Fall 1998 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 1998 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 ddouglas@bio.tamu.edu. Click here for a taste of our Spring 99 seminar schedule.

• September 8 -- CLAY FUQUA, Department of Biology, Trinity University (Siegele): "Crowd control of gram-negative bacteria: Regulation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid conjugal transfer"
• September 15 -- THOMAS VIDA, Department of Integrative Biology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Griffing): "Intercompartmental traffic to the vacuole (lysosome) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
• September 22 -- JOHN LA CLAIRE, Department of Botany, University of Texas (Rizzo): "Novel plasmid-like DNA from giant-celled green algae"
• September 29 -- MARIAPPAN MUTHUCHAMY, Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Bhaskaran): "Remodeling of the contractile apparatus in the mammalian heart: A transgenic approach"
• October 6 -- FRANK GERTLER, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Katz): "The role of Ena/VASP family proteins in actin dymanics and development"
• October 12-14 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  TON BISSELING, Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan Wageningen Netherlands (VandenBosch):
  Monday, October 12 at 2:00pm in Recreation Sports Center room 281
  "The phylogeny of nodulation: A comparison of legume nodulation and common plant development"
  Tuesday, October 13 at 4:00pm in 115 BSBE
  "Microspectroscopic approaches to studying nod factor signalling in living root cells"
• October 20 -- DAVID BLAIR, Biology Department, University of Utah (Manson): "Driving with protons: Mutational and structural studies of the bacterial rotary motor"
• October 27 -- Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Plant Physiology
  ANDREW HANSON, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida (Nessler): "Metabolic engineering of choline and glycine betaine synthesis: First steps"
• November 2-3 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  JEFF HALL, Department of Biology, Brandeis University (Skoulakis):
  Monday, November 2 at 2:00pm in 301 Rudder
  "Molecular neurogenetics of rhythms in Drosophila: The midst of the fly's circadian system and outward"
  Tuesday, November 3 at 4:00pm in 115 BSBE
  "Special topic for the rhythm system of Drosophila: Inward to the clock from environmental signals"
• November 10 -- CLAUDIA MILLS (Wicksten): "Jellyfish as plankton predators in changing oceans: Tales from the past, present and future"
• November 17 -- ALAN LAMBOWITZ (Bell-Pedersen): "Group II intron mobility via reverse splicing into DNA: Mechanism and practical applications"
• December 1 -- STEVE OSMANI, Weis Center for Research, Penn State Geisinger Health Center (Greg Meyer)

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