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HUGHES PROGRAM IN THE
LIFE SCIENCES
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WESLEYAN
UNIVERSITY
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Summer '99 Lecture
Series
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Seminars held at noon in Rm. 107 Shanklin unless
otherwise noted* ~ Refreshments provided
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Host
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Wed
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9-Jun
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Kent Morest
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"Degeneration and Reorganization of
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Janice Naegele
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UCONN
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Synapses in the Brain Following Noise"
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Wed
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Robert Suter
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"Fishing Spiders: The Secular
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John Kirn
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16-Jun
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Vassar
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Implications of Walking on Water"
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Wed
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Soren Christensen
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Evolution of autocrine signaling: Matters
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Jason Wolfe
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23-Jun
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Albert Einstein Med Sch
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of life versus death in the protozoan
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ciliate, Tetrahymena"
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Wed
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Debra Bessen
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"Molecular Ecology of the Bacterial
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Fred Cohan
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30-Jun
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Yale Univ. School of Medicine
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Pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes"
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Wed
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William Gelbart
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"Bio-Computing: Sifting through
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Michael Weir
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7-Jul
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Harvard University
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Genes and Genomes"
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& Jim Donady
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*Mon 4pm
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Donna Slonim
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"Analyzing Gene Expression Data"
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Irina Russu
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12-Jul
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MIT
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Wed
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Paul Colinvaux
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"Ice Age History of Amazonian
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Kristina Beuning
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14-Jul
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Woods Hole
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Diversity"
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Wed
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Revati Tatake
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"Gene Therapy - Obstacles and
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Scott Holmes
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21-Jul
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
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Opportunities"
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*Mon 4pm
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Seth Ruffins
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"Re-specification of neural crest to
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Jason Wolfe
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26-Jul
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California Institute of Technology
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ventral neural tube fates"
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*Tue
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Seth Ruffins
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"Embryology in 3-D: A database display
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Jason Wolfe
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27-Jul
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California Institute of Technology
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and teaching tool for developmental biology"
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Woodhead
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Wed
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Rolf Karlstrom
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"Why didn't the axon cross the road?
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Steve Devoto
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28-Jul
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UMass, Amherst
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Zebrafish hedgehog signaling mutants
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affecting axon guidance and forebrain
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patterning"
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Sponsored in part by Wesleyan's McNair
Program
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*Note day, time, and/or place change.
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