Fall Seminar Series 2008
Fridays at 1-2:00pm Biol Building Rm 204
BIOL 4800/5860
For questions please contact Kent Chapman at 940-565-2969 or chapman@unt.edu
Hosts are listed in parentheses.
Sept. 5
Dr. Gary Thompson (Dickstein)
Professor and head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
“Immunological Approaches to Identify Novel Sieve Element Endomembrane Proteins in Arabidopsis”
Sept. 12
Dr. Marc Morais (Smith)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
"Dissecting the Bacteriophage phi29 DNA Packaging Motor"
Sept. 19
Assistant Professor, UNT- Biological Sciences
“Influence of migratory patterns on arctic falcon population structure”
Sept. 26
Dr. Robert T. Mallet (Dzialowski)
Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, UNT Health Sciences Center
“Metabolic Strategies to Protect the Heart during Open Heart Surgery”
Oct. 3
Thea Wilkins (Ayre)
Bayer Crop Science Regents Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
“Functional Genomics of Cotton Fiber Development”
Oct. 10
Julia Frugoli (Dickstein)
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University
“Shoots, Roots & Nodules: molecular genetic explorations in nodule regulation in Medicago truncatula”
Oct. 17
Gregg Howe (Shah)
Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, DOE- Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI
“Jasmonic Acid Signaling Mechanisms in Plant-Insect Interactions”
Oct. 24
Jason Podrabsky (Padilla)
Assistant Professor, Portland State University, Portland OR
“Embryo Responses to Environmental Stress in Killifish”
Oct. 31
Daniel Glazier (Hunt-von Herbing)
Professor, Department of Biology, Juniata College, Huntington, PA
“Scaling metabolic rate to body size: what is all the fuss about?”
Nov. 7
Jeff Graham (Burggren)
Research Physiologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla
“Observations on the long experiment: The past, present, and future of the vertebrate land transition”
Nov. 14
Jennifer Schisa (Padilla)
Associate Professor, Central Michigan University, Department of Biology
“Uncovering Similar Cellular Responses in Arrested Eggs and Environmentally Stressed Cells”
Nov. 21
Assistant Professor, UNT- Biological Sciences
“Regualtion of Stress Response in Rhodopseudomonas palustris”
Nov. 28
No Seminar-- Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 5
Lawrence Lum (Fuchs)
Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Cell Biology, Dallas, TX
“Regulation of Cell Proliferation by Sonic Hedgehog Signaling“