DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+ and
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY*
2011 FALL SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars are held in 121 ESC at 12 NOON on Thursdays unless otherwise indicated in red.

 Date

Speaker and Title

Host

SEPTEMBER
09/15 +Jeffery Townsend
  Yale University		 Comparative ecology, evolution, and transcriptomics of fungal fruiting body development. Cohan

09/221
Friday
 4:00 PM

*Vern L. Schramm
  Yeshiva University's
  Albert Einstein College of
      Medicine

 Drug Design from Transition State Analysis

Biophysics

Retreat [Mukerji]
1Please note:  - The Biophysics Retreat is held at Wadsworth Mansion, 421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown CT
09/29 +Deborah Chapman
  Univ of Pittsburgh		 A delicate balancing act for T-box transcription factors dung mesoderm formation in the mouse Devoto

OCTOBER
10/06 +Jerry Coyne
  Univ of Chicago		 Two flies on an island: Speciation in Drosophila. Cohan
10/13 *Visvanathan Ramaurthy
  Med School at UWVA		 Childhood blindness: Protein lipidation in retinal neurons. Oliver
10/20 *TBA   MBB
10/27 +Jaime Rivera
  UMASS Med School		 Axial development in mammals: Signaling molecules and evolutionary implications. Grabel

NOVEMBER
11/05 *Ivaylo Nikolaev Ivanov
  Georgia State University		 TBA Hingorani
11/10
RM 058 SC		 +Silvia Matesanz
  Museo de
      Ciencias Naturalies
  Madrid, Spain		 High performance genotypes in the introduced plant Polygonum cespitosum: Insights to future invasiveness. Sultan
11/17 *TBA TBA MBB

DECEMBER
12/01 *Tali Haran
  Technion
  Haifa, Israel		 TBA Mukerji
12/08
RM 058 SC		 *TBA
 		 TBA MB


 

 +Biology Department seminars
 *Molecular Biology & Biology Department seminars