The BBSome: a molecular machine for membrane trafficking and microtubule acetylation at the primary cilium. Maxence Nachury, PhD - Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford School of Medicine. Class of 62 Auditorium (JMB)
How worms eat. Aravinthan D.T. Samuel, - Department of Physics, Harvard University. Class of 62 Auditorium (JMB)
Making and breaking neuromuscular connections. Michael Granato, Ph.D. - Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania. Class of 62 Auditorium (JMB)
A gene for speed: ACTN3, athletes, evolution and impact on human health. Kathryn North, MD, - Department of Paediatrics, University of Sydney Head, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. Class of 62 Auditorium (JMB)
John Beausang Thesis Defense: Single molecule investigations of DNA looping using the tethered particle method and translocation by acto-myosin using polarized total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (polTIRF). Advisors: Philip Nelson, Ph.D. - Department of Physics and Yale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., Pennsylvania Muscle Institute BRB, room 252
The role of mTOR signaling in muscle during development, growth and aging. Markus A. Rüegg, Ph.D - Department of Neurobiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel. Class of 62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building)
Maintaining skeletal muscle mass: Lessons learned from hibernation and aging. Ronald Cohn, MD Department of Pediatrics, Neurology and the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Class of 62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building)
Mechanisms and therapies for respiratory muscle failure. Department of Molecular Cardiology, University of Chicago. Class of 62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building)
Calcium signaling to myosin. James Travis Stull, Ph.D. - Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Class of 62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building)
Special Seminar- Progress in understanding the motor mechanism of myosin: Lessons from myosin V and VI. Recipient of the 2010 Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D. Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Class of 62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building)