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 this 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 29 --
  Carl Thummel, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah (hosted by Ginger Carney)
  "Regulation of metabolism by nuclear receptors in Drosophila "
  
  

• February 5 --
  David Featherstone, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (hosted by Mark Zoran)
  "Molecular mechanisms controlling  glutamatergic synapse strength and fly sex"
  
  
• February 12 --
  Gerald S. Wilkinson, Department of Biology, Univeristy of Maryland (hosted by Adam Jones)
  "Sexual selection, genomic conflict and speciation in stalk-eyed flies"
  
  
• February 19 --
  Bill Kelly, (hosted by Rodolfo Aramayo)
  "Epigenetic Regulation of the X Chromosome in C. elegans"
  
  
• February 26 --
  Lawrence Griffing, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (hosted by Thierry Lints)
  "And a river runs though it: Moving and shaping the endoplasmic reticulum of plant cells."
  
  
• March 5 --
  Mike Blatt, Co-sponsored by MEPS (hosted by Lawrence Griffing)
  
  
  
• March 11 --
  SPRING BREAK
  
  
• March 18 --
  Norm Stacey, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta (hosted by Duncan MacKenzie)
  "Hormonally-Derived Sex Pheromones in Fish: Phylogenetic Patterns from Olfactory Studies"
  
  
• March 25 --
  Haiyang Wang, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University (hosted by Hongmin Qin)
  "Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of light signaling in Arabidopsis"
  
  
• April 1 --
  Guillermina Alcaraz (hosted by Gil Rosenthal)
  
  
  
• April 8 --
  Kenneth G. Miller, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (hosted by Rene Garcia)
  "Lighting a Path to the Synapse: Forward Genetic Approaches to Understanding how Synaptic Signaling Pathways Animate Animals"
  
  
  
• April 15 --
  Rama Ranganathan (hosted by Susan Golden)
  "The Evolutionary Design of Proteins"
  
  
• April 22 --
  John Sisson (hosted by Keith Maggert)
  "The Role of Drosophila Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in Embryonic Morphogenesis"
  

Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest: