Biology Seminars
All Seminars are at 4pm in TH Morgan Room 116 unless otherwise noted
FALL 2009
September 3, 2009
Dr. Michael Brands, Professor
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Georgia
"Approaches to Promote Active Learning and
Integrative Thinking in the Biological Sciences"
Host: Jeff Osborn
September 10, 2009
Raelynn Deaton, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences
Sam Houston State University
"Sexual Conflict in Mosquitofish, Gambusia spp."
Host: Craig Sargent
September 17, 2009
Dr. Hollie Swanson
Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology
University of Kentucky
"Development of Antagonists to the Aryl Hydrocarbon
Receptor for Chemoprevention"
Host: Grace Jones
September 24, 2009,
Coordinator: Pete Mirabito
October 1, 2009
Dr. Randal Voss
Department of Biology
University of Kentucky
"Re-emergence of the Axolotl in the Age of Genomics"
Host: Vincent Cassone
October 8, 2009
Gertrude Ribble Foundation sponsored
T.H. Morgan Seminar Speaker:
Dr. Thomas Kaufman
Department of Biology
Indiana University at Bloomington
"The Evolution of the Hox Complexes: Their not so Constrained
Role and Genomic Organization in the Insects"
Host: Randal Voss
October 9, 2009 9:00AM Seminar
Public Lecture for: Gertrude Ribble Foundation sponsored
T.H. Morgan Public Seminar Series:
Dr. Thomas Kaufman
Indiana University at Bloomington
"From T.H. Morgan to Modern--The First 100 Years of Drosophila
Research & Why You Should Care"
Host: Randal Voss
October 15, 2009
Dr. Robert Dudley
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley
"From Gliding Ants to Andean Hummingbirds: The
Evolution of Animal Aerial Performance"
Host: BGSA
October 22, 2009
Dr. Joseph Ruiz, VP for Research
Transposagen, Inc.
"New Technologies to Create Genetically-engineered
Rats for Biomedical Research"
Host: Pete Mirabito
October 29, 2009
Dr. Brian Perkins, Assistant Professor
Biology Department
Texas A&M University
"Zebrafish Models of Hereditary Blindness"
Host: Vincent Cassone
November 5, 2009
Dr. Ethan Clotfelter, Associate Professor
Department of BIology,Environmental Studies
And Neuroscience
Amherst College
"Incubation in a Cavity-Nesting Bird: Costs and Consequences"
Host: Phil Crowley
November 12, 2009
Dr. Michael Menaker, Professor
Department of Biology
University of Virginia
"Who is Conducting the Circadian Orchestra?"
Host: Vincent Cassone
November 19, 2009
Reserved
Host: Ed Rucker
December 3, 2009
Ellen Townes-Anderson, Professor
Neurology and Neuroscience Dept.
New Jersey Medical School-UMDNJ
"TBA"
Host: Liz Debski
December 10, 2009
Dr. Trudy F. Mckay, Professor
Genetics Department
North Carolina State University
"TBA"
Host: Becky Kellum
SPRING 2010
January 14, 2010
Reserved for Faculty Candidate
January 21, 2010
Reserved for Faculty Candidate
January 28, 2010
Dr. Beth Levine, Chair
'Jay P. Sanford Professorship in Infectious Diseases'
Southwestern Medical School of Dallas
"TBA"
Host: Ed Rucker
February 4, 2010
Reserved for Faculty Candidate
February 11, 2010
Coordinator: Shelly Steiner
February 18, 2010
Dr. Jianhang Jia
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
University of Kentucky
"Hedgehog Signal Transduction in Drosophila"
Host: Becky Kellum
February 25, 2010
Coordinator: Madhu Srinivasan
March 4, 2010
Dr. Lauren Chapman, Professor
Department of Biology
McGill University
Host: BGSA
March 11, 2010
Dr. Ingo Schlupp, Associate Professor
Department of Zoology
University of Oklahoma
"Stability of Gynogenetic/Hybridogenetic Mating Systems"
Host: Craig Sargent
March 22, 2010 MONDAY SEMINAR
Dr. Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D.
Director, Department fo Embryology,
HHMI Investigator
Carnegie Institution of Washington
"TBA"
Host: Brian Rymond
March 25, 2010
Coordinator: Grace Jones
April 1, 2010
Dr. D. Allan Butterfield, The Alumni Association
Endowed Professor of Biological Chemistry;
Director, Center of Membrane Sciences;
Chemistry Department
University of Kentucky
Title: TBA
Host: Brian Rymond
April 8, 2010
Dr. David Reed, Associate Professor
Wallace Chair of Conservation
Department of Biology
University of Louisville
Title: TBA
Host: Dave Weisrock
April 15, 2010
Coordinator: Robin Cooper
April 19, 2010 MONDAY SEMINAR
Dr. Virginia Zakian, Ph.D.
Harry C. Weiss Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
"TBA"
Host: Brian Rymond
April 22, 2010
Coordinator: Vincent Cassone
April 29, 2010
Coordinator: Robin Cooper