Church Lab & Lipper Center Meeting Schedule

NOTE:     Mon/Thu meetings are restricted to lab members, rotation students, & collaborators with consent of the speaker. (This is not lab policy, but a respected request of the HMS-OTL and a subset of the speakers). Guest lectures & Journal meetings are open to the scientific community. All meetings and topics are subject to change at the last minute so please check this page. 

Fri at Noon : HMS Genetics DJ meeting in NRB 3rd floor conference room 350.

Wed at Noon : Genetics Dept Seminars in NRB 3rd floor conference room 350.

Wed  at Noon  DOE GtL monthly meeting noon NRB 258

Fri at Noon : Systems Biology Dept. Theory Lunch in WAB 563.

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Monday & Thursday Meetings at 12:30 to 1:45 PM in NRB 2nd floor, room 258. (*** indicates other times or locations.)

DATE      SPEAKER     Title (please update your titles)

Jan 09 Mon 2006  Ting Wang (Guest Speaker) Combining Phylogenetic data and Network

Topology to identify Regulatory Motifs.

Jan 12 Thu    Greg Porreca    Toward a human genome sequence

Jan 16 Mon    No lab Meeting (Martin Luther King Day)

Jan 18 Wed    Nick Reppas & Ben Kirkup DOE GTL Lab evolution of Growth Rate

Jan 19 Thu    Noel Goddard    Lost in translation

Jan 23 Mon    No lab meeting

Jan 26 Thu    Abraham Rosenbaum   Nanogrids for gigabases

Jan 30 Mon    Kun Zhang        Single chromosomes speak out

Feb 02 Thu    Long Cai (guest) Life at small Reynolds numbers

Feb 06 Mon    No lab meeting

Feb 09 Thu    No lab meeting due to SeqTec FL meeting

Feb 13 Mon    Nikos Reppas     Genomengineering

Feb 16 Thu    Michael Sismour  (guest) artificial genetics

Feb 20 Mon    No Lab meeting (President’s Day)

Feb 23 Thu    Gautam Dantas (Guest Speaker) In Silico Protein Evolution by

              Intelligent Design: Creating New and Improved Protein Structures.

Feb 27 Mon    No Lab meeting Sloan Synthetic Genomics Workshop 2, Maryland

Mar 02 Thu    Shawn Douglas   Long stiff DNA rods

Mar 06 Mon    Jiong Yang Mining Biological sequences and graphs

Mar 09 Thu    Eric Wang (Guest Speaker)   Darwin's Fingerprint: an evolutionary approach towards complex human disorders.

Mar 13 Mon    Dana Pe'er      Promoting promoters

Mar 15 Wed    DOE GtL meeting NRB 258 12:PM Ploning & GtL grant renewal

Mar 16 Thu   Joseph Chou     The child in mom's veins

Mar 20 Mon    No lab meeting      due to Systems Biology Faculty meeting

Mar 23 Thu   Mark Umbarger   The shape of coli's mortal coil

Mar 27 Mon   Farren Isaacs    rE.coli

Mar 30 Thu   (CANCELED)

Apr 03 Mon   No Lab Meeting $100,000 genome, Sheraton Boston

Apr 06 Thu   Jay Lee (Guest Speaker) Regulation of MAP Kinase-Dependent Developmental

             Switch: cis-Regulatory logic modules in growth and differentiation

             decisions

Apr 10 Mon   Anton Valouev Guest Speaker Optical Mapping: Whole-genome map

             assembly and analysis of structural variants

Apr 13 Thu   No Lab Meeting Ideastream $1000 Genome, Cambridge, MA

Apr 17 Mon   (CANCELED due to Patriots day)

Apr 20 Thu   Jao de Magalhes  Turning rats into mole rats

Apr 24 Mon   No Lab Meeting EU-USA Synthetic Biology Workshop, Airlie House, VA

Apr 27 Thu   Michael Rust Guest Speaker Watching viruses Infect Cells in Real-Time

May 01 Mon   May Day (as in holiday) or is it Mayday (as in distress signal)

May 04 Thu   Madeleine Price    Mammalian mC decoding

May 08 Mon   Erez Levanon Guest Speaker Letter from the editor:

             A-to-I  RNA editing in the human genome

May 11 Thu   Alex Kosoruko (Guest Speaker)

May 15 Mon   No Lab Meeting Systems Biology Faculty monthly meeting

May 18 Thu   Boris Shakhnovich (Guest Speaker) The role of selection

             in evolution of gene families, transcriptional control

             and regulation mediated modularity

May 22 Mon   No lab Meeting: Synthetic Biology 2.0 Berkeley, CA

May 25 Thu   Aimee Dudley Natural variation and post-transcriptional

             regulation

May 29 Mon   No Lab Meeting Memorial Day

Jun 01 Thu   No Lab Meeting Genetics Retreat, Salve Regina University , Newport , RI Genetics Retreat June 1-2

