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Spring 2008, Burruss 31, Fridays at 12:20-1:10 pm
unless noted otherwise

Questions?  Please contact Tim Bloss


Date
Seminar Speaker/Title
Monday
January 14
Job Seminar, Burruss 238, 3:35-4:25
Tuesday
January 22
Job Seminar, Burruss 238, 12:30-1:20
Monday
January 28
Job Seminar, Burruss 238, 3:35-4:25
February 8

Dr. Paul Gabrielson (link)
University of North Carolina Herbarium
Hosted by Judy Dilts
"Forensic seaweed analysis:  Where 18th and 19th C naturalist
collections and 21st C molecular sequencing meet"

Tuesday
February
12
College of Science and Mmathematics
Assessment Day Faculty Research and Teaching Symposium
2-3 PM - Tour of Memorial Hall facilities
3-4 PM - Keynote Presentations, Memorial Hall
4-5 PM - Poster presentations, Memorial Hall
February 15 Master's Degree Research Proposal Presentation

Ethan Horst
(Katrina Gobetz, advisor)

"An ecological study of Mustela vison at the Smith Creek site,
Rockingham County, Virginia"

February 22 Master's Degree Research Proposal Presentations

Jon Harrold
(Corey Cleland
, advisor)
"Supraspinal control of tail withdrawal reflexes in rats"

Divya Bansal
(Terrie Rife
, advisor)
"Transcriptional regulation of nitric oxide synthase 1
in type-2 diabetic zucker fatty rats."

Morgan Hyatt (Mark Hudy, advisor)
"Using gravel permeability to evaluate restoration in Smith Creek, Virginia"

February 29
Dr. Olga Pierrakos (link)
JMU School of Engineering

Hosted by Marta Bechtel
"The Physics of Cardiac Flows: A Fluid Mechanics Perspective"

March 7
No seminar - Spring Break
March 14 Dr. Russell Reid
Director of Global Product Strategy for Oncology, Glaxosmith Kline
Hosted by Kyle Seifert
"Using Biology in Pharmaceutical Marketing"
Wednesday
March
19
3:30-4:30
Miller 1101

Dr. Mary Beth Mudgett (link)
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Hosted by Jon Monroe
"Tricks bacterial pathogens play inside plant cells to promote disease"
Note different time and location

March 28
April 4 Dr. Krishna Kodukula
Executive Director, SRI Shenandoah Valley
Hosted by Tim Bloss
"Building a new future for infectious and neglected diseases"
April 11 Dr. Anne Allison
Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia
Hosted by Jon Monroe
"Getting at histone biology through functional genomics in budding yeast"
April 18
2008 Biosymposium Keynote Seminar
Dr. Peter Piermarini
Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine
"Cellular mechanisms of ion regulation: From fish to fish food"
April 25
Dr. Tom Schoenemann (link)
Anthropology Department, JMU
"Evolution of the prefrontal cortex: implications for human behavorial evolution"



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