HUGHES PROGRAM IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Summer '08 Seminar Series

All seminars held at noon ~ 107 Shanklin ~ Refreshments provided

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

4 June 

Lyle A. Simmons, Dept. of Biology,
MIT

Coordinating DNA Repair with DNA Replication in Bacillus subtilis

Manju Hingorani

11 June

 Johan Varekamp,
Dept of Earth & Environmental  Science, Wesleyan Univ.

Humans and Long Island Sound:  Environmental Impacts from Native Americans, Dutch Colonists, and the Industrial Revolution

 Dana Royer

18 June

 Kathryn Moran,
Univ. of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography

A North Pole Adventure: 
Drilling Through Time at the Top of the World

Suzanne O'Connell

25 June

 

 Charles Brenner, Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School

Counting Calories with NAD: 
New Biosynthetic Pathways for Life, Death, and Aging 

Scott Holmes

2 July

No Seminar

Go to not-quite-4th of July Picnic  on Thursday instead

 

9 July

 Harvey Swadlow, Dept. of Psychology, University of Connecticut

The synaptic impact of single thalamic neurons on the awake neocortical network

Gloster Aaron

14 July MONDAY Daylong Symposium

Liz Lerman,
Elizabeth Johnson, 
Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange; 
Katja Kolcio, Dept. of Dance, Laura Grabel, Dept of Biology, Wesleyan Univ. 


 Science Choreography:
Tools for Science Learning

Michael Weir,
Laurel F. Appel,  

 

23 July

 Norbert Kremer, '76
Fresenius Healthcare 
Databases in Biology and Medicine

Michael Weir

1 August FRIDAY

 Ishita Mukerji,
Dept of Molecular Biology & Biochem, Wesleyan Univ.

From Fibers to Disease: Insights from Structural Biology
 

David Beveridge