Unless otherwise noted, all talks will be held in HSS 154 at 4:10 PM on Thursdays.
All students, faculty and staff are welcome. Light refreshments will be served at 4 PM.
 

August 29	First Day of Class - Organizational Meeting Only
Sept 5	Dr. Mitch Singer, Associate Professor, Section of Microbiology, UC Davis MARC/RISE speaker "Early signals necessary for the induction of fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus" Recommended paper:  1.     Pollack and Singer, J. Bacteriol. 2001, 183:3589-3596 Student hosts:  Bryan Kuo
Sept 12	Dr. Napolean Ferrara, Department of Molecular Oncology, Genentech "The regulation of blood vessel growth. Basic science and clinical application" Student hosts:  Amy Dhirapong, Guillermo Godinez, Ivan Zamora
Sept 19	Dr. Carmen Domingo, Assistant Professor, SFSU "Somite Patterning and Cell Fate Establishment during Xenopus Development" Student hosts:  Guillermo Godinez, Bryan Kuo
Sept 26	Dr. Zhiyong Wang, , Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington "Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis: From a Cell-surface Receptor Kinase to the Nucleus" Student hosts:  David Lally
Oct 3	Dr. Pamela Ronald, UC Davis "The rice Xa21-mediated resistance response" Student hosts:  Whalen lab
Oct 10	Dr. George Miljanich, Elan Pharmaceuticals "Ziconotide: a novel calcium-channel-blocking pain-killer from sea snail venom" Student hosts:  Guillermo Godinez, Matt Mendel
Oct 17	Dr. Steve Weinstein, Assistant Professor, SFSU Student hosts:  Ryan Kendle, Carl Larcina
Oct 24	Dr. Olivia Kelly, UC Berkeley MARC/RISE speaker "Functional analysis of mouse development using a gene trap approach" Student hosts:  Guillermo Godinez, Sara Knight
Oct 31	No speaker currently scheduled
Nov 7	Dr. Zach Cande, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley "The homology search: maize mutants that affect meiotic prophase chromosome behavior" Recommended Papers:  1.     Carlton, P. M.. and W. Z. Cande. 2002. Telomeres act autonomously to organize the      meiotic bouquet from a semipolarized chromosome orientation. J. Cell Biology 157: 231-242.  2.     Franklin, A.E., McElver, J.,  Sunjevaric,  I. ,  Rothstein, R. , Bowen, B. , and W. Z. Cande. 1999. Three-Dimensional Microscopy of the Rad51 Recombination Protein during Meiotic Prophase. Plant Cell 11: 809-824.
Nov 14	Dr. Uta Grieshammer, Department of Anatomy, Program in Developmental Biology, UCSF "Formation of ectopic ureters in Slit2 mutants" Recommended paper:  1.     Brophy PD, Ostrom L, Lang KM, Dressler GR. Regulation of ureteric bud outgrowth by Pax2-dependent activation of the glial derived neurotrophic factor gene.  Development. 2001 Dec;128(23):4747-56. Student hosts:  Adolph Anglade, Larry Okumoto
Nov 21	Dr. Francoise Chanut, G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, UCSF Student hosts:  Caroline Meloty-Kapella, Fatima Lelenta, Sara Knight
Nov 28	THANKSGIVING
Dec 5	Dr. Martin McMahon, Cancer Research Institute, UCSF Student hosts:  Salimeh Pessaran, Jessica Posada, Sara Knight
Dec 12	Dr. Jay Levy,  UCSF CANCELLED!!!!  Will reschedule next semester. Student hosts:  Guillermo Godinez

Many thanks to GENENTECH and the MARC/RISE programs for their generous support of this Colloquium series.