SEMINARS   Tuesday's Growth Control Seminars HS 2009 (#15602-01)   FMI, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel Room 5.30 (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 12.15 h (with sandwiches) Coordinator: Brian A. Hemmings   Programme   Monday, August 24, 2009 Derek Brazil, UCD Conway Institute, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin, Ireland Insulin signaling in development and disease     Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Shigenori Iwai, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan Damaged DNA: chemical synthesis and applications to molecular biology     Monday, September 21, 2009 Peter Shepherd, University of Auckland, New Zealand Understanding the role fo different isoforms of PI3-kinase in cellular function     Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Daniel Besser, Max Delbrueck Center (MDC) Berlin, Germany Signalling mechanisms in pluripotency and reprogramming     Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Monilola Olayioye, Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart, Germany Deleted in liver cancer 1: a tumoor suppressor protein in control of Rho signaling and cell migration     Thursday, November 05, 2009 George Thomas, Genome Research Institute, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Ribosome biogenesis, cell cycle checkpoints and cancer progression     Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Laurent Decosterd, Department of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of new targete anti-cancer agents     Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Patrick Meraldi, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich Finding the middle ground: how kinetochores control chromosomes movement     Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Eric O'Neill, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology, University of Oxford, UK Tumor suppressor signalling and the response to DNA damage     Tuesday, December 01, 2009 Lukas Sommer, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich Stage- and area-specific growth control in neural stem cells     Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Joseph Jiricny, The Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University Zurich The human mismatch repair interactome     Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Thomas Sturgill, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA Activating mutations in TOR in similar structural elements as oncogenic mutaitons in PI3KC-alpha       Basel Seminars in Neuroscience (# 20247 / # 2162)   Biozentrum, University of Basel Room 103 Thursday's Time: 16:15 - 17:45 Coordinators: S. Arber, B. Bettler, P. Caroni, A. Eckert, L. Kappos, A. Papassotiropoulos, M. Tolnay   Programme   Thursday, September 03, 2009 Mark R. Mayford, The Scripps Institute, CA, USA host: Thomas Oertner, FMI Genetic control of memory circuits     Thursday, September 10, 2009 Markus Ising, MPI Psychiatry Munich, Germany host: Edith Holsboer (UPK), Anne Eckert (UPK) Role of genetics and biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment in depression     Thursday, September 17, 2009 Erin Schuman, MPI Frankfurt host: Yves Barde, Biozentrum Local synthesis of proteins in dendrites     Thursday, September 24, 2009 Zoltan Molnar, University of Oxford host: Silvia Arber, Biozentrum/FMI The earliest cortical circuits     Thursday, October 01, 2009 Hannah Monyer, Heidelberg host: Yves Barde, Biozentrum Title tba     Thursday, October 29, 2009 Angela Friederici, MPI Leipzig The neural basis of language     Thursday, November 05, 2009 Samie R Jaffrey, Cornell University host: F Rijli, FMI Title tba     Thursday, November 12, 2009 Gero Miesenböck, Oxford, UK host: P scheiffele, Biozentrum Title tba     Thursday, November 19, 2009 Claude Desplan, Rockefeller University host: J Pielage, FMI Title tba     Thursday, November 26, 2009 Zoltan Nusser, KOKI, Budapest, Hungary host: S Arber, FMI/Biozentrum Novel cell types and synaptic connections in the main olfactory bulb     Thursday, December 03, 2009 Alex Gould, NIMR, London, UK host: H Reichert (Biozentrum) Regulation of neural growth and proliferation in drosophila     Thursday, December 10, 2009 Tobias Bonhoeffer (MPI, Martinsried) host: P Caroni, FMI Title tba     Thursday, December 17, 2009 Hans-Christian Pape (Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster) host: A Lüthi, FMI Neurotransmission in the amygdala and related circuits; impact for fear memory and extinction       Tuesday's Growth Control Seminars HS 2008 (#17660-01)   FMI, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel Room 5.30 (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 12.15 h (with sandwiches) Coordinator: Brian A. Hemmings   Programme   Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Jean-Pierre Bourquin, Universitäts-Kinderklinik Zürich A xenograft model of drug resistant childhood ALL for translational research     Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Andrew Stoker, University College London, London, UK A role for tyrosine phosphatases in spinal cord neurogenesis     Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Luca Pellegrini, University of Cambridge, UK Structural and functional characterisation of protein complexes important for DNA replication and repair     Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Margaret Frame, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK Targeting tumour invasion and metastasis (Title to be confirmed)     Tuesday, November 04, 2008 Jean Pieters, Biozentrum, University of Basel Cell cycle control by the coronin 1-mediated calcium signaling pathway?     