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Bio 557 Friday Biology

Advance Research Seminars

2006-2007

201 SH, 3:30 pm

 

Date

Presenter 

Seminar Title

Fall 2006 Semester

Sep 8 Organizational Meeting
 Sep  15 Kate McDonald Morphology of pre-motor song control neurons continues to change after song crystallization in the zebra finch.
Jia Liu Role of DNA repair in excitotoxic cell death of Murine cerebrocortical and Hippocampal neurons.
 Oct 6 Will Gladstone  Using an autocorrelation alphabet to study translation initiation.
 Oct 27 Sue Liu Neuronal 'memory' underlies precise Action Potential timing.
Alex Keoppel Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity.
 Nov 3 Sara Patterson The role of BMP signaling in zebrafish myotomal growth.
Frank Stellabotte Dynamic somite cell rearrangements lead to distinct waves of myotome growth.
 Nov 17 Kristi LaMonica Wnt signaling and parietal endoderm migration
Hunter Cai Role of Hedgehog signaling in neural progenitor derivation from mouse ES cells.
Dec 8 Kate MIller Death but not destruction in Connecticut forests.
Zhi Zhang Plasticity of electrosense of skates.

Spring 2007 Semester

   Jan 26 Meyesa Tetreault The relative contributions of genetic background and rearing environment to the rate of neuron addition in adult male zebra finches.
Nate Hartman ES-Derived Neural Progenitor Migration is Guided by SDF-1a .
   Feb 9 Peri Mason Geographic variation in host use by a generalist insect herbivore.
Ben Winslow Development of sternal ribs in chick.
   Feb 23 Krista Perks Why Study Fish?
...on the relevance of the elasmobranch brainstem circuitry and function to the study of certain neural systems
Michelle Kraczkowski Population dynamics of aquatic invertebrates in selected CT streams
   Mar 9 Tom Chase Regulation of pharmacophagy in a woolly bear caterpillar.
Frank Tulenko Changes in somitic cell arrangements in zebrafish and the potential utility of three-dimensional modeling.
   Mar 30 Claire Pelletier Assessment of translation initiation start sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Liz Perry Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity.
   Apr 13 postponed to May 4 
   Apr 27 Adrienne Santiago Formation of Neural Stem Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells: The Roles of Hedgehog and Notch
Noelle Ammon  A Potential Role for Shh in ES-Derived Neural Progenitor Transplant Success

May 4

Owen Kiely Functional Incorporation of New Neurons in the Adult Zebra Finch Brain
Shannon Liu Function of adult neuronal replacement in song system

 

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