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Department of Biology Spring 2008 Colloquium Series

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Where:

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in room LS 124 of the Life Science Building, unless otherwise advertised.   

 Flyer download here.

 

 

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 2008

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 2008

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.