Friday, November 14, 2008 Igor Stagljar, University of Toronto, Canada From membrane proteins to their interactomes: lessons from yeast and humans     Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Arshad Desai, University of California San Diego, UCSD, CA, USA Part of the C.elegans Meeting from 11.00 – 18.30h Deciphering centromere specification & kinetochore function using the early C. elegans embryo     Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Queelim Ch’ng, King’s College, London, UK Part of the C.elegans Meeting from 11.00 – 18.30h Dissecting synapses by systematic genetic analysis of protein localisation     Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Leon Avery, University of Texas, Southwestern Dallas, Tx, USA Part of the C.elegans Meeting from 11.00 – 18.30h Strategic trade-offs in food and food-seeking behavior     Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Marina Glukhova, Curie Institute, Paris, France Role of the basal cell compartment in mammary development and tumorigenesis     Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Francesco Hofmann, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel Targeted anti-cancer therapy and emergence of resistance.     Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Roland Schuele, Women’s Hospital and Center for Clinical Research, University of Freiburg, Germany Epigenetic control by histone demethylation     Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Ramon Parsons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Seminar starts at 17.00 Part of the FMI Lecture Series: Regulation and deregulation of the PTEN tumor suppressor       Cell Interactions in Development and Disease, Vorlesung C5:2KP (#13184-01)   Biozentrum, University of Basel Room 106 Wednesday's (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 16:15 - 18:00 Introduction: Assignment for Creditpoints Read Coordinators: Ruth Chiquet Ehrismann, Matthias Chiquet, Markus Rüegg   Programme   Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Matthias Chiquet (University of Berne) Introduction: Role of cell-cell and cell-matrix contacts in developmental processes     Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (Friedrich Miescher Institute) Genetic diseases: Collagens     Wednesday, October 01, 2008 Matthias Chiquet (University of Berne) How cell contacts control cellular shape, mechanics, and differentiation     Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Ivan Martin (University Hospital of Basel) Cell-matrix interactions in tissue engineering     Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Markus Rüegg (Biozentrum, University of Basel) Muscular dystrophies: Molecular basis and new therapeutic approaches     Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Reinhard Fässler (Max Planck Institute, Martinsried) Genetic analysis of integrin signalling in mice     Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (Friedrich Miescher Institute) Tumor stroma interaction in cancer     Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Momo Bentires-Alj (Friedrich Miescher Institute) Ex vivo and in vivo models of breast cancer     Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Curzio Rüegg (University of Lausanne) Tumor angiogenesis     Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Markus Rüegg (Biozentrum, University of Basel) Cell interactions involved in neural development     Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Esther Stoeckli (University of Zürich) New tricks for old dogs: Morphogens as axon guidance cues     Wednesday, December 03, 2008 Jan Pielage (Friedrich Miescher Institute) Cell adhesion at the synapse and link to the cytoskeleton     Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Peter Scheiffele (Biozentrum, University of Basel) Synaptic adhesion molecules     Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Exam       Structure, Processing and Function of RNA (# 13186)   FMI, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel Room 5.30 (unless otherwise indicated) Day: Thursdays (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 16.15 - 18.00 Coordinator's: Marc Bühler, Rafal Ciosk, Witold Filipowicz and Helge Grosshans   