| Sept. 4th |
No Seminar Currently Scheduled |
| Sept. 11th |
President's Address to Faculty, 4:30 PM |
| Sept. 13th |
Distinguished Alumni Series
Daniel Funk - Ecological Specialization and Ecological Speciation
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Host: Jeff Feder |
| Sept. 18th |
David Burgess - Cytokinesis in sea urchins
Professor of Biology, Boston College
Host: Ted Hinchcliffe |
| Sept. 20th |
Lynch Lecture Series
Eric Brown - Can fish really get tuberculosis? I thought they didn't have lungs
Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Host: Jeff Schorey
283 Galvin Life Science, 4:00 PM
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| Sept. 21st |
Lynch Lecture Series
Eric Brown - Greasy Tales: Glycan phosphatidylinositol-linked proteins in phagocytosis and innate immunity
Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Host: Jeff Schorey
283 Galvin Life Science, 4:00 PM
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| Sept. 25th |
Stephen Jackson - Space, Time, and History in Ecology: Exploring the Consequences of Environmental Texture
Professor of Botany, University of Wyoming
Host: Jason McLachlan |
| Oct. 2nd |
Stephen Wolniak - Post-Transcriptional Control of Spermatogenesis in Marsilea
Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland
Host: Edward Hinchcliffe |
| Oct. 9th |
Douglas McMahon - Keeping Time in the Eye and Keeping the Eye on Time: Dopamine, GABA and the Retinal Circadian Clock
Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Host: Lei Li |
| Oct. 16th |
No Seminar Currently Scheduled
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| Oct. 23rd |
No Seminar--Mid-Term Break |
| Oct. 30th |
John Hogenesch - Functional genomic approaches and the study of mammalian circadian clock
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Host: Giles Duffield |
| Nov. 6th |
Edward Hinchcliffe-The role of the centrosome in mitotic spindle assembly and cytokinesis
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame |
| Nov. 8th |
UNDERC Seminar
Peter Morin - Small Worlds: Using Experiments with Microbes to Explore Patterns in Community Ecology
Director, Graduate Program in Ecology & Evolution, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
283 Galvin Life Science, 2:00 PM |
| Nov. 9th |
UNDERC Seminar
Jess Zimmerman - Flowering and Fruiting Phenologies of an Aseasonal and a Seasonal Neotropical Forest: the importance of seasonal irradiance
Professor at the Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico
115B Galvin Life Science, 2:00 PM |
| Nov. 13th |
Michael Ferdig - Understanding Malaria Phenotypes
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame |
| Nov. 19th |
Nieuwland Lecture Series
May Berenbaum - Bee Aware: Are honey bees in trouble?
Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Jessica Hellmann
101 Jordan Hall of Science, 4:00 PM |
| Nov. 20th |
Nieuwland Lecture Series
May Berenbaum - Gut Reaction: How caterpillars eat plants
Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Jessica Hellmann |
| Nov. 27th |
Osvaldo Sala - Spatial and temporal controls of carbon cycling in arid and semiarid ecosystems
Professor and Director, Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University
Host: David Lodge |
| Nov. 29th |
Distinguished Alumni and Craig Lecture Series
Jeffrey Powell - Evolution of Darwin's Inspiration: Giant Galapagos Tortoises
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Host: Nora Besansky |
| Nov. 30th |
Distinguished Alumni and Craig Lecture Series
Jeffrey Powell - Evolution of Codon Usage in Twelve Complete Drosophila Genomes
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Host: Nora Besansky |
| Dec. 4th |
Bruce Appel - Imaging and Genetic Analysis of Glial Development in Zebrafish
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Host: David Hyde |
| Dec. 6th |
"Pathogenesis and Host Response" Seminar Series
Laura Knoll - Functional genomics of Toxoplasma to identify potential malaria vaccine vehicles
Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Jeff Schorey |
| Dec. 11th |
Margherita Cantorna- The role of vitamin D in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Associate Professor of Molecular Immunology, Penn State University
Host: Mary Ann McDowell
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| Dec. 18th |
No Seminar--Final Examinations |
| Dec. 25th |
No Seminar --Christmas Day |
| Jan. 1st |
No Seminar--New Year's Day |
