Calendar
Calendar
Spring 2008
January 24
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
Chris Cashman, '07 INBRE Jr. Medical Researcher, Bowdoin College - "Windows into the Unknown: The Use of Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Biology for the Elucidation of the Structure and Function of Tachyknin Related Peptides (TRPs) in Decapod Crustaceans"
February 7
Mike Palopoli, Associate Professor of Biology, Bowdoin College - "Worms, sex and mucus: Genetics of mating system evolution in Caenorhabditis elegans"
February 21
Matt Rockman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, NJ - "Heritable variation in C. elegans"
February 28
Greg Velicer, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington - "Good citizens, bullies, cheats and usurpers in bacterial society"
March 27
Garry Buettner, University of Iowa, - "Superoxide and H20 in health and disease: Superoxide dismutase and Ascorbate in cancer and cancer treatment"
April 3
Mark Miller, Department of Anatomy, University of Puerto Rico - "Exploring Relations Between Rhythmicity and Synchrony in a Simple Neural Network"
April 10
Akira Chiba, University of Miami - "The molecular and cellular integrations that initiate synapses in the Drosophila embryonic nervous system"
April 17
Geoff Shoenbaum, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland - "What's so bad in addiction? Behavioral inflexibility after cocaine exposure"
April 24
Renae Brodie, Mount Holyoke College - "Life on the wedge: survival strategies in estuarine larval crabs"
May 1
Jack Putz, Professor, Department of Botany, University of Florida - "Tropical Forest Transition in Shades of Grey: View from the Ground"