BIOL 591, BIOL 691 Departmental seminar, Spring, 2006

Seminar will be in LH2 (Baer-Fuller)
NOTE Time is 1pm Friday (the schedule of classes booklet is wrong)

January 20 Martin L. Katz Department of Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia "Neurodegeneration in Lysosomal Storage Diseases:Approaches to Therapy"

January 23 Jason Knoupf, GIS job interview, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, "Multi-scale analyses of the ecological and environmental factors influencing species distributions in the Caribbean: A biodiversity informatics approach"

January 27 No Friday seminar

January 30 Kate Lyons, GIS job interview, National Center for Ecological Anaysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, "Spatial and temporal dimensions of the response of late pleistocene mammals to climate change"

February 3 No Friday Seminar

Feb 8 Xiao-Qiong "Sean" Yu, Immuno job interview, University of Missouri, Kansas City "Innate Immunity in an Insect, the Tobacco Hornworm Manduca sexta"

February 10 No Friday seminar

February 13 Mike Blum, GIS job interview, Environmental Protection Agency, Molecular Ecology Research Lab, Cincinnati, "Landscape determinants of Genetic variation and hybridization in stream minnows"

February 15 Laurie Shornick, Immuno job interview, Washington University in St. Louis, "Immune Defense Against Respiratory Viruses: The Role of Stat1 in the Airway Epithelium"

February 17 No Friday seminar

February 20 Xinguo 'Mike" Wang, Immuno job interview, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Molecular mechanisms in mosquito innate immunity"

February 24 Joe Fortier, Department of Biology, SLU, "Newly described inchworm parasitoid species in the lineage Tetrasphaeropyx Cresson and an estimation of their phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae)."

March 3 Mark Running, Assistant Member, Principal Investigator, Danforth Center "The role of prenylation in plant development"

March 3 Allison Miller, job interview, University Museum, University of Colorado - Boulder, "The evolutionary process of domestication in a Mesoamerican fruit tree"

March 10 Ken Olsen, biology, Wash U, "Evolutionary genomics in rice: the impact of
selection during domestication"

March 17 Spring break

March 24 Scott Martin, Department of Chemistry, SLU, "Microchip-based Analysis Systems for Monitoring Biological Events"

March 31 Grad student seminar
Beth Winkler (with Prof Bernhardt) "Comparative floral biology of two endemic sympatric Potentilla species"
Sarah Marchetti (with Prof Kennell) "Reverse transcription of the pFOXC linear mitochondrial
retroplamids"

April 7 Frank Yin, Chair and Stephen & Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, "Responses of endothelial cells to mechanical stimuli"

April 7 Jeff Ray (dissertation presentation) (with Prof. Wood) "Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and hybridization in the rainbow darter, Etheostomacaeruleum (Actinopterygii: Percidae)"

April 14 Good Friday

April 21 no seminar because of graduate research poster day

April 27 Jeong-Sun Ju (dissertation seminar) (with Prof. Fisher) "Regulation of glucose transport and insulin action by the AMP-activated protein kinase in skeletal muscle"

April 27 Kasey Hames (thesis seminar) (with Prof. Barber) "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Piptochaetium: Evidence from ITS data"

April 27 Michael Gitcho (dissertation seminar) (with Prof. Spencer) "Friend of echinoid is required in Drosophila eye imaginal disks to regulate endocytosis of notch and delta"

April 28 Anbreen Bashir (dissertation seminar) (with Prof. Leverich) "Hybrid fitness and the potential for gene flow between cultivated rice Oryza sativa and its wild relative Oriza rufipogon"

April 28 The 2006 John D. Dwyer Lecture
Walter Lewis "A tribute to the life of John D. Dwyer"
Peter Bernhardt, Department of Biology, SLU, "The North American and Chinese Lady's Slipper Orchids: A Fresh Look at the Sexy and Successful Cypripedium"

May 5 awards ceremony

May 8 Amanda Oliver (thesis seminar) (with Prof. Valone) "Racoon foraging response to predator scent: Implication for the mesopredator release hypothesis and management"

May 9 Marie Onan (dissertation seminar) (with Prof. Bode) "Expression and physiological regulation of the SLC28 system in glutamine transporters in liver and muscle"

There is a hyperlink to the academic honesty policy of the College and the statement that we are required by the administration to include in the syllabus.

If you have special needs, these must be documented with the disabilities office:
Adam Meyer, Office of Disabilties Services, 977-8885, Room 36, DuBourg Hall, 221 No. Grand.; confidentiality will be observed in all inquiries.
I ask you to see me in the first two weeks of class to be certain I know what accomodations to make.

There is a hyperlink for objectives

There is a hyperlink for the assessment report

Assessment will be a questionaire administered late in the semester.

This page last revised on June 15, 2006

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