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Spring 2006 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 4:00 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 the Spring 2006 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.


  • January 24 --
    BILL CRESKO, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon (hosted by Adam Jones)
    "Evolution of bone development in Alaskan threespine stickleback"

  • January 31 --
    No Seminar


  • February 7 --
    JIM FADOOL, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University (hosted by Brian Perkins)
    "From Flies to Fishes: Mosaic Patterns and Photoreceptor Cells"

  • February 14 --
    MICHAEL MENAKER, Department of Biology, University of Virginia (hosted by Paul Bartell)
    "Vertebrate Circadian Organization: No Simple Hierarchies"

  • February 21 --
    ANDY CLARK, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University (hosted by Ginger Carney)
    "Genetic variation in innate immunity"

  • February 28 --
    YI WEI JIANG, Department of Medical Biochemistry & Genetics, Texas A&M University (hosted by Vincent Cassone)
    "Two Tales of "Innate Immunity": Ty1 Pseudo-cosuppression in Yeast & The BT Cationic Peptides in Animals"

  • March 7 --
    KETEMA PAUL, Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University (hosted by Vincent Cassone)
    "Sleep-Wake Architecture Exhibits a Genetic Relationship to Daily Fluctuations of Locomotor Activity"

  • March 14 --
    SPRING BREAK

  • March 21 --
    ANTONIETTA QUIGG, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University Galveston (hosted by Susan Golden)
    "Elemental signatures: Linking evolutionary forces and ecological success."

  • March 28-29 -- Frontiers Speaker
    SEAN CARROLL, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (hosted by Arne Lekven)
    Tuesday March 28, 4 pm BSBE 115
    "Endless Forms Most Beautiful : The New Science of Evo Devo"
    Wednesday March 29, 3:30 pm BSBE 115
    "Endless Flies Most Beautiful: The Role of Cis-Regulatory Evolution in the Origin of Novelty and Diversity"

  • April 4 --
    JON KEELEY, Western Ecology Research Center (hosted by Mike Smotherman)
    "Fire as an Ecosystem Process: Past, Present and Future"

  • April 11 --
    WILLIAM MARGOLIN, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center  Houston (hosted by Jim Golden)
    "Splitsville: What does it take to divide a bacterial cell?"

  • April 18--
    No Seminar

  • April 25 --
    IAN RUSSELL, Psychiatry And Behavioral Science, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center (hosted by Bruce Riley)
    "The rabbit duplex visual system: a model system for functional brain imaging"

Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest:
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences
Neuroscience
Reproductive Physiology
Entomology
TAMU Distinguished Lectures

Oceanography
Genetics
Previous Biology Seminars
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