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Fall 2005 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 2005 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 6 --
    PAT PATTERSON, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (hosted by Tom McKnight)
    "Spaceflight, Oil Spills, and Cognitive Transitions"

  • September 13 --
    ALEJANDRO ROONEY, United States Department of Agriculture (hosted by Rodney Honeycutt)
    "Sex and the Single Cell: Birth-and-Death Evolution in Microbial Genomes"

  • September 20 --
    WILL HEYMAN , Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University (hosted by Alan Pepper)
    "Get to the Point: Multi-Species Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations as Marine Oases "

  • September 27 --
    ANTONIETTA QUIGG, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston (hosted by Susan Golden)


  • October 4 --
    CHRIS CRETEKOS, Department of Molecular Genetics, U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute(hosted by Bruce Riley)
    "Genetic Mechanisms of Divergent Limb Morphogenesis Between Bats and Mice"

  • October 11 --
    THOMAS WOOD (hosted by Vincent Cassone)
    "Engineered Oxygenases for Remediation and Green Chemistry and Discovering Biofilm Genes and Biofilm Inhibitors"

  • October 18 --
    MICHAEL GRANATO, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvannia School of Medicine (hosted by Brian Perkins)
    "Axon guidance and behavioral plasticity in zebrafish"

  • October 25 --
    MICHAEL TRAVISANO, Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston (hosted by Deborah Siegele)
    "Experimental Tests of Adaptive Radiation in Microbes"

  • October 31 --
    TIM HALL, (hosted by Keith Maggert)
    "Rice transformation: New hOryzans for gene expression"

  • November 8 --
    AJAY CHITNIS, Vertebrate Neural Development Unit, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics (hosted by Arne Lekven)
    "From cell-cell interactions to cell biology - the role of Notch and Mib in zebrafish early neurogenesis"

  • November 15 --
    SUSAN FORSBURG, (hosted by Keith Maggert)
    "Replication, recombination, and genome integrity in fission yeast"

  • November 29 --
    ERIC BAEHRECKE, Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Inst. (hosted by Ginger Carney)
    "Genetic regulation of programmed cell death during development"


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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