Texas Tech University Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series
Last updated: 20 November 2009 (NEW info on reimbursement for meals AND on who makes travel arrangements)
Fall 2009
Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., Biology Bldg. room 101
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m., Biology Bldg. room 102
(unless otherwise noted)
Open dates are in yellow
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| Sept. 23 |
Dr. Amy Pedersen - Animal & Plant Sciences, Univ. Sheffield (UK) http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff/acadstaff/pedersen.html |
Expanding the one-host / one-pathogen framework: implications for disease emergence and wildlife health | Dr. Jorge Salazar-Bravo |
| Sept. 30 |
CANCELLED: Dr. Martin Schlapfer - Environmental Science & Forestry, State Univ. of NY http://www.esf.edu/efb/schlaepfer/ |
TBA |
Dr. Ximena Bernal |
| Oct. 7 |
Dr. Jack Sullivan - Biological Sciences, Univ. Idaho |
Testing divergence with gene flow in chipmunks |
Dr. Robert Baker |
| Oct. 14 |
POSTPONED TO SPRING:
Dr. Robert Webb |
Recent advances in the development of vaccines against botulinum neurotoxins | Dr. Michael San Francisco |
| Oct. 21 |
Dr. Chris Whelan -
Illinois Natural History Survey & Institute of Natural Resource
Sustainability, Univ. Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/staff/index.php?action=list&user_name=cwhelan |
Co-adaptations of feeding behaviors and gut modulation as a mechanism of co-existence | Dr. Ken Schmidt |
| Oct. 28 |
CANCELLED: Dr. Edith Allen - Botany & Plant Sciences, Univ. California at Riverside http://plantbiology.ucr.edu/faculty/allen.html |
TBA | Dr. John Zak |
| Nov. 4 |
Dr. Chris Salice - Environmental Toxicology, TTU http://www.tiehh.ttu.edu/chris_salice.html |
What do ecology, evolution and the US EPA have in common? Very little…for now | Dr. Ken Schmidt |
| Nov. 11 | |||
| Nov. 18 |
Dr. Brittany-Shea Herbert - Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana Univ.
School of Medicine http://medicine.iu.edu/body.cfm?id=7308 |
Molecular and genetic determinants of breast cancer: implications for novel therapies and prevention strategies | Dr. Lauren Gollahon |
| Nov. 25 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | - | - |
| Dec. 2 |
Dr. Carleton Phillips - Biological Sciences, TTU http://www.biol.ttu.edu/Faculty.aspx?id=CARL.PHILLIPS@ttu.edu |
TBA | - |
| Dec. 9 |
CANCELLED: Dr. Lawren Sack - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA |
TBA | Dr. Dylan Schwilk |
Spring 2010
Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., Biology Bldg. room 101
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m., Biology Bldg. room 102
(unless otherwise noted)
Open dates are in yellow
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| 20 Jan. | Dr. Zhenguo Xin - USDA Plant Stress Lab, Lubbock | A pedigreed sorghum mutant library: community resource for sorghum genomics | Dr. Chris Rock |
| 27 Jan. | Mini-symposium on genomics | TBA | Dr. Robert Baker |
| 3 Feb. |
Dr. Robert Webb |
Recent advances in the development of vaccines against botulinum neurotoxins | Dr. Michael San Francisco |
| 10 Feb. |
Dr. Paige Warren - Natural Resources Conservation, Univ. Massachusetts at
Amherst http://nrc.umass.edu/index.php/people/faculty/warren-paige-s/ |
TBA | Dr. Nancy McIntyre & Dr. Kara Belinsky |
| 17 Feb. |
Dr. Tim Keitt - Biology, University of Texas http://www.keittlab.org/ |
TBA | Dr. Jorge Salazar-Bravo |
| 24 Feb. | |||
| 3 Mar. | |||
| 10 Mar. | |||
| 17 Mar. | SPRING BREAK | - | - |
| 24 Mar. | Dr. Andrea Tenner - Univ. California at Irvine | TBA | Dr. Brian Reilly |
| 31 Mar. |
Dr. Martin
Schlaepfer -
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York http://www.esf.edu/efb/schlaepfer/ |
The behavioral and evolutionary responses of prey to non-native predators | Dr. Ximena Bernal |
| 7 Apr. | |||
| 14 Apr. | Dr. Eben Goodale - Univ. California at San Diego | Information and community ecology: the case of mixed-species flocks of birds | Dr. Kara Belinsky |
| 21 Apr. |
Dr. John Marzluff - School of Forest Resources, Univ. Washington http://www.cfr.washington.edu/SFRPublic/People/FacultyProfile.aspx?PID=10 |
TBA | Dr. Ken Schmidt |
| 28 Apr. | Dr. Zhonglin Mou - Microbiology and Cell Science, Univ. Florida | The salicylic acid signaling pathway in plant immunity | Dr. Hong Zhang |
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