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Seminar Schedule for Spring 2009
 
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”
 
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”
 
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"
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
     
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)
         

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