DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES 2004


DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY
SEMINAR SERIES
2004-2005


  

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Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

Block 2    October 7     3:30 p.m. Jessica Honig Center for Disease Control

"The making of a live attenuated multivalent vaccine and antiviral for the prevention and therapy of Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus"

Block 2    October 13   3:30 p.m. Anna Sher Plant Ecologist, University of Denver "The Silent, Green Invaders: Probing the ecology of exotic weeds"
Block 3  November 5   3:30 p.m. Dr. Tali Lee University of Wisconsin “Plant physiological responses to global change factors”
Block 3      November 12 3:30 p.m. Dr. Josh Leffler Louisiana Tech University "Hydraulic Redistribution: The Ecological Implications of Soil Water Movement by Roots"
Block 3, 
Nov 19     3:30 p.m.
Dr. Catherine Kleier Regis University “Life in the high and dry – how to survive temperate and tropical alpine extremes”
Block 4     Dec 1       3:30 p.m. Dr. Shane Heschel Harvard University “The Evolution of Drought Ecophysiology”
Block 4      Dec 16      3:30 p.m. Dr. Rene Herrera Florida International University

"DNA Markers in the Study of Recent Human Evolution"

Winter  break

Block 5      Jan 27        3:30 p.m. Dr. Tony Hollingsworth University of Nebraska Medical Center  "Mucins in Cancer: Control and Protection of the Cell Surface"
Block 6    March 9       3:30 p.m. Dr. Barry Rosenbaum Colorado College "Selective logging, primate behavior and conservation in Indonesia"
Block 7    April 13     3:30 p.m.

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Prof. John Odling-Smee Oxford University "Niche Construction and Human Evolution"