Category Archives: Seminars

Protected: Alex Pollen — human vs chimp brain organization

Posted on February 25, 2016 by admin

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Protected: Dan Norcea: running a lab

Posted on February 2, 2016 by admin

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Protected: Ethan: Packing your parachute: Career Advice

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Geoff Fudenberg Thesis Defense

Posted on May 13, 2015 by admin

Thesis Defense in Biophysics 05/13/15 Intro many different text book picutres of mitotic chromosome middle scale: rosettes? spirals of spirals? Accordion coils? many functional characterizations of the 1D genome sequence Hi-C method explained. had to develop appropriate normalization pipeline now … Continue reading →

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Bo Huang: Seminar 02/12/15

Posted on February 12, 2015 by admin

Life inside the Cell: CRISPR GFP and Imagenomics Background Joined UCSF in 2009. Recently tenured Packard fellow and New innovator award (well deserved) Intro studying cars. Conserved gene driving. one knockout not distinguish method. physical biology approach — direct observation. … Continue reading →

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post-doc talks 10/20/14

Posted on November 20, 2014 by admin

Ashesh Dhawale, Ölveczky Lab “Role of subcortical circuits in motor skill learning” Introduction Function of basal gangalion not well understood. conflicting annotations invovled in parkinsons, huntingtons ‘sequencing chuncking’ organizes downstream circuits into groups (based on activity recording experiments). monkey can … Continue reading →

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MCB seminars: 11/11/14

Posted on November 11, 2014 by admin

Germ cell specification in insects. (Extavour lab) Taro Nakamura intro germline markers: Piwi and vasa preformation mode of germ cells — flies, frogs, fish induction mode of germ cells – salamanders + mice most animals use the induction mode. More … Continue reading →

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lab meeting 05/05/14

Posted on May 5, 2014 by admin

Jean-Ju Chung, Spatial Organization of CatSper in Sperm (former collaborator of Sang-He) Clapman lab results now published, to appear soon. background ejaculated sperm not motile outside female environment. Hence ‘not fertile’. what’s the difference? Bicarbonate rich, Albumin. pH changes sharply … Continue reading →

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Oliver Rando: I: Structural biology of the yeast genome II: Mechanical disassembly and reassembly of mammalian reproduction

Posted on April 15, 2014 by admin

MNase digestion — nucleosome phasing 26 different histone modifications mapped genome wide. in 20kb of yeast chrIII chromosome conformation capture mapping 300 nm the 30 nm fiber mode solenoid model, regular 30 nm model zigzag, 3 nucleosomes / turn, less … Continue reading →

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Physicists of Biology hangout 03/20/14

Posted on March 20, 2014 by admin

Pallav Kosuri (Zhuang Lab) Intro passive elacticity — stored energy in (in-elastic) muscle. contrast running to yoga. muscle structure z-bands spanned by titin. Titin stretches elastically. Atomic Force Microscope and Titin Force clamp setup: fixed force (through feedback, measure force … Continue reading →

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