| Date |
Title |
Speaker's Name, Affiliation |
Host |
Time, Room, Hall |
| Jan. 26 |
SEE
“Ecological and microevolutionary responses of coastal marsh plants to climate stressors” |
Michael Blum,
Assistant Professor,
Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA |
Jim Cronin |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 2 |
SEE
“The evolution and function of carbonic anhydrase in vertebrates” |
Andrew Espaugh,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. |
Physiology candidate |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 2 |
BMB/CDIB
“SSB: Central Organizer and Achilles' Heel of Bacterial Genome Maintenance”
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James Keck,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin |
John Battista |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 9 |
SEE
“Testing Divergence with Gene Flow in Chipmunks” |
Jack Sullivan,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. |
Bryan Carstens |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 9 |
BMB/CDIB
“Plasticity of Intrinsic Membrane Properties of the Hypothalamic Neuroendocrine Cells”
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Ryoichi (Rio) Teruyama,
Assistant Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Faculty Search – Joe Siebenaller, Chair |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 16 |
SEE
“Tree recruitment in a tropical floodplain forest” |
John Terborgh,
Research Professor & Director, Division of Environmental Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC |
Adrianna Bravo (Harms Lab) |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 16 |
BMB/CDIB
"PFKFB3 Structure-Based Design of New Cancer Therapeutics"
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Yong-Hwan Lee,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
Louisiana State University |
Promotion and Tenure Seminar |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Feb. 23 |
MARDI GRAS HOLIDAY
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| Mar. 2 |
SEE
“Genial heat? Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics” |
Robert Colwell,
Professor,
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; |
Sebastian Tello (Stevens Lab) |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 2 |
BMB/CDIB
“Evolution: A Bridge between Systems Biology and Protein Design” |
Olivier Lichtarge,
Professor, Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine |
Marcia Newcomer and John Larkin |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 9 |
SEE
“The physiological costs of fish gill remodeling following infection by freshwater mussel larvae” |
Benjamin Dubansky,
Graduate Student,
Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL
7921 |
Advisor: Fernando Galvez. |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 9 |
BMB/CDIB
“The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae modulates host auxin physiology to promote disease” |
Barbara Kunkel,
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis |
John Larkin |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 16 |
SEE
“Mitonuclear coadaptation, thermal selection and fitness: when your genes are just another part of the environment” |
David Rand,
Professor,
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Brown University |
Andrew Whitehead |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 16 |
BMB/CDIB
"Crystallographic Structures of two Eukaryotic Phosphofructokinases: that from yeast and rabbit muscle" |
Katarzyna Banaszak,
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry. Polish Academy of Sciences. Poznan, Poland |
Simon Chang |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 23 |
SEE
TBA
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Nick Longrich,
Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary | Dominique Homberger |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 23 |
BMB/CDIB
"Coping with Stress: Physiological Adaptations in Invertebrates" |
Manfred Grieshaber,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry,
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany |
Michael Menze |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 30 |
SEE
“The relative importance of induced responses and
neighbor effects for plant defense against herbivores” |
Amanda Accamando,
Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU,
BIOL 7921 |
Advisor: Jim Cronin |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Mar. 30 |
BMB/CDIB
"Transcription Coupled Nucleotide Excision Repair in Yeast" |
Shisheng Li,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine |
David Donze |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Apr. 6 |
SPRING BREAK
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| Apr. 13 |
SEE
“Explaining Neotropical Primate Community Composition: the role of phylogeny, ecology and environment” |
Maria Gavilanez,
Graduate Student,
Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL 7921 |
Advisor: Richard Stevens |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Apr. 13 |
BMB/CDIB
“Neuroglycobiology -- Gangliosides enhance axon stability and inhibit axon regeneration” |
Ronald Schnarr
Professor
Departments of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Roger Laine |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Apr. 20 |
SEE
“Genetic divergence, hybridization, and adaptation along an environmental gradient between King and Clapper rails” |
James Maley,
Graduate Student,
Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL 7921 |
Advisor: Robb Brumfield |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Apr. 20 |
BMB/CDIB
"Proteinase inhibition by the acrobatic serpin family" |
Peter Gettins,
Director, Center for Structural Biology, University of
Illinois at Chicago
| Marcia Newcomer |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Apr. 27 |
SEE
TBA |
Yalma Vargas-Rodriguez,
Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU, BIOL 7921 |
Advisor: Bill Platt |
1:00pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
| Apr. 27 |
BMB/CDIB
"Adventures in Scientific Literacy - Using your research
perspective to communicate with others." |
David Ng,
Senior Instructor, Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory
Michael Smith Laboratories
University of British Columbia |
Vince LiCata and Bill Wischusen |
3:30pm, Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A101Life Sciences) |
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