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Affiliation Seminar Title Date Taped
Parts/Total Run Time Category
Robert Tjian
Robert Tjian University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The molecular biology of gene regulation
11/2011 2part /
01:18:42
Biological Mechanisms
Cori Bargmann
Cori Bargmann Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Genes, the brain and behavior
11/2011 2part /
01:09:08
Neuroscience
Susan Wessler
Susan Wessler University of California, Riverside The dynamic genome
09/2011 2part /
01:53:14
Biological Mechanisms
Stephen Harrison
Stephen C. Harrison Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Virus structures
7/2011 3part /
01:13:01
Chemical Biology and Biophysics
Tim Mitchison
Tim Mitchison Harvard Medical School Self-organization in biology
7/2011 2part /
01:07:49
Biological Mechanisms
Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray Harvard University Yeast Sex
7/2011 2part /
01:18:59
Biological Mechanisms
Scott Edwards
Scott Edwards Harvard University
Genetic variation and phylogeography
07/2011 3part /
01:19:58
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Corals and Coral Reefs
07/2011 2part /
01:43:30
Ecology & Behavior
Jack Szostak
Jack Szostak Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts’ General Hospital and Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Origin of Life on Earth
07/2011 3 parts /
01:48:34
Chemical Biology and Biophysics
Melissa Moore
Melissa Moore University of Massachusetts Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute RNA Processing
07/2011 2 parts /
01:14:09
Biological Mechanisms
Roger Hanlon
Roger Hanlon Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA
Rapid Adaptive Camouflage and Signaling in Cephalopods
07/2011 3 part /
01:50:42
Ecology & Behavior

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Brain Tumors and Stem Cells
07/2011 2 part /
01:10:03
Neuroscience
Mike Bishop
J. Michael Bishop University of California, San Francisco
Cancer: The rise of the genetic paradigm
06/2011 3 part /
01:40:03
Cell Biology and Medicine
Sangeeta Bhatia
Sangeeta Bhatia Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Tissue Engineering
05/2011 2 parts /
01:09:01
Cell Biology and Medicine
David Botstein
David Botstein Princeton University Fruits of the Genome Sequence
04/2011 2 parts /
01:38:11
Cell Biology and Medicine
Kai Simons
Kai Simons Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Lipids as organizers in cell membranes
02/2011 3 parts /
01:36:19
Biological Mechanisms
Alfred Wittinghofer
Alfred Wittinghofer Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany GTP-binding Proteins as Molecular Switches
02/2011 2 parts /
01:36:56
Cell Biology and Medicine
Anthony Hyman
Anthony Hyman Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Organization of cytoplasm
01/2011 4 parts /
01:40:55
Biological Mechanisms
Graham Hatfull
Graham Hatfull University of Pittsburgh and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bacteriophages: Genes and Genomes
10/2010 3 parts /
01:30:36
Cell Biology and Medicine
Roy Parker
Roy Parker University of Arizona and Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Life of Eukaryotic mRNA
10/2010 2 parts /
01:28:00
Biological Mechanisms
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Single Molecule Manipulation in Biochemistry
09/2010 1parts /
00:25:20
Biological Mechanisms
Susan McConnell
Susan McConnell Stanford University Designing effective scientific presentations
09/2010 1 part /
00:42:09
Bio Techniques
Pamela Ronald
Pamela Ronald University of California, Davis Tomorrow’s Table: Organic farming, genetics and the future of food
09/2010 2 parts /
00:50:25
Global Health & Energy
Dianne Newman
Dianne Newman California Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Microbial Diversity and Evolution
05/2010 3 parts /
02:14:37
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo University of California, Berkeley and Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Learning and Memory: From Synapse to Perception
04/2010 4 parts /
02:01:05
Neuroscience
Jim Haber
Jim Haber Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University Mechanisms of DNA Repair
12/2009 2 parts /
01:36:28
Biological Mechanisms
Jonathan  Weissman
Jonathan Weissman HHMI and Dept of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco DNA Sequencing
11/2009 1 part /
00:24:34
Bio Techniques
Bonnie  Bassler
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Program of Cell Biology and Metabolism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Breakthroughs in Intracellular Fluorescent Imaging
10/2009 3 parts /
01:29:67
