Fall 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 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 Fall 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. If you would like to be added to our weekly seminar e-mail reminder, please send your name and e-mail address to mthomas@bio.tamu.edu.

• September 9 -- HEINZ-PETER NASHEUER, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany (Guarino): "Phosphorylation of DNA Polymerase a-Primase Regulates Initiation of DNA Replication"
• September 16 -- STEVEN BLOCK , Princeton University (Manson): "Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors"
• September 23 -- DEBBY SIEGELE, Department of Biology, Texas A&M S.Golden): ""Entering and exiting stationary phase in E. coli"
• September 29-30 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  JOSÉ ANTONIO CAMPOS-ORTEGA, Univerität zu Köln, Institute für Entwicklungsbiologie (Riley):
  Monday, September 29 at 2:00pm in Room 301 Rudder Tower
  "Mechanisms of a cellular decision in Drosophila: epidermogenesis or neurogenesis"
  Tuesday, September 30 at 4:00pm in 107 Heldenfels
  "Neurogenesis in zebrafish"
• October 7 -- THOMAS ILIFFE, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M-Galveston (Wicksten): "Marine Caves and Cave Biology"
• October 14 -- HELMUT SAUER, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. "From Goethe's metamorphoses to evolutionary genomics: the emerging concept of 'evo - devo'"
• October 23 -- 102 Horticulture and Forest Science Building (HFSB) at 4:00 pm
  ALAN JONES, University of North Carolina (Malcolm Drew): "Differentiation of tracheary elements involves a coordinated, catastrophic, committed event in its cell death program"
  Joint seminar with the Faculty of Plant Physiology
• October 28 -- TIMOTHY BESTOR, Columbia University, Department of Genetics and Development (Hall): "Cytosine methylation and the ecology of intragenomic parasites"
• November 4 -- Joint seminar with the Faculty of Plant Physiology
  JULIAN SCHROEDER , University of California-San Diego, Department of Biology (Thomas): "Guard cell signal transduction and molecular mechanisms of K+ uptake in roots"
• November 11 -- STEVE ELLEDGE, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry (Siegele): "Negative control of cell cycle transitions"
• November 18 -- DAVID W. OWENS, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. "Sea Turtle Reproduction: An Earth Bioassay!"
• November 25 -- JOAN HUBER, North Carolina State University, Department of Horticultural Science (VandenBosch): "Regulation of Nitrate Reductase by Protein Phosphorylation"
• December 2 -- Co-sponsored by PBOFF
  JOHN HAMER, Purdue University (Greg Meyer): "Regulatory networks and fungal pathogenesis: studies in the rice blast pathosystem"

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Plant Physiology/Biotechnology	Spring 1997
PBoFF	Fall 1996
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