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 20 --
  TBA
  

• January 27 --
  Jennifer Gleason, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas (hosted by Ginger Carney)
  "The Genetics and Evolution of Drosophila Courtship Signaling Traits"
  
  
• February 3 --
  Jim Amatruda, Department of Pediatrics: Hematology-Oncology Division, UT Southwestern Medical Center(hosted by BGSA)
  "Germ Cells in Development and Disease"
  
  
• February 10 --
  Kami Ahmad, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School (hosted by Keith Maggert)
  "Nucleosome dynamics in Drosophila"
  
  
• February 17 --
  Larry Zwiebel, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University (hosted by Paul Hardin)
  "The Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Neurobiology of Olfaction in Disease Vector Mosquitoes: “The Search for 21st Century Insect Repellents""
  
  
• February 24 --
  Tom Bernhardt, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School(hosted by Deborah Siegele)
  "Bacterial cell division and daughter cell separation anxiety."
  
  
• March 3 --
  Shawn Xu, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan (hosted by Rene Garcia)
  "Eyeless but not blind: light-sensitive neurons and channels mediate phototaxis in C. elegans."
  
  
• March 10 --
  William Klein, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, U.T. M .D. Anderson Cancer Center (hosted by Terry Thomas)
  "A gene regulatory network regulating retinal ganglion cell development and optic nerve formation"
  
  
• March 17 --
  Spring Break
  
  
  
• March 24 --
  Christopher Thorpe, Division of Biology, Kansas State University (hosted by Arne Lekven)
  "A tale of two tails: Multiple signaling pathways regulate cell adhesion and morphogenesis in the zebrafish tail"
  
  
• March 31 --
  J. Andrew Alspaugh, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center (hosted by Xiaorong Lin)
  "Stress" response in a human fungal pathogen -- how to survive within an infected host
  
  
• April 7 --
  Hua Lu, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County (hosted by Thomas McKnight)
  "Genetic dissection of the defense signaling networks in Arabidopsis"
  
  
• April 14 --
  Wallace Marshall, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco (hosted by Hongmin Qin)
  "The flagellar length control system"
  
  
  
• April 21
  William Skach, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University (hosted by Matt Sachs)
  "Spectroscopic Analysis of Nascent Protein Folding on the Ribosome"
  
  
  
• April 28
  TBA
  
  

Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest: