Department of Biological Sciences

Spring 2008
Seminar Schedule

All seminars are presented on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in NSC Room 215 (North Campus)
- unless specified otherwise -
and are preceeded by refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

These seminars are partially funded by the Orrin E. Foster Lecture Fund, through the CAS, Office of the Dean

January 10 Dr. Inna Shcherbakova
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry
Bronx, NY

"How does RNA fold?"

(hosted by: Dr. Paul Gollnick)
January 17

Dr. Stefan Roberts 
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Faculty of Life Sciences

"Mechanisms that control specificity in transcriptional regulation"

(hosted by: Dr. Michael Yu)
January 22 Dr. Yan (Jessie) Zhang
The Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology & Proteomics
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

“Specificity determinants for the dephosphorylation of the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II”

(hosted by: Dr. Todd Hennessey)

NOTE:  Seminar at 2:00 p.m. in 280 Park Hall; North Campus
January 24

Dr. Aaron Goldstrohm
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Biochemistry

“Killing the messenger RNA:  Multifunctional control of mRNA stability and translation” 

(hosted by: Dr. Kiong Ho)
January 31

Dr. Lifeng Xu
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

"Functional regulation of Telomeres by Telomerase and Telomeric proteins"

(hosted by: Dr. Margaret Hollingsworth)

February 7

Dr. Todd Cooke
University of Maryland
Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

“Land plant embryos:  Developmental mechanisms and evolutionary speculation”

(hosted by: Dr. Mary Bisson)
February 14

Dr. Satpal Singh
University at Buffalo
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

“Celebrex-induced cardiac arrhythmia and inhibition of delayed rectifier potassium channels”

(hosted by: Dr. Randall Shortridge)
February 21

Dr. Rita Colwell
Distinguished Invitrogen Speaker
Professor, President Emerita; Center of Marine Biotechnology
University of Maryland

“Marine Biotechnology:  Successes and Potential”

(hosted by: Dr. Chris Loretz)

February 22

> Friday <
12:30pm
South Campus
Butler Auditorium
in Farber Hall

Dr. Rita Colwell
Distinguished Invitrogen Speaker
Professor, President Emerita; Center of Marine Biotechnology
University of Maryland

“Vibrio cholerae:  Ecology, Systematics, & Epidemiology”

(hosted by: Dr. Piero Bianco)
February 28

Dr. Florence Teule
College of Agriculture; Department of Molecular Biology
University of Wyoming

“Spider Silk as a biomaterial”

(hosted by: Dr. Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz)
March 6

Dr. Iain Shepherd
Department of Biology
Emory University  

"Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development: The lessons from lessen"

(hosted by: Dr. Denise Ferkey)

March 20

Dr. Doug Portman
University of Rochester
School of Medicine & Dentistry: for Neural Development & Disease

“Sex and the single worm:  Regulation of behavior by neural sex in C. elegans”

(hosted by: Dr. Denise Ferkey)

March 27

Dr. Joseph Savitt
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Neurology and Neurosurgergery

"TBA"

(hosted by: Dr. Pierchala)

April 3

Dr. Katsu Murakami
Penn State Eberly College of Science
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

“Structural biology of RNA polymerase:  crystallographic studies of single-unit enzyme
from bacteriophage N4 & multi-subunit enzyme from Archaea”

(hosted by: Dr. Kiong Ho)

April 10

Dr. Amy Pasquinelli
University of California San Diego

“MicroRNAs:  A small contribution from worms”

(Graduate Student Invited Speaker by Meredith Chandler)
April 17

Dr. Daphne Soares
University of Maryland
Department of Biology

“Crocodilians and blind cavefish, a tale of sensory evolution”

(hosted by: Dr. Denise Ferkey)

April 24

Dr. Steven Hanes
Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Albany, NY

"TBA"

(hosted by: Dr. Paul Cullen)

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