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Biology Seminar

Biology Departmental Seminars are usually held on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. in Room 116 of the Supple (Science) Building, or as announced below.

Receptions are at 4:30 p.m. following the seminar. All are welcome to attend.

To find out more about the speaker, click on their links to their web pages or click next to their title if there is a related paper (pdf).

TBA indicates to be announced unless the date arrives and no seminar speaker has been scheduled at which point it means we do not have a seminar speaker for that day. Please check frequently.

See also the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry seminar schedule.


Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule

September 1

Labor Day

 

September 8

Michael Huston, (Tomasso)

Turning the World Upside Down:  Resolving the Paradox of Global Productivity

September 15

Michelle Lane, Texas State University  (McLean)

Inhibition of Colon Cancer Growth and Metastasis by Vitamin A.

September 22

Gleb Tolstykh, UTHSC, San Antonio.  (Garcia)

Expression and regulation of KCNQ potassium channels in rat visceral sensory neurons PDF1, PDF2

September 29

Randy Simpson, (Tomasso)

 Wildlife and Urban Issues

October 6

Nick Christodoulides, UT Austin (Koke)

Development, integration and translation of lab-on-chip methods into real-world diagnostic point-of-care devices

October 13

Volker Stiller, Southeastern University (Schwinning)

The vulnerable pipeline: water transport in baldcypress, sunflower and rice

PDF1, PDF2, PDF3

October 20

Erik Hamerlynck, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center (Hahn)

Life and death in the desert: two case studies on the effects of severe drought. PDF

October 27

Robert McLean, Texas State University (Tomasso)

Exploring the genetics of bacterial species interactions

November 3

Mickey Sampson, Cambodia, Research Development Inc. (Dunn)

Environmental Challenges in Developing Cambodia. PDF

November 10

Keith Hobson, Environment Canada  (Green)

Tracking Animal Migration using Stable Isotopes

November 17

Vatsala Maitin, Texas State University (Dharmasiri)

 

November 24

Jeffrey Chen, UT Austin (Dharmasiri)

Mechanisms and Evolution of Plant Polyploids

December 1

Kelly Lyons,  Trinity University (Schwinning)

 

 

 

 

Spring 2009 Seminar Schedule

January 26

Mary Jo Kirisits, UT Austin (Mclean)

Microbial Perchlorate Reduction for Drinking Water Treatment

February 2

Chris Sullivan, UT Austin (Aron)

Discovery and function of non-coding RNAs in tumor viruses

February 9

Kenneth Scott, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Garcia)

 

February 16

Terry Bowyer, Idaho State University (Weckerly)

 

February 23

 

 

March 2

Noland Martin, Texas State University (Tomasso)

 

March 9

Yixin Zhang, Texas State University (Tomasso)

 

March 23

 

 

March 30

 

 

April 6

 

 

April 13

 

 

April 20

 

 

April 27

 Benjamin Fitzpatrick,  University of Tennessee (Nice)

 

May 4

 

 

PreviousSeminar Schedules


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