Seminars are held in 121 Science Center (Science Tower) [please note room change]
at 3:45 pm on Thursdays unless otherwise indicated.
Refreshments are in 314 Shanklin at 3:30 pm

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
9/14	Larry A. Klobutcher* UConn Health Center	Programmed chromosome breakage and de novo telemere formation in ciliated protozoan	Tausta
9/21	Marc Vidal+ Dana Farber Cancer Institute Dept. of Genetics Harvard University	The C. elegans protein interaction mapping project	Weir
9/28	Peter Burgers* Dept.of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Washington Univ. School of Medicine	Clamps and Clamp Loader in Eukaryotic DNA Metabolism	McAlear
10/5	Shane Heschel+ Dept. of Biology Wesleyan University	The evolution of drought tolerance in Impatiens capensis	Sultan
10/12	Fall Break - No seminar
Annual Mark Dworkin Graduate Student Memorial Lecture
10/19	Linda Strausbaugh* Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology University of CT	Mismatch repair, gene conversion, and the concerted evolution of tandemly repeated genes	Infante
10/26	Robert Johnston+ Psychology Dept. Cornell University	Olfactory communication in mammals: Behavior, cognition, and neural mechanisms	Kirn
11/2	Kenneth J. Marians* Molecular Biology Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	PriA and the Intersection between Replication and Recombination	Firshein
11/9	James Hanken+ Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Harvard University	Role of the neural crest in cranial development and evolution in amphibians	Burke
11/16	James Broach* Dept. of Molecular Biology Princeton University	Changing sexual preference in yeast: Silencing and switching mating type genes in Saccharomyces	Holmes
11/30	Charles Greer+ Dept. of Neurosurgery Yale Univ. School of Medicine	Early Induction and Organization of Olfactory Bulb Glomeruli	Naegele
12/7	George Chaconas* Univ. of Western Ontario Toronto	Structural and Functional Studies on the Unusual Genome of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Spirochete	Graduate Students Kristi Wojtuszewski