College of Science Seminar/Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2013 |
Biology
All seminars are 4-5 p.m. Thursdays in Life Science Building Room 119
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| February 28 |
Rance Berg, UNT Health Science Center, TBA |
| March 7 |
Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon, "The Community Ecology of Host-Associated Microbes" |
| March 21 |
Shauna Mcgillivray, Texas Christian University, "Understanding Anthrax: Discovering New Disease Mechanisms" |
| March 28 |
Jim Heitholt, Texas A&M University-Commerce, "Screening for Tolerance to the Redbanded Stink Bug within the USDA Soybean Germplasm Collection" |
| April 4 |
Heather McGray, UT Austin, TBA |
| April 11 |
Jyoti Shah, University of North Texas, "The Tug-O-War between plants and pests" |
| April 18 |
Jeremy Brown, "Models, Genomes, and Trees: Next-Generation Studies of Phylogenetics" |
| April 25 |
Steve Austad, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, "Methuselah's Zoo: the Biology of Exceptionally Successful Aging" |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Unless noted, all seminars are at 3 p.m. on Fridays in W. A. Baker Chemistry Research Building (CRB) Room 114. Refreshments will be served in CRB Room 112 at 2:45 p.m
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| March 1 |
Professor Jay C. Groppe, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, "Regulation of biomineralization by disparate Ser/Thr kinases: secreted phosphoproteins and BMP signal transduction" |
| March 8 |
Professor Catherine F. Clarke, University of California-Los Angeles, "Biosynthesis and function of coenzyme Q: Many paths to Q in yeast, human and E. coli cells" |
| March 22 |
Professor Graeme Henkelman, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlating structure and function for nanoparticle catalysts" |
| April 5 |
Professor Brian Zoltowski, Southern Methodist University, "Tuning of Reaction Mechanisms in Circadian Clock Photoreceptors" |
| April 12 |
Graduate Student Research Award Final |
April 18
(Thursday, 3:30 p.m.) |
Professor Silas Cook, Indiana University-Bloomington, "The Search for Efficiency in Synthesis" |
| April 19 |
Professor Joseph A. Loo, University of California-Los Angeles, "Applying Native Mass Spectrometry for Defining Protein Interactions Important in Biology and Medicine" |
| April 26 |
Dr. Csaba Janáky, UT Arlington, "Hybrid assemblies based on inorganic nanoarchitectures - from fundamental concepts to energy applications" |
| May 3 |
Professor Dianqing Sun, University of Hawaii, "Natural products-inspired novel antibacterial agents" |
Mathematics
All events are in Pickard Hall Room 311
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| Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium (refreshments served after the lecture) |
| 3 p.m. Friday, April 5 |
Dr. Peter Tang, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation, TBA |
| 3 p.m. Friday, April 19 |
Dr. Vassilis Papanicolaou, Professor, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, TBA |
| 3 p.m. Friday, April 26 |
Dr. Catherine Garcia Reimbert, Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, TBA |
| Applied Mathematics Seminar (refreshments served 30 minutes before seminar begins) |
2 p.m. Friday,
March 29 |
Dr. Qin (Tim) Sheng, Professor, Baylor University, "A modified moving mesh finite difference approach for solving the singular quenching-combustion equation" |
| 1 p.m. Friday, May 3 |
Kehinde Salau, graduate student, Arizona State University, TBA |
| Probability and Statistics Seminar |
| 2 p.m. Friday, April 19 |
Dr. Yang Xie, Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TBA |
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