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Bio 557 Friday Biology

Advance Research Seminars

2005-2006

Date

Presenter 

Seminar Title

Fall 2005 Semester

Sep 16  Organizational meeting
Oct 7  Joe Carpentino ES-derived neural stem cells adopt  granule cell fates following transplantation to the hippocampus.
 Frank Stellabotte Lineage Analysis of the Zebrafish Dermomyotome.
Oct 21  Hunter Cai   
 Kristi LaMonica   
Nov 4  Betsy Dobbs-McAuliffe Localization and function of retinoic acid in the developing zebrafish embryo.
 Kate McDonald Potential age related changes in morphology of a population of adult formed song system neurons.
Nov 18  Lisa Bertetto Adaptive synaptic plasticity in the skate electrosensory system.
 Zhi Zhang NMDA receptors and plasticity of electrosense of skates.
Dec 9  Meyesa Tetreault The function of foraging plasticity in woolly bear caterpillars.
 Carolyn Pytte Adult neurogenesis underlying behavioral stereotypy.

Spring 2006 Semester

Jan 27  Alex Koeppel Sequence-based exploration of ecological diversity within Legionella.
 Will Glandstone An autocorrelation approach to translation initiation.
Feb 10  Sara Patterson Growth of the zebrafish myotome.
 Michael Singer Evidence for self-medication in a woolly bear caterpillar.
Feb 24  Ben Winslow Changing patterning domains in vertebrates; Gdf11 induced changes in morphology, and the lateral plate and evolution of vertebrate morphology.
 Logan Durland The primaxial and abaxial domains in mammals
Mar 10  Carrie Vaudreuil Linking neurogenesis and cell death in the developing cerebral cortex.
 Xu Liu Oxidative cell death during brain development.
Mar 31  Jai Liu Involvement of p53 and BAX in kainate-induced excitotoxic cell death of DNA-PKcs null neurons.
 Nat Hartman One STEP toward understanding excitotoxic cell death.
Apr 7 Noelle Ammon The role of Rac in cell migration
Adam Tuck Hippocampal slow wave activity and the limbic thalamus
Apr 21  Lianne Morris-Smith Investigating projection neurons of the medullary mechanosensory nucleus in the little skate, Raja erinacea.
 Wes Fuhrman Functional incorporation of adult-form neurons in the Zebra finch song system
May 5  Kate Miller Benthic macroinvertebrates in the Coginchaug River
 Barry Chernoff Phylogenetic analyses of morphology, ecology and biomechanics of Silverside fishes (genus Atherinella)

 

 

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