Fall 2012
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Presenter |
Sep 5 |
Wed, 12pm |
Regulation of Morphogenesis by Ubiquitination |
Dr. Irene Zohn |
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Sep 6 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Sep 7 |
Fri, 12pm |
Linking Pattern and Process: Behavioral and Demographic Drivers of Avian Responses to Urbanization |
Dr. Amanda Rodewald, Ohio University |
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Sep 12 |
Wed, 12pm |
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Sep 13 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Sep 19 |
Wed, 12pm |
Imaging Spatiotemporal Regulation of Cellular Metabolism in Living Cells |
Song An, Ph.D. UMBC |
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Sep 20 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Sep 21 |
Fri, 12pm |
DNA Barcoding at the Smithsonian: Molecular Species Identification Research and Applications |
Amy Driskell |
Sep 26 |
Wed, 12pm |
By the teeth of their skin, cavefish find their way |
Daphne Soares, Ph.D. |
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Sep 27 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Oct 2 |
Tue, 10am |
Dissertation Defense Proteomic Identification and Biological Validation of Novel Breast Cancer MHC II Peptide Vaccine Candidates and Immunosuppressive Mechanisms |
Olesya Chornoguz |
Oct 3 |
Wed, 11am |
Dissertation Defense Analyses of functional and assembly defects in the ribosome of L4 and L22 mutant Escherichia coli strains |
Jeffrey Kendall Brown |
Oct 3 |
Wed, 12pm |
Evolution of Australian and New Guinean butcherbirds in response to past climate change |
Anna Kearns, Ph.D. |
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Oct 4 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Oct 5 |
Fri, 12pm |
Cilia, Flagella and Disease |
Dr. George Witman, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Oct 10 |
Wed, 12pm |
Divergence of Sexual Signals in Snubnose Darters & Molecular Basis of Crosstalk Between the Circadian Clock and Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis |
Michael Martin and Chong Zhang |
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Oct 11 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Oct 17 |
Wed, 12pm |
Teaching My Students to Think, Even When They Don’t Want To! |
Edward "Joe" Redish |
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Oct 18 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Oct 23 |
Tue, 3pm |
The role of sexual selection in creating rapid phenotypic change in sub-species of barn swallows |
Rebecca Saffran, Ph.D. |
Oct 24 |
Wed, 12pm |
Whole genome analysis of Cellvibrio japonicus reveals novel genes critical for cellulose degradation |
Jeffrey Gardner, Ph.D. |
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Oct 25 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Oct 31 |
Wed, 12pm |
Nucleolar stress: ribosome biogenesis, the cell cycle, and ribosome instability |
Lasse Lindahl |
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Nov 1 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Nov 5 |
Mon, 12pm |
Molecular Mechanisms for Congenital Malformations Caused by Diabetic Pregnancy: Lessons Learned from Mice and Embryonic Stem Cells |
Dr. Mary Loeken |
Nov 7 |
Wed, 12pm |
A domain-centric approach for analysis of cancer somatic mutations |
Dr. Maricel Kann |
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Nov 8 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Nov 14 |
Wed, 12pm |
Elucidating novel mechanical pathways in Dictyostelium through the interface of chemistry and genetics |
Alexandra Surcel, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medical School |
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Nov 15 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Nov 16 |
Fri, 12pm |
Astrobiology, amino acids and the evolution of genetic coding |
Stephen Freeland, Ph.D. |
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Nov 21 |
Wed, 12pm |
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Nov 22 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Nov 28 |
Wed, 12pm |
Communication among tumor-infiltrating immune cells enhances tumor-progression & Smelling the big picture: Heterotrimeric G-protein bg subunits in the peripheral olfactory system |
Dan Beury and Aaron Sathyanesan |
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Nov 29 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Nov 30 |
Fri, 12pm |
The Mathematics of Life - Decisions, Decisions |
Dr. James Keener, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah |
Dec 5 |
Wed, 12pm |
Gimme some skin: Epidermal cell fate specification in C. elegans |
David Eisenmann, Ph.D. |
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Dec 6 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Dec 12 |
Wed, 12pm |
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Dec 13 |
Thu, 1pm |
Special Informal Seminar |
Paul Reillo, Ph.D. |
Dec 14 |
Fri, 12pm |
As the birds fly: population differentiation and speciation in highly mobile seabirds |
Tammy Steeves, Ph.D. |
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Dec 19 |
Wed, 12pm |
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Dec 20 |
Thu, 4pm |
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Dec 26 |
Wed, 12pm |
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Dec 27 |
Thu, 4pm |
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