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Biology Department

SEMINAR SERIES
2007-2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Seminar Title
Friday, October 5th Noontime Olin 185 Chemistry Seminar	Dr. William Kittleman	University of Michigan School of Medicine	“Characterization and Mechanistic Studies of the Type II Isopentenyl Diphosphate: Dimethylallyl Diphosphate Isomerase (IDI-2) from Staphylococcus aureus"
Monday, October 8th 5:00 p.m. In Science Building room 186 AT UCCS CAMPUS	Dr. Lisa Hines	Dept of Biology at UCCS	“Do biological factors contribute to ethnic disparities in breast cancer outcomes?”
Friday, October 12th Noontime Palmer 16 Geology Seminar	Dr. Sharon Smith	Professor, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmoshperic Science & Co-Director, Center for Oceans & Human Health	"Climate Change & the Upwelling Ecosystems of the Northern Arabian Sea"
Monday, October 15th 12:15 p.m. Olin 1	Dr. Kerri Vierling	Department of Fish and Wildlife, Moscow, Idaho	"Nest webs & remote sensing: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding fire effects on cavity nesters"
Wednesday, October 17th Noon Tutt Science Building Lecture Hall Geology Seminar	Dr. Katharina Billups	University of Delaware	"Exploring the application of foraminiferal Mg/Ca Ratios to questions of Early Cenozoic climate change"
Wednesday, November 14th 7:00 p.m. Gates Auditorium Chemistry Seminar	Dr. Edward Yeung	Iowa State University	"The Human Genome Project: 20 Years Later"
Monday, November 19th 7:00 p.m. McHugh Commons Anthropology Seminar	Dr. Robert Eckhardt	Pennsylvania State University College of Health & Human Development	"Tall tales about little people: doing science in the age of media"
Monday, December 3rd Noontime Olin 185 Biochemistry Seminar	Dr. Peggy Daugherty	Biochemistry Candidate	Protein-protein interactions
Tuesday, December 4th 3:30 p.m. Olin 1	Dr. Jennifer Kennell	University of Michigan	"The Wnt Beneath my Wings: Genomic approaches to studying Wnt signaling in Drosophila"
Thursday, December 6th 3:30 p.m. Olin 1	Dr. Jeffrey Brown	Washington College Chestertown, MD	"Wnt and Frizzled: a ligand and receptor bound to get a head
Friday, December 11th Noontime Tutt Science Center 122 Math Seminar	Dr. David Brown	Math Department Colorado College	"Inferring Gene Activity Dynamics from Reporter Protein Data, or You Might Already Know Enough Math To Do Research"
Monday, December 10th Noontime Olin 185 Biochemistry Seminar	Dr. Jeff Myers	Biochemistry Candidate	Protein folding
Wednesday, December 12th 3:45 p.m. Olin 1	Dr. Nancy Huang	Harvard Extension School	"Translational regulation in the C. elegans embryo"
Thursday, December 13th Noontime Olin 185 Biochemistry Seminar	Dr. Karla Marz	Biochemistry Candidate	Circadian rhythm
Thursday,February 28 3:30 Olin 1	Dr. Ned Friedman	University of Colorado, Boulder	"An evolutionary-developmental perspective on the angiosperm reproductive syndrome"
Thursday, February 28 12:15-1:15 p.m. University Center, Room 116 UCCS	Kimberly Hiroto	UCCS	"Does Culture Influence Anglo-Americans' and Japanese Americans' Perception of Alzheimer's Disease?"
Tuesday, March 11 5:00 p.m. UCCS Room 221 Science Lecture Hall	Dr. Jimmy Stewart	UCCS	"Current Status of MOPAC"
BioDay 2007 Friday, March 28 12:00-5:00 p.m. Slocum Commons	Dr. Ethan White	University of New Mexico	TBA
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 3:30 p.m. Olin 1	Dr. Darrell Killian	CU Boulder Molecular, Cellular, & Developemental Biology	"tra-5, a novel gene, regulates her-1 to promote hermaphrodite development in C. elegans"
Thursday, April 3, 2008 3:30 p.m. Olin 1	Dr. Lamont Anderson	Colorado College	*"Studies on a Hemolysin and Transporter from Chromobacterium* violaceum"**

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