Fall 1999 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. Our site also contains readings for the undergraduate (BIOL 481) and graduate (BIOL 681) colloquia that include the seminars below.

Speakers for the Fall 1999 semester, including the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series, will be posted mid-late August. 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 ddouglas@mail.bio.tamu.edu.

• August 31 --
  CRAIG NESSLER, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (Griffing): "Poppies aren't dopes: How opium helps poppies cope with stress"
• September 7 --
  RICHARD GOMER, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rice University (Manson): "Simple mechanisms for cell-type differentiation and cell-number counting"
• September 14 --
  ARTHUR E. JOHNSON, Wehner-Welch Chair, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center. (Griffing): "Protein Translocation across and Integration into the ER Membrane"
• September 21 --
  PUDUR JAGADEESWARAN, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. (Riley): "Genetics of hemostasis in zebrafish"
• September 28 --
  MATTHEW SACHS, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science (Bell-Pedersen): "The evolutionarily conserved arginine attenuator peptide regulates the movement of ribosomes that have translated it"
• October 5 --
  ALISON CROWE, Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati (Hall): "Replication - dependent activation of the Alpha-fetoprotein gene in synthetic nuclei"
• October 18 (Monday) -- 4:00pm in Rudder 302
  TRACY FEREA, Stanford University (Siegele): "Functional Genomics and Expression Profiling in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
• October 20 (Wednesday) -- 2:00pm in 111 Koldus
  ANDREAS HOLZENBURG, University of Leeds (Thomas): "Bridging the Gap: Electron Crystallography in Structural Molecular Biology" (click here for a PDF version of his CV)
• November 2 --
  KATHLEEN BECKINGHAM, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University (Skoulakis): "Unravelling calmodulin function in vivo by a genetic approach"
• November 9 --
  THOMAS J. DEWITT, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University (Greenbaum): "Evolutionary genetics of predator-prey interactions among common aquatic organisms"
• November 16 --
  DENNIS McKEARIN, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Datta): "Drosophila proteins that regulate asymmetric divisions of germline stem cells"
• November 23 --
  RICH STOUT, Department of Plant Sciences, Montana State University (Griffing): "Some Like it Hot: Plants living in the geothermally - heated environments of Yellowstone"
• November 30 --
  LARRY FOWKE, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan (Griffing): "Exploring plant cell division"
• December 7 --
  HELMUT SAUER, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (Griffing): "Spemann's Organizer: 75 years of embryonic induction"

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