Calendar

Calendar

Fall 2009

September 10-  Jamie Walters,  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Cornell University - “Sexual selection and the molecular evolution of reproductive proteins in Heliconius butterflies”

September 24 - John Stella, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry - “A river runs through it: Physical drivers of riparian forest development in arid regions”

October 1 – Ricca Gardner, Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach - “Cell Proliferation in the Septo-Hippocampal Pathway: Season, Lesion, and Species Effects”

October 3 – HHMI Presidential Symposium - Keynote address by Prof. Tyrone Hayes {UC – Berkeley}, short talks by selected students, and concludes with a poster session of all student work.

October 8 – Erica Larschan, Assistant Prof., MCB Department, Brown University  - “Dosage compensation in Drosophila: A complex voyage to the X chromosome”


October 15 -  Ken Foreman, Director, Environmental Science Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA - “Disruption of the Global Nitrogen Cycle, Dead Zones, and Innovative strategies for Remediating Coastal Nutrient Pollution on Cape Cod”


October 22  -Sam Zeeman,  ETH, Institute of Plant Science, Zurich, Switzerland “Understanding the Metabolism of Starch- the Basis of our Nutrition and a Key Renewable Resource from Plants”   The recipient of the 2007 Charles Albert Schull Award of the American Society of Plant Biologists for young researchers "for pioneering research leading to the discovery of new proteins and pathways in starch synthesis and degradation in leaves".


October 29 – Elissa Lei, LABORATORY CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY SECTION
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health “RNA dependent higher order chromatin organization”


November 5 – Lynn Fletcher,  Assistant Professor of Biology and Franklin College “Charismatic microfauna: Social lives of little creatures” 

November 12 - Koty Sharp, Ocean Genome Legacy “Bacterial Communities in Early Life Stages of Tropical Reef Corals”

Monday 4:00 pm  December 7 – Edward Burtt, Professor, Department of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, OH - “Life in a Forest of Feathers”


December 10 – Eve Marder, Brandeis University - “Variability, Homeostasis and Modulation in Neuronal Networks”