UMBC An Honors University in Maryland
UMBC Biological Sciences
seminar schedule
     Spring 2013     
Date
Day/Time
Title
Presenter
Jan 2
Wed, 12pm
Jan 3
Thu, 4pm
Jan 9
Wed, 12pm
Jan 10
Thu, 4pm
Jan 14
Mon, 3pm
Seminar: The Transcriptional Control of Secretory Capacity and Cargo in the Drosophila Salivary Gland.
Rebecca Fox, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Jan 16
Wed, 12pm
Jan 17
Thu, 3pm
Seminar: Surviving Without Food.
Eyleen ORourke, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Jan 18
Fri, 11am
Dissertation Seminar: Identification of Novel C. elegans WNT signaling targets functioning in the specification and differentiation of larval seam cells and vulval precursor cells.
Lakshmi Gorrepati
Jan 23
Wed, 12pm
Jan 24
Thu, 3pm
“C. elegans locomotion: connectivity, activity and recovery from injury”
Gal Haspel, Ph.D., NINDS, NIH
Jan 29
Tue, 1pm
The evolution of carotenoid Coloration and pigmentation in the New World blackbirds
Nicholas Friedman Dissertation Defense
Jan 30
Wed, 3pm
Using Drosophila to Screen for Neurprotective Drugs Against Parkinsons Disease and Other Neurological Disorders
Hakeem O. Lawal, Ph.D., Brain Research Inst., David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Jan 31
Thu, 4pm
Feb 6
Wed, 12pm
Expanding the methylome: Defining novel lysine methylation events in epigenetic and cellular signaling pathways
Erin Green, Ph.D., Stanford University
Feb 7
Thu, 4pm
Feb 13
Wed, 12pm
Processing of olfactory information in the periphery
Chih-Ying Su, Ph.D., Yale University
Feb 14
Thu, 4pm
Feb 20
Wed, 12pm
Feb 21
Thu, 4pm
Feb 27
Wed, 12pm
STATus update: rounding up some neighbors and leaving the epithelium
Michelle Starz-Gaiano
Feb 28
Thu, 4pm
Mar 1
Fri, 12pm
Special Informal Seminar:Species limits and the role of biogeographic "barriers" in the evolution of a complex of Australian savannah trees
Bort Edwards, Ph.D.
Mar 6
Wed, 12pm
Mar 7
Thu, 4pm
Mar 13
Wed, 12pm
Analysis of AAA+ ATPase and Ras-like GTPase functional divergence and molecular mechanisms
Andrew Neuwald, Ph.D.
Mar 14
Thu, 4pm
Mar 20
Wed, 12pm
Mar 21
Thu, 4pm
Mar 27
Wed, 12pm
Identity Crisis: Determining the mechanisms required for specification of migratory cells & cell fate control during plant innate immunity
Lathiena Manning & Safae Hamdoun
Mar 28
Thu, 4pm
Mar 29
Fri, 12pm
Building the body plan: the miracle of morphogenesis
Mark Peifer, Ph.D.
Apr 3
Wed, 12pm
Transcriptional Control of Retinal Ganglion Cell Type Specification
Tudor Constantin Badea, M.D., Ph.D.
Apr 4
Thu, 4pm
Apr 5
Fri, 12pm
The role of avian vision in predator-prey interactions: integrating physiological and behavioral perspectives
Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Ph.D.
Apr 10
Wed, 12pm
Mechanisms of Axial Elongation in the Mouse Embryo
Dr. Ann Sutherland
Apr 11
Thu, 4pm
Apr 12
Fri, 12pm
The evolution history of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera): host/parasitoid synchrony vs asynchrony
Dr. Matthew Buffington
Apr 15
Mon, 12pm
The Role of Male Color in Darter Speciation
Tory H. Williams, Dissertation Defense
Apr 17
Wed, 12pm
Irridescent color signals in nature: production, function and perception
Ronald Rutowski, Ph.D.
Apr 18
Thu, 4pm
Apr 24
Wed, 12pm
Apr 25
Thu, 4pm
May 1
Wed, 12pm
Odorant-induced Plasticity in the Neural Circuits of the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb
Leonardo Belluscio, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health
May 2
Thu, 4pm
May 3
Fri, 12pm
Evolutionary genetics of fruit fly – endoparasitoid wasp interactions
Todd Schlenke, Ph.D., Emory UNiversity
May 8
Wed, 12pm
Plant Immune Signaling, Components, Connections and Calmodulin
Jane Glazebrook, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
May 9
Thu, 4pm
May 10
Fri, 12pm
Gene expression noise in models of E. coli decision making and growth
Elijah Roberts, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
May 15
Wed, 12pm
Triacylglycerol Synthesis and Storage in Microalgae: Pathways, Regulation and Biotechnological Implications
Yantao Li, Ph.D.
May 16
Thu, 4pm
May 22
Wed, 12pm
May 23
Thu, 4pm
May 29
Wed, 12pm
May 30
Thu, 4pm