| Jan. 8th |
No Seminar--Christmas Holiday Break |
| Jan. 15th |
Kirk Deitsch -
Antigenic variation by malaria parasites: Avoiding the immune system through gene activation, silencing and cellular memory
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College at Cornell University
Host: Michael Ferdig
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| Jan. 22nd |
No Seminar Currently Scheduled
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| Jan. 24th |
"Pathogenesis and Host Response" Seminar Series
Imtiaz Khan - Generation and maintenance of CD8+ T cell effector memory against Toxoplasma gondii
Professor, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center
Host: Jeff Schorey |
| Jan. 29th |
Distinguished Alumni Series
Margaret Mulholland
Associate Professor, Department of Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University
Host: Jennifer Tank |
| Jan. 31st |
Tracy Vargo-Gogola - The role of p190-B RhoGAP in mammary gland development and tumorigenesis
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend |
| Feb. 5th |
No Seminar Currently Scheduled
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| Feb. 12th |
No Seminar Currently Scheduled
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| Feb. 19th |
Peter Daszak - Combining ecology and medicine to understand and predict emerging diseases
Executive Director, Consortium for Conservation Medicine
Host: David Lodge |
| Feb. 21st |
"Pathogenesis and Host Response" Seminar Series
Joe Zhou - Exploitation of Host Cell Functions by Salmonella
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Host: Jeff Schorey |
| Feb. 26th |
Don Kane - A Devonian origin for a tissue that knows left from right
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University
Host: David Hyde |
| March 4th |
No Seminar--Mid-Term Break |
| March 11th |
Ralph Isberg - The Microbe Within: Legionella and manipulation of membrane trafficking in host cells
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Tufts University
Host: Jeff Schorey
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| March 13th |
"Pathogenesis and Host Response" Seminar Series
Jorge Giron - Bacterial structures for adherence, survival, and cytotoxicity
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona
Host: Jeff Schorey |
| March 18th |
Ruth Shaw -
Evolutionary consequences of severe and abrupt fragmentation of prairie plant populations
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
Host: Jessica Hellmann |
| March 25th |
Distinguished Alumni Series
Andrew Serazin - Innovation in Science and Technology: A critical path to addressing global health inequities
Program Officer, Gates Foundation
Host: Nora Besansky |
| April 1st |
Gary Gorbsky -Decisions, Decisions: Directionality in the Cell Cycle
Program Chair, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Host: Kevin Vaughan
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| April 3rd |
GLOBES Lecture
Dan Basta - The changing nature of institutions, relationships, the public and decisionmaking: Can we forge a new paradigm?
Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries |
| April 8th |
Victoria Sork - Phylogeographic studies of California valley oak, Quercus lobata, and an associated epiphytic lichen, Ramalina menziesii
Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Host: Jessica Hellmann |
| April 15th |
John Hildebrand - Explorations of a 'Simple' Olfactory System
Regents Professor of Neurobiology; Director, Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Member of the National Academy of Science
Hosts: Ken Filchak, Harald Esch |
| April 17th |
James Fadool - Mosaics and Crystals: Patterns in eye development
Associate Professor of Biological Science, Florida State University
Host: David Hyde
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| April 22nd |
GLOBES Seminar
Alan Steinman - Great Lakes: Status and Threats
Director of the Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University
Host: Gary Lamberti
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| April 24th |
Jenny Boughman - Ecology Drives the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Jeff Feder |
| April 29th |
Kristen Verhey-Road signs for motor protein transport
Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
Host: Kevin Vaughan
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| May 6th |
No Seminar--Final Examinations |
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