Programme   Monday, September 22, 2008 Witold Filipowicz RNA: molecule for all seasons     Thursday, September 25, 2008 Helge Grosshans and Witold Filipowicz Biogenesis and function of tRNA and rRNA     Thursday, October 02, 2008 U. Fischer, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Germany mRNA splicing     Thursday, October 09, 2008 Oliver Mühlemann, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern RNA quality control     Thursday, October 16, 2008 Elmar Wahle, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Halle, Germany mRNA polyadenylation     Thursday, October 23, 2008 Witek Filipowicz, FMI, Basel Mechanism of RNAi and miRNAs notes:   Thursday, October 30, 2008 Helge Grosshans, FMI, Basel Biological function of RNAi and miRNAs notes:   Thursday, November 06, 2008 Marc Bühler, FMI, Basel RNA and chromatin notes:   Thursday, November 13, 2008 Ulrike Kutay, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich mRNA and ribosome export     Thursday, November 20, 2008 Georg Stoecklin, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Regulation of mRNA translation     Thursday, December 04, 2008 Christian Hammann, Institute of Biology, Dept. of Genetics, University of Kassel, Germany Riboswitches and ribozymes     Thursday, December 11, 2008 Rafal Ciosk, FMI, Basel mRNA regulation in development and RNA localization     Thursday, December 18, 2008 Daniel Schümperli, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern RNA-based therapeutics notes:     Transcription Regulation and Gene Expression in Eukaryotes - Cycle H1 (# 13709)   Biozentrum/Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 1 Wednesdays 16:15 - 18:00 h (starts 20th February 2008) Coordinators: P. Matthias and R.G. Clerc Important: Read the introduction   Programme   Wednesday, February 20, 2008 P. Matthias, R.G. Clerc Gene expression analysis by transcripomics (P. Matthias) and Systematic discovery of trnascriptional regulatory motifs by comparative genomics (+ promoter/enhancer basics) (R.G. Clerc)     Wednesday, February 27, 2008 R.G. Clerc The basics of transcription I: Methods used, ploymerases, GTFs, etc... notes: supp. data:   Wednesday, March 05, 2008 P. Matthias The basics of transcription II: GTFs, TAFs, etc.     Wednesday, March 12, 2008 M. Meisterernst, University of Munster, Germany Control of transcription initiation in eukaryotes     Wednesday, March 26, 2008 R.G. Clerc Modular Structure of upstream transcription factors     Wednesday, April 02, 2008 P. Matthias Coactivators/corepressors: general (CBP, PCAF, N-CoR, SMART, etc.) and specific (OBF-1, Bcl3, etc.)     Wednesday, April 09, 2008 R.G. Clerc Regulatory mechanisms of transcription factor function     Wednesday, April 16, 2008 P. Matthias Acetylation and deacetylation     Wednesday, April 23, 2008 R.G. Clerc Nuclear hormone receptors notes: supp. data:   Wednesday, April 30, 2008 P. Matthias Chromatin and DNA methylation     Wednesday, May 07, 2008 P. Matthias Gene localization in nucleus, olfactory receptor genes, etc. notes: supp. data:   Wednesday, May 14, 2008 R.G. Clerc Circadian signaling networks notes: supp. data:   Wednesday, May 21, 2008 R.G. Clerc Gene expression silencing by RNAi notes: supp. data:   Wednesday, May 28, 2008 P. Matthias, R.G. Clerc Questions & Answers       Experimental Cancer Therapy I/2008 (# 13704)   Biozentrum, room BZ 411 Fridays 11:15 - 13:00 h Coordinators: Nancy Hynes, Gerhard Christofori, Christoph Rochlitz Important: Read the instruction   Programme   Friday, February 29, 2008 Gerhard Christofori, DKBW Basel Tumor cell invasion and migration Students presenting: D. Maass/L. Waldmeier notes: supp. data:   Friday, March 07, 2008 Helge Grosshans, FMI Basel Micro RNAs in cancer Students presenting: H. Himmelreich notes: supp. data:   Friday, March 14, 2008 Brian A. Hemmings, FMI Basel the PI3K pathway in cancer Students presenting: R. Huber/M. Truttmann notes: supp. data:   Friday, March 28, 2008 Stephan Dirnhofer, University Hospital Basel Glivec sensitivity and resistance Students presenting: C. Cattin/S. Erni notes:   Friday, April 04, 2008 Martin Buess, University Hospital Basel Genomic analysis in cancer Students presenting: R. Grueter/A. Weber notes:   Friday, April 11, 2008 Freddy Radtke, ISREC Lausanne Stem cells and cancer Students presenting: L. Champion/B. Tonnarelli notes: supp. data:   Friday, April 18, 2008 Gerhard Christofori, DKBW Basel How to test drugs: preclinical models in cancer therapy Students presenting: J. Birk/R. Lutz notes:   Friday, April 25, 2008 Momo Bentires-Alj, FMI Basel Tyrosine phosphatases in cancer Students presenting: C. Keller/F. Imhof notes: supp. data:   Friday, May 09, 2008 Bernd Groner, Georg Speyer House, Frankfurt/Main, Germany STAT transcription factors in cancer Students presenting: A. Giese/A. Despont notes: supp. data:   Friday, May 16, 2008 Christoph Rochlitz, University Hospital Basel Monoclonal antibodies in cancer therapy Students presenting: I. Hügi/P. Mueller