PBSB Seminar Series

Spring 2012 Schedule
  • All Seminars will be held at 4:00 pm in Weill Auditorium (1300 York Ave. Rm C-200) unless otherwise noted
  • 3:30 pm "Students Only" session is mandatory for 1st and 2nd year students. This will also be held in Weill Auditorium (1300 York Ave., Room C-200) unless otherwise noted
  • Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm in the back of Archbold Commons (1300 York Avenue, 2nd floor)
Monday, March 19, 2012 Vijay Balasubramanian, Ph.D.
Merriam Term Professor of Physics
University of Pennsylvania		 Efficient Representations of Spaces by Populations of Neurons
Monday, April 2, 2012
Room A-950

 Gabriel Popescu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology		 Quantitative Phase Imaging in Biomedicine
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
10:00 AM
Room LC-504

 Eric Jakobsson, PhD
Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 		Integrating Nanoscience and Bioinformatics in the Service of Biomedicine
Thursday, April 12, 2012
10:30 AM
Room LC-504

 Frances Ashcroft, PhD
Professor of Physiology
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
University of Oxford		 ATP-sensitive Potassium Channels, Neonatal Diabetes and Neurological Problems
Monday, April 16, 2012 Elaine R. Mardis, PhD
Professor in Genetics and Molecular Microbiology
Co-director, The Genome Institute at Washington University
Washington University School of Medicine		 Deep Digital Sequencing Reveals Tumor Evolution
Monday, April 23, 2012
Room LC-504

 Gunnar Rätsch, PhD
Associate Professor and Lab Head
Computational Biology Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 		Towards Empirical Models of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
Monday, April 30, 2012 Teresa Giraldez, PhD
Investigator-Research Group Leader
Research Unit, University Hospital NS Candelaria
University of La Laguna
Tenerife, Spain		 Studying gating-ring motion in whole BK channels
Monday, May 14, 2012 David Heeger, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science
New York University		 Normalization as a Canonical Neural Computation

If you have any questions about the PBSB seminars or would like information about scheduling a future seminar, please contact our Seminar Coordinator Audrey Rivera at ajr2004@med.cornell.edu or 212-746-6361