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Fall 2004 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 4:00 p.m. 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 1-2 times each year.

Speakers for the Fall 2004 semester, including the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series are listed below. 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 Lieu Jean at ljean@mail.bio.tamu.edu.


  • September 7 --
    Wenyuan Shi (J. Golden), UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA:
    "Social behavior and programmed cell death of Myxococcus xanthus"

  • September 14 --
    Bruce Riley (Arne Lekven), Department of Biology, Texas A&M University:
    "Evo-Devo: Rethinking Darwin, Intelligent Design, and the Origins of Complexity."

  • September 21 --
    Jim Karam (Ry Young), Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center:
    "Diversity of structure and regulation of DNA polymerase of the T4-like phages"

  • September 28 --
    Michael Freitag (Deb Bell-Pedersen), Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon , Department:
    "Control of DNA methylation and heterochromatin formation in Neurospora"

  • October 5 --
    Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz (Deb Bell-Pedersen), Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University:
    "Plasmodesmata trafficking: How one virus opens the gates."

  • October 12 --
    David Grunwald (Bruce Riley), University of Utah, Department of Human Genetics:
    "Assigning Cell Fate to Regions of the Early Vertebrate Embryo: A Network of T-box Genes Creates Distinct Regions in the Zebrafish Mesoderm"

  • October 19 --
    Katherine Osteryoung (Andreas Holzenburg), Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University:
    "Composition and Functional Analysis of the Chloroplast Division Machinery in Plants"

  • October 26 -- NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED

  • November 2 --
    Nadeem Moghul (Rene Garcia), University of Utah:
    "Regulation of cell fate determination by growth factors in C. elegans"

  • November 9 --
    Dr. Susan Golden, Ethyl Ashworth Tsutsui Memorial Lecture hosted by WISE.
    "Meshing the gears of the cyanobacterial circadian clock"

  • November 16 --
    Mary Mendonca (Duncan MacKenzie) Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University:
    "Sex, bats, and video tape: proximate mechanisms controlling mating behavior in big brown bats"

  • November 23 --
    Sherryl Bisgrove ( ) Department of Biology, University of Utah:
    "Microtubule regulation and plant development."

  • November 30 --
    Mary-Ellen Lane (Arne Lekven), Rice University:
    "Zebrafish LIM-domain proteins in eye and brain development"

  • December 6 -- FRONTIERS SEMINAR
    Jim Hudspeth ( Mike Manson), HHMI Investigator, F.M. Kirby Professor, The Rockefeller University:


Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest:
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences
Neuroscience
Reproductive Physiology
Entomology
TAMU Distinguished Lectures
Oceanography
Genetics
Previous Biology Seminars
BIOL 682 - Graduate Seminars

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