Spring 2012 Seminar Series
Thursday Afternoons
Reiss 112, 12:30-1:45pm
January 12, Mechanisms of nervous system and muscle development and regeneration, Laura Borodinsky, Assistant Professor at Shriner's Hospital, University of California Davis (Part of the Neurobiology Faculty Search)
January 19, The Roles of Activity and Adult-Born Neurons in Olfactory System Plasticity, Diana Cummings, Predoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH (Part of the Neurobiology Faculty Search)
February 9, Non-hyperpolarizing GABA and brain development, Laura Cancedda, Team Leader in NBT/Cellular NeuroPhysiology at the Italian Institute of Technology (Part of the Neurobiology Faculty Search)
February 23, Eavesdropping, foraging and dominance in keystone Neotropical pollinators: stingless bees, Elinor Lichtenberg, recent Doctoral Graduate of the Divison of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (Host: Martha Weiss)
March 15, Behavioral dynamics in a primate hybrid zone, Susan Alberts, Professor of Biology at Duke University (Host: Janet Mann)
March 22, If it's broken, fix it! Mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair, Jan LaRocque, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Science, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Georgetown University (Host: Darren Hagen)
March 29, Neuron-glia communication through ephrin-A3 and EphA4, Elena Pasquale, Professor at the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute (Host: Maria Donoghue)
April 19, Losing Inhibitions and Making Connections: Stem Cell Therapies for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Janice Naegele, Professor of Biology/Neuroscience & Behavior at Wesleyan University (Host: Maria Donoghue)
Friday Afternoons
Reiss 264, 3:30-4:45pm
March 23, Comparative analysis of apoptotic function in humans and chimpanzees, Gaurav Arora, Postdoctoral fellow in Professor Anne Rosenwald's lab
March 30, Digital Resources for Teaching/ Creating a Digital Teaching Portfolio, Professor Anne Rosenwald, Department of Biology
April 13, The role of Fas signaling in pathological giardiasis, Aleksander Keselman, graduate student in Professor Steven Singer's lab
April 27, Social and behavioral development of free-ranging juvenile bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Ewa Krzyszczyk, graduate student in Professor Janet Mann's lab
