Biology Fall 1999 Seminar Series

All seminars are at 4:15 in Higley Aud. unless otherwise noted
Coffee and cookies in the lobby at 4:00

Sept. 9:
Dr. Joan Slonczewski
Department of Biology
Kenyon College
"Extreme environments: How bacteria survive the human stomach, or a soda lake"

Sept. 23
Special Appearance (note: at 7:00 pm in the evening in Ross Hall) by

Dr. E. O. Wilson
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
"Integrating knowledge across disciplines"

Oct. 21 (*note this is a change of date from Oct. 14)
Dr. Claire Fraser
President and co-founder of the Institute for Genome Research (TIGR)
"The human genome project"

Oct. 28:
Dr. Carl Friese
Biology Department
University of Dayton
"Disturbance in natural ecosystems: Scaling from fungal diversity to ecosystem functioning"

Nov. 11:
Brad Hersh
Department of Biology
MIT
"Regulation of programmed cell death in C. elegans"

Nov. 18
TBA

Dec. 2
TBA

Biology Spring 2000 Seminar Series

All seminars are at 4:15 in Higley Aud. unless otherwise noted
Coffee and cookies in the lobby at 4:00

Jan 27
David Kurjiaka
Department of Biological Sciences
Ohio University
What do cells tell their neighbors? (role of gap junctions in the vasculature)

Feb 10
TBA

Feb 24
Michael Romero
Dept. Physiology & Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

March 23
Michael Prigge
Department of Biology
University of Michigan

April 6
David Somers
Department of Plant Biology/Plant Biotechnology Center
Ohio State University

April 20
TBA

May 2
Senior honors presentations

May 4
Senior honors presentations