Jun 05 Mon   Sasha Wait    PGP Core Wars

Jun 08 Thu     Kyriacos Leptos    The minimal protroph proteome

Jun 12 Mon   No lab Meeting The Children's Hospital Neuroscience Seminar

Jun 15 Thu   John Aach    Imaginative image motives 1:00PM to 2:30PM

Jun 19 Mon   No lab meeting

Jun 20 Tue   Broad Inst Inflammatory Disease Genetics Group (IDGG)

             10:00AM (George Church)

Jun 21 Wed   DOE GtL monthly meeting noon NRB 258

Jun 22 Thu   George Church "The future of evolution"

Jun 23 Fri   HMS Genetics Weekly DJ meeting NRB room 350 Fridays at Noon.

Jun 26 Mon   No Lab meeting

Jun 29 Thu   Broad Inst Medical and Population Genetics (MPG) Thursdays at 9:30 AM.

Jun 29 Thu   No Lab Meeting

Jul 03 Mon   No Lab Meeting

Jul 06 Thu   No Lab Meeting

Jul 07 Fri   No DJ meeting (Holiday)

Jul 10 Mon   No Lab Meeting

Jul 13 Thu   No Lab Meeting

Jul 14 Fri   HMS Genetics Weekly DJ meeting NRB room 350 Fridays at Noon.

Jul 17 Mon   Noel Goddard    Genophysics

Jul 20 Thu   No lab meeting

Jul 24 Mon   Abraham Rosenbaum    Toward the alignment of CCD and RCA

Jul 26 Wed***  Roger Lasken (Guest Speaker) Genomic sequencing from single cells using

Multiple Displacement Amplification NRB 258.

Jul 27 Thu   Kun Zhang    The leverage of single DNA molecules

Jul 31 Mon   Dana Pe'er    Peering into the cogs of cells (canceled)

Aug 03 Thu   CEGS-MAP Summer Student Elena Gonzales (Aimee)

Aug 07 Mon   Katherine Montero   Multiplex Polony Sequencing in a Nutshell

             Summer Student James Kluger (Greg)

Aug 09 Wed   I2B2 Summer Students Nathan Scott (Joe Chou), Christina Harview (Pedro)

Aug 10 Thu   CEGS-MAP Summer Students Keng Davis (Mike Chou), Lunet Luna (Noel)

Aug 14 Mon   Dan Schwartz   Protein motifs

Aug 17 Thu   Mark Umbarger   Folding the genome

Aug 21 Mon   No lab meeting SynBERC Kickoff Meeting, Berkeley CA

Aug 24 Thu   Nicholas Guido (Guest Speaker) Gene expression, noise and stationary phase

Aug 28 Mon   No lab meeting

Aug 31 Thu   Joseph Chou    The DNA mosaic of our blood

Sep 04 Mon   No Lab Meeting Holiday Labor Day

Sep 07 Thu   Nikos Reppas    Turbo-evolution

Sep 11 Mon   Duhee Bang    Where DNA and peptide syntheses meet

Sep 14 Thu   Adnan Memic  (Guest Speaker) Mapping the Energetics: Ligand Binding

             Studies of PDZ Domain Proteins

Sep 18 Mon  >Jin Billy Li    Multiplexing genome subsets

Sep 20 Wed   DOE GtL monthly meeting noon NRB 258

Sep 21 Thu   Shawn Douglas    The warp and weft of DNAno-fabrics

Sep 24 Fri   HMS Genetics Weekly DJ meeting NRB room 350 Fridays at Noon.

Sep 25 Mon   No Lab Meeting IBC Chips to Hits, Hynes, Boston George Church.

Sep 28 Thu   No Lab meeting,NHGRI MAP & CEGS meetings,  Los Angeles CA

Oct 02 Mon   Lab Meeting Nick Papadakis (guest),  DNA Nanotechnology & next steps

Oct 02 Mon   Cancer Genomics and Emerging Technologies (CGET) Conference

Oct 05 Thu   Farren Isaacs  Constructing a new Genetic Code

Oct 09 Mon   No Lab Meeting Holiday Columbus Day

Oct 12 Thu   Wayne Rindone    TBA (also discussion of cluster computing projects)

Oct 16 Mon   Morten Sommer Evolving "good" cells and molecules

Oct 19 Thu   Joao de Magalhaes  Stressing Stem Cells

Oct 23 Mon   Madeline Price  Epigenomics in stem and germ lines

Oct 26 Thu   Aimee Dudley  Random walks in science education

Oct 30 Mon   Sasha Wait  Personal Genome Algorithms

Nov 02 Thu   **Noon** Discussion with Shamil Sunyaev et al. on "Interpreting human genome re-sequencing data" Please bring your ideas & questions.

Nov 06 Mon   No Lab meeting Broad Inst. Retreat   http://www.broad.mit.edu/events/retreat/

Nov 09 Thu    No lab meeting (SF meetings)

Nov 13 Mon    Kyriacos Leptos   Photsynthetic Proteinetic

Nov 16 Thu   Noel Goddard  Hi-Fi biopolymers

Nov 20 Mon   No lab meeting (prepare for Nov 21) 

Nov 21 Tue *** 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM *** DOE GTL BRC Jamboree HIM 1st floor Lecture room

Nov 23 Thu   No Lab Meeting Holiday Thanksgiving

Nov 27 Mon   No Lab meeting (Insurance and PGP meeting)  

Nov 30 Thu   Kun Zhang  Amplifying bits of human genome

Dec 04 Mon   No Lab Meeting  Synthetic Genomics Policy Project, Washington,DC

Dec 07 Thu   Shamil Sunyaev

Dec 11 Mon   Dana Pe'er  Conquer Cancer concerns

Dec 14 Thu   No lab Meeting (conflicting DAC meeting)

Dec 18 Mon   No Lab Meeting- Genetics Dept. Holiday Party

Dec 21 Thu   Nikolaos Reppas   Polony sequencing update

Dec 25 Mon   No Lab Meeting Holiday Christmas Day

Dec 28 Thu   No Lab Meeting Winter recess

Jan 01 Mon   2007 No Lab meeting New Year's day

Jan 04 Thu   Alireza Senejani (Guest Speaker)Intein distribution, types, structure   and functions.

Jan 08 Mon  Abraham Rosenbaum  DNA-Nanohairballs-

Jan 11 Thu  Mark Umbarger  DNA Close encounters of the third kind in vivo

Jan 15 Mon  No Lab Meeting Martin Luther King Day

Jan 18 Thu   Nick Reppas Thesis at 10 AM and party at 1 PM

Jan 22 Mon  Joseph Chou    Needles from genome haystacks

Jan 25 Thu    No lab meeting

Jan 29 Mon    Michael Chou Comproteome

Feb 01 Thu  Francois Vigneault "The represive action of NFI on the P21 gene in human proliferating cells" (Guest Speaker)

Feb 05 Mon  No Lab Meeting

Feb 08 Thu  No lab Meeting AGBT Meeting, Marco Island FL.

Feb 12 Mon  No Lab Meeting GTL Annual Contractor Grantee Meeting

Feb 15 Thu   No lab meeting (Meeting Dr. Smolke)

Feb 19 Mon  No Lab meeting President's Day

Feb 22 Thu  No Lab Meeting SynBERC NSF site visit Berkeley (21-24)

Feb 26 Mon  Wayne Rindone   Clearly needed polony software support (CNPSS)

Mar 01 Thu  Duhee Bang  A Mirror world enzyme

Mar 05 Mon  Jin Billy Li   di-nukes & killer apps

Mar 08 Thu  Medeleine Price "Counting on Polonies for methylation profiling"

Mar 12 Mon  Shawn Douglas  DNA nano workbench

Mar 15 Thu  Greg Porreca   DNA trek: the Next generation

Mar 19 Mon  Gautam Dantas  Fueling Constructive Biology

Mar 21 Wed  SynBERC Seminar Steve Benner (FfAME) 4:00PM

Warren Alpert Building room 341

Mar 22 Thu  Genetics Seminar Ben Barres 12:00PM NRB room 350

Mar 22 Thu  No lab meeting

Mar 26 Mon  No Lab Meeting Conference on the origins of life, St. John

Mar 29 Thu  No lab Meeting Conference on the origins of life, St. John

Apr 02 Mon  Adeyemi Adesokan "From Vibrational Spectroscopy to better potentials for biomolecules" (Guest Speaker)

Apr 05 Thu  No Lab Meeting

Apr 09 Mon  Jay Lee   42 Top priority projects

Apr 12 Thu  Ron Milo (Guest Speaker)Variability and memory of protein levels in human cells.

Apr 16 Mon  Jeremiah Faith (Guest Speaker)Defining a prokaryotic life: Systems

biology approaches to the complete demarcation of a prokaryotic genome sequence

and its regulation.

Apr 19 Thu  Erez Levanon  Editing in the human genome

Apr 23 Mon  Michael Sismour   Synthetic chemistry meets Synthetic biology -- ligating

DNA, RNA & aminoacids to each other

Apr 26 Thu  Dan Schwartz   xxx-extreme motif-xxx

Apr 30 Mon  Wayne Curtis   Trickle down economics for biofuels

May 03 Thu  No lab meeting

May 07 Mon Craig Forest (Guest Speaker) Ultrahigh Throughput Mutational Spectrometer

for Human Genetic Diagnostics

May 10 Thu  No lab meeting Kyriacos Leptos thesis party (room 335 fish bowl) noon

May 14 Mon  Nicholas Guido   Pathway optimization: The kitchen sink approach

May 17 Thu  Michael Strong   E.coli needs strong surface display

May 21 Mon  Desmond Lun (Guest Speaker) Flows in communications networks and

metabolic networks.

