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UMBC Biological Sciences
seminar schedule
     Spring 2012     
Date
Day/Time
Title
Presenter
Jan 4
Wed, 12pm
NO SEMINAR
Jan 5
Thu, 12pm
NO SEMINAR
Jan 11
Wed, 12pm
Understanding how the evolution of a bacterial pathogen shapes its ability to cause disease in humans
Tamara OConnor
Jan 12
Thu, 12pm
NO SEMINAR
Jan 18
Wed, 12pm
NO SEMINAR
Jan 19
Thu, 12pm
NO SEMINAR
Jan 23
Mon, 12pm
Novel Yersinia pseudotuberculosis virulence mechanisms: organ-specific virulence factors and a role for host inflammation in promoting bacterial growth
Greg Crimmins
Jan 25
Wed, 12pm
Genetic and Functional Genomic Approaches to Study Plant Cell Wall Degradation in Bacteria
Jeffrey Gardner
Jan 26
Thu, 9am
NO SEMINAR
Jan 30
Mon, 12pm
Modulating Quorum Sensing in Vibrio Species
Wai-Leung Ng
Feb 1
Wed, 12pm
Bird Population Change in North America from 1966 - 2010: Summary and Analysis of North American Breeding Bird Survey Data
John Sauer
Feb 2
Thu, 3pm
Multicellular Development by Bacillus subtilis
Yurong (Win) Chai
Feb 8
Wed, 12pm
Which of these birds is just like the other? Convergence and parallelism in blackbird color evolution/Ultraviolet Vision in Mantis Shrimp
Nicholas Friedman/Michael Bok
Feb 9
Thu, 4pm
Feb 15
Wed, 12pm
TBA
Feb 16
Thu, 4pm
Feb 22
Wed, 12pm
Not so Benign Hematology: Anemia of the Elderly
Dr. Cindy Roy
Feb 23
Thu, 4pm
Feb 29
Wed, 12pm
Cell death control in Arabidopsis: the importance of protecting mitochondria
Jean Greenberg
Mar 1
Thu, 4pm
Mar 6
Tue, 3pm
How to build a cell: the bacterial cytoskeleton and beyond
Zemer Gitai
Mar 7
Wed, 12pm
Mar 8
Thu, 11am
Second Rotation Presentations 1
Graduate Students
Mar 9
Fri, 12pm
Second Rotation Presentations 2
Graduate Students
Mar 14
Wed, 12pm
New Perspectives on the Beak of a Sparrow
Russell Greenberg
Mar 15
Thu, 4pm
Mar 21
Wed, 12pm
SPRING BREAK
Mar 22
Thu, 4pm
Mar 28
Wed, 12pm
The computational architecture of olfaction: learning and memory in high dimensions
Thomas Cleland
Mar 29
Thu, 4pm
Apr 3
Tue, 1pm
Dissertation Seminar
Mamata Thapa
Apr 4
Wed, 12pm
A role of Plk1 in centriole cycle and centrosome amplification.
Dr. Jadranka Loncarek
Apr 5
Thu, 4pm
Apr 11
Wed, 12pm
Exploring lipid membranes with neutron diffraction
Ella Mihailescu
Apr 12
Thu, 4pm
Apr 13
Fri, 12pm
Exploring β-arrestin Function in the Melanopsin Signaling Pathway (Cameron) and The role of signaling ion channels in maintaining the survival of olfactory sensory neurons (Dunston)
Evan Cameron and David Dunston
Apr 18
Wed, 12pm
A Voltage-Gated Proton Channel in a Dinoflagellate
Dr. Allen Place
Apr 19
Thu, 4pm
Apr 20
Fri, 12pm
Biodiversity and Evolution in the Anthropocene
Erle Ellis
Apr 25
Wed, 12pm
Cancelled! Go to URCAD instead
Dr. Edward Redish
Apr 26
Thu, 4pm
Apr 27
Fri, 12pm
Wired to Cooperate: Neural mechanisms for duet singing in wrens.
Eric Fortune
May 2
Wed, 12pm
Extracting information on protein translation from genomic sequences using nested models of ribosome movement and population genetics
Michael Gilchrist
May 3
Thu, 4pm
May 9
Wed, 12pm
Converging on Fis1 Activity in Fission: Evolution vs Intelligent Design?
Blake Hill, JHU
May 10
Thu, 4pm
May 11
Fri, 12pm
More than meets the ear: Multimodal signaling in frogs
Dr. Ryan Taylor
May 14
Mon, 10am
Rotation Presentations
Leemon, ONeill, Fulson Woytek, Peterson, Cerra
May 14
Mon, 1pm
Rotation Presentations
Abete Luzi, Willard, Kilic, Nunn
May 16
Wed, 12pm
May 17
Thu, 4pm
May 23
Wed, 12pm
May 24
Thu, 4pm
May 30
Wed, 2pm
Regulators of microtubules as key contributors to neural tube formation
Pradeepa Jayachandran
May 31
Thu, 4pm