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Seminar Schedule for Fall 2009
SEE seminars start at 1:00pm in 101Life Sciences Annex, preceded by a social at 12:40pm in the lobby.
BMB/CDIB seminars start at 3:40pm in 101 Life Sciences Annex, preceded by a social at 3:20pm in the lobby.
August 31
BMB/CDIB
Grover Waldrop, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University.
"A Tale of Two Functions: Enzymatic Activity or Translational Attenuation by a Biotin-Dependent Enzyme".
Promotion Seminar |
September 7
Labor Day |
September 14
SEE
Loren Hayes, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Monroe.
“Mammalian Sociality: Moving from Evolutionary-Ecological to Evolutionary-Mechanistic Perspectives”.
Host: Deborah Triant
BMB/CDIB
Jianping Ye, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"Yin and Yang in Obesity" |
September 21
SEE
Open
BMB/CDIB
John Reeve, Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University
"Genetics and Gene Expression at 85oC in Thermococcus kodakaraensis; the model hyperthermophilic Archaeon"
Host: Brent Christner |
September 28
SEE
Tracy Hmielowski, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“Resprouting Response of Hardwoods in Frequently Burned Southeastern Pine Habitat”.
BIOL 7921, Advisor: Bill Platt
BMB/CDIB
Bill Doerrler, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"The DedA family: A conserved bacterial membrane protein family with roles in cell division"
Promotion and Tenure Seminar |
October 5
SEE
Wesley Daniels, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“A Multifactor Approach to Distribution and Abundance of Pearly Mussels in Louisiana Coastal Plain Rivers”.
BIOL 7921, Advisor: Ken Brown
BMB/CDIB
David Mobley, Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans
"Predicting protein-ligand binding free energies from computer simulations"
Host: Grover Waldrop |
October 12
SEE
Forrest Dillemuth, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“A Plant Invasion into North American Tall-Grass Prairies: Impacts on Native Communities and Mechanisms Responsible for Successful Invasion”.
BIOL 7921, Advisor: Jim Cronin
BMB/CDIB
Rui Lu, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"RNAi directed viral immunity in single-dicer invertebrates" |
October 19
SEE
Jonathan Bonin, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“The Structure and Physical Properties of Feathers of Cockatoos and Parrots (Psittaciformes): Environmental Adaptation and Evolutionary History”.
BIOL 7921, Advisor: Dominique Homberger
BMB/CDIB
Hollie Hale-Donze, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"Innate immune responses to rosporidians"
Promotion and Tenure Seminar |
October 26
SEE
Thomas Shirley, College of Science & Technology, Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi
“Deep Sea Corals of British Columbia: Their Distribution, Role as Habitat, and Threats from Commercial Fishing”.
Host: Bill Stickle
BMB/CDIB
Heike Muenzberg-Gruening, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
“Central Control of Food Intake - Role of Galanin Expressing Leptin Receptor”
Host: Evanna Gleason |
November 2
SEE
Ellen Leichty, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“Effects of Avian Granivores on Pine Savanna Groundcover Communities”.
BIOL 7921, Advisor: Bill Platt
BMB/CDIB
Rebecca Giorno, School of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University
"Roles of Bacillus anthracis spore structures in germination, resistance, and disease"
Host: Greg Pettis |
November 9
SEE
Jacob Goheen, Dept. of Zoology, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC
“Of Mice, Megaherbivores, and Mutualists: Regulation of Tree Productivity by Cryptic Consumers in an African Savanna”.
Host: Richard Stevens
BMB/CDIB
Jim Brown, Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University
“RNase P in Archaea: Looking to a warm place for P”
Host: Fareed Aboul-ela. |
November 16
SEE
Dan Doak, Dept. of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie
“The Little Beasts that Run the Savanna: Termites and Creation of Spatial Structure in an East African Ecosystem”.
Host: Brett Elderd
BMB/CDIB
Graduate Student Symposium
Host: Biograds |
November 23
SEE
John Fleeger, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“What is the Relative Importance of Sediment Particle Size and Vertical Gradients to Nematode Morphometrics?”
BMB/CDIB
William Cefalu, M.D., Douglas L. Manship Professorship in Diabetes, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Title TBA
Host: Jackie Stephens. |
November 30
SEE
Dominique Homberger, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU
“The Evolution of Flight”.
BMB/CDIB
Open |
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