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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
1997-98 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+
AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY*

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

1/22

 +Bruce McEwen
Laboratory of 
Neuroendocrinology, 
Rockefeller University 

Stress, Sex and the Brain

Kirn

1/29

 *Carol Kumamoto
Tufts Univ. Medical 
School 

Interaction of the E. coli Chaperone Protein SecB with Exported Protein Precursors and SecA

Oliver

2/5

 +Mark D. Biggin,
Dept. of Molecular 
Biophysics & Biochemistry,
Yale University 

How Do Homeoproteins Regulate Animal Development?

Weir

2/12

 +Michael Feldgarden
Post-Doctoral Fellow 
Wesleyan University 

The Generation and Maintenance of Colicin Resistance in Escherichia coli: A Possible Role for Pleiotropy

Cohan

2/19

 +Susan Abmayr 
Dept. of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, 
Penn State University 

Myogenic Specification and Differentiation in the Drosophila Embryo

Devoto

3/5

 +Neil Simister 
Dept. of Biology, 
Brandeis University 

Fc Receptors and the Transmission of Immunity from Mother to Young

Naegele

3/26

 +Joyce Powzyk 
Dept. of Biological Anthropology
Duke University

An Ecological Comparison of Two Sympatric Lemurs: Repercussions on Species-Specific Behaviors

Cohan
GORTNER LECTURE SERIES

Wed. 4/1 4:00

 Stuart B. Levy
Center for Adaptation 
Genetics and Drug 
Resistance, Tufts University 

Antibiotic Resistance: Evolution for Survival

Cohan

Mon. 4/6 4:00

 Bruce R. Levin
Department of Biology,
Emory University

Evolutionary Biology of Antibiotic and Phage Therapies for Bacterial Infections

Cohan

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4/2

 +Robert Dorit
Dept. of Biology,
Yale University 

In Vitro Evolution of Ribozymes: Where Does Novelty Come From?

Sultan

4/9

 David Figurski
Dept.of Microbiology
Columbia University

Identification of Functions Involved in the Stable Inheritance of Promiscuous IncP Plasmids

Firshein

4/16

 +Doug DeSimone
Dept. of Cell Biology, 
Univ. of Virgina Health 
Sciences Center 

Regulation of Integrin-Dependent Adhesion in Early Development

Grabel

4/23

 *Mitch Smith
University of Virginia 

Deviant Histones: Getting up to all Kinds of Good in the Chromosome

Holmes

4/30

 +Bruce Mayer
Dept. of Microbiology and 
Molecular Genetics, 
Harvard University

Complex Regulation: SH2/SH3 Adaptor Proteins in Signal Transduction Networks

Donady

Seminars are held in 107 Shanklin at 3:45 unless otherwise indicated. Refreshments in 314 Shanklin at 3:30.

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