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Bio 557 Friday Biology

Advance Research Seminars

2007-2008

201 SH, 3:30 pm

 

Date

Presenter 

Seminar Title

Fall 2007 Semester

Sept 7 Organizational meeting
Sept 28 Kristi LaMonica Wnt Signaling and Parietal Endoderm Migration
Jia Liu Linking Neurogenesis and Neural Migration with Oxidative Damage and Cell Death
Oct 12 Nate Hartman ES-Derived Neural Progenitor Migration and Integration in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Shannon Liua Adult Neurogenesis and Functional Incorporation in Avian Song System
Oct 26 Kate McDonald Morphological plasticity in vocal control system neurons following song crystallization in the zebra finch  
Alex Koeppel

Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity 

Nov 19 Will Gladstone Prediction of potential misannotated protein coding sequences
Clair Pelletier Assessment of translation initiation start sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Nov 30 Frank Tulenko A lineage analysis of scapula formation in mouse and chick: Analyzing developmental morphologies in three dimensions
Peri Mason Geographic variation in host use by the fall webworm.
Dec 7 Sue Liu Seizure suppression by transplantation of ES cell-derived GABAergic neural progenitors into epileptic mouse hippocampus
Ben Winslow Development of sternal ribs in chick

Spring 2008 Semester

Jan 25 Noelle Ammon Investigating factors for ES-derived neural stem cell transplant incorporation
Meyesa Tetreault The relationship between nest of origin and neuron addition in the HVC of adult male Zebra finches
Feb 8 Matteo Sferlazzo Investigating the significance of the lateral somitic frontier in the thorax with abaxial Hoxc8 and Hoxb8 knockout mice
Tom Pagliaruli Analyzing mEPSC’s, a method for elucidating the role of a prospective STEP modulator
Feb 22 Kate Miller Benthic macroinvertebrate communities in CT rivers and influential environmental conditions
Michelle Tipton Macroinvertebrate population dynamics in freshwater streams
Mar 7 Justin Cherny Examination of translation initiation sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Dan Primich Role of the hedgehog signaling pathway in neural differentiation
Mar 28 Stephen Briggs The role of STEP in pilocarpine-induced status Epilepticus
Jenna Gopilan Defects in the neural stem cell niche in adult mice deficient for DNA double-strand break repair
Apr 11 Nora Connor Sequence based discovery of ecological diversity in Death Valley Bacillus
Konni Schiessl Length variation in VNTR repeats as a high-resolution marker for the evolution of Bacillus licheniformis
Apr 25 Kevi Mace Self-medication as an inducible defense in a woolly bear caterpillar
Lauren Nichols Rapid evolution of a non-native species: A case study of Polygonum cespitosum

 

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