Chemical Biology & Biophysics
Susan  Taylor
Susan Taylor University of California, San Diego and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Protein Kinases; Structure, Function, and Regulation
10/2009 3 parts /
01:18:36
Biological Mechanisms
Ruth Lehmann
Ruth Lehmann New York University School of Medicine Germ Cell Development
07/2009 4 parts /
02:07:03
Developmental Biology and Evolution
David Morgan
David O. Morgan Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco Controlling the Cell Cycle
07/2009 3 parts /
01:19:58
Biological Mechanisms
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Howard Hughes Medical Institute Optical studies of individual synapses
07/2009 2 parts /
01:07:51
Neuroscience
Sharon Long
Sharon Long Stanford University Cooperation between bacteria and plants for protein nutrition
06/2009 3 parts /
01:39:98
Biological Mechanisms
Carolyn Bertozzi
Carolyn Bertozzi University of California, Berkeley Chemical Glycobiology
06/2009 2 parts /
01:04:45
Chemical Biology & Biophysics
Nevan Krogan
Nevan Krogan Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF Mass Spectrometry and its Application to Molecular Biology
07/2009 1 part /
00:27:36
Bio Techniques
Nogales
Eva Nogales Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley Visualizing Biological Structure using Electron Microscopy: from Molecules to Cells
06/2009 1 part /
00:46:55
Bio Techniques
Stuurman
Nico Stuurman Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF Fluorescence Microscopy
06/2009 1 part /
00:40:45
Bio Techniques
Thron
Kurt Thorn
Nikon Imaging Center, University of California, San Francisco
Optical Sectioning and Confocal Microscopy

06/2009 1 part /
00:26:40
Bio Techniques
wells
James Wells & Michelle Arkin Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco Introduction to Drug Discovery
06/2009 2 parts /
01:05:63
Bio Techniques
Robert Lefkowitz
Robert Lefkowitz Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center Seven Transmembrane Receptors
05/2009 2 parts /
01:06:55
Cell Biology & Medicine
Joseph DeRisi
Don Ganem University of California, San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Virus Infection, Chronic Inflammation and the Biology of Kaposi's Sarcoma
03/2009 4 parts /
01:06:44
Global Health & Energy
Ari Helenius
Ari Helenius Insitute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Cell Biology of Virus Entry
02/2009 3 parts /
01:40:55
Biological Mechanisms
Trudi Schupbach
Trudi Schupbach Princeton University and a Howard Hughes Investigator Control of Embryonic Axis Formation in Drosophila
02/2009 3 parts /
01:11:52
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Eric Wieschaus
Eric Wieschaus HHMI & Molecular Biology Department, Princeton University Patterning Development in the Early Embryo
02/2009 3 parts /
01:26:65
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Dick McIntosh
Dick McIntosh Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder Cell Division in Eukaryotes
12/2008 3 parts /
01:09:60
Biological Mechanisms
Susan Lindquist
Susan Lindquist Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research The Surprising World of Prion Biology--A New Mechanism of Inheritance
11/2008 2 parts /
01:12:11
Cell Biology & Medicine
Ira Mellman
Ira Mellman Genentech Cell Biology of the Immune Response
09/2008 2 parts /
01:32:05
Cell Biology & Medicine
Jeremy Nathans
Jeremy Nathans Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Vertebrate Retina: Structure, Function, and Evolution
08/2008 3 parts /
02:40:12
Neuroscience
Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Princeton University Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria
06/2008 2 parts /
01:13:37
Chemical Biology & Biophysics
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn Univ of California, San Francisco/Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Telomeres and Telomerase: Their Implications in Human Health and Disease
06/2008 3 parts /
02:00:43
Cell Biology & Medicine
David S. Roos
David S. Roos Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania and Penn Genomics Institute Apicomplexan Parasites, Pathogen Genome Informatics, and the Evolution of Eukaryotic Organelles
05/2008 3 parts /
02:22:16
Global Health & Energy
Roger Beachy
Roger Beachy Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Plant Viruses and Crops
04/2008 2 parts /
01:30:12
Global Health & Energy
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner Salk Institute for Biological Studies What Genomes Can Tell Us About the Past
04/2008 2 parts /
01:21:42
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Richard Losick
