The Department of Biology at Texas A&M University sponsors a weekly seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters. Seminars are held each Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in room 115 Biological Sciences Building East unless otherwise noted. In addition to this weekly seminar series, the department hosts the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series which is held 1-2 times each year.

Speakers for this semester, including the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series are listed below. Links to other seminar series are listed at the bottom of this page. If you would like to be added to our weekly seminar e-mail reminder, please send your name and e-mail address to Lieu Jean at ljean@mail.bio.tamu.edu.

• September 1 --
  Jun Liu, UT Health Science Center at Houston (hosted by Andreas Holzenburg)
  
  
• September 8 --
  Ginger Carney, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
  "Modulating Drosophila melanogaster reproduction: genes, experience and hormones."
  

• SPECIAL SEMINAR Friday, September 11, 12:00 noon - 1:00 PM, Rudder Tower, Room 301 --
  Terje Lømo, Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo (hosted by Jack McMahan)
  "On Long Term Potentiation (LTP) and Other Early Discoveries in the Hippocampus"
  
  
• Thursday, September 17, Koldus 110, 4pm --
  John Nicholls, Neurobiology Sector, SISSA, International School for Advanced Studies; Trieste, Italy (hosted by Jack McMahan)
  "Patterns of activity in brainstem neurons that generate the rhythm of respiration"
  
  
• September 29 --
  Michael Smotherman, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
  "Speech Motor Control in Bats and Humans"
  
  
  
• Wednesday, September 30 --
  Brian Perkins, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
  "Tales of Fish that Couldn't Get Away: Zebrafish Models of Hereditary Blindness"
  
  
  
• October 13 --
  Stephen Brimijoin, Pharmacology, Mayo Medical School (hosted by Paola Correa/BioSGA)
  
  
• October 20 --
  Iain Drummonds, Medicine-Mass. General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (hosted by Brian Perkins)
  "Cilia, fluid flow and morphogenesis"
  
  
• October 27 --
  William Nierman, Infectious Disease Group, J. Craig Venter Institute (hosted by Xiaorong Lin)
  “Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Clusters in the Aspergilli”
  
  
• November 3 --
  Andreas Fritz, Biology Department, Emory University (hosted by Bruce Riley)
  "Integration of BMP and Nodal Signaling during Axial Mesoderm Development in Danio rerio"
  
  
• November 10 --
  Guojun Yang, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia (hosted by Tim Hall)
  "Tuned for transposition, molecular determinants underlying MITE activity"
  
  
  
• November 17 --
  Mimi Koehl, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (hosted by Thierry Lints)
  "Settling down: How do microscopic water-borne larvae of bottom-dwelling marine animals land in the right place?"
  
  
• November 24 --
  Elison Blancaflor, Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma (hosted by Larry Griffing)
  "Tip growth in plants: Filling the GAP between membrane trafficking and the cytoskeleton"
  
  
• December 1 --
  Cynthia Moss, Department of Biology Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland (hosted by Mike Smotherman)
  "Adaptive echolocation behavior for the analysis of auditory scenes: A glimpse of the world through the voice of a bat"
  

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