Upcoming Departmental Seminars: Spring 2008

Thursdays at 4:10pm in BSB/MRBIII 1220
Some seminars may be at different times or in other locations, as noted in red.
Coffee & Cookies are served at 3:45pm



  • Nominate A Speaker.  Check below for open dates and contact Antonis Rokas,(93)6-3892, or Julian Hillyer,(34)3-2065 to schedule.  Upon scheduling, contact Jamie Harris(32)2-2674 with an email address for your speaker to make flight and hotel arrangements.
  • Postdoc speakers wanted!  If you have any postdocs in your laboratory who would like to present a departmental seminar, please forward their names to Kathy Friedman. She will contact them later in the summer if there are remaining  seminar slots available.




To Schedule the 1220 Lecture Hall in MRB3 before 12:00pm please contact: LIsa Wright
To Schedule the 1220 Lecture Hall in MRB3 after 12:00pm, please contact Beverly Stevens.

 


The Biological Sciences Building/MRB III auditorium is on the first floor of the new building BSCI/MRBIII, just to the right of the main first floor entrance. Latecomers may wish to note that there is a back entrance on the second floor.


Fall 2008

TIME  Place Seminar Details Faculty Host
Thurs
August 28th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael Tiemeyer, Ph.D University of Georgia
Title: Naked, branched and depressed: The complexities of fucosylation during Drosophila development and behavior
Kendal Broadie
Tuesday
September 2
4:00 pm
1220
MRBIII
Joshua Gamse,Ph.D  Vanderbilt University
Title: "Building an asymmetric brain in the zebrafish"
Faculty
Thurs
September 4th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
 Guillermo Oliver, Ph.D St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Title: Homeobox genes in mammalian organogenesis
Lila Solnica-Krezel
Thurs
September 18
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Christina Speirs, Vanderbilt University (RIP)
Lila Solnica-Krezel Lab
Title: "Prostagladin E2 regulates Snail stability during zebrafish gastrulation movements."
Grad. Student
Monday
September 22
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Dr. Charalambos Kyriacou, University of Leicester
Title: Studies of biological clocks in nature; genes and behavior
Carl Johnson
Thurs
September 25th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael S. Caterino, PhD Curator of Entomology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Title: Diversity and comparative phylogeography of beetles in the California Floristic Province2
Brandt Eichman
Thurs
October 9th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Ben Fitzpatrick, Ph.D University of Tennessee 
Title: The ecology of genes: Invasion, coexistence, and diversity in salamander populations
GSA 
 Thurs
October 16th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael Strand, Distinguished Research Professor of Entomology
University of Georgia
Title: "Immunosuppressive viral mutualists mediate host range of insect parasitoids"
Patrick Abbot 
Thurs
October 23rd
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Laura Novick, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Tree Thinking in College Students: Effects of Biology Background and Cladogram Format "
Antonis Rokas
Thurs
October 30th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Gary J. Bassell, Ph.D Emory University School of Medicine
Title:mRNA traffic, local translation and fragile x syndrome
Kendal Broadie
Thurs
November 6th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Thomas Schilling, Ph.D University of California, Irvine
Title: Cell Adhesion and Migration in the Early Zebrafish Embryo
Lila Solnica-Krezel
Thurs
November 13th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Katherine Friedman Ph.D, Vanderbilt University Faculty
Thurs
November 20th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Johannes Walter, Ph.D Harvard University
Title: The eukaryotic replisome:genomic copyist and caretaker extraordinaire
GSA 
         
         
         
         
         
       
       
       
       
       

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Spring 2009

Time Place Seminar Details Faculty Host
Thurs
January 8
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Reserved for Faculty  
Thurs
January 15
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Reserved for Faculty  
Thurs
January 22
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Reserved for Faculty  
Thurs
January 29
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Reserved or Faculty  
Thurs
Feb 5
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Niranjana Vijayakrishnan, Vanderbilt University (RIP) Broadie Lab
Thurs
Feb 12
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Dan Wagner, Ph.D Rice University
Title: TBA
Josh Gamse
Thurs
Feb 19
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Dr. Anthony Zera, University of Nebraska
Title: TBA
Patrick Abbot
Thurs
March 12
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Jannell Talley, Vanderbilt University (RIP)
Title: Exploring the assembly of the telomerase holoenzyme in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Friedman Lab
Thurs
March 19th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Daniel Duran, Vanderbilt University  (RIP)
Title: TBA
Funk Lab
Thurs
March 26th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Jeanne Bristow, Vanderbilt University (RIP)
Title: TBA
Webb Lab
Thurs
April 2nd
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Dr. Paul Hardin Zwiebel
Thurs
April 9th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael Levin, PhD
GSA
 Thus
April 16th
4:10pm
 1220
MRBIII
 Scott Egan, Vanderbilt University   (RIP)
Title: Ecological speciation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles: the genetic architecture of divergent host-use traits and the role of postmating isolation
 Funk Lab
 Thurs
April 23
4:10pm
 
1220
MRBIII
Shirley Luckhart, Ph.D University of California-Davis Julian Hillyer
 Thurs
April 30
4:10 pm
1220
MRBIII
Anna Huttenlocher, M.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: TBA
  Chris
Janetopoulos
Thurs
May 7
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Ashleigh Long, Vanderbilt University (RIP)
Title: TBA
Broadie Lab
Turs
May 14
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Hinh Ly, Ph.D Emory University
 
Kathy Friedman
 Thurs
May 21st
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Robin Bairley, Vanderbilt University (RIP)
Title: "Exploring the roles individual telomerase subunits play in the enzymatic activation and regulation of this telomeric DNA reverse transcriptase in budding yeast"
 Friedman Lab
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       



For more information, please contact The Department of Biological Sciences.
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