WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
2001 FALL SEMINAR SERIES
DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+ AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY*

  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
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