Fall 1996 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. Speakers for the Fall 1996 semester are listed below (host's name
in parentheses).
- September 3 -- THOMAS SEEBECK, Bern, Switzerland (Manson):
"Signal transduction in Trypanosoma bucei"
- September 10 -- VINCENT CASSONE,
Department of Biology, Texas A&M: "Time's arrow flies like a bird"
- September 16 -- Frontiers in Biology Seminar Series: BRIAN
STASKAWICZ, University of California-Berkeley (Carrington):
"Evolving concepts in plant-pathogen interactions". 2:00pm, 301
Rudder Tower
- September 17 -- Frontiers in Biology Seminar Series:
BRIAN
STASKAWICZ, University of California-Berkeley (Carrington):"Signal
transduction events specifying plant disease resistance", 4:00pm,
115 Biological Sciences Bldg. East
- September 24 -- MARK ZORAN,
Department of Biology, Texas A&M: "Synaptic specificity and mechanisms
of synapse formation: Studies of identified neurons in cell culture"
- September 27 (canceled) -- SUSAN LINDQUIST, University of Chicago
(J. Kelly): "Mad cows meet mad yeast: The expansion of the Prion Hypothesis".
* Joint seminar sponsored by the Departments of Biology and Chemistry
*
- October 1 -- ALAN WOLFFE, National
Institute of Child and Health Development (Guofu Li/Hall): "Regulatory
roles for chromatin"
- October 8 -- DAVID HERRIN,
University of Texas (S. Golden):Chlamydomonas clock
- October 15 -- MARY WICKSTEN,
Department of Biology, Texas A&M: "Cleaning behavior in two oceans"
- October 22 -- MARY SCHAAD, Carrington
Laboratory, Department of Biology, Texas A&M: "Plant Virus Replication:
Sitting on the Dock of 6K"
- October 29 -- MARY SHANNON MOORE,
Baylor College of Medicine (Jarvis): "The mechanism of nuclear protein
import"
- November 5 -- TOM WILKIE,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Adams): "G Protein
Signaling in Mouse Embryogenesis: Genetics and Biochemistry"
- November 12 -- ROB FERL,
University of Florida (Hall): "Brain Proteins in Plants - from chromatin structure to signal
transduction" * Joint seminar
sponsored by the Department of Biology and the Faculty of Plant Physiology*
- November 17 -- DARRYL
KROPF, University of Utah (Sauer): "Polarity establishment in
plant zygotes"
- November 26 -- JOHN ROSE,
Yale University School of Medicine (Manson): "Envelope assembly and
targeting of recombinant RNA viruses"
- December 3 -- MARIA HARRISON, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
(VandenBosch): "Vesicular-arbuscular Mycorrhizae: Molecular and genetic
approaches to analyze the symbiosis"
- December 10 -- JIM IMLAY,
University of Illinois (Siegele): "Molecular explanations for the
toxicity of oxygen"
Seminars:
Dept of Biochemistry/Biophysics| Seminars:
Plant Physiology/Biotechnology
Last updated 11/4/96