| Date
|
Seminar Speaker/Title |
|
Sept. 1 |
Dr. Antje Lauer
Postdoctoral Associate, JMU Biology Department
Hosted by Reid Harris
"Epibiotic bacteria
isolated from nesting salamanders inhibit pathogenic fungi:
Implications for
amphibian conservation"
|
|
Sept. 8 |
Dr. Mark T.
Dertzbaugh (B.S. '82)
Chief, Business Plans & Programs
USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, MD
Hosted by Louise Temple,
co-sponsored by the
VA Biotechnology Association, JMU student chapter
"Trends
in Federal Biodefense
R&D: The challenges
and implications related to
biodefense, current issues and policy implications"
|
Sept. 15
|
Dr. David McClellan (link)
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham
Young University
Hosted by Grace Wyngaard
"New
bioinformatics tools for the study of molecular adaptation"
|
|
Sept. 22 |
Dr. Edwin Clayton (link)
National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review
Hosted by Cheryl Talley (JMU Psychology Department)
"The NIH Peer
Review Process"
|
|
Sept. 29 |
Catherine
Peterson (Advisor:
David Jaynes)
“An investigation of wound fluid proteins in healing and nonhealing
wounds”
Deby Weiss
(Advisor:
Corey Cleland)
“Tail withdrawal patterns after application of multiple heat stimuli
to tails of intact and spinalized rats”
|
|
Oct. 6 |
Erica Gehr (Advisor: Jim
Herrick)
“The potential for
replication and transmission of antibiotic resistance plasmids
in and to an E.
coli population in agriculturally
impacted stream sediment”
Robert Fathke
(Advisor: Mark Gabriele)
"Patterns of
convergence for multiple afferent projections
in the developing
inferior colliculus"
|
|
Oct. 13 |
No Seminar - Fall Break
|
Oct. 19
Thursday
11:00 AM
Burruss 031
|
Homecoming Doubleheader - Dr.
Steven
Cresawn (B.S. '96)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Biological Sciences, University of
Pittsburgh
Hosted
by Jon Monroe
"Bacteriophage
research in the genomics era:
Implications for
evolution, genetic tools, and education"
|
|
Oct. 20 |
Homecoming Doubleheader - Dr.
Kerry (Owens)
Cresawn (B.S. '98)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hosted by Jon Monroe
"Immunologic
consequences of gene therapy approaches
to treat a
lysosomal storage disease"
|
|
Oct. 27 |
Dr. Grace Wyngaard
POSTPONED UNTIL
APRIL 13, 2007
|
Nov
3
|
Dr. Lincoln Gray (link)
Department
of Communication Science and Disorders, JMU
Hosted by Katrina Gobetz
"Mathematical
maps of disease"
|
Nov. 10
3:30 in
HHS 2301,
cookies at 3
|
Dr. Louise Wilkins-Haug (B.S.
'76) (link)
Medical Director, Center for Fetal Medicine and Prenatal Genetics,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Boston
Hosted by Jon Monroe
"Fetal
interventions for congenital cardiac disease"
|
|
Nov. 17 |
Dr. Steve Cessna
Chemistry and Biology Departments
Eastern Mennonite
University, Harrisonburg, VA
Hosted by Terrie Rife
"Calcium signaling
in plant cells: Signature or switch?"
|
|
Nov. 24 |
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week
|
|
Dec. 1 |
Gordon Leisch (B.S. '56, M.S. '65) (link)
Retired
Field Biologist
Hosted by Mark Hudy,
co-sponsored by the Geology Department
"Waste water
dumping into the Potomac River. The good, the bad, and the ugly!"
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