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Spring 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 Spring 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.


  • January 25 --
    SCOTT EMMONS, Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (hosted by Rene Garcia)
    "Development of the Sexes-Male Differentiation and Behavior in C. elegans"

  • February 1 --
    ROGER LEW, Biology Department, York University (hosted by Wayne Versaw)
    "Currents and tip growth: The role of ions in morphogenesis of walled cells."

  • February 8 --
    DARRELL JACKSON, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana-Missoula (hosted by Vincent Cassone)
    "Transient hypoxia induces internalization and down-regulation of neuronal muscarinic acetylcholine receptors."

  • February 15 --
    TBA (hosted by Deborah Bell-Pedersen)


  • February 22 --
    IGOR ZHULIN, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology (hosted by Susan Golden)
    "Testing the limits of computational genomics: from high-throughput to high resolution."

  • March 1 --
    BARRY L. WANNER, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University (hosted by Rudolfo Aramayo)
    "Single-cell profiling reveals stochastic changes in gene expression in the PhoR/PhoB two-component regulatory system."

  • March 8 --
    MARIANA WOLFNER, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University (hosted by Ginger Carney)
    "Seminal influences: how proteins donated by males during mating affect females - a genetic/genomic analysis in Drosophila."

  • March 22 --
    RANDALL MOON, HHMI/ Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington (hosted by Arne Lekven)
    "Wnt signaling in development and disease."

  • March 29 --
    JOE BESHARSE, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin (hosted by Brian Perkins)
    "Photoreceptors as Sensory Cilia: Intraflagellar Transport is Essential for Assembly of the Phototransduction System."

  • April 5 --
    DAVID STOCK, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado (hosted by Bruce Riley)
    "Tooth Loss and the Drunkard's Walk: Developmental Genetic Mechanisms of Dental Evolution in Teleost Fishes"

  • April 12 --
    ROY MAGNUSON, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville (hosted by Mike Manson)
    "Modular Structure and Evolution of a Self-Selecting Genetic Parasite."s

  • April 19 --
    KENT GOLIC, Department of Biology, University of Utah (hosted by Keith Maggert)
    "The Drosophila telomere: a bipartite structure that is epigenetically determined."
  • April 26 --
    RICHARD DORSKY, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine (hosted by Arne Lekven)
    "Wnt function in the developing zebrafish nervous system"


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
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