This monthly series features UCSC researchers. Each seminar has two speakers.
Between the two talks, pizza and sodas are sponsored by Fisher Scientific.

Contact Rhonda Perriman for more information, to volunteer to speak, or to suggest an outside speaker.

Schedule

The second Thursday of the month at 4:00 pm (last meeting in 2006 is December 14)
The December meeting has been moved to January 11, 2007.
Sinsheimer 123

MORE...last year's schedule

March 9
Iraj Ali (Noller lab)
Sofie Salama (Haussler lab)

April 13
Julie Ni (Ares lab)
Negative regulation of gene expression by activation of conserved stop-codon-containing exon inclusion coupled with NMD
Monica Martick (Scott lab)
The 2.2 A structure of a hammerhead ribozyme

May 18 (NEW DATE!)
Quinn Mitrovich (Guthrie Lab, UCSF)
A global analysis of splicing in Candida albicans
Sergio Barberan-Soler (Zahler lab)
Insights into splicing evolution: Isolate-specific alternative splicing in C. elegans

June 8
Dimitri Ermolenko (Noller lab)
"Watching the ribosome move: using FRET to observe inter-subunit ratcheting
Jürgen Brosius (visiting UCSC this summer from University of Münster)
"RNomics"

September 14
Christina Zheng (Ares lab)
Using isoform-sensitive microarrays to study different modes of alternative splicing

October 12
Maumita Mandal (Bustamante Lab, UC Berkeley)
Exploring riboswitch fold and function
Grant Hartzog (Hartzog lab)
Connecting chromatin, transcription, and RNA processing

November 9
Maryann Dassah (Zahler lab)
Tales from the cryptic splice junctions: suppressing +1 mutations at 5' splice sites
Walter Bray (Jurica lab)
Designing a high-throughput screen for splicing inhibitiors

January 11, 2007 (NEW DATE)
Nikolai Ulyanov (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF)
Modeling structures of telomerase RNA from various species
Clint Spiegel (Noller lab)
tRNA movements during ribosomal translocation