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2013 Biological Sciences Seminar Series

Fridays 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
1710 Wood Hall

Kathryn Docherty, Faculty Coordinator
(269) 387-5654

Jan. 11
Dr. Alvar Carlson, Vestaron Corporation
Topic: Insecticides from venom components

Jan. 18
Dr. Jerry Colca, SW Michigan Innovation Center
Topic: New Insulin Sentiziers and their Novel Mitochondrial Target

Jan. 25
Dr. Blair Symczyna, Western Michigan University
Topic: A Synergistic Approach to the Structure and Function of RNA-Binding Proteins

Feb. 1
Dr. Stuart Jones, University Notre Dame
Topic: Subsidy or subtraction? Whole-lake experiments, surveys and models to test the effects of terrestrial DOC on aquatic food webs

Feb. 8
Dr. Megan Duffy, University of Michigan
Topic: Influences of ecological context and rapid evolution on host-parasite interactions in the plankton

Feb. 15
Dr. John Kelley, Loyola University (Chicago)
Topic: Effects of Urbanization on Microbial Communitites in Lotic Ecosystems

Feb. 22
Dr. Takeshi Shimamura, Loyola University (Chicago)
Topic: Lung Cancer: Personalized and targeted EGFR therapies and acquired resistance

March 12 (Tuesday)
Fetzer Center, Putnety Auditorium
Hadley Lecture
Gabrielle Nevitt, UC Davis
Topic: The road less traveled: Investigations into the chemical ecology of petrels and albatrosses.

March 22
Dr. Christopher Waters, Michigan State University
Topic: Elucidating and Targeting Cyclic di-GMP Signaling

March 29
Dr. John Foehlich, Michigan State University
Topic: Stop Or Go Traffic: Targeting of Chloroplastic Integral Membrane Proteins to either the Inner Envelope or Thylakoid Membrane

April 5
Dr. Sharon Amacher, Ohio State University
Topic: Visualizing RNA oscillations: single cell resolution imaging of segmentation clock dynamics

April 12
Dr. Terrell Hodge
The Powers That Be: Examples of Non-Calculus Based Modeling in the Life Sciences through Polynomial Dynamical Systems

Canceled
Bach Lecture
Ruben Donis, CDC-Atlanta GA

April 19
Dr. Carl Dick, Western Kentucky University
Topic: The Vampire's Vampire: ecology and evolution of bat flies and their hosts

April 26 - Canceled
Dr. Laura Johnson, Indiana University (Bloomington)
Topic: Stream Biogeochemistry and greenhouse gas emissions in agricultureal watersheds