Where:
All seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in room LS 124 of the Life Science Building, unless otherwise advertised.
February 2008
February 7th
Speaker:
Dr. David Hillis
Affiliation: UT Austin
Title: Sex and the Single Rotifer (and Other Tales of Sexual
Intrigue)
Hosts: Thomas Eimermacher
February 14th
Speaker:
Dr. Phil Hartman
Affiliation: TCU
Title: Thirty years of worm tales: DNA repair, radiation
biology, oxidative stress and a whole lot more.
Hosts: Andre Pires da Silva and Sonya
February 21st
Speaker Dr. Harmit Malik
Affiliation: Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
Title: Genetic conflict: the usual suspects and beyond
Hosts: John Pace and Cedric Feschotte
February 28th
Speaker:
Dr. John Schetz
Affiliation: UNT Health Sciences
Title: Clean tech solutions for thwarting macrofouler
attachment to submerged substrates
Host: Robert McMahon
January 17th
Speaker: Dr. Warren Burggren
Affiliation: UNT Denton
Title: How Developing Animals Ignore Physiological Dogma
Hosts: Matt Watson
January 24th
Speaker: Dr. Butch Brodie III
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Title: Time to change the channel: Predator-prey arms races
and the evolution of tetrodotoxin resistance in garter
snakes
Hosts: Corey Roelke and Jonathan Campbell
January 31st
Speaker: Dr. Frank Jenkins
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Title: Virology and Cancer: An Overview of Genetic and
Immunologic Interations
Special Psychology Seminar
Room Life Science 122
April 2008
April 3rd
Speaker:
Dr. Pawel Michalak
Affiliation: UTA(Biology)
Title: Meanders of speciation genetics
April 4th Friday
3pm in Room 118 Life Science
Speaker:
Dr. Scott Boback
Affiliation: Dickinson College
Title: Body size evolution in snakes: patterns and
tests
April 10th
Speaker:
Dr. Bryan Brooks
Affiliation: Baylor University
Title: Environmental Toxicology of Emerging Aquatic
Contaminants in Efluent-dominated Ecosystems
Hosts: Jim Grover and Betty
April 17th
Speaker:
Dr. Stephen Wooding
Affiliation: UT Southwestern
Title: Ecology and evolution of bitter-taste receptor genes
in primates
Host: Cedric Feschotte
April 24th
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Stevens
Affiliation: UNT Denton
Title: How do wetland plants survive in
wetlands; the role of anatomical and morphological responses
and symbiotic associations
Host: Laura Gough
March 6th
Speaker:
Dr. Faroq Azam
Affiliation: Scripps Institute/UCSD
Title: Mechanisms in Microbial Structuring of Marine
Ecosystems
Host: Laura Mydlarz and Miranda Newberry
March 13th
Speaker:
Dr. Nancy Craig
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins/HHMI
Title: Tales of Transposons
Host: Ellen Pritham and Maggie Bejm
March 20th
Spring Break - no seminar
March 27th
Speaker: Dr. Michael Roner
Affiliation: UTA(Biology)
Title: Viral persistence: How do viruses replicate, sprad
and evade host defenses?Tdddl Program in Quantitative
Biology encompasses the department's core research areas:
Genome Biology & Genetics, Ecology & Systematics, or
Microbiology.