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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


Spring 2009

1/14/09

Mr. Todd Hayden

BGSU

“Mixed stock analyses of fishes using the western basin of Lake Erie: How do we track subpopulations?”

Host: Miner & Farver

1/21/09

Dr. Ruud Schilder

Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology

Penn State University, Hershey College of Medicine

"(Body) Mass, Mechanics, and Metabolism: skeletal muscle plasticity in health and disease"

Host: McMullin

1/28/09

Dr.Terry Graham

Department of Plant Pathology

Ohio State University

"Gene Silencing, Metabolomics and Chemogenomics Reveal Multiple Roles of Programmed Cell Death in Soybean Disease Resistance"

Host: Phuntumart

2/4/09

Dr. Lauren Matthews

Worchester Polytechinic Institute

"Ecology, evolution, and the importance of cryptic biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems"

Host: Moore

2/11/09

Dr. Dragan Isailovic

Department of Chemistry

University of Toledo

"Combining Light Microscopy Imaging and Mass Spectrometry for Analysis of Biomolecules in Cells and Tissues"

Host: Heckman

2/18/09

Dr. Marty Mitchell

Edinboro University

"Ecdysone 20-Monooxygenase Activity Throughout the Life Cycle of Drosophila melanogaster, Manduca sexta and Adult Female Aedes aegypti and the Effects of Selected Plant Allelochemicals on this Cytochrome P450 Enzyme"

Host: Fioravanti and Drummond

2/25/09

Dr. Debashish Bhattacharya

Department of Biology and the
Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics Program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences

University of Iowa

"Genomics and Evolution of Dinoflagellates: Towards Understanding the Origin and Spread of Red Tides"

 

 

 

 

 

Host: Morris

2/27/09

Friday

Dr. Robert Heath

Kent State University

"Biochemical Limnology"

Host: Bullerjahn

3/11/09

SPRING BREAK

3/18/09

Dr. Trevor Pitcher

University of Windsor

"Ecological genetics of redside dace"

Host: Miner

3/25/09

Dr. Louis Iverson

Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service & Adjunct Professor, School of Environment & Natural Resources

Ohio State University

"Using climate models to predict potential changes in Eastern forests"

Host: Michaels

4/1/09

Dr. John Gray

Department of Biological Sciences

University of Toledo

"From Arabidopsis to Geranniums - molecular markers for micronutrient stress in model and horticultural plants"

Host: Phuntumart

4/8/09

Dr. Robert Britton

Microbial Genomics Lab

Michigan State University

"Uncovering mechanisms important for probiotic function "

Host: Xu

4/15/09

Dr. C Robin Buell

Department of Plant Biology

Michigan State University

"Using comparative genomics to inform ourselves about plant biology"

Host: Phuntumart

4/22/09

Dr. Mary Power

UC Berkeley

"Landscape controls on stream metabolism, fluxes, and consumer-resource interactions"

Pasakarnis-Buchanan Lecture (Earth Day)

Host: Lowe

4/29/09

Dr. Karin Limburg

State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry at Syracuse

"Neolithic vs Modern Baltic sea fisheries: evidence of a shifting baseline?"

Host: Miner/Mayer Joint Seminar with the University of Toledo Environmental Sciences Dept

Fall 2008  ·   Spring 2008  ·   Fall 2009   · Spring 2010


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.