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Winter 2012

Date Time Speaker's Name Seminar Topic Host(s)

01/05/12

1PM

David Kovar, Faculty Job Candidate Organizing the Actin Cytoskeleton for Diverse Cellular Processes

Amy Gladfelter

01/06/12

4PM

Fred Gould, North Carolina State  Can Genetically Engineered Pests Save Biodiversity and Improve Human Health? 

Mark McPeek 

01/09/12

2PM

Lisa Petrella, Faculty Job Candidate Antagonizing Germline Fate in Somatic Cells: Buffering of Gene Expression by synMuv B Chromatin Regulators

Tom Jack

01/12/12

1PM

Erik Griffin, Faculty Job Candidate Patterning the Cytoplasm:  a New Model for the Formation of Protein Gradients

Rob McClung

01/13/12

4PM

Elizabeth Crone, Harvard Forest  Pulsed Floral Resources and Pollinator Population Dynamics

Matt Ayres

01/16/12

11AM

Maya Capelson, Faculty Job Candidate The Role of the Nuclear Pore Complex in Chromatin Organization, Gene Regulation and Development Patrick Dolph

01/19/12

1PM

Erik Andersen, Faculty Job Candidate Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits in C. elegans Tom Jack

01/20/12

4PM

Sarah Hobbie, Univ. of Minnesota Nutrient Effects on Litter Decomposition: Insights and Puzzles  Julia Bradley-Cook

01/23/12

2PM

Sijun Zhu, Faculty Job Candidate

Genetic Control of Drosophila Neural Stem Cell Self-renewal and Specification

Rob McClung

01/26/12

1PM

Todd Castoe, Faculty Job Candidate

Snake Evolutionary Genomics

Mark McPeek

01/27/12

4PM

Brad Binder, Univ. of Tennesse-Knoxville 

Diverse Roles of Ethylene Receptors in Plants and Cyanobacteria 

Eric Schaller

01/30/12

2PM

Bridgett vonHoldt, Faculty Job Candidate 

Evolutionary Genomics of Canids

Mark McPeek

02/02/12

1PM

Courtney Babbitt, Faculty Job Candidate

The Impact of Gene Regulation in Primate and Human Evolution

Mark McPeek

02/06/12

2PM

Jennifer Brisson, Faculty Job Candidate

Investigating Genetic and Environmental Influences on Development Using Aphid Wing Dimorphisms

Mark McPeek

02/09/12

1PM

Olga Zhaxybayeva, Faculty Job Candidate

Evolutionary Bioinformatics in the Postgenomic and Metagenomics Eras

Mark McPeek

02/13/12

2PM

Kirk Lohmueller, Faculty Job Candidate

Insights into Human History and Natural Selection from Genome Sequencing Data

Mark McPeek

03/02/12

4PM

Elizabeth Borer, Univ. of Minnesota

The Community Ecology of Barley and Cereal Yellow Dwarf Viruses

Nina Lany

         

Last Updated: 3/12/12