Spring 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.

Speakers for the Spring 1999 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.

• January 26 -- JOHN BATTISTA, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University (S. Golden): "Putting together the pieces of a shattered existence: Deinococcus radiodurans' response to ionizing radiation"
• February 2 -- MICHAEL MANSON, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. "Over the Membrane and Through the Cell: Chemotactic Signaling"
• February 8 (Monday) -- 4:00pm in 403 Bio/Bio
  SANDRA BALDAUF, Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Bill Park): "Twigging the Tree of Life: Evolution of the Protein Synthesis GTPases and the Systematics of Higher Eukaryotes"
• February 9 -- ROBERT LAST, Cereon Genomics (McKnight): "Genetic approaches to understanding stress adaptation in Arabidopsis"
• February 22 (Monday) -- 2:00pm in BSBW 025
  CRAIG BLOCH, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School (Siegele): "Second-generation Genomics: Exploring E. coli Diversity"
• February 23 -- KWANG WOOK CHOI, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (Skoulakis): "Fringe/Notch signaling in Drosophila eye development"
• February 26 (Friday) -- 3:00pm in BSBW 025
  ROLF PRADE, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University (Aramayo): "Fungal Genomics in Aspergillus nidulans"
• March 1-2 -- Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  MARTIN HEISENBERG, Theodor-Boveri-Institut fuer Biowissenschaften, Lehrstuh fuer Genetik (Sauer)
  Monday, March 1 at 2:00pm in Rudder 301
  "Flies, brains and the biological origin of the mind"
  Tuesday, March 2 at 4:00pm in BSBE 115
  "Pattern recognition with stabilized eyes: Genetic approach to Drosophila brain function
• March 8 (Monday) -- 2:00pm in BSBW 025
  JOHN LOGSDON, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (J. Golden): "Sex, Lies and Introns: Early Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes"
• March 9 -- JENNIFER LOROS, Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School (Bell-Pedersen): "Time at the end of the millenium: The Biological Clock"
• March 22 (Monday) -- 12:00pm in BSBW 025
  KURT WOLLENBERG, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University (Thomas): "Evolution of the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH)/PAS family of transcription factor proteins: What statistics and information theory can tell us"
• March 22 (Monday) -- to be rescheduled
  TRACY FEREA, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine. "Functional Genomics and Expression Profiling in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Focusing on the Dissection of Metabolic Regulatory Networks"
• March 23 -- THERESA KOEHLER, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Texas - Houston Medical School, Houston, TX (Siegele): "Virulence gene regulation in the anthrax microbe"
• March 30 -- EUGENE KOONIN, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health (Lakshmi Iyer): "Evolutionary Genomics - Astonishing Complexity and Emerging Understanding"
• April 6 -- 12:00pm in BSBW 025
  BELINDA SIEW-WOON CHANG, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (Aramayo): "Comparative functional genomics: an evolutionary approach to molecular structure-function studies of the visual system"
• April 6 -- BERND BUKAU, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany (Manson): "Role of molecular chaperones in protein folding in the E. coli cytosol"
• April 13 -- JOHN KUZIO, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH (Manhart): "On Being Bio-Logical"
• April 19-20 -- Emily and Robert Walker '45 Endowed Lectures in the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
  MASAKAZU "MARK" KONISHI, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology (Manson).
  Monday, April 19 at 4:00pm in Rudder 601
  "Brain Mechanisms of Sound Localization in Owls"
  Tuesday, April 20 at 4:00pm in BSBE 115
  "Recent Advances in Birdsong Research"
• May 4 -- DENNIS McKEARIN, Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Datta)

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