The Department of Cell Biology will host a research forum by Nancy M. Standart, reader in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, on Tuesday, January 24 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Standart will present “Investigating the Role of 4E-T, an eIF4E-Binding Protein Resident in P-Bodies, in Gene Expression Control.” For more information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or [email protected].

The Department of Cell Biology will host a research forum by Nadia Ameen, associate professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Ameen will present “The Ins and Out of CFTR Traffic in the Enterocyte Brush Border.” For more information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or [email protected].

The Department of Cell Biology will host a research forum by Ralf Landgraf, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine, on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Landgraf will present “Going Beyond the Limits of Canonical Signaling Models: Proxy Signaling for ERBB Receptors and the Role of the Biochemical Microenvironment.” For more information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or [email protected].

The Department of Cell Biology will host a research forum on Tuesday, December 13 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Gary J. Bassell, professor in the Departments of Cell Biology and Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine, will present “mRNA Transport, Local Translation, and Fragile X Syndrome.” For more information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or [email protected].

The Department of Cell Biology will host a research forum on Tuesday, November 29 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Kenneth Fields, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Coercion and Subversion of Eukaryotic Cell Biology by the Master Manipulator Chlamydia Trachomatis.” For additional information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or [email protected].