- January 27 --
VINCENT M. CASSONE, Department
of Biology, Texas A&M University:
"Do straw men evolve from red herrings?: Why "Intelligent
Design" is not so intelligent."
- February 3
--
MOHAMED A. F. NOOR, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State
University (hosted by Ira Greenbaum):
"What causes speciation? Case studies in Drosophila."
- February 10
-- COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY SEARCH SYMPOSIUM - Rudder 302
3:00pm Aviv Bergman, Center for Computational
Genetics and Biological Modeling, Stanford University
"Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Robustness in Complex
Gene Networks"
4:15pm Julia Krushkal, Department
of Preventive Medicine and Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University
of Tennessee Health Science Center
"Computational analysis of bacterial, viral, and human genome data"
5:30pm Brian Leung, Department of
Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
"Biological Invasions: Risk and Action"
7:45pm
Stephen Proulx, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, University of Oregon
"The Evolution of Genome Complexity: The Rise and Proliferation
of Genetic Interactions"
- February 17
--
ED GINIGER, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle,
Washington (hosted by Suma Datta):
"Walking the tightrope: how a balance of forces keeps an axon growing
on track."
- February 19
-- COMPUTATION BIOLOGY SEARCH SEMINAR -- Thursday, Rudder 302
3:00 Ronald Adkins, Children's Foundation
Research Center & Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University
of Tennessee-Memphis
"Bioinformatic Analysis of the Human Growth Hormone Locus and Adverse
Pregnancy Outcomes"
4:15 Eric Gaucher, Foundation for Applied
Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Florida
"Computational and experimental paleogenomics as a tool for basic
and applied molecular evolution."
- February 24
--
TOM JUENGER, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas - Austin
(hosted by Tom McKnight):
"The evolutionary genetics of drought adaptation in Arabidopsis"
- March 2 --
CARLA GREEN, Department of Biology, University of Virginia (hosted
by Vincent Cassone):
"Keeping Time in the Vertebrate Retina "
- March 9 --
JEFF MILLER, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University
of Minnesota (hosted by Arne Lekven):
"Role of Ena/Vasp proteins in Neural & Mesodermal Morphogenesis"
- March 23 --
JOHN CHANG, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta,
CANADA (hosted by Duncan MacKenzie):
"Neuroendocrine regulation of growth hormone release in goldfish."
- March 29 --
FRONTIERS SEMINAR SERIES
BONNIE L. BASSLER, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton
University (hosted by Jim Golden):
"Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria"
- March 30 --
BONNIE L. BASSLER, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton
University (hosted by Jim Golden):
"Eating Their Words: AI-2-Dependent Cell-to-Cell Communication in Enteric
Bacteria"
- April 6 --
DENNIS BRAY, MRC Research Fellow, Department of Anatomy (hosted
by Mike Manson):
"Signaling in a Molecular Jungle - Insights from
Bacterial Chemotaxis"
- April 13 --
JANET RICHMOND, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois
at Chicago (hosted by Mark Zoran):
"Molecular Mechanisms of Docking & Priming in Exocytosis"
- April 20 --
CORAN WATANABE,
Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University (hosted by Susan
Golden):
"From Nature to Medicine: Natural Product Discovery, Mode of Action & Evolution"
- April 27 --
JOHN WINGFIELD, Department of Biology, University of Washington (hosted
by Vinod Kumar):
"Photoperiodic Control of Seasonality in Birds"
- May 4 --
JERRY TSAI, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas
A&M University (hosted by Arne Lekven):
"Informatics Studies of Protein Tertiary and Quaternary Interactions"
SPECIAL SEMINAR
- May 7, 12:00 pm BSBW 025 --
Dr. B. TREVOR SEWELL, Director, Electron Microscopy Unit, University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa(hosted by Michael Benedik):
"Microbial cyanide degrading nitrilases are self-terminating, homo-oligomeric spirals"
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