notes: supp. data:   Friday, May 23, 2008 Martin Stern, University Hospital Basel Minor histocompatibility antigens in allogeneic stem cell transplantation Students presenting: D. Hug/M. Hornstein notes:   Friday, May 30, 2008 Nancy Hynes, FMI Basel Functional studies on metastasis Students presenting: S. Sladecek/E. Milani notes: supp. data:     Tuesday's Growth Control Seminars FS 2008 (# 17660-01)   FMI, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel Room 5.30 (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 12.15 h (with sandwiches) Coordinator: Brian A. Hemmingas   Programme   Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Prof. Anne Ridley, Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics, King's College, London, UK Rho GTPases: signaling in cell adhesion and migration     Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Stephanie Alexander, DFG Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Germany Intravital imaging by multiphoton microscopy     Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Dr. Kristina Kjinovic Carugo, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria Lego building blocks of cytoskeleton     Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Prof. Dario Neri, ETH Zurich Vascular tumor targeting: from the bench to the clinic     Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Prof. Carlos Caldas, Cambridge, UK Micro-RNAs in mammary development abd breast cancer     Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Dr. Sauveur-Michel Maira, NIBR Oncology, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel Targeting PI3K for cancer therapy: an update on the drug discovery efforts at NIBR     Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Prof. Margaret Frame, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK SEMINAR CANCELLED Targeting tumour invasion and metastasis     Tuesday, April 08, 2008 Prof. Matthias Wymann, DKBW Basel Phosphoinositide 3-kinase: AKTion in space     Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Prof. Viola Vogel, Laboratory for Biologically Oriented Materials, Dept. of Materials, ETH Zurich Tuning the structure-function relationship of extra-and intracellular proteins: stretching fibronectin fibers and talin     Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Dr. Dominique Joubert, Functional Genomic Center IGF, Montpellier, France Inhibition of b-catenin/Tcf-4 and Notch after progastrin-targeting reduces growth and drives differentiation of intestinal tumors     Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Prof. Karen Vousden Title t.b.a.     Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Dr. Maarten van Lohuizen, Netherlands Cancer Institute Role of polycomb repressors in cancer and stem cells     Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Prof. Gil Smith, National Institute of Diabetes NIH, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Seminar cancelled Stem cells and the mammary microenvironment       Tuesdays Growth Control Seminars HS 2007 (# 15602-01)   FMI, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel Room 5.30 (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 12.15 h (with sandwiches) Coordinator: Brian A. Hemmings   Programme   Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Dr. Scott Pletcher, Baylor College, Houston, TX, USA SEMINAR CANCELLED     Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Dr. Jos Jonkers, Netherlands cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Conditional mouse models of breast cancer     Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Dr. Roger Williams, LMB Cambridge, UK Structural biology of phosphoinositide 3-kinase dependent sorting to lysosomes     Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Prof. Boudewijn M.T. Burgering, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Stressing the role of FOXO transcription factors in ageing and disease     Tuesday, November 06, 2007 Prof. Paul J. Coffer, Department of Immunology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands Divide, differentiate or die? Novel molecular mechanisms underlying PKB-mediated cellular transformation     Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Prof. Susan Strome, Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Chromatin regulation in the germ line of C. elegans (talk as part of the C.elegans Meeting, seminar time to be announced)     Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Dr. Martin Buess, Medical Oncology, Basel University Hospital Effects of heterotypic cell-cell interaction on global gene expression in breast cancer     Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Dr. Clemente Cillo, University Hospital Basel The HOX gene network in human pathology     Tuesday, December 04, 2007 Dr. Robert Clarke, University of Manchester, UK Breast stem cells and cancer     Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Dr. Véronique