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Departmental Seminar List

2006-07 Academic Year

2005-2006 Seminars

2007-2008 Seminars

September 2006  October 2006  November 2006  December 2006  January 2007

February 2007  March 2007  April 2007 May 2007

All Seminars are held in Galvin Life Science Room 283 @ 4:00pm unless otherwise noted!

All Departmental Seminars are on Tuesdays • All Molecular Biosciences Program Seminars are on Mondays

Sept. 5th

Mandatory BioSafety Seminar

Lisa Bagnar

Sept. 21st

GLOBES Seminar Series

Carl Zimmer- The Darwin Beat: Reporting Evolution News in a Controversial Age

New York Times Science Writer

Jordan Hall Auditorium, Room 101, 4 PM

Sept. 26th

John Bon-Strategies for Interrogating the Genome: Exon and Tiling Arrays from Affymetrix

Affymetrix Field Applications Specialist

Galvin Life Science Room 283, 12:30 PM

Host: Michael Ferdig

Sept. 26th President's Address to Faculty, 4:30 PM
Sept. 27th

David E. Clemmer-Proteins in the Gas Phase: Understanding Structure and New High-throughput Technologies, Part I

Robert and Marjorie Mann Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington

Jordan Hall of Science, Room 105, 4 PM

Host: Martin Tenniswood

Sept. 28th

David E. Clemmer-Proteins in the Gas Phase: Understanding Structure and New High-throughput Technologies, Part II

Robert and Marjorie Mann Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington

Jordan Hall of Science, Room 105, 4 PM

Host: Martin Tenniswood

Oct. 3rd

Carol Lee-Evolutionary Genetics of Invasive Species

Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Host: Jeffrey Feder

Oct. 10th

Lynch Lecture Series

John E. Dowling-The Generation of ON-bipolar cell responses in Danio retinase

Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Host: Lei Li

Oct. 11th

Lynch Lecture Series

John E. Dowling-Fishing for Novel Genes

Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

102 DeBartolo Hall, 2:30 PM

Host: Lei Li

Oct. 24th

Provost Address to the Faculty

4:30 PM, 101 DeBartolo Hall

Oct. 26th

GLOBES Seminar Series

Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH-Health Risks from Global Climate Change to Local Land Use Practices: the 'CHANGE' IGERT program in human-natural systems

Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Oct. 31st

Jennifer Hughes Martiny-Plant Pathogens, Marine Viruses, and the Maintenance of Biodiversity

Assistant Professor, Brown University

Host: Jessica Hellmann

Nov. 3rd

Jesus Valenzuela-Towards Vector Anthropod Based Vaccines to Control Pathogen Transmission

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Biology

101 Galvin Life Science, 11:00 AM

Host: Mary Ann McDowell

Nov. 7th

Dr. Sunny Boyd-Neuropeptides: From Synapse to Social Behavior

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Nov. 14th

Andrew Kowalczyk-Roles of the Armadillo Protein p120-Catenin in Cadherin Endocytosis and Vascular Development

Emory University School of Medicine

Host: Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey

Nov. 16th

NDEER Symposium

Forging Integrative Solutions: Challenges in Disease, Water Quality, and Pollution

Austin Demby, PhD

Global AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Douglass Rohrman

Environmental lawyer with Lord, Bissell and Brook

Peter Annin

former Newsweek journalist, author of The Great Lakes Water Wars

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Center for Continuing Education

Nov. 17th

David Sacks-Natural and vaccine-induced immune responses to Leishmania infections transmitted by sand fly bites

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases

101 Galvin Life Science, 11:00 AM

Host: Mary Ann McDowell

Nov. 21st

David Allan-The Role of Protected Areas in Freshwater Conservation

School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Host: Gary Lamberti & Jennifer Tank

Nov. 28th

Dr. Stefan J. Green-Ecology of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in hypersaline microbial mats

Visiting Assistant Professor in Dept. of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Host: Jennifer Tank

