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 2010 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in room 103 of the Animal
Science/Molecular Biology building.
Molecular Biology Fall 2010 SEMINARS
Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
8/27/10
Don Jarvis
Univ. of Wyoming
Introduction to MOLB Seminar
Jarvis
9/3/10
Alan J. Wolfe
Loyola Univ.
Acetylation of bacterial proteins: the dawning of a new age
Gomelsky
9/10/10
Nihal Altan-Bonnet
Rutgers Univ.
How RNA viruses redesign their host by generating distinct lipid microenvironments
for replication
Jarvis
9/17/10
Bob Goldstein
Univ. of North Carolina
Cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis in C. elegans
Fay
9/24/10
Don Moerman
Univ. of British Columbia
Towards a mutation in every gene in C. elegans: 10 year on
Fay
10/1/10
John Battista
Louisiana State Univ. and A&M College
Multiple evolutionary paths to ionizing radiation resistance in Escherichia coli
Wall
10/8/10
Robert Lanford
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
The chimpanzee model of HCV infection and antiviral efficacy of microRNA inhibitors.
Jarvis
10/15/10
George O'Toole
Dartmouth
To Build a Biofilm
Gomelsky
10/22/10
Robert Belas
Univ. of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Regulation of the swim-or-stick switch and its involvement in Roseobacter-phytoplankton
symbioses
Ward
10/29/10
Dick McIntosh
Univ. of Colorado
Microtubule dynamics as a driver for mitotic chromosome motion
Gatlin
11/5/10
Martin Klotz
Louisville
On the beginnings of the extant nitrogen cycle – a genome-informed analysis
Ward
11/12/10
Ann Pearson
Harvard Univ.
Isoprenoid lipids and the tree of life: a geoscientist’s perspective
Liberles
11/19/10
Tal Pupko
Tel Aviv Univ.
Genome scale identification of Legionella pneumophila effectors using a machine learning approach
Liberles
11/26/10
NONE
NONE
HOLIDAY
12/03/10
Charles Samuel
Univ. California-Santa Barbara
Antiviral Innate Immunity: Roles of ADAR, PKR and Double-stranded RNA
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