Orian-Rousseau, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe ITG, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Receptor tyrosine kinases meet cell adhesion molecules       Experimental Cancer Research, II/2007 (#12420)   Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 Fridays 11:15 - 13:00 h Coordinators: Nancy Hynes, Gerhard Christofori, Christoph Moroni, Christoph Rochlitz   Programme   Friday, March 30, 2007 Prof. Alois Gratwohl Transplantation - hematopoietic stem cell therapy notes:   Friday, April 13, 2007 Prof. Christoph Moroni Role of the TOR pathway in cancer notes: supp. data:   Friday, April 20, 2007 Prof. Christoph Rochlitz Drug therapy of cancer notes:   Friday, April 27, 2007 Prof. Primo Schär DNA repair defects in cancer-therapeutic implications     Friday, May 04, 2007 Dr. Monika Hegi Molecular alterations in brain tumors and therapeutic approaches notes: supp. data:   Friday, May 11, 2007 Dr. Brian A. Hemmings PI3K/PTEN/PKB signaling pathway in disease notes: supp. data:   Friday, May 25, 2007 Prof. Gerhard Christophori Inflammatory cells & metastasis notes:   Friday, June 01, 2007 Prof. Nancy E. Hynes Breast & colon cancer: molecular alterations and therapeutic targets (1) notes:   Friday, June 08, 2007 Prof. Nancy E. Hynes Breast & colon cancer: molecular alterations and therapeutic targets (2) notes:   Friday, June 15, 2007 Prof. Gerhard Christofori Angiogenesis as therapeutic target notes:   Friday, June 22, 2007 Prof. Juerg Schwaller Basic mechanisms of leukemogenesis notes:   Friday, June 29, 2007 Prof. Nancy E. Hynes Exam       Epigenetics Seminar Series 2007   FMI, Maulbeerstr. 66, 4058 Basel Room 5.30 (unless otherwise indicated) Time: 13.00 (unless otherwise indicated) Antoine Peters   Programme   Thursday, January 25, 2007 Prof. Eric U. Selker, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, OR, USA DNA methylation and genome defense in Neurospora crassa     Thursday, February 08, 2007 Dr. Peter Becker, Adolf Butenandt Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany Dosage compensation in flies: search for Xclusivity     Tuesday, April 03, 2007 Dr. Miguel Vidal, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Centro Investigaciones Biológicas, Madrid, Spain Polycomb Ring1B and cell proliferation control     Wednesday, September 05, 2007 Dr. Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA Histone variants: markers of epigenetic inheritance and more     Thursday, September 27, 2007 Dr. Asifa Akhtar, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Chromatin regulation by MSL proteins     Thursday, October 11, 2007 Prof. Adrian Bird, Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology, University of Edinburg, Edinburg, Scotland, UK the methyl CpG binding protein meCP2 and Rett syndrome     Monday, October 15, 2007 Dr. Wouter de Laat, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Uncovering the multi-dimensions of he genome by 4C technology     Thursday, November 22, 2007 Prof. Rudolf Grosschedl, Dept. Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany Role of nuclear matrix in gene expression and cell differentiation     Thursday, December 20, 2007 Prof. Susan Mango, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Making and shaping the foregut       SS 2007 Cycle H: Molecular Biology, Lecture H3: Chromatin and Epigenetics   Thursdays 16:15 to 18:00 Biozentrum HS 2 Coordinators: Susan Gasser and Renato Paro   Programme   Thursday, March 29, 2007 Dr. Dirk Schübeler, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Molecules in chromatin and epigenetic control     Wednesday, April 04, 2007 Prof. Susan Gasser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Forms of gene expression     Thursday, April 12, 2007 no lecture     Thursday, April 19, 2007 Dr. Antoine Peters, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Heterochromatin and PEV     Thursday, April 26, 2007 Prof. Susan Gasser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Nuclear organization     Thursday, May 03, 2007 Prof. Susan Gasser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Discussion of papers     Thursday, May 10, 2007 Prof. Renato Paro, Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel Cellular memory     Thursday, May 24, 2007 TBA Repeat-mediated repression in plants     Thursday, May 31, 2007 Dr. Dirk Schübeler and Antoine Peters, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Discussion of papers     Thursday, June 07, 2007 Dr. Antoine Peters and Dirk Schübeler, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Dosage compensation     Thursday, June 14, 2007 Dr. Antoine Peters, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel Imprinting (parent of origin)     Thursday, June 21, 2007 Prof. Renato Paro, Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel Cellular plasticity and stem cells     Thursday, June 28, 2007 Prof. Renato Paro, Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel Discussion of papers