Dec. 5th

Tom Waite-Ecological rationality of bird-brained tradeoffs

Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University

Host: Jessica Hellmann

Dec. 12th No Seminar--Week of Final Examinations
Dec. 19th No Seminar--Christmas Holiday Break
Dec. 26th No Seminar--Christmas Holiday Break
Jan. 2nd No Seminar--Christmas Holiday Break
Jan. 9th No Seminar--Christmas Holiday Break
Jan. 16th

No Seminar Currently Scheduled

Jan. 23rd

No Seminar Currently Scheduled  

Jan. 30th

Mark Kirkpatrick-Chromosome inversions, local adaptation, and speciation

Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

Host: Jessica Hellmann

Jan. 31st

Science, Diversity and Academia Lecture Series

Dr. Eloy Rodriguez

The Urgent Need for Compassionate Latina/o Biomedical Research Scientists in Combating the Wrath of Diabetes in US Latino/a Communities

Jordan Hall of Science, First floor Reading Room, 12:00 PM

Chemical Ecology and Biology of Natural Medicines from the Amazonia and African Rainforests

Jordan Hall of Science, Digital Visualization Theatre, Room 100, 4:00 PM

Feb. 6th No Seminar Currently Scheduled
Feb. 13th

Dr. Donald Zak-Plant-microbe interactions mediate ecosystem response to elevated carbon dioxide and ozone

Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

Host: Jessica Hellmann

Feb. 16th

Peter Campochiaro, M.D.-Mechanism of Cone Cell Death in Retinitis Pigmentosa

Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine

Host: David Hyde

2:00 PM

Feb. 20th

No Seminar Currently Scheduled  

Feb 27th

Joel Ernst-Initiation and evasion of the immune response by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine

Host: Jeffrey Schorey

Mar. 2nd

UNDERC Seminar

Guy Cameron-Foraging by coastal prairie rodents

Professor, Department Head, University of Cincinnati

2:00 PM

Mar. 6th

Kami Kim-New insights into an old idea--purine salvage as a drug target in malaria

Associate Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Host: John Adams

Mar. 13th

No Seminar--Mid-Term Break

Mar. 20th

Brian Link - Interkinetic nuclear migration and retinal neurogenesis

Associate Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Host: Lei Li

Mar. 26th

Justin Kumar - Building an Eye on the Fly

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University

Host: David Hyde

Mar. 27th

Peter Raven - Natural History Collections: A Critical Element in Understanding and Preserving Biological Diversity

President, Missouri Botanical Garden

Host: Barbara Hellenthal

April 2nd

Nieuwland Lecture Series

Elaine Fuchs - Stem Cells of the Skin and Their Lineages

Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University

Host: Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey

4:00 PM, 283 Galvin Life Science

April 3rd

Nieuwland Lecture Series

Elaine Fuchs - Stem Cells: Biology and Clinical Promise

Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University

Host: Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey

12:30 PM, 101 Jordan Hall of Science

April 10th

No Seminar Currently Scheduled

April 12th

Kenneth Miller - Finding Darwin's God

Professor, Department of Biology, Brown University

Hosts: David Lodge and Matthew Ashley (Theology Dept)

4:30 PM, 101 Jordan Hall of Science

April 16th

Craig Lectures

James Truman - Hormones and the Control of Behavior: Lessons from the Insects

Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington

Host: David Severson

4:00 PM, 283 Galvin Life Science

April 17th

Craig Lectures

James Truman - Neuronal Stem Cells as the Developmental and Functional Units of the Insect CNS

Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington

Host: David Severson

4:00 PM, 283 Galvin Life Science

April 24th

Patricia Wittcopp - Genetic basis of regulatory variation within and between species

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

Host: Michael Ferdig

May 1st

Doug Erwin-The Cambrian Metazoan Radiation: Developmental Invention and Ecological Innovation

Senior Scientist and Curator in the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; Professor at the Sante Fe Institute

Host: Jeffrey Feder

May 3rd

Randy Olson-Don't Be Such a Scientist!

Biologist and filmmaker, writer and producer of "Flock of Dodos"

12:00 PM, 283 Galvin Life Science

 

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