HUGHES PROGRAM IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Summer '07 Lecture Series

All seminars held at noon ~ 107 Shanklin ~ Refreshments provided

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

1 June FRIDAY

David Wagner

Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Conservation & Biodiversity, U Conn.

The 2007 Connecticut State BioBlitz in Middletown

B. Chernoff

13 June

Brian D. Farrell

Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comp. Zoology

Harvard University

Islands of Hosts

M. Singer

20 June

Blanka Rogina

Dept of Genetics &

Developmental Biology

U Conn Health Center

Calorie Restriction in Drosophila melanogaster

J. Wolfe

25 June

MONDAY

B. Jayaram Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics &

Computational Biology, India Inst of Technology

Gene to Drug in Silico

D. Beveridge

27 June

Leslie Loew

Dept. of Cell Biology,

Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling,

U Conn Health Center

The Virtual Cell Project

G. Aaron

4 July

No Seminar

Go to 2 of July Picnic Monday noon instead

 

11 July

Hilary Barth

Cognitive Development Laboratory,

Dept. of Psychology

Wesleyan University

Magnitude Comparisons in Adults

R. Striegel-Moore

16 July MONDAY Daylong Symposium

 (see flyer later)

Science Choreography and Communication

M. Weir

25 July

Kristen Picha

Principal Research Scientist, Centocor, Inc

Protein Engineering Strategies to Improve GLP-1 Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

M. Hingorani

3 August

FRIDAY

Barry Chernoff

Depts. of Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences Wesleyan University

Through the Looking Glass: from BioBlitz to Long Term Ecological Studies of Aquatic Ecosystems

M. Weir