Department of Molecular Biology

College of Agriculture 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 2012 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in room 103 of the Animal Science/Molecular Biology building.

 
Molecular Biology Fall 2012 SEMINARS

Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
8/31/2012
Don Jarvis
Univ. of Wyoming
Introduction to MOLB Seminar
Jarvis
9/7/2012
Sean Connor
Univ. of Minnesota
Endosomal Transport and Human Disease
Fay
9/14/2012  
Jason Bartz
Creighton University
Prion strain targeting in the central nervous system
Schatzl
9/21/2012
John Wallingford
Univ. of Texas Austin
Planar cell polarity:  From cell biology to human disease
Gatlin
9/28/2012
Oliver Hobert
Columbia University
Gene regulatory mechanisms that build a nervous system
Fay
10/5/2012
Marvin Whiteley
Univ. of Texas Austin
Microbial Facebook: Probing bacterial social networks
Wall
10/12/2012
Allan Drummond
Univ. of Chicago
Coevolution of a tRNA modification and codon accuracy in the drosophilids
Liberles
10/19/2012
Jeff Esko
Univ. of California-San Diego
Heparan sulfate:  Light at the end of the chain
Jarvis
10/26/2012
T. Sklaviadis
Rockefeller University
Immunological approaches against prion diseases 
Schatzl
11/2/2012
X. Frank Yang
Indiana University
How the Lyme disease pathogen adapts to diverse  host environments
Gomelsky
11/9/2012
David Jackson
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Signaling in plant stem cells, new pathways and impacts on crop yields
Sylvester
11/16/2012
Katharine Ullman
Univ. of Utah
Building the nucleus in coordination with cell division
Levy
11/23/2012
NONE
NONE
HOLIDAY
11/30/2012
Lifeng Xu
Univ. of California-Davis
Telomere Dysfunction in Human Cancer Cells
Levy
12/7/2012
Chris Smith
GEVO, Inc
Isobutanol, the next generation of advanced biofuels
Thorsness

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