2009 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.
3:30-3:45 pm Student/Faculty/Staff Mixer (refreshments served), outside of PH1 140
3:45-4:45 pm Lecture, PH2 110
Archive of previous Seminar schedules:Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring2008, Fall 2008
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Date
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Topic and Speaker
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| Feb. 12 | Pollutant Responsive Biomarkers in Aquatic Organisms for Application in Ecotoxicological Studies. Dr. Jonny Beyer, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Stavanger, and International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), Stavanger, Norway |
| Feb. 19 | Changes in Macrophyte Populations and Communities on Southern California Rocky Shores Since the 1950s. Dr. Steve Murray, Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Fullerton |
| Feb. 26 | Microbial diversity in a Baja saltern: Abundant life along a salinity gradient. Dr. Jesse Dillon, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach |
| Mar. 5 | Evolution of budding yeast cells to non-dividing, multinucleated, and multibranching hyphae. Dr. Peter Philippsen, Chair, Applied Microbiology, University of Basel, Switzerland. Note change in venue! Lecture will be held in FA4-311 (building across campus path from PH1-141 |
| Mar. 12 | Responses to metal deficiencies in Chlamydomonas rheinhartii. Dr. Janette Kropat, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA |
| Mar. 19 | Single fiber polymorphism in skeletal muscles: fine tuning the molecular motor? Dr. Scott Medler, Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY |
| Mar. 26 | Physiological and Genomic Approaches to Forecast the Impacts of Global Climate Change. Nann A. Fangue, University of California Santa Barbara |
| Apr. 9 | Old Dogs, New Tricks: Histone modifications and sexual differentiation. Houng-Wei Tsai, Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA |
| Apr. 23 | The Geography of Speciation in the Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis). Dr. James Archie, California State University, Long Beach |
| May 7 | Beyond the Genetics: Epigenetics. Dr. Xi Yu (Larry) Jia, President, Zymo Research Corporation, Orange CA |
Questions about the Bio-Sci Department Seminar series? contact Dr. Kevin Kelley, (kmkelley@csulb.edu)
