Department Seminar Schedule

All seminars are presented on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in NSC Room 218 (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

September 10	Dr. Kiong Ho University at Buffalo Department of Biological Sciences "Mechanism of mRNA Cap Formation in Protozoan Parasites"
September 17	Dual Speaker Seminar Dr. Rudolf Oldenbourg Marine Biological Lab Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Dr. Jim LaFountain University at Buffalo Department of Biological Sciences "New insights into force deployment on chromosomes in meiotic spindles revealed through laser microsurgery with the LC-PolScope: Optical concept & application to Crane-fly spermatocytes" (hosted by: Dr. Jim LaFountain)
September 24	Dr. Elissa Lei National Institute of Health Laboratory Cellular & Developmental Biology Section Bethesda, Maryland “RNA-dependent higher order chromatin organization” (hosted by: Dr. Michael Yu)
October 1	Dr. Curt Sigmund University of Iowa Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Director, Center of Functional Genomics of Hypertension “A critical role for PPARy in the regulation of blood pressure and vascular function” (hosted by: Dr. Ron Berezney)
October 8	Dr. Joe Reese Penn State University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “Regulation of DNA damage inducible genes by Chromatin and mRNA decay factors” (hosted by: Dr. Stefan Roberts)
October 15	Dr. Edward (Ned) Ruby University of Wisconsin Medical Microbiology & Immunology Co-sponsored by Departments of Biological Sciences and The Evolution, Ecology & Behavior Program “Good food and conversation: Molecular approaches to understanding the physiology of the squid-vibrio symbiosis” (hosted by: Dr. Mary Alice Coffroth)
October 22	Dr. Nick Hud Georgia Tech University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry "A search for the origin of RNA" (hosted by: Dr. G. Koudelka)
October 29	Dr. Glen Tattersall Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada Department of Biological Sciences "Thermostats, Ectotherms and Thermosensation" (hosted by: Dr. Denise Ferkey)
November 5	Dr. Kaveh Ashrafi University of California, San Francisco Department of Physiology *“C. elegans* fat and feeding regulatory pathways.”** (hosted by: Dr. Denise Ferkey)
November 12	Distinguished Invitrogen Speaker Dr. Roy Jefferis University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Division of Immunity and Infection “Antibody therapeutics: Optimization for purpose” (Hosted by: Dr. Chris Loretz) Also November 11- South Campus at 12:30, 144 Farber Hall "Human IgG antibodies: Structure & function in health & disease" (Host: Dr. John Panepinto)
November 19	Kristine Potter Graduate Student Thesis Defense Department of Biological Sciences “Characteriszation of the additional role of TRAP in the transcription attentuation mechanism ofthe Bacillus subtilis trp operon” (Advisor: Dr. Paul Gollnick)
Friday November 20 280 Park Hall 2:00 - 3:30 pm	Dr. Mark Rebeiz Faculty Candidate Department of Cellular & Molecular Biology University of Wisconsin, Madison “The Genetic Paths of Morphological Evolution” (Host: Dr. Margaret Hollingsworth)
Wednesday December 2 280 Park Hall 12:00 noon	Dr. Mary Gehring Faculty Candidate “Title To Be Announced” (Host: Dr. Stefan Roberts)
December 3	Dr. Matthew Xu-Friedman State University at Buffalo Department of Biological Sciences “Information Processing at an Auditory Synapse.”
Friday December 4 280 Park Hall 12:30 pm	Dr. Yuling Jiao Faculty Candidate “Title To Be Announced” (Host: Dr. Steve Free)
Tuesday December 8 280 Park Hall 1:30 pm	Dr. Sevinc Ercan Faculty Candidate “Title To Be Announced” (Host: Dr. Denise Ferkey)
December 10	Dr. Paul Cullen State University at Buffalo Department of Biological Sciences "Signaling mucins, signal transduction, and slime: Lessons from a Model Eukaryote."
Friday December 15 280 Park Hall 1:30 pm	Dr. Scott Nichols Faculty Candidate “Title To Be Announced” (Host: Dr. Katharina Dittmar)

Department of Biological Sciences

Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

Fall 2009
Seminar Schedule