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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.

Questions for all following the seminar. The reception will then move to the Greenhouse for refreshments (21 and over only).

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 2009

September 7

Labor Day

September 14

TBA TBA

September 21

Chad Hargrave, Sam Houston State Univ (Huston)
Fishes and a changing climate: how the ecosystem-roles of fishes might change with increasing temperature and CO2

September 28

Cory Ross, UT Health Center SA (Aspbury)

Teasing apart the uniqueness of the reproductive physiology of Callithrix (marmosets)

October 5

Perry S. Barboza, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks (Weckerly) Seasonal digestive function in arctic ruminants: flexible fermentation and a variable food supply

October 12

Rochelle Buffenstein, UT Health Center, SA (Banta) Slow and successful aging; lessons from the naked mole-rat

October 19

MIchael Allen, Univ. of N. Texas (McLean) Global gene regulation and the stress response in Rhodopseudomonas palustris

October 26

Steve Whitten, Texas State (Garcia) Peptide-based intervention in misfolding disorders

November 2

Scott Wing, Smithsonian Institute (Upchurch) Global warming 55 million years ago - back to the future?

November 9

Micky Eubanks, Texas A & M (Ott)
Searching for Signals in a Noisy World: The Role of Keystone Interactions in Community Ecology

November 16

Sibum Sung, Univ. of Texas, Austin (Dharmasiri) Epigenetic regulatory networks to control flowering time in Arabidopsis

November 23

Annette Engel, Louisiana State University (Schwartz) Microbial geochemistry of the Edwards Aquifer fresh water - saline water transition zone

November 30

Alan Covich, Univ. of Georgia (Zhang) Cumulative effects of Caribbean hurricanes and
drought on long-term changes in freshwater shrimp assemblages

December 7

Bridget Scanlon, UT-Austin (Schwinning)
Impacts of Land Use Change on Water Resources in Semiarid Regions

Spring 2010

January 25

Caitlin Gabor (Tomasso)

TBA

February 1

Ryan Earley, University of Alabama (Gabor) TBA

February 8

Susan Mopper, Univ. of Louisana, Lafayette (Gabor - Noland) TBA

February 15

Alan Pepper, Texas A & M (S. Dharmasiri) TBA

February 22

Patricia Dove, Virginia Tech, (Schwartz) TBA

March 1

Debrah Bolnick, UT (Nice) TBA

March 8

Spring Break

March 15

Emmanuel Frimpong, Virginia Tech (Bonner) TBA

March 22

Jerry Coyne, Univ. of Chicago (Noland) TBA

March 29

Kevin Urbanczyk, Sul Ross (Huston) TBA

April 5

Tracie Ivy, University of Rochester (Aspbury/Gabor) TBA

April 12

Erik Sotka, College of Charleston (Nice) TBA

April 19

Weihua Chu, Nanjing Pharmaceutical Univ, China (McLean) TBA

April 26

Ray Drenner, Texas Christian Univ. (Nowlin) TBA

Previous Seminar Schedules


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