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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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August 23
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David Lee,
FIU
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The Difficulty
of Being Blue: An Unusual Mode of Color Production in Plants
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August 30
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Roger Hammer,
Miami-Dade County
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Human and Natural History of south Florida
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September 6
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No seminar (Labor Day)
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September 13
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Julia
Dallman, University of Miami
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Synchronized
swimming in zebrafish: a tale of genetic determinants of
synaptic function
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September 20
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Barbara
Whitlock, University of Miami
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Re-illuminating the Swingle
Plant Anatomy Reference Collection
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September 27
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Barry
Rosen, FIU Medical School
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The Arsenic Biogeocycle
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October 4
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Ligia
Collado Vides |
What
macroalgae patterns, associations and nutrient content can tell us about
Biscayne Bay estuarine conditions
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October
11
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Dan
Schmitt (Duke University)
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Biomechanics
in the trees: A primate perspective on limb mechanics and its implications
for basic and clinical sciences
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October
18
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Phil
Busey (University of
Florida IFAS)
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Grasses
and the lawn of life, as seen in South Florida
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October
25
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Peter
Hogarth (University of York, UK)
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Mangroves
as Ecosystem Engineers
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November
1
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James
Watling (University of Florida IFAS)
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Understanding
threats to biodiversity through the lens of landscape ecology
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November
8
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Martha
Nungesser (South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Division)
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Response
of Landscape Patterns to Hydrologic Changes in the Everglades
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November
15
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Paul
Pratt (University of Florida IFAS, Invasive Plants
Research Lab)
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Top
down regulation of the
invasive
tree Melaleuca quinquenervia
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November
22
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Orou
Gaoue (University of Miami, Institute of Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology)
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The
ecological and evolutionary implications of wild plants harvest by indigenous
people
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November 29
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Dr. John Hoehnig (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
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Estimating
relative survival rates: application to discard mortality, evaluating MPAs,
chronic disease impacts, larval fish dynamics, stock enhancement, sex ratios,
& evolutionary fitness
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December
6
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Patrick
von Aderkas (University of Victoria)
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Biochemistry
and physiology of gymnosperm pollination drops
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January
10, 2011
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Madhavan
Nair,
FIU Medical
School
|
Magnetic
Nanodelivery of HIV drugs Across Blood
Brain Barrier
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January
17
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No
seminar (Martin Luther King Day)
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|
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January
24
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Jeff
Wells – new FIU Biology professor!
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Forensic
Entomology
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January
31
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Valerie Weaver (University
of California, S.F)
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The
force Journal of a Tumor Cell
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February
7
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Rod
Murphey (FAU)
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Molecular mechanisms of synaptic
competition
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February
14
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Joseph Mendelson (Zoo Atlanta)
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Biodiversity,
Evolution, and Conservation of Neotropical Frogs
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February
21
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no seminar today |
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February
28
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Vincent
Moy (University of Miami)
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Biological processes probed by direct force
measurements
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March
7
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Brian
Barnes (University of Alaska)
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Glaser Professor Seminar
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March
14
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No
seminar (Spring Break)
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March
21
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Jennifer
Rehage (Earth and Environment)
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Effects
of hydrological heterogeneity on fish dynamics at the Everglades
marsh-mangrove ecotone: implications for ecosystem function & services
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March
28
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Sabrina
Burmeister (UNC)
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Neurobiology
of Social Signaling: the túngara frog, mate choice, and egr-1 expression
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April
4
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Brian
Silliman
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Interactions between climate stress, food webs
and facilitation reveal new paradigms in ecology
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April
11
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Alejandro
Barbieri
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Adipogenesis,
Signaling and Natural Products |
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April
18
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Biology
Honors Presentations
- special all- afternoon cavalcade of stars from 2 pm - 5:30 pm (great
refreshments as well as great talks planned!)
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Laura Cabrera
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Arylchlorogermanes as
substrates for palladium-catalyzed
cross-coupling reactions.
(Stanislaw F. Wnuk (Chem) and John
Makemson, mentors)
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Katherine Teal Leonard
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Characterization of
short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase cluster in
the juvenile hormone pathway of the yellow
fever mosquito Aedes aegypti.
(Fernando Noriega, mentor)
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Christopher
Livia
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Diversity of nematode
species in different South Florida soil
types.
(DeEtta Mills, mentor)
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Enrique D.
Machado
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Repeated Treatment with
alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone mimics
enhancement of electric waveform structure
in Brachyhypopomus gauderio.
(Philip Stoddard, mentor)
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Eric L.
Maranda
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The effect of
Poly(A) Binding protein on mRNA Translation
and Stability of non-polyadenylated mRNA of
Mammalian Orthoreovirus. (Kenneth E. Murray,
mentor)
|
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Abner A.
Murray
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Translation of mammalian
orthoreovirus does not require an intact
eIF4F complex: implications for
cap-independent translation initiation.
(Kenneth E. Murray, mentor)
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Alejandro
Padron
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Molecular dynamics of
wildtype and mutant dehaloperoxidase:
Insight into halophenol ligand
stablilization. (David Chatfield
(Chem) and Fernando Noriega, mentors)
|
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Genesis
Perez
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The role of the
Transcriptional Regulator Encoder PA4157
in Iron Transport in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa.
(Kalai Mathee (Med) and Opehlia
Weeks, mentors)
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Jose A Redondo
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Determination of the
post-mortem interval based on microbial
succession in the mouse (Mus musculus)
gut.
(DeEtta Mills, mentor)
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Jose Roble
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Using Vibrio
harveyi bright mutants to understand the
control mechanism for luciferase
bioluminescence.
(John Makemson, mentor)
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Jorge L.
Rodriguez
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Racial/ethnic differences in
DNA double-strand-break repair signaling in
breast cancer (Jennifer Hu (UM Cancer
Center), Ophelia Weeks and Lidia Kos,
mentors)
|
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Jacqueline
Zayas
|
Diversity of bacterial
biogeochemical carbon cycling genes in
pristine Miami-Dade soils.
(DeEtta Mills, mentor)
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