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 Department of Biological Sciences
Seminar Series
 

Wednesday, 3:30 - 4:30 pm in 112 Life Sciences Building, unless noted.

Meet the speaker before the talk at our social at 3:00pm


Fall 2008

8/27/08

Open

 

 
9/3/08

Dr. Mark O'Brian

Dept of Biochemistry

SUNY-Buffalo

"Heme metabolism in the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-soybean symbiosis"

Host:  Zeilstra-Ryalls

9/10/08

Dr. Rex Lowe

BGSU

"Algal Ecology Beyond the Gates of Bowling Green"

9/17/08

Dr. Daniel Szymanski

Dept of Agronomy

Purdue University

"Cell shape control in plants: spatial organization of small GTPase signals and actin cytoskeleton responses"

Host:  Heckman

9/24/08

Open

 

10/1/08

Dr. Terry Schwaner

University of Findlay

"Ecology of Tiger Snakes"

Host:  Bouzat

10/8/08

Dr. David Denlinger

Dept of Entomology

Ohio State University

"Antarctica and its Insect"

Host:  Pavuk

10/15/08

Dr. Fabian Crespo

Dept of Anthropology

University of Louisville

"What do cytokine polymorphisms tell us about human population history?"

Host:  Bouzat

10/22/08

Dr. Robert Pillsbury

Dept of Biology & Microbiology

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

"An Examination of the decline of wild rice (Zizania palustris) in Minnesota and Wisconsin"

Host: Lowe

10/29/08

Dr. David Bunnell

USGS, Great Lakes Science Center

"Understanding bloater recruitment in Lake Michigan: evaluating the role of sex ratio, egg predators, and climate"

Host: Miner

11/5/08

Dr. Dan Herms

Dept Entomology

Ohio State University

"The emerald ash borer invasion: the beginning of the end of ash in North America"

Host:  Pavuk

11/12/08

Dr. Marc Basson

Wayne State University School of Medicine and John D. Dingell VA Hospital

"Effects of mechanical forces on intestinal epithelial cells"

Host:  Heckman

11/19/08

Dr. Timothy Stewart

Dept of Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Iowa State

"Using invertebrate communities to assess aquatic ecosystem condition in agricultural and urban landscapes of Iowa"

Host: Miner

11/26/08

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

12/3/08

Dr. Richard Sayre

Ohio State University

"Molecular responses to heavy metals in algae: strategies for enhancing metal sequestration"

Host: McKay

12/10/08

Dr.Wendell P. Griffith

Department of Chemistry

University of Toledo

"Breathing New Life into Old Proteins: A Story of Hemoglobin and Hemoglobin-binding Proteins"

 

Host: Heckman

Spring 2009  ·   Fall 2007  ·   Spring 2008  


This seminar schedule is coordinated by Jeff Miner (chair, seminar committee), Carmen Fioravanti, Ray Larsen, and Robert Huber.

Please contact them if you wish to host a seminar speaker.

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For corrections or changes to the schedule, contact the webmaster.