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Biology Seminar Schedule
Spring 2008

All seminars are on Thursdays at 5:00 PM in Mendel Science Center 115, unless otherwise noted, and are all are open to the public. We serve coffee, tea, and cookies in the seminar room just prior to the seminar, and we hold a wine and cheese reception after most seminars in Mendel 175.

Time Presenter Topic
24 Jan.

James Wilson, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

Exploring the Unexplored in Salmonella:  From Spaceflight to Genomic Islands

Host: Jan Knepper

28 Jan., MONDAY

Brian Hammer, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Shedding light on bacterial cell-cell communication in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae

Host: Jan Knepper

31 Jan. Elizabeth Joyce, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine

 

A New Look at an Old Bug:  The importance of asymptomatic carriage in Pneumococcal disease

Host: Jan Knepper

7 Feb. Sankar Ghosh, Yale University NF-kB: An evolutionarily conserved mediator of immune and inflammatory responses

Host: Anil Bamazai

14 Feb. Kel Wieder, Villanova University For the Love of Peat - Burning issues in the Peatlands of Alberta's boreal wilderness

Host: Russ Gardner

21 Feb. Elizabeth Jockusch, University of Connecticut Non-tree-like Speciation:  Examples from California Herps

Host: Todd Jackman

28 Feb. Mark Sullivan,  The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Taking the long way home:  The first year in the life of the American eel (Anguilla rostrata) in southern New Jersey estuaries

Host:  Mike Russell

13 Mar. Joonil Jung, University of Pennsylvania Trinucleotide DNA repeat instability in human hereditary diseases-novel insights and promises from a Drosophila model of Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

Host: Mary Desmond

27 Mar. David Steger, University of Pennsylvania Mapping Chromatin modifications coupled with gene transcription during Adipogenesis

Host: Dennis Wykoff

3 Apr. S. Blair Hedges, Pennsylvania State University Estimating a molecular timescale for the earliest branches in the tree of life

Host: Aaron Bauer

10 Apr. TBA  
17 Apr. Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University Do variations in detrital inputs influence stable soil organic matter? An experimental approach

Host: Kel Wieder

24 Apr. TBA