May 24 Thu  No Lab meeting Workshop on coding and computation in microfluidics

MIT- The Center for Bits and Atoms 8:00AM to 4:30

May 28 Mon  No lab meting - Holiday Memorial Day

May 31 Thu  No lab meeting (Genetics Retreat)

Jun 04 Mon  No lab meeting Public MolTools symposium Heidelberg

Jun 07 Thu  (CANCELED)

Jun 11 Mon  No lab meeting   (Thesis at MIT)

Jun 14 Thu  Lee Hood (guest) Discussion on new phenotyping technologies of relevance to PGP

Jun 15 Fri  Greg Porreca Thesis Seminar room 350 10:00AM - Thesis party room 335 12:30

Jun 18 Mon  No lab meeting Noon MIT 77 Mass Ave. Support for James Sherley   

Jun 21 Thu  No lab meeting

Jun 25 Mon  No lab meeting Synthetic Biology 3.0

Jun 28 Thu  No Lab Meeting 5th International Conference on Pathways, Networks, and Systems Porto Heli, Greece

Jul 02 Mon  Harris Wang   Gentle, persistent electroshock gene-therapy

Jul 05 Thu  No Lab meeting July 5-8 Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, CO (George Church)

Jul 09 Mon  Nizar Batada  Genome Organization driven by selection for noise reduction

Jul 12 Thu  Farren Isaacs   Gengineering inside job -- fooling forks

Jul 16 Mon  Morten Sommer   Dining on toxins

Jul 17 Tue  Bioenergy DJ (Room 335 ("Fishbowl"), 12-1:30): Gautam Dantas

Jul 19 Thu  No Lab meeting Genomatica SAB, San Diego CA

Jul 23 Mon  Joao Pedro de Magalhaes   Stress-management for stem cells

Jul 26 Thu  Sasha Wait   Polony Pipeline Projects

Jul 30 Mon  No Lab Meeting- NYC (George Church)

Jul 31 Tue  Bioenergy DJ (Room 335 ("Fishbowl"), 12-1:30): Andy Tolonen

Aug 02 Thu  MAP/MGIC Summer Student's presentation

Aug 06 Mon  No Lab Meeting- NYC (George Church)

Aug 09 Thu  No Lab Meeting- NYC (George Church)

Aug 13 Mon  Pamela Peralta (Guest Speaker)

Aug 14 Tue  Bioenergy DJ (Room 335 ("Fishbowl"), 12-1:30): John Aach and Jeremy Zucker, Rubisco Optimization

Aug 16 Thu  Abraham Rosenbaum   A Rolling plone gathers no dots

Aug 20 Mon  Michael Chou   Ulterior Motifs

Aug 23 Thu  No lab meeting FAB 4: The Fourth International Fab Lab Forum & Digital Fabrication, Chicago (George Church)

Aug 27 Mon  No Lab meeting -Life concept meeting, Eastover, CT (George Church)

Aug 30 Thu  Nikolaos Reppas   Emergence of new metabolism

Sep 03 Mon  No lab meeting Holiday Labor day

Sep 06 Thu  No lab meeting Human Genome Variation, Barcelona, Spain (George Church)

Sep 10 Mon  Graham Rockwell   Selecting the optimal path

Sep 13 Thu  Francois Vigneault Mapping the road to human induced pluripotent

            stem cells

Sep 17 Mon  No lab meeting- Children's Hospital talk (George Church)

Sep 20 Thu  No lab meeting- 5th Annual International Conference on Microbial Genomics University of Maryland College Park (George Church)

Sep 24 Mon  No lab meeting

Sep 25 Tue  Bioenergy DJ (Room 335 ("Fishbowl"), 12-1:30)

Sep 27 Thu  No Lab Meeting - Clinical Pathology Conference Seminar- BWH Conference room Amory 3, 1:00PM (George Church)

Oct 01 Mon  Duhee Bang  Ligating repeats and bonds on the other hand

Oct 04 Thu  Kyriacos Leptos and Amanda Chilaka Making Cheap Peptide Standards for Absolute Quantification of Proteins

Oct 08 Mon  No lab meeting- NHGRI CEGS meeting JHU (George Church, Mark Umbarger, Greg Porreca)

Oct 09 Tue  Bioenergy DJ (Room 335 ("Fishbowl"), 12-1:30)

Oct 11 Thu  No lab meeting- RECOMB Regulatory Genomics, Boston MIT (George Church)

Oct 15 Mon  Madeleine Price   "Methylomics"

Oct 18 Thu  No Lab meeting- Seattle meeting (George Church)

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