Upcoming Departmental Seminars: Spring 2008

Thursdays at 4:10pm in BSB/MRBIII 1220
Some seminars may be at different times or in other locations, as noted in red.
Coffee & Cookies are served at 3:45pm



  • Nominate A Speaker.  Check below for open dates and contact Patrick Abbot (93)6-2550 to schedule.  Upon scheduling, contact  Leslie Maxwell (32)2-2674 with an email address for your speaker to make flight and hotel arrangements.
  • Postdoc speakers wanted!  If you have any postdocs in your laboratory who would like to present a departmental seminar, please forward their names to Kathy Friedman. She will contact them later in the summer if there are remaining  seminar slots available.


Administrative support for the seminar series is provided by  Leslie Maxwell (32)2-4688

To Schedule the 1220 Lecture Hall in MRB3 before 12:00pm please contact: LIsa Wright
To Schedule the 1220 Lecture Hall in MRB3 after 12:00pm, please contact Beverly Stevens.

 


The Biological Sciences Building/MRB III auditorium is on the first floor of the new building BSCI/MRBIII, just to the right of the main first floor entrance. Latecomers may wish to note that there is a back entrance on the second floor.


Spring 2008

Time Place Seminar Details Faculty Host
       
Thurs
Jan 17
3:30pm
1220
MRB III
Anthony Fiumera. Ph.D, Binghamton University
Title: "Reproductive success and the genetic basis to sexually selected traits"
E&E Faculty Search
       
Thurs
Jan 24
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Oliver Hobert, Ph.D.  Columbia University, HHMI Investigator
Josh Gamse  
Monday
Jan 28
3:30pm
1220 
MRB III
Nadia Ayoub, Ph.D   Title:  "Evolutionary Genomics of Spider Silk Diversity"  E&E Faculty Search  
Thurs
Jan 31
4:00pm
1220
MRB III
Timothy Linksvayer, Ph.D Title: " The nature of nurture in social insects: evolutionary implications of social interactions." E&E Faculty Search  
Monday
Feb 4
3:30
1220
MRB III
Seth Bordenstein, Ph.D, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution E&E Faculty Search  
Thurs
Feb 7
3:30pm
1220
MRB III
Patrick Stephens, Ph.D   Title:"Using phylogenetic methods to bridge ecology and evolutionary biology: niche-conservatism, time-for-speciation,and emydid turtles" E&E Faculty Search  
Thurs
Feb 14
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Christopher Brown (RIP) Funk Lab  
Thurs
Feb 28
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Jennifer Ellis (RIP) McCauley Lab  
Thurs
Mar 6
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Gord Fishell, Ph.D.  New York University, Smilow Neuroscience Program
Title: "Making up your mind, the developmental genetic origins of cortical interneuron diversity"
Bruce Appel and
Randy Roberts
Thurs
Mar 13
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
OPEN

 
Thus
March 20
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Owen Jones, J.D Vanderbilt University   Title:Chimpanzee Economics:
Evolution, Possession, and the Endowment Effect.
 
Thurs
March 27
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael W. Davidson National Hight Magnetic Field Labortaory, Florida State University. Title: " Fluorescent proteins, Optical Highlighters and LIve-Cell Microscopy" Chris Janetopoulos
Thurs
April 3
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Blanche Cappel, Duke University Medical Center, Title: "The Battle of the Sexes: Antagonistic Signals Regulate Sex Determination" Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Thurs
April 10
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
George Dimopoulos, Ph.D  Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: "Regulation of pathogen transmission by the mosquito immune system and Molecular clocks"
Larry Zwiebel
Monday
April 14th
3:30pm
1220
MRBIII
Jennifer Ufnar, Vanderbilt, Center for Science Outreach
TItle: "The role of Methanogens in Microbial Source Tracking"
 Speical seminar
date and time
Thurs
April 17
2:00-4:00
1220
MRBIII
Dr. Brian Link, Medical College of  Wisconsin. Title: "Interkinetic nuclear migration and neurogenesis during retinal development" Bruce Appel
Thurs
April 24
1220
MRBIII
Dr. Troy Zars, University of Missouri-Columbia. Title: "Molecular and neural bases of learning in Drosophila" Kendal Broadie
Terry Page
Thurs
May 1st
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Denise Zannino (RIP) Bruce Appel Lab
Title: "Abducens Motor Neurons and Oligodendrocytes Shrare a Common olig2+ Origin, Which Potentially Provides a Positional Cue for Facial Motor Neuron Migration"
Grad. Student
       
Thurs
May 8th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Biological Sciences Graduation Reception  Department
Wednesday
May 14th
12:00pm
5211
Stevenson
Center
Wen Bian, Vanderbilt University
Stubbs Lab, Title: Structural Studies of Yeast Sup35 Prion Peptide by fiber Diffraction
 
Thurs
May 15th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Randy Roberts (RIP) Appel Lab (tentative)  Grad. Student
Thurs
May 22nd
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Scott Santos, Ph.D Auburn University Patrick Abbot
 Thurs
May 29th
4:10pm
 1220
MRB III
 Elizabeth Hammock, Ph.D Vanderbilt University  Patrick Abbot


Fall 2008

TIME  Place Seminar Details Faculty Host
Thurs
August 28th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael Tiemeyer, Ph.D University of Georgia Kendal Broadie
Thurs
September 4th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
 Guillermo Oliver, Ph.D St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Lila Solnica-Krezel
Thurs
September 18
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Christina Speirs, Vanderbilt University (RIP)
Lila Solnica-Krezel Lab
Grad. Student
Thurs
September 25th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael S. Caterino, PhD Curator of Entomology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Brandt Eichman
Thurs
October 9th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Ben Fitzpatrick, Ph.D University of Tennessee  GSA 
 Thurs
October 16th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Patrick Abbot, Ph.D Vanderbilt University Faculty Member 
Thurs
October 30th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Gary J. Bassell, Ph.D Emory University School of Medicine Kendal Broadie
Thurs
November 20th
1220
MRBIII
Johannes Walter, Ph.D Harvard University GSA 
         
         
         
         
         
       
       
       
       
       

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Spring 2009

Time Place
Seminar Details Faculty Host
Thurs
April 9th
4:10pm
1220
MRBIII
Michael Levin, PhD
GSA
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       



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