HUGHES PROGRAM IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Summer '09 Seminar Series

All seminars held at noon ~ 107 Shanklin* ~ Refreshments provided

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

3 June 

Amy MacQueen  Department of MB&B Wesleyan University

Chromosome Matchmaking During Meiosis

Scott Holmes

11 June THURSDAY

Saraswathi Vishveshwara    Molecular Biophysics Unit Indian Institute of Science Functional Insights from Protein Structure Networks

David  Beveridge

17 June

Brendan Buckley,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observation of Columbia University
Seven centuries of hydroclimate variability in Southeast Asia from tree rings: mega-droughts and societal collapse

Suzanne      O'Connell

24 June

 

Daniel Funk                Dept. of Biological Sci, Vanderbilt University

Ecological adaptation promotes speciation: examples from maple and willow associated populations of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles

Michael Singer

30 June TUESDAY

Linda Strausbaugh   Director, Center for Applied Genetics & Technology, UCONN(PhD from Wes Bio Dept)

Forensic Applications of DNA Science

Michael Weir

8 July

Malcolm Whiteway,     NRC Biotechnology Research

Genomic Investigations of a Fungal Pathogen

Michael McAlear

14 July TUESDAY Daylong Symposium *Woodhead

 

Liz Lerman, Elizabeth Johnson, Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange; 
Catherine Tatge, Documentary Film Producer

 

Science Choreography: Linking Science Education and Embodied Learning

Laura Grabel, Michael Weir, Katja Kolcio, Laurel F. Appel

22 July

Brenton Graveley
UCONN Health Center

Alternative Splicing in Drosophila

Laura Grabel

31 July FRIDAY *150 Exley

Laura Grabel              Dept. of Biology, Wesleyan University

Towards an embryonic stem cell-based therapy for neurodegenerative disease

Michael Weir