Spring 2008 Schedule

Lee Drain Building 213 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Jan. 17	Dr. Eric Calhoun Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University	SNPing away at cancer: discovering deletions using single nucleotide polymorphism arrays	Gen. search
Jan. 24	Dr. Giuliana Gusmaroli Dept. Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology; Yale University	Functional interaction between the COP9 Signalosome (CSN) and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome system in the regulation of plant development.	Gen. search
Jan. 31	Andrea Habura Biggs Laboratory; Wadsworth Center	Learning from Cellzilla: Foraminiferan protists as a tool for understanding biodiversity and cell biology	Gen. search
Feb. 7	Dr. Aaron Lynne National Farm Medicine Center Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation	Characterization of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella serotypes from food animals	Micro. search
Feb. 14	Dr. Lea Spyres Dept. of Biological Sciences; University of Tulsa	Chimeric toxins act as intracellular inhibitors of wild-type toxin B from Clostridium difficile	Micro. search
Feb. 19	Dr. Madhusudan Choudhary University of Texas Health Sciences Center Houston	Genome analysis of Rhodobacter sphaeroides	Micro. search
Feb. 21	Dr. Heather Wiatrowski Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology; Rutgers University	Interactions between the toxic metal mercury and microorganisms from groundwater aquifers	Micro. search
Feb. 28	Dr. Chris Randle Dept. of Biological Sciences; Sam Houston State University	Interpretations of probability: the Bayesian approach in phylogenetics	Hargrave
Mar. 4	Dr. Hojun Song Dept. of Entomology; Brigham Young University	Evolution and phylogenetic utility of insect male genitalia	Bucheli
Mar. 20	Dr. Rusty Pool The Fertility Center of San Antonio.	The culture of human embryos: adventures in time and space	Wilson
Mar. 27	Dr. Bridget Stutchbury Department of Biology; York University	Migratory song birds: canaries in the coal mine?	Lutterschmidt
Apr. 3	Dr. Keith Gido Division of Biology; Kansas State University	Scaling consumer effects across a riverscape: effects of nutrient subsides and trophic complexity on stream ecosystem function	Hargrave
Apr. 10	BETA-BETA-BETA	Faculty Biology-Bowl	Hudson
Apr. 17	Dr. Gary Garrett HoH Fisheries Science Center; Texas Parks and Wildlife Department	The successes and challenges of fish conservation in Texas	Hargrave
Apr. 24	Dr. Amy Dunham Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Rice University	Changing trophic diversity in tropical forests: Implications for community structure & ecosystem function	Hargrave
May 1	Dr. John Hawdon Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine; George Washington University	Insulin signaling in the hookworm infective process	T. Cook
May 8	Dr. David Heins Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Tulane University	Is the macroparasite Schistocephalus a consumer or castrator of the little threespine stickleback fish?	Deaton

 

For additional information contact:

Chad Hargrave
Phone: 936-294-1543
E-mail: cwhargrave@shsu.edu