HUGHES PROGRAM IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Summer '00 Lecture Series

All seminars held at noon in 121 Science Center ~ Bring a Sandwich, drink & snack provided.

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

7-Jun*

Joyce Powzyk
Biology Dept., Wesleyan University

How diet affects behavior in the two largest lemurs on the island of Madagascar

Laurel Appel

14-Jun

Laurie Heyer
University of Southern California

Genome Analysis: Sequence, Structure and Function

Carol Wood & Michael Weir; contact them to join lunch w/ students

21-Jun

Marc Lipsitch
Harvard School of Public Health

The Ups and Downs of Antibiotic Resistance

Fred Cohan

28-Jun

Craig M. Schiffries
Yale University

Science and Public Policy in the Post-Cold War Era

Suzanne O'Connell

5-Jul

Anne Baranger
Chemistry Dept., Wesleyan University

Sources of Stability and Specificity in an RNA-Protein Complex

Michael Weir

12-Jul

Joshua S. Boger
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Chemogenomics: Drug Discovery for This New Millennium

Ishita Mukerji

19-Jul

Miriam Braunstein
Einstein College of Medicine

Defining the Role of Protein Secretion in the Pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Scott Holmes

26-Jul

Thomas King
Central Connecticut State University

Genetic analysis of the hypotichosis-generating shorn (shn) mutation in the Norway rat

Laura Grabel

2-Aug

Kristina Beuning
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University

The Past and Future of Grassland Ecosystems: Implications for Faunal Evolution and the Global Carbon Cycle

Michael Weir

For more information, contact Maureen Snow.
*Note Change in Speaker & Title.
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