Biology Department Seminar "An 'Old-World' Yet 'New' Animal Model of Essential Hypertension: Implications for Translation to Human Cardiovascular Disease"

University of Kentucky

Biology Department

Sponsored by Biology Ribble Endowment



*Refreshments served at 3:45pm

Date:
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Location:
116 T.H. Morgan Bldg.

How Mexican Axolotls Promote Science, Conservation, and Creativity

A day long symposium honoring one of Mexico's most treasured animals. Sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences Biology Department and Hispanic Studies Department.

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:15 Symposium Introduction, Randal Voss, UK

9:15 – 10:00 Salamanders are forever, Panagiotis Tsonis, University Dayton

10:00 - 10:30 Waxolotls in literature, Vinnie Cassone, UK

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 The skinny on axolotl regeneration, Ashley Seifert, UK

11:15 – 12:00 How axolotls regenerate their limbs, David Gardiner, UC-Irvine

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 1:30 Conquering the axolotl genome, Jeramiah Smith, UK

1:30 - 2:00 Axolotl on a chip, Alex Palumbo, UK

2:00 - 2:30 Of axolotls and tiger salamanders, David Weisrock, UK

2:30 – 3:00 Coffee and Discussion Break

3:00 – 4:00 Using the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) as a flag species to restore the most important and managed wetlands in Mexico: Xochimilco, Luis Zambrano, Autonoma Universidad de Mexico

4:15 - 5:00 Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center Tour

Simposio de un día que rendirá honor a uno de los animales más especiales de Mexico. Patrocinado por los departametos de Biología y Estudios Hispanos del College of Arts & Sciences.

Sesión de la manána

9:00 - 9:15 Introducción al simposio por Randal Voss, UK

9:15 – 10:00 Las salamandras son para siempre, Panagiotis Tsonis, University Dayton

10:00 - 10:30 Waxolotls en literatura, Vinnie Cassone, UK

10:30 – 10:45 Receso

10:45 - 11:15 Regeneración ‘skinny’ del Axolotl, Ashley Seifert, UK

11:15 – 12:00 Cómo los axolotls regeneran sus cuerpos, David Gardiner, UC-Irvine

Sesión de la tarde

1:00 - 1:30 Conquistando el genoma de Axolotls, Jeramiah Smith, UK

1:30 - 2:00 Axolotl en un chip, Alex Palumbo, UK

2:00 - 2:30 De axolotls y salamandras tigre, David Weisrock, UK

2:30 – 3:00 Receso y Discusión

3:00 – 4:00 El axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) como medio para restaurar uno de los más importantes y manejables pantános

mexicanos: Xochimilco, Luis Zambrano, Autonoma Universidad de Mexico

4:15 - 5:00 Tour Genetic Stock Center Ambystoma

 

Date:
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Location:
WT Young Library Auditorium

The Body in Pain, Performance in African Diaspora and Caribbean Studies

Suffering Bodies, Dance and Transcendence in Caribbean Literature, Jacqueline Couti (University of Kentucky)

In Gisèle Pineau's Macadam Dreams, through the shifting metaphors of the drum and the cyclone, which signify not only sexual crime but also purification and healing, the instable identity of Creole subjectivity emerges. Many characters are in pain. Yet, in the mighty drumbeat of the tambour-ka lurks a power that can make an old and broken woman dance as if her life depended on it. This presentation examines the motif of the dancing body and explores dance as a contemporary site of resistance and healing in traditional and contemporary genres such gwo-ka. Such an approach intends to constitute an archeology of representations of dance and dancers as the expression of creolization and awareness of self in in French and Francophone Caribbean Studies.





Liminality of the Dancing Suffering Body, Gladys M. Francis (Georgia State University)

Liminality of the Dancing Suffering Body is an analysis of painful lived experiences expressed through Caribbean traditional dance performances that present cultural, political and memorial strategies, in addition to interpersonal relations. This presentation focuses on the works of contemporary Black Diasporic filmmakers who challenge traditional gendered spaces and politics while contextualizing the body's states of loss, its displacements, methods of transmission and resistance through innovative representations of the dancing body in pain. "Liminality of the Dancing Suffering Body" introduces the gwo-ka and bigidi dance aesthetic, both explored as a counter-point of history and a Maroon space of (modern) history. It is through the dancing body that I will expose transgressional identities shaping cartographies of pain that distort the perceptions of cultural formations, Creolization and globalization, and problematize notions of self-dependence, self-organization, choice, autonomy, and agency through class, gender, race, and locality.

Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery

Rarefied Air: Liz Pillar

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists with over 62,000 members from 144 countries. At their most recent meeting last December, 24,000 people presented and discussed the newest interdisciplinary and international research in geophysics, which makes Liz Pillar’s accomplishments all the more impressive.

Meet Joe Wiley

Joe Wiley

I am from Lexington, Kentucky and have worked for UK for almost seven years.  I have been married three and a half years and my wife and I welcomed our first child into this world in January.  I am an avid Cincinnati Reds baseball fan and enjoy watching UK football games.

1. What do you do in your spare time? 

In my spare time, I play on an adult baseball team in town.  I enjoy writing, exercising, and spending time with family.  

2. What is your favorite movie or book?

My favorite movie is O'Brother Where Art Thou?  In my opinion, this movie was the most superbly written and acted movie ever devised since the creation of cinema.  Gopher, Everett? 

3. What is the most interesting place you've been?  

The most interesting place I have been has been Chiloteca, Honduras.  I went with a team in college that worked with small business owners who had micro loans.  We advised them on business practices.  It was a humbling experience because of the extreme poverty and scorching heat.  

4. What is your favorite food?

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