Seminar Series: Spring 2012

Seminars will take place on Fridays at 4:00pm in Barnum 104, unless otherwise noted.
Coffee, tea, and cookies will be available in the Barnum Elephant Lobby before each Friday talk,
at 3:45pm. Undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

January 13 Graduate Student Rotation Talks: S. Kaushal, K. Graham, C. Parker
January 20 Graduate Student Rotation Talks: C. Davis, K. Jewhurst, E. Pitcairn
January 27 Graduate Student Rotation Talks: F. Schuler, N. Soltis, R. McGinty, V. Khodaverdia
February 3 Biology/Psychology Colloquium Lecture: Karim Nader, McGill University
"The dynamic nature of memory and its therapeutic implications"
(Hosts: Graduate Students)
February 10 Luke Remage-Healey, UMass Amherst
"This is your brain on steroids: What songbirds teach us about the neural mechanisms of behavior"
(Host: Michael Romero)
February 17 Graduate Student Seminar: C. Bauer, J. Nguyen
February 24 Research Associates: Elyse Bolterstein & Melissa Koc
March 2 Marcus Kronforst, Harvard University Host: Sara Lewis
March 9 David Housman, MIT (Host: Sergei Mirkin)
"The Repeat Goes On: Molecular mechanisms, chromatin structure, splicing and RNA trafficking in Huntington’s Disease and Myotonic Dystrophy"
March 16 Bert Gold, National Cancer Institute (Host: Graduate Students)
"Using Molecular Tools to Understand Cancer Health Disparities"
March 23 Graduate Student Seminar: B. Chernet, A. Thomas
March 30 Katherine Smith, Brown University Host: Michael Reed
April 6 Pamela Diggle, U. of Colorado Host: Colin Orians
April 12 Kenneth Roeder Memorial Lecture, Kiisa Nishikawa, Northern Arizona U. (Host: Barry Trimmer)
"Muscles as springs: Molecules to Movement"
Barnum 104, 5:00pm
April 13 Barnum Museum Lecture, Dee Boersma, University of Washington (Host: Colin Orians)
"Natural History Informs Conservation: Magellanic Penguins in Argentina"
April 20 Graduate Student Seminar: C. Diederich, K. Beagan, M. Lobikin
April 27 Graduate Student Seminar: N. House, R. Burns, C. Burke
May 3 Barnum Museum Lecture, Mary Hendrix, Northwestern University Sch. of Medicine (Host: Michael Levin)
May 4 Graduate Student Seminar: J. Mortensen, A. Su, K. Shah
May 11 Graduate Student Seminar: N. Al-Wathiqui, C. Lattin
May 18 Graduate Student Seminar: N. Tigreros, A. Madden
May 25
*Cancelled
Graduate Student Seminar: R. deBruijn, S. Caine
*Cancelled

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