Fall Seminar Series-2007
Fridays at 1- 2:00PM Biology Building Rm 204
BIOL 4800/5860
Tentative Schedule of Speakers as of August 27, 2007
For questions please contact Kent Chapman at 940-565-2969 or chapman@unt.edu
Hosts are listed in parentheses, and will set the itineraries for the guest speakers.
Sept. 7 Dr. Guido Verbeck
Assistant Professor of Chemistty, University of North Texas
http://www.chem.unt.edu/verbeck/
Sept. 14 Dr. Christopher Rensing (Kunz)
Associate Professor, Department of Soil, Water and Environmetal Science
University of Arizona, Tucson
http://cals.arizona.edu/swes/people/cv/rensing.htm
"Keeping Copper at Arms Length- Rumble in the Periplasmic Jungle"
Sept. 21 Dr. Rujin Chen (Dickstein)
Associate Professor/ Scientist, Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation,
Ardmore, OK --http://www.noble.org/PlantBio/Chen/index.htm
"Medicago truncatula, a Model for Compund Leaf Studies"
**Sept. 25 Dr. Jane PArker (Shah)**Special Time and Location
Group Leader (Max-Planck Fwllow), Dept. Plant-Microbe Interactions, MaxPlanck Institue of Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
http://www.mpiz-oeln.mpg.de/english/research/schulzelLefertGroup/parker/index.html
"Plant Immunity and Pathogen Innovation" ESSAT 115, 4:00pm
Sept. 28 Dr. Ann Hirsch (Dickstein)
Professor, Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, UCLA
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hirsch/research.php
"Molecular Gebetuc Basis for Plant Microbe Interactions"
Oct. 5 Dr. Leslie Sieburth (Ayre)
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Unicersity of Utah, Salt Lake City
http:/www.biology.utah.edu/faculty2.php?inum=38
"Molecular Genetics of Leaf Vein Pattern Development in Arabidopsis"
Oct. 12 Dr. Jian-Ping Jin (Root)
Professor and Section Chief of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evaston, IL
http://www.enh.org/research/investigators/default.aspx?id=2262
"Tension Regulation and Function of h2-Calponin"
Oct. 19 Dr. Pudur Jagadeeswaran
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
"Zebrafish: from blood to water"
Oct. 26 Dr. Andrew Mount (Roberts)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University
http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/mount/
"Cellular Biomineralization in Oysters"
Nov. 2 Dr. Hossein Estekey (Schwark)
Head, School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathmatics, Tehran, Iran--
http://www.ipm.ir/IPM/people/personalinfo.jsp?Peoplecode=IP0000024
"Neural Basis of Visual Object Categorization in Man and Monkey"
Nov. 9 Dr. James Seago (Smith and Stevens)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York (SUNY)
Oswego-
http://www.oswego.edu/academics/colleges_and_departments/departments/biology/faculty/seago.html"The Root Apical Meristem of Angiosperms from a Developmental and Phylogentic Perpective"
Nov. 16 Dr. Jyoti Shah(Chapman)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
"Plants at War"
Nov. 23 No Seminar-- Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 30 Dr. Amelia J. Eisch (Fuchs)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southweatern Medical Center
http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/eisch/aje.html
"Regulation of Adult Neurogenesis by Drugs, Sex, and Stress"
Fall Seminar Series-2006
Fridays at 1-2:10 PM Biol Building Rm 204
BIOL 4800/5860
Tentative Schedule of Speakers as of August 22, 2006
For questions please contact Kent Chapman at 940-565-2969 or chapman@unt.edu
Hosts are listed in parentheses, and will set the itineraries for the guest speakers.
