Other Department Seminars

BioFrASS - Friday Afternoon Seminar Series  |  Journal Club

CGHID - Wednesday Afternoon Colloquium Series

Andrew Read-Drugs and Insecticides for Malaria Control: Can We Avoid Another Century of Evolutionary Mismanagement?

Professor of Biology and Entomology, Eberly College of Science Distinguished Senior Scholar, Penn State University

Host: Michael Ferdig

Sidney Shaw

Assistant Professor, Departments of Biology and Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington

Host: Ted Hinchcliffe

President's Address to Faculty, 4:00 PM

Duane Compton

Professor of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School

Host: Ted Hinchcliffe

Mary Ann McDowell

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Distinguished Alumni Series

James Elser-Biological Stoichiometry in Ecology, Evolution, and Disease

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Associate Director of Research and Training Initiatives, Arizona State University

Host: David Lodge

Steven Lockley -Circadian Photoreception in Humans

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Host: Giles Duffield

Kristin Hager  - Toxoplasma gondii: Secretion = Success

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

No Seminar--Mid-Term Break

Giles Duffield - The Zlock behind the Clock: Role of Inhibitor of DNA binding genes in circadian clock input and output

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Jason McLachlan - Conservation Lessons from the Last Ice Age

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Natalia Luisa Hiller - Comparative genomic analysis of otitis media pathogens:  Insights into their supragenomes, evolution, and virulence

Senior Research Associate, Bioinformatics, Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute

Host: Kasturi Haldar

Innovations and Excellence in Science Teaching

John Janovy, Jr. - Parasite complex life cycle evolution: marshes, metaphors, and models

Varner Professor of Biological Sciences , University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Host: Mary Ann McDowell

No Seminar Currently Scheduled

Daniel Barbash - How heterochromatin differences cause hybrid incompatibilities in Drosophila

Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University

Host: Hope Hollocher

Kerry Shaw - Genetic architecture and the origin of rapid speciation

Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University

Host: Hope Hollocher

No Seminar--Final Examinations

No Seminar--Christmas Holiday Break

Maureen Condic - Mechanisms of motility in neural development

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah

Host: Robert Schulz

Zachary Schafer - Antioxidant and Oncogene Rescue of Metabolic Defects Caused by Loss of Matrix Attachment

Research Fellow in Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

No Seminar Currently Scheduled

Mollie Jewett - Genetic determinants for survival of the Lyme disease spirochete throughout its infectious cycle

Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Jeff Riffell - Flower choice and the neural basis of olfactory behavior in Manduca sexta moths

Research Associate, ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona

Host: Joseph O'Tousa

Travis Jewett - Chlamydial entry and the role of the Tarp effector

Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Jim Clark - Can multiple pathogens regulate multiple hosts? The Janzen Connell effect and tree diversity

H.L. Blomquist Professor of Environment, Professor of Biology, and Professor of Statistics, Duke University

Host: Jason McLachlan

Mike Pfrender - From Fish Food to Ferrari: Investigating Structure and Function in the First Crustacean Genome

Associate Professor of Biology, Utah State University

Rick Tarleton - Induction and maintenance of T cell memory in Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Distinguished Research Professor in Cellular Biology, University of Georgia

Host: Mary Ann McDowell

Elizabeth Archie

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Fordham University

Ken Poss - Mechanisms of complex tissue regeneration in zebrafish

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Duke University

Host: David Hyde

Nadia Singh - The importance of scale in Drosophila evolutionary genomics

Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University

Patricia Champion - The ESX-1 Secretion System: Substrate Selection and Host Pathogen Interactions

Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology/Immunology, University of California, San Francisco

No seminar scheduled -- President's Address to Faculty

Julie Canman - Using conditional genetics to dissect the molecular mechanisms of cell division

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California, San Diego

Postponed until Fall 2009

Distinguished Alumni and George Craig Memorial Lecture Series

Fred Nijhout - The Biology of Butterfly Wing Patterns

Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University

Host: David Severson

Postponed until Fall 2009

Distinguished Alumni and George Craig Memorial Lecture Series

Fred Nijhout - The Control of Polyphenic Development in Insects

Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University

Host: David Severson

Jeffrey Trimarchi - Single cell profiling reveals unprecedented heterogeneity of retinal progenitors

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

No Seminar--Mid-Term Break

Shaun Lee - Discovery of a Widely Distributed Toxin Biosynthesis Gene Cluster

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Jeffrey Good - Evolutionary genomics of mammalian speciation and reproduction

Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Genetics

Nansi Jo Colley - Protein Trafficking and Retinal Degeneration Through the Eye of the Fly

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Host: Joseph O'Tousa

Jennifer Wernegreen - Evolutionary genomics of host-dependent bacteria: Insights from insect endosymbionts

Associate Scientist, The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Jake Vander Zanden - Cross-habitat linkages in lakes: Coupling benthic, pelagic, and terrestrial habitats

Associate Professor at the Center for Limnology and the Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Host: David Lodge

Science and Society Series

Mario Capecchi - Modeling Human Cancer in the Mouse

2007 Nobel Prize Laureate, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, University of Utah

Host: BGSO

4 PM in 101 Jordan Hall of Science

Science and Society Series

Mario Capecchi - The Making of a Scientist: An Unlikely Journey

2007 Nobel Prize Laureate, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, University of Utah

Host: BGSO

7 PM in 101 Jordan Hall of Science

Nipam Patel - The Evolution of Animal Body Patterning

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley

Host: Molly Duman Scheel

Distinguished Alumni Series

Tim Geary - Local solutions to drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Parasite Biotechnology, McGill University

Hosts: Michael Ferdig, Chuck Kulpa

Norma Andrews - Cellular defense pathways against pathogen-induced injury

Professor and Chair, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland

Host: Kristin Hager

Molly Bergman - Turning the Outside In: A Novel Role for CD8+ T cell Control of the Extracellular Pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine

Eric Griffis - Putting Motors in Their Place

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco