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Controlling Genes

Whitehead Institute's 2007-2008 Lecture Series for High School Teachers

Schedule of Seminars

Kick-Off Session: Monday, October 15

Graham Walker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nitrogen Fixation in Plants

Monday, November 5

Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute
Epigenetics [58.2MB pdf]

Monday, December 3

Rick Young, Whitehead Institute
Master Controlling Elements in Stem Cells [12.7MB pdf]

Monday, January 7

Sudeep Agarwala, Whitehead Institute
Switches in Yeast Development [1.1 MB pdf]

Monday, February 4

Paul Wiggins, Whitehead Institute
The Structure Chromatin

Monday, March 3

Victor Ambros, University of Massachusetts Medical School
MicroRNAs and Gene Control [6.5 MB pdf]

Monday, April 7

Craig Ceol, Children's Hospital Boston
From Normal Melanocytes to Melanoma

Monday, May 5

David Bartel, Whitehead Institute
RNAs That Regulate Genes

Monday, June 2

Aviv Regev, Broad Institute
How Computational Analysis Can Inform Circuits of Gene Expression

Last updated May 8, 2008.

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