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Biology Seminar Schedule
Fall 2008

All seminars are on Thursdays at 5:00 PM in Mendel Science Center 154, unless otherwise noted, and are all are open to the public. We serve coffee, tea, and cookies in the seminar room just prior to the seminar, and we hold a wine and cheese reception after most seminars in Mendel 175.

Time Presenter Topic
4 Sept.

Dr. Brent Helliker, University of Pennsylvania

Homeostasis of tree-leaf temperatures from the tropics to the taiga: an isotopic analysis

Host: Adam Langley

11 Sept.

Dr. Rich Woychik, Director & CEO, Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, ME

Meeting the challenges of functionalizing the mammalian genome

Host: Kel Wieder

18 Sept. Dr. John Wherry, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA

 

Negative regulation of CD8 T cell responses during chronic viral infection

Host: Anil Bamezai

25 Sept. Dr. Eric Kindahl,  Hood College, MD TBA

Host: Bob Curry

2 Oct. Dr. Todd Jackman, Villanova University Fishing for Genes:  Searching for phylogenetically informative genes in squamates

Host: Aaron Bauer

9 Oct. Dr. Daniel Hernandez, The Richard Stockton College of NJ and the Wetlands Institute, NJ TBA

Host: Bob Curry

 

23 Oct. Dr. Barth Grant,  Rutgers University, NJ Worming our way through endosome:  Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for membrane traffic

Host: Anil Bamezai

30 Oct. Dr. Jose-Luis Machado, Swarthmore College, PA Universal Metabolic Scaling: plants are exceptions to the rule

Host: Sam Chapman

6 Nov. Dr. Laura Donlin, Rockefeller University, NY A new frontier for lysine methylation ... the cytoplasm

Host: Louise Russo

13 Nov. Dr. Jim Keen, Dean of Graduate Studies, Jefferson U School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Membrane trafficking at warp speed: gyrating clathrin

Host: Russ Gardner

20 Nov. Dr. Mark Goulian, University of Pennsylvania Perturbing, modeling, and evolving cell signaling in bacteria

Host: Dennis Wykoff

4 Dec. Dr. Gleb Shumyatsky, Rutgers University, NJ Genetic approaches to study learned and innate fear

Host: TBA