Fall 2000 Seminar Schedule (updated November 30)

A listing of our speakers for the Fall 2000 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 ljean@mail.bio.tamu.edu.

• September 5 --
  HELMUT KRAMER, Center for Basic Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Katz): "Endocytic trafficking: a view through the fly eye"
• September 12 --
  DANIEL EBERL, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa (Riley): "The sound of one wing flapping: The Drosophila auditory system"
• September 19 --
  BRUCE RILEY, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (Zoran): "Molecular and cellular mechanisms required for development of the otic sensory system in zebrafish"
• September 26 --
  KATE VANDENBOSCH, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (Bell-Pedersen): "Profiling primoridia: Functional genomic analysis of nodulation in Medicago truncatula"
• October 3 --
  MARTA PEREGO, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Division of Cellular Biology, Scripps Institute (J. Golden) "Kinase-phosphotase competition in bacterial development"
• October 10 --
  WAH CHIU, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (Griffing): "Electron cryomicroscopy of macromolecular assembly"
• October 17 --
  BILL MARGOLIN, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Houston Medical School (Siegele): "A global positioning system for bacteria: how the cell division machine finds the middle"
• October 24 --
  CLARK LAGARIAS, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California-Davis (S. Golden): "The extended phytochrome family"
• October 31 -- *
  ROBERT BURGESS, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri (MacKenzie): "A genetic analysis of agrin at mouse synapses"
• November 7 -- *
  JIANZHI (George) ZHANG, Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (J. Golden): "Origins of new gene functions: evolutionary forces and molecular mechanisms"
• November 13-14 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  MICHAEL YOUNG, Laboratory of Genetics, Rockefeller University (S. Golden)
  Monday, November 13 -- 4:00pm in 601 Rudder Tower
  "Life's 24 hour clock: molecular control of circadian rhythms in animal cells"
  Tuesday, November 14 -- 4:00pm in 115 BSBE
  "New parts for Drosophila's circadian clock"
• November 16 (Thursday) -- * 12:00pm in BSBW 025
  JOHN TRUE, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Manson): "Development and evolution of Drosophila melanin patterns"
• November 20 (Monday) -- * 12:00pm in BSBW 025
  MARKUS BABST, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California-San Diego (J. Golden): "Membrane associate Vps proteins required for endosomal sorting"
• November 21 -- CANCELLED
  JASPER RINE, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley. "ORC, Silencing, and DNA Replication"
• November 28 -- *
  ERIC HAAG, Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Riley): "Genes, genomes, and the evolution of sex in Caenorhabditis"
• December 7 (Thursday) -- * Please note date change!!!
  WILLIAM GRAY, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin (McKnight): "Regulation of auxin response in Arabidopsis by the ubiquitin protein degradation pathway"

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Last updated 12/29/2000