Spring 2002 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 twice each year.
Our speakers for the Spring 2002 semester 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 ljean@mail.bio.tamu.edu.
- January 15 -- *
LUIS RENE GARCIA, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology
(Riley): "Regulation and mating behavior
in males and vulva development in hermaphrodites of C. elegans"
- January 22 -- *
CHARLES BAER, Department of Biology, Indiana University (Cassone):
"Quantitative-genetic architecture in life-history in Daphnia: Clonal
selection and inbreeding effects"
- January 29 -- *
JUSTIN KUMAR, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine
(Riley): "Flies, Eyes and the Homeotic
Control of Organogenesis in Drosophila "
- February 5 -- *
JAMES ERICKSON, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University (Cassone):
"Positive and negative regulators in Drosophila sex determination:
Operation of a transcriptional switch"
- February 12 -- *
JUNE KWAK, Division of Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, University
of California at San Diego (McKnight):
"Molecular genetic, functional genomic and cell biological dissection of ABA
signaling in Arabidopsis guard cells"
- February 19 -- *
SCOTT MICHAELS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Bell-Pedersen): "The central role
of Flowering Locus C (FLC) in the regulation of flowering time in Arabidopsis
"
- February 21 (Thursday) -- * 4:00pm in Room 107 Bio/Bio
Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Genetics
RANDALL KERSTETTER, Plant Sciences Institute, Department of Biology, University
of Pennsylvania (McKnight): "KANADI
and the genetic regulation of leaf polarity"
- February 26 --
GUIDO MORA, Department of Microbiology,
Universidad Catolica de Chile (Youderian):
"The OmpD porin is essential for multidrug efflux in Salmonella"
- February 28 (Thursday) -- * 4:00pm in Room 110, Koldus Building
ROBERT LARKIN, Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
(McKnight): "Plastid Signals Regulate
Nuclear Transcription"
- March 5 --
RAE SILVER, Department
of Psychology, Columbia University (Cassone):
"Building a brain clock out of independent oscillators and gatekeepers"
- March 12 -- Spring Break
- March 19 -- NO SEMINAR
- March 26 --
PAUL SHAW, The Neuroscience Institue (Zach
Lewis): "Stress response genes protect against the lethal effects of sleep
deprivation in Drosophila"
- April 2 --
TYRONE HAYES, Department
of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley (MacKenzie):
"One Hundred Eyed Giants, Voiceless Canaries, and Farmer Lubey's Corn:
Amphibians as Bio-Monitors for Endocrine-Disrupting Environmental Contaminants"
- April 9 --
EDUARDO MACAGNO,
Division of Biology, University of California at San Diego (Veronica
Martinez): "Receptor phosphatases and self-avoidance in the regulation
of process outgrowth"
- April 16 -- NO SEMINAR
- April 23 --
DINA MANDOLI,
Department of Botany & Center for Developmental Biology, University of Washington
(Griffing): "Development
of Acetabularia: how a unicell deals with space and time"
- April 30 -- CANCELLED
TARA ROBINSON, Department of Biological
Sciences, Auburn University (Griffing):
"All in the family: Social dynamics of a Neotropical wren"
Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest:
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