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Seminar Schedule for Fall 2008 ( view pdf  )
 
Date Title Speaker's Name, Affiliation Host Time, Room, Hall
SEPT 1 LABOR DAY - No seminar

 

     
SEPT 8 BMB/CDIB
Rescheduled
 
SEPT 15 BMB/CDIB
"Physiological adaptations to life under frozen conditions"
Pierre Amato, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Post-Doctoral Fellow, Christner lab 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
SEPT 22 BMB/CDIB
"Epigenetic Link Between DNA Methylation And Histone Modifications"
Xiaodong Cheng, Department of Biochemistry, Emory School of Medicine Yong-Hwan Lee and Joo Kim ***NOTE TIME CHANGE***
11:30am, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
SEPT 29 BMB/CDIB
"Location, location ... How Regulation Of Localization May Determine Functional Differences Between Liver X Receptor Isotypes"
Kirsten Prufer, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Promotion and Tenure Seminar 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
OCT 6 BMB/CDIB
"Combining Computational Modeling And Epr Spectroscopy To Analyze Conformational Changes At The Nucleotide Site Of Myosin And Kinesin Molecular Motors"
Ed Pate, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University Computational Biology Faculty Position Search 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
OCT 13 SEE
“Benthic primary producers in Coastal Louisiana”
 
Mark Grippo, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL 7921 Advisor: John Fleeger 1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
OCT 13 BMB/CDIB
"The Physiology of Global Warming: Seeking the Causal Mechanisms behind Biogeographic Change"
George Somero, Director, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University Fernando Galvez 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
OCT 20 BMB/CDIB
"Structural Biology And Inhibition Of Enzymes That Assemble Bacterial Endotoxins: Potent Lipid Activators Of Innate Immunity"
Christian Raetz, George Barth Geller Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center Bill Doerrler and Roger Laine 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
OCT 27 SEE
“Exercise physiology and life modes of the earliest birds”
John A. Ruben, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University Dominique Homberger 1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
OCT 27 BMB/CDIB
"Regulation of MAPK Signaling by Dual Specificity Phosphatases in Adipocytes"
Ron Morrison, Department of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Jackie Stephens 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
NOV 3 SEE
“Genetic structure and morphology of Artibeus lituratus in a fragmented landscape”  
Eve McCulloch, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL 7921 Advisor: Richard Stevens 1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
NOV 3 BMB/CDIB
"NMR structural characterization of carbohydrate substrates bound to GnT-V"
Megan Macnaughtan, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University   3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
NOV 10 BMB/CDIB
"1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Long term persistence and long term effects"
Stanley Rice, National Marine Fisheries Service, Auke Bay, Alaska Bill Stickle 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
NOV 17 SEE
“Comparative chloroplast genomics: Implications for phylogeny and genome evolution of angiosperms”  
Robert K. Jansen, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin Lowell Urbatsch 1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
NOV 17 BMB/CDIB
"SSB: Central Organizer and Achilles' Heel of Bacterial Genome Maintenance"
James Keck, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin John Battista 3:40pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)
NOV 24 SEE
"TBA"  
Amber Gates, Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL 7921 Advisor: Mark Hafner 1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences)

Note:
 - All SEE seminars start at 1:00 pm in 101 Life Sciences Annex. A social precedes the seminar, starting at 12:40 pm, and will be held in the annex lobby.
 - All BMB/CDIB seminars will start at 3:40 pm in 101 Life Sciences Annex unless otherwise noted. A coffee and cookie social precedes the seminar, starting at 3:20 pm, and will be held in the annex lobby