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Spring 2007 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 2007 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 16 --
    Gary Gorbsky, Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma (hosted by the Undergraduate Cell and Molecular Biology Association of Texas A&M University (CMBA))
    "Backpedaling the cell division cycle, the reversibility of mitosis and cytokinesis."

  • January 23 --
    Julia Kubanek, Department of Biology, Georgia Tech (hosted by Ginger Carney)
    "Chemical cues in the ocean: the role of red tide toxins in food webs"

  • January 30 --
    SEMINAR CANCELLED

  • February 6 --
    Maureen Barr, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin (hosted by Hongmin Qin)
    "Sensation, Cilia, and Cystic Kidney Disease"

  • February 13 --
    Reinhard Burger, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna (hosted by Adam Jones)

    "On the conditions for speciation through intraspecific competition"

  • February 20 --
    SEMINAR CANCELLED

  • February 27 --
    Toto Olivera, Department of Biology, University of Utah (hosted by Thierry Lints)
    "Venomous Cone Snails, Ion Channels and Receptors"

  • March 6 --
    Mike Iuvone, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University (hosted by Vincent Cassone)
    "Neuromodulators and circadian clocks in retina"

  • March 20 --
    Hopi Hoekstra, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego (hosted by Gil Rosenthal)
    "The genetics of adaptation: from mice to molecules"

  • March 27-28 --
    Frontiers Seminar - Cynthia Kenyon, Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco (hosted by Ginger Carney)


  • April 3 --
    Martin Wikelski, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univeristy (hosted by Paul Bartell)
    The physiology of life histories - why tropical birds live a slow pace of life

  • April 10 --
    Tom Clandinin, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford School of Medicine (hosted by Rene Garcia)
    "Toward a genetic dissection of visual behavior in the fruit fly"

  • April 17--
    Lila Solnica-Krezel, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University (hosted by Arne Lekven)
    "Genetic Regulation of Gastrulation Movements in Zebrafish"
  • April 24--
    Stephen Osmani, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University (hosted by Rodolfo Aramayo)
    "Mitotic regulation of nuclear structure in Aspergillus nidulans"

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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