Biology Seminars: Spring Semester 2008

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursday's in Druckenmiller Hall room 20 at 4:00 pm 

January 24, 2008   Susan Dutcher, Professor of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis - "Using Comparative Genomics of "Pond Scum" to Understand Kidney Disease and Obesity in People"

January 31, 2008   Christopher Cashman, '07, INBRE Jr. Biomedical Researcher - "Windows into the Unknown: The Use of Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Biology for the Elucidation of the Structure and Function of Tachykinin Related Peptides (TRPs) in Decapod Crustaceans"

February 7, 2008    Michael Palopoli, Associate Professor of Biology, Bowdoin College - "Worms, Sex and Mucus: Genetics of Mating System Evolution in Caenorhabditis elegans"

Friday, February 15, 2008  

Jef Boeke, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University- "(De)Constructing the Yeast Genome"

Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, Department of Biology and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University - "Ionizable Groups in the Hydrophobic Interior of Proteins: The Structural Motif Essential for Life"

Karina Brierley, Genetics Counselor, Yale Cancer Center - Hereditary Breast Cancer: An Overview and New Developments"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

February 21, 2008   Matt Rockman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University, NJ

February 28, 2008   Gregory Velicer, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington  - HONORS  SEMINARS #1  "Good Citizens, Bullies, Cheats and Usurpers in Bacterial Society"

March 6, 2008 - tba

March 27, 2008   Garry Buettner,  Professor and Assistant Director, Free Radical and Radiation Biology Graduate Program and Director, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, The University of Iowa -"Superoxide and H202 in health and disease: Superoxide dismutase and Ascorbate in cancer and cancer treatment"

TUESDAY, April 1, 2008   Kresge Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.  HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE & BOWDOIN COLLEGE, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY LECTURE - Margaret (Peg) Riley, President, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst   - HONORS  SEMINARS #2 "Applying Ecological and Evolutionary Theory to Meet the Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance"

 April 3, 2008   Mark Miller, University of Puerto Rico - "Exploring Relations Between Rhythmicity and Synchrony in a Simple Neural Network"

April 10, 2008    Akira Chiba, Professor of Biology, University of Miami -  "The Molecular and Cellular Integrations that Initiate Synapses in the Drosophila Embryonic Nervous System"

April 17, 3008   Geoff Shoenbaum, Assistant Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland - "Whats so bad in addiction? Behavioral inflexibility after cocaine exposure"

April 24, 2008    Renae Brodie, Assistant Professor of Biology, Mount Holyoke College- "Life on the wedge: survival strategies in estuarine larval crabs"

May 1, 2008    Jack Putz, Professor of Botany, University of Florida - "Tropical Forest Transtions in Shades of Grey: View from the Ground"