Department of Biological Sciences

 

Spring Seminar Series 2010

Fridays at 2 - 2:50pm

ENV 125
BIOL 4800/5860
For questions please contact Jyoti Shah at 940-565-3535 or shah@unt.edu

Hosts are listed in parentheses.


Jan 29

Rebecca Dickstein (Host: Tom La Point)

UNT, Department of Biological Sciences

“Exploration of processes required for development of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing root nodules in the model legume Medicago truncatula

 

Feb 5

Oliver Yu (Host: Kent Chapman)

Danforth Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Flavonoids and auxin-related microRNAs regulate nodule and lateral root development in legumes

 

Feb 12

Stephen Spiro (Host: Michael Allen)

U. Texas at Dallas, Dallas

“TBA”

 

Feb 19

Young Jin-Lee (Host: Kent Chapman)

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Plant Metabolites in Single Cell Level High Spatial Resolution


Feb 26

Jose Lopez (Host: P. Jagadeeswaran)

U.Washington Medical Center-Seattle

The von Willebrand factor in health and disease: The good, the bad, and the ultra-large

(Renetta Stevens- assistant to Dr. Lopez-- email: renettas@psbcresearch.org)

Mar 5

Frank Hailer (Host: Jeff Johnson)

Smithsonian Inst., National Zoological Park & National Museum of Natural History

Population genetic structure in endangered species and the context of life history: examples from eagles and tropical seabirds"


Mar 12

Million Tadege (Host: Becca Dickstein)

Oklahoma State University

“TBA”


Mar 19

No Seminar-- Spring Break


Mar 26

Mark Morais (Host: Don Smith)

UTMB, Galveston, TX

“TBA”


Apr 2

Consuelo M. De Moraes (Host: Jyoti Shah)

Pennsylvania State University

Chemical Communication among plants and Insect


Apr 9

R. Larry Peterson (Host: Kevin Stevens)

University of Guelph, Canada

“Mycorrhizas: structural characteristics of the plant-fungus interface”


Apr 16

Alain Vanderpoorten

University of Liege, Belgium

What can the study of island speciation tell us about dispersal and evolutionary rates in early land plants?


Apr 23

Walter Dodds (Host: David Hoeinghaus)

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Value of Aquatic Ecosystem Goods and Services


Apr 24 (Saturday)

Grad student presentations: Keynote speaker: S.P. Dineshkumar (Yale)


Apr 30

Dayna Brichat-Harhay (Host: Gerard O’Donovan)

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clay Center, NE

“TBA”