Mike Levine
University of California, Berkeley
National Academy of Science
September 4, 2008
“Gene Networks for Drosophila Gastrulation and Ciona Cardiogenesis”
Host: Justin Kumar

Tom Clandinin
Stanford University
September 11, 2008
“Toward a Genetic Dissection of Visual Behavior in the Fly”
Host: Andy Zelhof

Paul Taghert
Washington University, St. Louis
September 18, 2008
“How Drosophila Builds a Neuropeptide-Secreting Neuron”
Host: Justin Kumar

Hugo Bellen
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
September 25, 2008
Seminar Title TBA
Host: Justin Kumar

James Chen
Stanford University
October 2, 2008
“Chemical Probes of Embryonic Signaling and Patterning”
Host: Joe Pomerening

Bruce Hay
California Institute of Technology
October 9, 2008
“Engineering the Genetics of Wild Insect Populations”
Host: Tai Min

David Traver
University of California, San Diego
October 16, 2008
“Development of the Hematopoietic Lineages”
Host: Andy Zelhof

Kevin Folta
University of Florida
October 23, 2008
Seminar Title TBA
Host: Scott Michaels

Kevin Vaughan
Notre Dame
October 30, 2008
“Rethinking Cytoplasmic Dynein Function at Kinetochores; Is Dynein a Chromosome Motor or a Checkpoint Protein?”
Host: Sid Shaw

Jeffery Salisbury
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
November 6, 2008
“Control of Centriole Duplication by Centrin Phosphorylation”
Host: Ke Hu

Harold Erikson
Duke University
November 13, 2008
“Bacterial Tubulin – The FtsZ Ring in Dividing Bacteria and in Liposomes”
Host: Ke Hu

Leo Pallanck
University of Washington
November 20, 2008
“Using Drosophila to Explore the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease”
Host: Tai Min

David Hyde
Notre Dame
December 4, 2008
"Regulating Retinal Regeneration through the Muller glia:
An Inducible Adult Neuronal Stem Cell Population in Zebrafish"
Host: Justin Kumar

John Dowling
Harvard University
December 11, 2008
Seminar Title TBA
Host: Peter Cherbas