Department of Molecular Biology
College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources
Departmental Seminars
The Molecular Biology Department’s seminar program is one of the very best on campus.
We make a strong effort to bring in visiting scientists who can provide a entertaining,
enlightening, and current research report on an important area of molecular biology.
Shown below is a listing of the current semester’s seminar speakers. Note that departmental
seminars during Fall 2009 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in room 103 of the Animal
Science/Molecular Biology building.
Molecular Biology Fall 2009 SEMINARS
Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
8/28/09
Don Jarvis
Univ. of Wyoming
Introduction to MOLB Seminar
Jarvis
9/4/09
Patricia Hartzell
Univ. of Idaho
All wheel drive: Gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus
Wall
9/11/09
Jim Pipas
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Using Viral Proteins to Discover and Dissect Cellular Pathways
Jarvis
9/18/09
Jeb Gaudet
Univ. of Calgary
Specification and morphogenesis of C. elegans pharyngeal glands
Fay
9/25/09
J. Michael Bishop
Univ. of California-San Francisco
Enemies Within: Proto-oncogenes and Tumorigenesis
Jarvis
10/2/09
Terri Laufer
Univ. of Pennsylvania
How are CD4+ T cells activated?
Thorsness
10/9/09
Cammie Lesser
MGH-Harvard
Functional genomic yeast screens: novel approaches to studying host-pathogen interactions
Ward
10/16/09
Ken Bayles
Univ. of Nebraska
Developmental control of cell death and lysis during S. aureus biofilm formation
Ward
10/23/09
Daniel Kearns
Indiana University
A bifunctional flagellar clutch disables motility in the Bacillus subtilis biofilm
Gomelsky
10/30/09
Mako Saito
Dartmouth
Revealing developmental networks using C. elegans functional genomics
Fay
11/6/09
Ken Olsen
Colorado State University
Engineering RNAi-based resistance to dengue viruses in the mosquito vector, Aedes
aegypti
Adrianos
11/13/09
Andy Bass
Cornell
Talking Heads: Ancestral Origins of Vocal Basis for Acoustic Communication
Fay
11/20/09
Hudson Freeze
Burnham Institute-La Jolla
Congenital disorders of glycosylation: A collaboration of basic science and clinical
medicine
Jarvis
12/4/09
Antonia Monteiro
Yale Univ.
The evolution and development of novel complex traits
Liberles