WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
1999 FALL SEMINAR SERIES
DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+ AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY*


 
Seminars are held in 107 Shanklin at 3:45 pm on Thursdays unless otherwise indicated.
Refreshments are in 314 Shanklin at 3:30 pm

 Date
Speaker
Title
Host
9/9

*William T. Wickner
Dartmouth College

Preprotein Translocase, a Turbocharged 5-Stroke, 4-cylinder Engine.

Oliver

9/15
WEDNESDAY
4:15 pm

+Scott Gilbert
Swathmore College

Homologies of Process: Reintegrating developmental and evolutionary biology.

Grabel

***
JOINT SEMINAR: Science in Society Program & Biology Department
***
9/16
4:15 pm

+Scott Gilbert
Swarthmore College

Storytelling in Biology

Rouse
Grabel

9/23

*Hiroshi Nakai
Georgetown University

From Transposition to Chromosomal Replication: Mechanisms for Coupling DNA Replication to Recombination.

Russu

9/30

+David Rand
Brown University

Detecting Natural Selection with Inter-Locus Contrasts: Examples from Flies and Barnacles.

Cohan

10/7

*Kevin Coleman
Pfizer

TBA

Mukerji

10/14

+S.M. Sherman
SUNY Stony Brook

The thalamus actually does something interesting.

Naegele

10/21

No seminar -- Fall Break

10/28

*John Hambor
Pfizer

Functional Genomics, Understanding the Language of Life.

Mukerji

11/4

+Electra Coucouvanis
Institute of Human Genetics
Univ. of Minnesota

Roles of BMP signaling in early mouse development.

Grabel

11/11

*MBB

.

.

11/18

+Mary Mullins
Univ. of Pennsylvania

Genetics analysis of BMP signaling in dorsal-ventral patterning of the zebrafish embryo.

Biology
Grad 
Students

11/25

No seminar -- Thanksgiving

12/2

*MBB

TBA

.

12/9

+Biology
( classes end 12/10)

TBA

.

12/16
12:00
NOON

+Mark Achtman
Max Planck-Instutut
Berlin, Germany

A comparision of the population biology of Neisseria meningitidis, Helicobacter pylori and Yersinia pestis.

Cohan

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