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)
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)
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)
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