Spring 2008 Seminars

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Spring 2008 SEMINAR SERIES

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY

All seminars are at 3:00 PM in Pappert Lecture Hall, Bayer Learning Center
(refreshments at 2:30 PM outside 202 Mellon Hall)

January 18, 2008

Dr. Forest Rohwer, Department of Biology, San Diego State University

"Corals, Viruses, and Metagenomes"

January 25, 2008

Dr. Jason L. Rasgon, The Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

"Can Infections Fight Infections?  Microbial Agents to Control Malaria"

February 1, 2008

Dr. Henry L. Bart, Jr., Director and Curator of Fishes, Tulane University Museum of Natural History

“Systematics of Ictiobines: Something Fishy”

February 8, 2008 – No Regular Seminar

Darwin Day: Evolution and the Law

Dr. Edward Larson, School of Law, Pepperdine University

Judge John Jones III, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

February 15, 2008

NO SEMINAR

February 22, 2008

Dr. Paula Witt-Enderby, Department of Chemistry, Duquesne University

“TBA”

February 29, 2008

Dr. Christine Milcarek, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine

“RNA Processing and Transcription Factors in B-cell Maturation”

March 7, 2008

Dr. Peter Drain, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"Fluorescent Biosensors for Imaging Insulin Secretory Pathways in Live Beta Cells"

March 14, 2008

Dr. Daniel Buchholz, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati

"Evolution and Endocrinology of Desert Frog Metamorphosis"

March 28, 2008

Dr. Frank Slack, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University

“MicroRNAs in Development and Cancer”

April 4, 2008

Dr. Matthew Lovern, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University

“Maternal Effects via Yolk Steroids: Exploring the Environment-mother-offspring Link in Green Anole Lizards”

April 11, 2008

Undergraduate Honors Seminar: 
Amy M. Gealy, "The Relationship between Chronic Stress and Disease in Felis domisticus"

Gliciria Kalathas, "Building Additional Tools for in vivo Transposon Mutagenesis of a Filamentous Sporulating Bacterium"

 

 

 

 

 
   
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