2003-2004 Seminar Year at a Glance

Department of Biology

2003-2004 Seminar Year at a Glance

Seminars are Mondays at 4pm (unless otherwise noted) and are held in Coker 201. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 down the hall in Coker 215. Everyone is welcome so please come and join us!

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UNC Biology Seminar Schedule

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Date	Title	Speaker	Host
September 1	Labor Day
September 8	Patterning the Arabidopsis flower: shedding along the dotted lines	Sarah Liljegren UNC Biology	Steve Matson
September 15	Functional studies of phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins; novel and conserved regulators of signal transduction in eukaryotes	Vytas Bankaitis Dept Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC	Joe Kieber
September 22	How the G protein Ga_o and its RGS regulators mediate neurotransmission and also control embryonic cell divisions in C. elegans	Michael Koelle Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University School of Medicine	Alan Jones and Henrik Dohlman
September 24 (Wednesday)	The "new" anti-evolutionism: Why "Intelligent Design Theory" is a threat to science	Ken Miller Brown University	Ted Salmon
September 29	Radial patterning in Arabidopsis: movement and networks	Philip Benfey Department of Biology Duke University	Bob Goldstein
October 6	Energetics and development of locomotion in cetaceans	Ann D. Pabst UNC Wilmington	William M. Kier
October 13	Coupling cell cycle to cell shape in yeast	Daniel Lew Dept. Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University	Kerry Bloom
October 20	Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell development by the WNT signaling pathway	Tannishtha Reya Dept. of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University	Mark Peifer
October 27	Developmental Compartmentalization of the Maize Leaf	Mike Scanlon Plant Biology Department University of Georgia	Shawn Ahmed
November 3	Integrative genetics and the origin of mammalian phenotypic diversity	David Threadgill UNC School of Medicine	Jeff Dangl
November 10	Nanotechnology for probing forces in Biology	Richard Superfine Dept. of Physics UNC	Ted Salmon
November 17	Life history evolution in species separated by the closure of the Central American Seaway: which came first, the Isthmus or big eggs?	Amy Moran Dept. of Marine Sciences UNC	Bob Podolsky
November 24	Microbiology of deep subsurface sediments	Andreas Teske Dept. of Marine Sciences UNC	Jeff Dangl
December 1
December 8	Developmental plasticity and the origins of diversity	David Pfennig Dept. of Biology UNC	Joel Kingsolver
December 15	Winter Break
December 22	Winter Break
December 29	Winter Break
January 5	Winter Break
January 12	Evolutionary ecology of development in maine invertebrates: phylogeny and function	Robert Podolsky Department of Biology UNC	Steve Matson
January 19	MLK Birthday
January 26	No Seminar
February 2	Conservation Biologist Search Effects of species diversity on ecosystem functioning … when, why, and who cares?	Bradley Cardinale Univ of Wisconson	Dr. David Pfennig
February 5 (Thursday 4pm)	Conservation Biologist Search How native ecological communities and conservation practices affect the success of nonindigenous species.	James Byers Univ of New Hampshire	Dr. John Bruno
February 9	Modulation of auxin transport during plant gravity response	Gloria Muday Dept. Biology Wake Forest Univ.	Aaron Rashotte
February 12 (Thursday 4pm)	Conservation Biologist Search Why community ecology matters to conservation biology	Brian Silliman Brown University	Dr. Aaron Moody
February 16	Conservation Biologist Search Measuring the human footprint: The impact of resource and land use on vulnerable wildlife populations	Rebecca Lewison Duke University	Dr. Bob Peet
February 18 (Wed at 12:00, Coker 215)	Effects of chromosome and chromatin structure on the repair of broken chromosomes	Jim Haber Brandeis University	Kerry Bloom
February 23	Conservation Biologist Search Microbial plant pathogens as mediators of global change	Charles Mitchell Cornell University	Dr. Peter White
February 26 (Thursday 4pm)	Conservation Biologist Search Spatial pattern in plant-animal interactions: Implications for community structure and conservation in tropical forests.	Kirsten Silvius SUNY-ESF	Dr. Flora Holt
March 1	Genetics of Alcoholism	Howard Edenberg Indiana University School of Medicine	Tom Petes
March 8	Spring Break
March 15	Faculty Search Functional Genomic Analysis of Cytoskeletal Dynamics	Steve Rogers University of California, San Francisco	Kerry Bloom
March 18	Faculty Search Cadherins and Synaptogenesis Studied in Zebrafish Embryos	Jamie Jontes Stanford University	Victoria Bautch
March 22	Dosage compensation in Drosophila: a model for the study of transcription regulation through chromatin remodeling	John Lucchesi Dept. Biology Emory University	Alan Stiven
March 23	Faculty Search Measuring Actin Filament Dynamics with Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy	Jeff Kuhn Yale University	Robert Duronio
March 25	Faculty Search No Guts, No Glory: Dynamics and Function of Myosin-IA in the Intestinal Brush Border	Matt Tyska Yale University	Shawn Ahmed
March 29	Faculty Search Building a Parasite: A Study of the Cytoskeleton of Toxoplasma gondii	Ke Hu The Scripps Research Institute	Bob Goldstein
April 5	The biogeography of speciation: historical background and a meta-analysis of genetic and range data from mammals	Michael Turelli University of California at Davis	Maria Servedio
April 12	Genes and conservation: From whales to marine parks Helen P. Mangelsdorf Distinguished Lecture Series	Steve Palumbi	BGSA
April 19	No Seminar
April 26	Hormonal regulation of plant ion channels via G-proteins and GPCRs	Sarah Assmann Dept. Biology Penn State Univ.	Alan Jones