Spring 2005 Biology Seminars

                    Thursdays at 4:30pm in MS 302

                            Refreshments at 4:15pm. in MS 303

 

Feb. 3

School for Field Studies:

Environmentally based study abroad

Steve Arnold, School for Field Studies

Feb. 10

Sciences Division Student Research Poster Symposium

Students of the Sciences Division

Feb. 17

Life as a graduate student: What’s it all about?

Victoria Knutson, Ph.D., Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT-Houston

Feb. 24

Earth System & Global Change Lecture Series:

Predicting El Niño and La Niña: When will the next big one occur?

11:00am Hoxie-Thompson Auditorium

Scott Curtis, Ph.D., Department of Geography, East Carolina University

Mar. 3

1) Aging and effects of mitochondrial DNA damage

2) Peroxiredoxin-3 expression in various mouse models

1) Anna Kuznetsova, Biology Major, Austin College

2) Zeeshan Danawala, Biology major, Austin College

Mar. 10

Identification of candidate genes involved in VSMC development via in vitro differentiation of ES cells

Abby Patel, Biology Major, Austin College

Mar. 17

North Texas Land Stewardship Lecture Series:

The coming prairie renaissance

11:00am Hoxie-Thompson Auditorium

Richard Manning , author of Grassland

Mar. 31

From the Sierras to the Sea: JanTerm in Northern California

Kim Snipes et al., Biology Dept., Austin College

Apr. 7

Effects of PA28 gamma on cell cycle progression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jean Sheng, Independent Study in Biology, Austin College

Apr. 14

Earth System & Global Change Lecture Series:

The effects of global warming on Texas

11:00am Ida Green Auditorium

Jerry North, Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University

Apr. 14

Campus Convocation:

Tibetan medicine, psychiatry, and meditation

4:30pm Hoxie-Thompson Auditorium

Eric Jacobson, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Anthropologist, Harvard University Medical School

Apr.19

Special Tuesday Seminar:

The effects of ∆FosB on CREB in cocaine addiction

 

Megan Wald, Independent Study in Biology, Austin College

Apr. 21

Campus Convocation:

HIV and popular culture in South Africa

4:30pm Hoxie-Thompson Auditorium

Zolani Ngwane,

Apr. 28

1) Creation of an apryase knockout in Shigella flexneri

2) JanTerm in a rural Mexican medical clinic

1) Daniel Yu, Directed Study in Biology, Austin College

2) Liz Hoffman, Judy Hereford, Amy

Newton, and Marlene Garcia, Premedical Students, Austin College

May 5

1) ISG15, an interferon induced cytokine
2)

1)  Krithi Rao, Biology Major, Austin College
2) Mahir Patel, Biochemistry Major, Ausitn College

 

Austin College Biology Seminars are free and open to the public.

The seminar schedule is subject to change with one-week advanced notice.

For more information contact Kim Snipes (903-813-2545 or ksnipes@austincollege.edu )