January 30    Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                        Endosomal functions in plant development

February 6    Kate O’Connor-Giles, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                        Genetic analysis of synaptic growth and plasticity in Drosophila:

                         the role of Nervous Wreck in retrograde BMP signaling

February 13    Catherine Fox, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                        The origin recognition complex's roles in chromatin structure and replication

February 20    John Fallon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                         How to make a Digit-Why we are not all thumbs

February 27    Allen Laughon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                        Smad transcription factors

March 5     Marie Kmita, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (Xin Sun)

                         Genetic mechanisms underlying limb development:

                         The role of Hox genes in outgrowth and patterning

March 12    Joseph Ecker, Salk Institute (Rick Vierstra)

                        Assessing genetic, epigenetic and transcriptional variation in Arabidopsis

March 19    Spring Break

March 26    Neil Risch, University of California-San Francisco (Jim Crow)

                        TBA

April 2            Debbie Yelon, New York University Medical School (Xin Sun)

                        TBA

April 9    Ching Kung, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                        Genetic Dissection of TRPY1: a Mechanosensitive Channel

April 16    John Willis, Duke University (Bret Payseur)

                        TBA

April 23    Mike Blower, Harvard University (Ahna Skop)

                        Analysis of microtubule localized RNAs during mitosis

April 30    Doug Weibel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                       Why do bacteria have funny shapes?

May 7    Yuseob Kim, Arizona State University (Carol Lee/Jim Crow)

                        Genetic inference of recent adaptive evolution in derived populations

May 14   Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute (Barry Ganetzky)

                       Well actually there ARE strings attached: The Molecular Biology of Meiosis