2007 Spring Seminar Schedule
The Biological Sciences Department Seminar Series invites to our campus professional scientists to give a lecture on their current research. It is an important weekly event for our program, in which new findings and ideas are shared and discussed within an open and social setting. Department faculty members, staff, post-docs, and graduate and undergraduate students routinely attend the seminar. In addition, interested persons from the campus and greater community are very welcome to participate.
3:30-4:00 pm Student/Faculty/Staff Mixer (refreshments served), outside of SLH-50
4:00-5:00 pm Lecture, SLH-50
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Date
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Topic and Speaker
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| Feb. 1 | Eric Haas-Stapleton, Ph.D, UC Berkeley Extension Instructor. Berlex Biosciences, Dermatology and Animal Pharmacology Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Resistance to Baculovirus Infection in Lepidopteran Crop Pests. |
| Feb. 8 | Pranav Danthi, Research Fellow, Pediatric Infectious Disease. Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Molecular Mechanisms of Reovirus-Induced Apoptosis |
| Feb. 15 | No Seminar this week |
| Feb. 22 | Dr. Neal Silverman, Division of Infectious Disease, Dept. Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School. How do bugs sense bugs - pathogen recognition in Drosophila. |
| Mar. 1 | No Seminar |
| Mar. 8 | Ray Wilson, Ph.D. California State University Long Beach, Into the Pacific Abyss: A summary of recent Alvin dives to 4,000 meters off southern California |
| Mar. 15 | Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Department of Cell Biology, Skaggs Inst. for Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Light activated translation in chloroplasts, what we learned on our way to making human therapeutic proteins in eukaryotic algae. |
| Mar. 22 | Dr. Emily Taylor Department of Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Mate size matters: Proximate determinants of sexual size dimorphism in lizards and snakes. |
| Spring Break | |
| Apr. 12 | Linking lobsters with benthic landscapes: controls on American lobster population dynamics in New England waters. Dr. Kevin A. Hovel, Department of Biology, San Diego State University |
| Apr. 19 | Identification and characterization of genes essential for craniofacial development. Dr. Robert Nissen, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles |
| Apr. 26 | Disruption of Physiological Function by Environmental Contaminants: from Single Compounds to Complex Mixes. Dr. Cathy Propper, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona |
| May 10 | Ecoproteomics: New approaches to tracking environmental changes. Dr. Lars Tomanek, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, California State University, San Luis Obispo |
Questions about the Bio-Sci Department Seminar series? contact Dr. Kevin Kelley, (kmkelley@csulb.edu)
