Spring 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 Spring 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 mthomas@bio.tamu.edu.

• January 21 (Wednesday)-- 4:00 p.m. in 108 Bio/Bio; Co-sponsored by Biochemistry/Biophysics
  RICHARD COGDELL, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow (SGolden): "Structure of light harvesting complexes"
• January 27 -- PETER THOMAS, University of Texas Marine Science Institute (Port Aransas) (MacKenzie): "Mechanisms of chemical interference with reproductive endocrine function in teleost fishes"
• February 3 -- LAURENCE ETKIN, Department of Molecular Genetics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Sauer): "RNA localization during oogenesis and its role in the specification of cell lineages"
• February 10 -- DAVID MANGELSDORF, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Bhaskaran): "LXR, the foie gras of nuclear receptors"
• February 17 -- BILL KLEIN, Department of Molecular Genetics, M.D. Anderson Center (Thomas): "Brn-3 Pou Domain Transcription Factors and Sensory Neuron Development"
• February 24 -- Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Plant Physiology
  NANCY PAIVA, Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma (Nessler): "Phytoalexin Biosynthesis in Alfalfa"
• February 26 (Thursday) -- 4:00 p.m. in Room 102, Horticulture and Forest Science Building
  Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Plant Physiology
  DAN COSGROVE, Department of Biology, Penn State. "Cell wall loosening by expansins: Roles in growth, pollen tube penetration and other aspects of plant development".
• March 3 -- MALCOLM WINKLER, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston (Siegele): "Metabolic Crosstalk, Pathway Evolution, and Genetic Control of Pyridoxal 5'-Phosphate (Vitamin B6) Coenzyme Biosynthesis in an E. coli Model System.
• March 10 -- JUDITH EISEN, Department of Biology, University of Oregon (Riley): "Neuronal Development in Embyonic Zebrafish"
• March 11 -- 4:00 p.m. in 113 Peterson
  JAROSLAV DOLEZEL, Head, Olomouc Research Center, Olomouc, Czech Republic. "Plant genome analysis and chromosome sorting by flow cytometry"
  Co-sponsored by the Departments of Biology and Horticulture and the Intercollegiate Faculty of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology
• March 24-- HAGAN BAYLEY, Professor and Head, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M University (Katz): "Triggers and Switches in a Pore-Forming Protein"
• March 31 -- JERRY WORKMAN, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University (Guofu Li): "Spts, Adas, GCN5 and SWI/SNF: Multiprotein complexes that regulate transcription by modifying chromatin structure"
• April 6-7 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  MARV WICKENS and JUDITH KIMBLE, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Monday, April 6 at 2:00pm in 301 Rudder
  "Signal transduction, growth control and the decision between mitosis and meiosis in C. elegans
  Tuesday, April 7 at 4:00pm in 115 BSBE
  "3' UTRs and development"
• April 14 -- Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Neuroscience
  SUE McCONNELL, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University (Datta): "Asymmetric divisions and the determination of neuronal fates in developing brain"
• April 22 (Wednesday) -- 4:00 p.m. in 108 Bio/Bio; Co-sponsored by Biochemistry/Biophysics
  DAVID KNAFF, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University (S.Golden): "The Role of Ferredoxin and Thioredoxin in Chloroplast Metabolism"
• April 28 -- MARGARET "MINX" FULLER, Stanford University School of Medicine (Katz): "Coordinate Developmental Control of Meiotic Cell Cycle Progression and Spermatid Differentiation"
• May 5 -- in BSBW 025
  RICHARD THOMPSON, Max Planck Institute, Koln, Germany (Thomas): "Domain-specific Regulation of Endosperm Gene Expression in Maize"
• May 6 -- in BSBW 025
  PETER FACCHINI, Department of Biology, University of Calgary (Nessler): "Regulation and Subcellular Localization of Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Opium Poppy: Prospects for Metabolic Engineering of Plants"

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