona College)
"RNA: drugs and human health"

March 4
Dr. Jonathan Kelber
Salk Institute
"Decoding the molecular mechanisms by which Cripto promotes tumor growth and metastasis"

March 11
Dr. Jonathan Richmond
US Geological Survey, San Diego
"Ecological divergence drives speciation in western north American scincid lizards"

March 18: Spring Break (no colloquium)

March 25
Dr. Paul Barber
UCLA
"Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity in the Coral Triangle, the 'Amazon of the Ocean’"

April 1
Dr. Piroska Szabo
Molecular Biology, City of Hope
"Mammalian germ cell development"

April 7 (Tuesday, 11 a.m., location TBA)
Dr. Ángel Islas
Santa Clara University
"Studies of DNA Polymerization" 

April 8
Dr. David Haussler
UC Santa Cruz
"The evolution of non-coding functional elements in our genome"

April 15
Dr. Kristopher Irizarry
Western University of Health Sciences
"Canine bioinformatics and genetics"

April 22
Dr. Jonathan Snow
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
"Two sides of the same oin: Cis and trans elements in regulation of gene expression"

Thursday, April 30, 11am in Beckman Auditorium (note:  special Thursday time)
Dr. Jose Ballesteros
UC Davis
"Acetylcholine and eye specific segregation in the mouse dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus"