Biology Department Seminar Schedule
All Seminars are held in 109 Leidy Lab at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
FALL 2004
September 16
Title: Molecular Evolution of Plasmodium Falciparum
Area: Evolutionary Genomics, Molecular Evolution and Population Genetics
Speaker: Dr. David Hartl (Harvard University)
Webpage: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/hartl/lab/research/index.html
Hosted by: Dr. David Roos
September 23
Title: "Genes and Speciation"
Area: Genetic and Molecular Basis of Species Differences
Speaker: Dr. Chung-I Wu (University of Chicago)
Webpage: http://molbio.bsd.uchicago.edu/index3.html?content=faculty/cWu/index.html
Hosted by: Dr. Warren Ewens
September 30
Title: "Associative Memory Signals in the Monkey Medial Temporal Lobe"
Area: The Organization of Memory Systems
Speaker: Dr. Wendy Suzuki (New York University)
Webpage: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/suzuki.php
Hosted by: Dr. Ted Abel
October 7
Title: Genetics of Developmental Timing in Animals
Area: Micro RNAs in C.elegans and Mammals
Speaker: Dr. Eric Moss (UMDNJ)
Webpage: http://www3.umdnj.edu/mobioweb/faculty_staff/moss.html
Hosted by: Dr. R. Scott Poethig
October 14
Title: Molecular Basis of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Area: Genetic, Molecular Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep
Speaker: Dr. Amita Seghal (University of Pennsylvania)
Webpage: http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/ggr/sehgal.html
Hosted by: Dr. Marc Schmidt
October 21 - No Seminar
October 28
Title: Maintaining an Intracellular Niche: Lessons from Listeria
Area: Host Pathogen Interactions Using Listeria as a Model
Speaker: Dr. Amy Decatur (University of Pennsylvania)
Webpage: http://www.med.upenn.edu/micro/faculty/decatur.html
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Binns
November 4
Title: "The Taste of Sweet, Bitter and Sex in Drosophila"
Area: Genetic, Molecular Mechanisms of Sex-Specific Processes
Speaker: Dr. Hubert Amrein (Duke University)
Webpage: http://mgm.duke.edu/faculty/amrein/
Hosted by: Dr. Ted Abel
November 11
Title: Detecting Selection Using a Single Genome Sequence: Applications to
Microbial Evolution
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Plotkin (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Hosted by: Dr. David Roos
November 18
Title: Dynamic Organization of the Yeast Nucleus
Area: Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Transport; Membrane Trafficking
Speaker: Dr. Alan Tartakoff (Case Western University)
Webpage: http://www.cwru.edu/med/pathology/fac/tartakoff.htm
Hosted by: Dr. Wei Guo
November 25 - Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2
Title: How Plants Remember Winter: Vernalization and the Competence to Flower
Area: Epigenetic Control of Flowering Time
Speaker: Dr. Richard Amasino (University of Wisconsin)
Webpage: http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/amasino/
Hosted by: Dr. Doris Wagner
December 9
Title: Molecular Analysis of Mammalian Circadian Rhythms
Area: Molecular Biology and Genetics of Biological Clocks
Speaker: Dr. Charles Weitz (Harvard University)
Web Page: http://www.neuro.med.harvard.edu/site/faculty/weitz.html
Hosted by: Dr. Dejian Ren
Spring 2005
January 20
Title: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Caught in the
Food Web?
Area: Ecological and Evolutionary Mechanisms in Natural Communities
Speaker: Dr. Emmett Duffy (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
Webpage: http://www.vims.edu/bio/faculty/duffy_je.html
Hosted by: Dr. Paul Schmidt
January 27 - To Be Announced.
February 3
Title: The Evolution of Placentas in Poeciliid fishes: An Empirical
Study of Macroevolution.
Area: Evolutionary Theory in Natural Populations
Speaker: Dr. David Reznick(University of California - Riverside)
Webpage: http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Reznick.html
Hosted by: Dr. Paul Schmidt
February 10
Title: Neurobiology Meets Molecular Evolution: Ion Channels and
Electric Fish
Area: Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics
Speaker: Dr. Harold Zakon (University of Texas - Austin)
Webpage: http://www.utexas.edu/neuroscience/Neurobiology/HaroldZakon/
Hosted by: Dr. Larry Rome
February 17
Title: Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics of Hsp70-mediated
Thermotolerance in Drosophila
Area: Electrosensation: Molecular Regulation and Evolution of Ion Channels
Speaker: Dr. Martin Feder(University of Chicago)
Webpage: http://pondside.uchicago.edu/%7efeder/Martin_Feder.html"
Hosted by: Dr. Larry Rome
February 24
Title: The Genetics of the Evolution of Plant Form: An Example From Maize
Area: Evolutionary Genetics: Evolution of Form, Domestication
Speaker: Dr. John Doebley (University of Wisconsin)
Webpage: http://www.wisc.edu/teosinte/
Hosted by: Dr. Paul Schmidt
March 3
Title: Myosin-X: A Molecular Motor at the Cell's Fingertips
Area: Myosin X in motility
Speaker: Dr. Richard Cheney (University of North Carolina)
Webpage: http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/2depts/physiolo/fac_cheney.htm
Hosted by: Dr. Tatyana Svitkina
March 10 - Spring Break
March 17
Title: Molecular Networks Composing Circadian Clocks
Area: Biological Clocks
Speaker: Dr. Michael Young (Rockefeller University)
Webpage: http://www.rockfeller.edu/labheads/young/young-lab.html
Hosted by: Dr. Anthony Cashmore
March 24
Title: TBA
Area: Epithelial Polarity and Morphogenesis
Speaker: Dr. Keith Mostov (UCSF)
Webpage: http://anatomy.ucsf.edu/Pages/mostov.html
Hosted by: Dr. Wei Guo
April 7
Title: "The Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Adaptations: Lessons
from a Wild Weed"
Area: Evolution, Ecology and Genetics of Plant Development
Speaker: Dr. Michael Purugganan (North Carolina State University)
Webpage: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/genetics/purugganan/purugganan.html
Hosted by: Dr. Doris Wagner
April 8
Title: "Signaling Complexes Mediating Actin Dynamics-Based Motility"
Speaker: Dr. Giorgio Scita (The European Institute of Oncology,
The FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology)
Webpage: http://www.semm.it/phd_prgramme/faculty/scita.html
Hosted
by: Dr. Tatyana Svitkina
April 14
Title: TBA
Area: Neurogenesis in Adult Brain; Molecular Mechanism of Neuronal Replacement
Speaker: Dr. Fernando Nottebohm (Rockefeller University)
Webpage: http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=1333
Hosted by: Dr. Marc Schmidt
April 21
Title: Mechanisms of Arsenic Uptake and Detoxification in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Area: Mechanistic Basis of Heavy Metal Detoxification
Speaker: Dr. Barry Rosen (Wayne State University)
Webpage: http://www.med.wayne.edu/biochem/rosenlab/
Hosted by: Dr. Philip Rea
May 4
Title: TBA
Area: Evolution, Population Genetics, and Genomics
Speaker: Dr. Michael Lynch (Indiana University)
Webpage: http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Lynch.html
Hosted by: Dr. Paul Schmidt