Sept. 8 Dr. Edward Dzialowski
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
Dr. Edward Dzialowski
"Developmental Physiology of the Avian Cardiovascular System"
Sept. 15 Dr. Duane Huggett
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
"Using Comparative Physiology and Toxicology to Understand Pharmaceuticals in the Environment"
Sept. 22 Dr. Ignacy Gryczynski (Root)
Professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology, UNT Health Science Center
http://www.hsc.unt.edu/faculty/biography.cfm?id=469
"Confocal Microscopy"
Sept. 29 Dr. Karl Hasenstein(Kent Chapman)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
http://biology.louisiana.edu/hasenstein.html
"Graviperception in Plants"
Oct. 6 Dr. Wendy Reed (Warren Burggren)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/clark_reed/wendypersonal.html
"Material Effects Determine Offspring Performance in Birds"
Oct. 13 Dr. Richard N. Trelease (Kent Chapman)
Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
http://sols.asu.edu/faculty/rtrelease.php
"biogenesis of Peroxisomes"
Oct. 20 Dr. Tyrell Conway (Dan Kunz)
Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/faculty/conway.html
"Functional Genomics of E. coli"
Oct. 27 Dr. Edward L. Braun (Pamela Padilla)
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville
http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/ebraun/
"Have there been multiple losses of flight in the ratites? A phylogenomic answer"
Nov. 3 Dr. John Ward (Brian Ayre)
Assistant Professory, Development of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/plantbio/faculty/WardJohn/
"Functional analysis of plant surcrose transporters"
Nov. 10 Dr.
Jeanee Harris (Rebecca Dickstein)
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington
http://www.uvm.edu/~plantbio/?Page=faculty/harris.html
"A signaling Network regulating the formation of nitrogen-fixing legume nodules"
Nov. 17 Dr. John McDowell (Kent Chapman)
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
http://www.biotech.vt.edu/about/faculty/mcdowell/mcdowell.html
"Unraveling Defense Signal Transduction Networks in Arabidopsis"
Nov. 24 No Seminar-- Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 1 Dr. Rujin Chen (Rebecca Dickstein)
Assistant Scientist, Plant Biology Division, S.R. Noble foundation, Ardmore, OK
http://www.noble.org/PlantBio/Chen/index.htm
"legume Development and Polar Auxin Transport"
Fall Seminar Series-2005
Fridays at 1-2:10pm Biol Building rm 204
BIOL 4800/5860
Schedule of Speakers as of Sept 2, 2005
For questions please contact Kent Chapman at 940-565-2969 or chapman@unt.edu
Hosts are listed in parentheses, and will set the itineraries for the guest speakers.
Sept. 9 Dr. Douglas Root
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
"An Analysis of Motile Proteins by Nanotechniques"
Sept. 16 Dr. Murray Nabors (Don Smith),
Chair, Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, MS
"Selecting Useful Mutations in Populations of Cultured Plant Cells and Regenerating Plants with Increased Agricultural Productivity"
Sept. 23 Dr. Stephen Marek (Rebecca Dickstein)
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
"Developing Fungal Pathosystems for the Model Plant Medicago truncatula"
Sept. 30 Dr. Andrea Linscott (Gerry O’Donovan)
Director of Clinical Microbiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA.
"Infections of Leisure"
Oct. 7 Dr. Jamboor K. Vishwanatha (Kent Chapman)
Associate Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Sciences Center, Ft Worth, TX
"Smokeless tobacco, nicotine and oral cancer"
Oct. 14 Dr. Pamela Larsen (Pamela Padilla)
Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, UT San Antonio Health Sciences Center, San Antonio TX
"Life span determination due to temperature and DAF-2 insulin-like signaling in C. elegans"
Oct. 21 Dr. Brian McMahon (Warren Burggren)
Faculty Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary Canada
"Title, TBA"
Oct. 28 Dr. Anne Summers (Dan Kunz)
Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
"Open Source Evolution"
Nov. 4 Dr. Meg Phillips (Kent Chapman)
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
"High-throughput Screening for Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase"
Nov. 11 Dr. Brian Ayre
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
"From here to there: The physiology of metabolite distribution in the phloem and its implications for plant biotechnology"
Nov. 18 Dr. Jannon Fuchs
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
"Cilia on Neurons: What, Where, Why?"
Nov. 25 No Seminar-- Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2 Dr. Robert Last (Brian Ayre)
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
"Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: From Metabolic Pathways to Networks and Beyond"
Contact Christina Nelson: chnelson@hsc.unt.edu
