Department of Biological Sciences

 

Fall 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.


Sept 3

Qing Richard Lu, UT-Southwestern, Dept. Dev. Biol. (Host: Fuchs)

Epigenetic Control of CNS Myelination


Sept 10

Ben Holt, University of Oklahoma, Dept. Bot. Mol. Biol. (Host: Dickstein)

Intersecting roles for NF-Y transcription factors in plant floral development and stress responses


Sept 17

Lee Hughes, University of North Texas, Dept. Biol. Sci.
Biology education: emphases in technology uses in biology education, scholarship of teaching and learning


Sept 24

Stephen Spiro, UT Dallas, Dept. Mol. Cell Biol. (Host: Allen)

Responses to nitric oxide in Escherichia coli: regulatory networks and defense mechanisms


Oct 1

Robert L. Tanguay, Oregon State U., Aquatic Biomed. Models Facility Core (Host: Atkinson)
Using Zebrafish as a platform to advance environmental and human health


Oct 7

(Special seminar) Paula McSteen, U. Missouri, Dept. Biol. Sci. (Host: Ayre)

3:30 PM in LIFE-106 (old Bio Bldg)

The biosynthesis and transport of the growth hormone, auxin, regulates vegetative and reproductive developments in plants


Oct 8

David Braun, U. Missouri, Dept. Biol. Sci .(Host: Ayre)

How does sugar get out of leaves and why does it matter?"


Oct 15

Heather Lerner, Smithsonian Inst. & National Zoo (Host: Johnson)

Hawaiian Honeycreeper radiation: Phylogeny and comparative evolutionary rates from pyrosequencing and species-tree methods


Oct 22

David Nelson, Indiana University, Dept. Biol. (Host: Qunfeng Dong)

Microbial interaction in the male urogenital tract, all urethritis is not created equal


Oct 29

Marie-Alda Gilles Gonzalez, UT-Southwestern Med. School, Dept Biochem. (host: Kunz)

Oxygen Sensing by Bacteria


Nov 5

Xiang Gao, University North Texas, Dept. Biol. Sci. (host: Dong)

Studying genome evolution with experimental and computational methods


Nov 12

Janine Sherrier, Univ. Delaware, Dept. Plant  Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotech Inst. (Host: Becca Dickstein)

ENOD16 Functions in Symbiotic Root Nodule Formation


Nov 19

Donald DeAngelis, US Geological Service, Miami (Host: Tom LaPoint)

Modeling Vegetation Effects of Sea Level Rise & Storm Surges


Nov 26 Thanksgiving- no seminar

 


Dec 3

Brendon Larson, U. Waterloo-Canada, Env. &Resource Studies (Host: Anderson)

Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability


Dec 10:   no seminar