- January 14 --
*
WAYNE K. VERSAW, The Samuel Roberts
Noble Foundation, Inc., Plant Biology Division
"Toward an understanding of phosphate transport."
- January 21 --
*
LESLIE S. JONES, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa
(hosted by Larry Griffing)
"If 'nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution,'
how can biological education exist without it? Ten good reasons for
biologists to address the evolution/creation controversy."
- January 28
-- *
DMITRY A. BELOSTOTSKY, Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY at Albany
(hosted by Alan Pepper)
"Tale of tails: network of trans acting factors mediating the function
of messenger RNA poly(A) tails in higher plants."
- February 4
-- *
MICHAEL A. D. GOODISMAN, Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona
"Social evolution in invasive eusocial insects."
- February 11
-- *
ROBERT WAYNE WILLIAMS, Department
of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California
"Small RNA as sequence-specific regulators of gene expression."
- February 18
-- POSTPONED
HEATHER L. TRUE-KROB, The Whitehead Institute, MIT (hosted by Susan
Golden)
"Prions bare all: Proteins that elicit disease or expose diversity."
POSTPONED
- February 25
-- *
VAUGHN S. COOPER, Department
of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of
Michigan
"Evolutionary adaptation in laboratory and pathogenic microbial
populations."
- March 4 --
VOLKER HARTENSTEIN, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental
Biology, UCLA (hosted by Arne Lekven)
"Role of DE-cadherin in Drosophila larval brain morphogenesis."
- March 18 --
ALAN WOLFE, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University
Medical Center (hosted by Debby Siegele)
"To be or not to be a biofilm - the acetyl phosphate story."
- March 25 --
MARK GOMELSKY, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
(hosted by Jin Xiong)
"Lifestyles
of a versatile bacterium: transcriptome changes and switching mechanisms
in Rhodobacter sphaeroides."
- April 1 --
HELMUT
SAUER, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
"Happy Days with Physarum - Some Studies on a Model System"
- April 8 --
ROBERT B. GOLDBERG, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental
Biology, UCLA (hosted by Tim Hall)
"Using Genomics to Dissect Plant Embryo Development."
- April 15 --
CHUNG-I WU, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago
(hosted by Jin Xiong)
"Molecular and Population Genetics of Speciation."
- April 28 --
Koldus 111; 2:00 PM
CLIFTON BARRY, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
(hosted by Mike Manson) "Determinants of virulence
in Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
- April 29 --
PAUL TAGHERT, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University
(hosted by Zoran and Earnest)
"Mechanisms of Circadian Output in Drosophila."
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