Spring 1997 Seminar Schedule

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 4:00pm in room 115 of the 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 3-4 times each year.

Speakers for the Spring 1997 semester, including the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series, are listed below (host's name in parentheses). Links to other seminar series are listed at the bottom of this page.

• January 14 -- open
• January 21 -- HARRY KLEE, University of Florida, Department of Horticultural Science (VandenBosch): "How does a plant see ethylene and can we do anything about it?"
• January 28 -- GREGORY CAHILL, Department of Biology, University of Houston (Cassone): "Circadian oscillators in vertebrate photoreceptor cells"
• January 31 (Friday) --Co-sponsored by Biology, IDMB, and Plant Physiology
  GUNTER FEIX, Institut fur Biologie III, Albert Ludwigs Universitat Freiberg, Germany (Hall): "Genetic & molecular analysis of root formation in maize" 3:00 pm, Crop Biotechnology Center
• February 4 -- GERARD CAMPBELL, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (Jarvis): "Patterning the legs and wings of Drosophila with the secreted signaling molecules wingless and DPP" *
• February 6 (Thursday) -- 2:30pm in room 025 Biological Sciences Building West
  SABIRE OZCAN, Washington University School of Medicine (McKnight): "Glucose sensing, signaling, and response in a simple eukaryotic cell" *
• February 11 -- MIKE McEACHERN, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco (McKnight): "Telomeres running amok: Consequences of mutations in a telomerase RNA gene" *
• February 13 (Thursday) -- 2:30pm in room 025 Biological Sciences Building West
  MAKIS SKOULAKIS, Baylor College of Medicine (Jarvis): "Drosophila Mushroom Bodies and Leonardo mediated Neuroplasticity. A 14-3-3 homologue cardinal for learning and memory" *
• February 14 (Friday) -- 10:00 am in room 025 Biological Sciences Building West
  RODOLFO ARAMAYO, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University (Adams): "Meiotic transvection in fungi: How can a gene be dominant by being absent?" *
• February 17 (Monday) -- 4:00pm in 160 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
  DEBORAH BELL-PEDERSEN, Dartmouth Medical School. "Molecular Analysis of Circadian Rhythms in Neurospora crassa
• February 18-- LYNN BOYD, Colgate University (Riley): "Molecular aspects of cellular polarity in eggs of the nematode C. elegans" *
• February 20 (Thursday) -- 2:30pm in room 025 Biological Sciences Building West
  BENTLEY FANE, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (SGolden): "Microviridae morphogenesis and genome packaging: Genetic and biochemical analyses in a viral system of known atomic structure" *
• February 25 -- DAVID WEISS, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School (jimhu@tamu.edu): "Assembly of a bacterial division septum" *
• February 27 (Thursday) -- 2:30pm in room 025 Biological Sciences Building West
  KOUICHI IWASAKI, University of Washington ( VandenBosch): "Genetics analysis of synaptic transmission and a motor pattern generator in C. elegans" *
• March 3 (Monday) -- 2:30pm in room 025 Biological Sciences Building West
  XIANG YE, Geisinger Clinic, Weis Center for Research (Adams): "How checkpoint controls help the cell cycle clock ticker in Aspergillus nidulans" *
• March 4 -- AMY CSINK, University of Washington (Katz): "Influences of nuclear neighbors and neighborhoods on gene expression"
• March 11 -- Open
• March 18 -- Open
• March 24-25 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  COREY GOODMAN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Kristin Kasschau@bio.tamu.edu)
  Monday, March 24 at 2:00pm in room 301 Rudder Tower
  "Wiring up the Brain: Genetic Analysis of the Mechanisms that Generate Neural Specificity"
  Tuesday, March 25 at 4:00pm in 115 Biological Sciences Building East
  "To Cross or Not to Cross: Genetic Analysis of Axon Guidance at the Midline"
• March 31-April 1 -- Emily and Robert Walker '45 Endowed Lectures in the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  WOODY HASTINGS, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University (Rizzo)
  Monday, March 31 at 2:00pm in room 301 Rudder Tower:
  "The circadian biological clock from man to microorganism"
  Tuesday, April 1 at 4:00pm in 115 BSBE:
  "Molecular and cellular organization of dinoflagellate bioluminescence: A luciferase with three active sites in one molecule"
• April 8 -- ROBERT FLEMING, Department of Biology, University of Rochester (Datta): "Ligand-specific activation of Notch during wing formation in Drosophila melanogaster
• April 15 -- JUDY WILLIS, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia (Bhaskaran): "Insect metamorphosis: challenging paradigms"
• April 18 -- Joint Biology and Chemistry Seminar - 4:00pm, Room 2104 New Chemistry Bldg
  SUSAN LINDQUIST, University of Chicago (Jeffrey Kelly, Chemistry): "Mad cows meet mad yeast: The expansion of the prion hypothesis"
• April 22 -- PAM GREEN, MSU-DOE Plant Research Institute (McKnight):"Determinants of mRNA instability in plants"
• April 29 -- ROBERT LANFORD, Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Foundation of Biomedical Research (Jarvis): "Mechanism of protein primed reverse transcription in hepatitis B virus replication"
• May 6 -- FRED ALT, Blood Research and Genetics, Howard Hughes Childrens Hospital (Manson): "VDJ Recombination and Heavy CHain Class Switching"
• May 13 -- ROBERTO KOLTER, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Siegele): "Survival Strategies: Lessons from the Microbial World"

Last updated 4/17/98