Richard Losick Harvard University Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism
04/2008 3 parts /
01:12:13
Biological Mechanisms
Nicole Le Douarin
Nicole Le Douarin CNRS and Collège de France, Paris Role of the Neural Crest in Vertebrate Development and Evolution
03/2008 3 parts /
01:30:59
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Marc W. Kirschner
Marc W. Kirschner Harvard Medical School/Systems Biology The Origin of Vertebrates
01/2008 3 parts /
01:20:25
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Stephen L. Mayo
Stephen L. Mayo California Institute of Technology Recent Advances in Computational Protein Design: Design and Testing of Protein Combinatorial Libraries
01/2008 2 parts /
01:04:59
Chemical Biology and Biophysics
John D. McKinney
Catherine Dulac Harvard University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute Sex and Smell: Molecular Biology of Pheromone Perception
12/2007 3 parts /
01:29:13
Neuroscience
Mary Beckerle
Mary Beckerle Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Adhesion, Signaling and Cancer
07/2007 3 parts /
01:57:15
Cell Biology & Medicine
Ron Vale
Ron Vale HHMI /Dept of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins
07/2007 3 parts /
01:42:14
Biological Mechanisms
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Tuberculosis: A Persistent Threat to Global Health
06/2007 4 parts /
01:49:18
Global Health & Energy
Xiaodong Wang
Xiaodong Wang Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Dept of Biochemistry, UT-Southwestern Medical Center Apoptosis
06/2007 3 parts /
01:17:13
Cell Biology & Medicine
Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow Stanford University School of Medicine /Department of Microbiology and Immunology Host-Pathogen Interaction and Human Disease
05/2007 2 parts /
01:26:05
Global Health & Energy
Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Kenyon Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Genes and Cells that Determine the Lifespan of C. elegans
05/2007 2 parts /
01:20:02
Cell Biology & Medicine
Chaitan Khosla
Chaitan Khosla Stanford University/Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Polyketide Biosynthesis: The Erythromycin Example
05/2007 3 parts /
01:39:05
Chemical Biology and Biophysics
Chris Somerville
Chris Somerville Carnegie Institution for Science Technical Issues Associated with Future Large-Scale Cellulosic Biofuels Production
05/2007 2 parts /
01:21:47
Global Health & Energy
Satyajit 'Jitu' Mayor
Satyajit 'Jitu' Mayor Cellular Organisation and Signalling, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India Membrane Rafts
05/2007 3 parts /
01:40:13
Biological Mechanisms
Norma Andrews
Norma Andrews Yale University Microbial Pathogenesis and Cell Biology Intracellular Parasitism by Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania
04/2007 3 parts /
01:06:02
Global Health & Energy
Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro Stanford University School of Medicine The Dynamic Bacterial Cell
04/2007 2 parts /
01:14:09
Global Health & Energy
Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, HHMI, University of California, Berkeley Protein Secretion and Vesicle Traffic
03/2007 3 parts /
01:34:17
Biological Mechanisms
Brian Druker
Brian Druker HHMI / Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute Imatinib (Gleevec) as a Paradigm of Targeted Cancer Therapies
03/2007 3 parts /
01:21:15
Cell Biology & Medicine
David Baltimore
David Baltimore California Institute of Technology Danger from the Wild: HIV, Can We Conquer It?
02/2007 3 parts /
01:23:05
Global Health & Energy
Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs Rockefeller University Stem Cells: Biology and Promise for Regenerative Medicine
01/2007 2 parts /
01:52:14
Cell Biology & Medicine
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado HHMI, Dept. of Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine The Problem of Regeneration
01/2007 3 parts /
01:48:41
Developmental Biology and Evolution
Martin Raff
Martin Raff MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology Growth Control in Animal Development
11/2006 2 parts /
01:18:09
Biological Mechanisms
Joseph DeRisi
Joseph DeRisi HHMI/Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Malaria
06/2006 3 parts /
01:02:24
Global Health & Energy
Baldomero
Baldomero "Toto" Olivera Department of Biology, University of Utah Conus Peptides
05/2006 3 parts /
01:10:07
Chemical Biology and Biophysics
Julie Theriot
Julie Theriot Stanford University, Dept of Biochemistry, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Program in Biophysics Cell Organization & Cell Motility
05/2006 3 parts /
01:59:26
Biological Mechanisms