Department of Biology

 
Fall 2008 Biology Department Seminars

Seminars will be held Tuesdays at 3:45 pm in Wilson 107 unless otherwise noted below. Refreshments will be served before seminars at 3:30 in Coker 215. Everyone is welcome, so please join us!

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Date

Speaker

Title

Host

September 9

Dennis Discher
University of Pennsylvania

Matrix Elasticity Effects on Stem Cells and Cardiomyocytes with Plausible Switching Mechanisms in Force-Induced Protein Unfolding
Steve Rogers
September 16

Troy Day
Queen's University

The Evolution of Disease Life Histories
Maria Servedio
September 23

Brooke McCartney
Carnegie Mellon

Cytoskeletal Rearrangements and Tissue Morphogenesis: The APC Connection
Mark Peifer
September 30

Dana Hawley
Virginia Tech

Good Genes but the Wrong Neighbors: Understanding Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance in House Finches
Charles Mitchell
October 2
Thursday

Duojia Pan
HHMI, Johns Hopkins

Control of Organ Size and Tumorigenesis by the Hippo Signaling Pathway
Hosted by the Biology Graduate Students
Stephen Sojka, BGSA
October 7
Akihiko Nakano
Tokyo University
Roles of Membrane Trafficking in Plant Development: Endocytosis and Rab GTPase
Jeff Dangl
October 24
Friday
in Coker 201

Ron Vale
UCSF

How Molecular Motors Work
Distinguished Seminar in Molecular Biology
Kevin Slep
October 28

Margaret McFall-Ngai
University of Wisconsin

The Squid Kids: Symbiosis in the Juvenile Bobtail Squid Ann Matthysse
October 30
Thursday

Ned Ruby
University of Wisconsin

Good Food and Conversation: Molecular Approaches to Understanding the Physiology of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis Ann Matthysse
November 4

Annie Schmitt
Brown University

Arabidopsis in the Real World: Predicting Life History Expression in Dynamic Natural Environments
Joel Kingsolver
November 11

Gary Grossman
University of Georgia

The Importance of Interactive vs. Individualistic Processes in an Appalachian Stream Fish Assemblage Seth Reice
November 18

Janet Heasman
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center

Wnts Acting Together in Xenopus Axis Formation
Frank Conlon
December 2
in Coker 201

Trevor Price
University of Chicago

Speciation Into and Out of the Himalayas
Distinguished Seminar in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
Karin Pfennig

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