Florida International
University
Department of Biological Sciences
Seminar Series 2005-06
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Tuesday afternoons at 3:45 p.m. in the Wertheim Conservatory (WC 130) at the University Park campus. Light refreshments are served beginning at 3:30 p.m.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 30, 2005 | Kermit Carraway, University of Miami | Functions of the membrane
mucin Muc4 in epithelial and tumor cells |
| September 6 | James Fourqurean, FIU | Seascape ecology: inferring
ecosystem functioning from spatial and temporal patterns in elemental and isotopic composition of seagrasses |
| September 13 | Maureen Donnelly, FIU |
“Autecology, biodiversity, and conservation biology of tropical amphibians and reptiles: An organismal perspective” |
| September 20 | Terace Fletcher, University of Miami | "All's Well That Ends Well: A Tale of Telomere Structure." |
| September 27 | Thomas Philippi, FIU | "Ecology at Impractical Time
Scales: Diapause in the desert and a bit on Everglades monitoring" |
| October 4 | Evelyn Gaiser, FIU |
“Why is periphyton so abundant in the Everglades?” |
| October 11 | Kasirajan Ayyanathan, FAU |
“Diverse Transcriptional Repression Mechanisms Mediated by C2H2 Zinc Finger Proteins” |
| October 18 | Howard Prentice, FAU | "Mechanisms of brain survival
during anoxia and upon re-oxygenation." |
| October 25 | Dr. Yunqiu Wang, University of Miami | "Genetic Structure of South Florida Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa)". |
| November 1 | Xupei Huang, FAU | "Cardiac Troponin I Isoform Switching during Heart Development" |
| November 8 | Zhongwei Li, FAU |
"RNA metabolism in Escherichia coli" |
| November 15 | Valerie Paul, the Smithsonian Marine Station | |
| November 22 | No seminar (week of Thanksgiving) | |
| November 29 | Matthew Potts, University of Miami | |
| December 6 | Bill Overholt, UF-IFAS | Biological control of invasive plants at the UF/IFAS Biological Control Research and Containment Laboratory in Fort Pierce |
| December 13 | May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Glaser Lecture |
| January 10, 2006 | James Albert , University of Louisiana at Lafayette | "Biogeography and Biodiversity of Neotropical Freshwaters " |
| January 17 | Rui tao, FAU | "The serotonin syndrome" |
| January 24 | Doug Broadfield, FAU | Comparative Neuroanatomical Approaches to the Origin of Language |
| January 31 | Leti Vega, Barry University | The yeast Pif1p helicase: effects on telomeres and telomerase. |
| February 7 |
John Beier, University of Miami |
Malaria parasite transmission
by mosquitoes and the burden of malaria in Africa. |
| February 14 | Terace Fletcher, University of Miami | "All's Well That Ends Well: A Tale of Telomere Structure." |
| February 21 | Ligia Collado-Vides, FIU |
Macroalgae in the Caribbean: Architecture, population models, long-term trend analysis, and back to architecture. |
| February 28 | Tim Bell, UIC | Plant Ecology |
| March 7 | Dean Williams, University of Miami | "Introduction history and
patterns of genetic diversity in exotic populations of Brazilian peppertree " |
| March 14 | Kermit Carraway, University of Miami | Functions of the membrane mucin Muc4 in epithelial and tumor cells |
| March 21 | No seminar (Spring Break) | |
| March 28 | Nobuo Shimamoto | |
| April 4 | Troy Smith, Indiana University | |
| April 11 | Jennifer Richards (host) |
Biology Undergraduate Honors Presentations Tatiana Cole. The application of fluorescent nanocrystals to study the distribution of neuropeptides in the Aedes aegypti mosquito. (Dr. Fernando Noriega, Research Advisor) Chad Kwon. Cardiac neural crest cells and their role in murine Purkinje fiber development. (Dr. Lidia Kos, Research Advisor) Sixto Leal. Characterization of L-serine deaminase and its potential role in the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (Dr. Kalai Mathee, Research Advisor) |
| April 18 | Jennifer Richards (host) |
Biology Undergraduate Honors Presentations Leon Posada. Effects of predation on the diving behavior of Red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans). (Dr. Mike Heithaus, Research Advisor) Jessica Figueroa. Inducible overexpression of endothelin-3 in a transgenic mouse leads to hyperpigmentation that decreases over time. (Dr. Lidia Kos, Research Advisor) Sergio Luna. Using a novel non-radioactive method of primer extension analysis to map the transcription start sites of amp genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (Dr. Kalai Mathee, Research Advisor)
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