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Graduate Seminar Archive for 2013

 
Fall Semester 2013
Date & TimeEvent & Location
Nov. 22
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Kelly Dawe Structure, Function, and Evolution of Centromeres - the "Black Holes of the Maize Genome"
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Nov. 15
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Carolyn Bohach The Silent Reservoir of E. Coli O157:H7
Affiliation: University of Idaho
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Nov. 08
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Eric Harvill Evolution from Commensals to Pathogens
Affiliation: Penn State University
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Nov. 01
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Justin Yeager The Influence of Natural Selection in Reinforcing Boundaries Between Divergent Anti-predator Color Patterns of Adjacent Poison Frog Populations
Affiliation: Tulane University
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Oct. 18
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Larry Gilbert Ecological and Evolutionary Interactions in a Simple Tropical Food Web: Passion Vines, Rainforest Cucumbers, Heliconius butterflies and Associates
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Oct. 11
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Janet Donaldson Survival of the Fittest: How Enteric Pathogens Survive in Stressful Environments
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, MSU
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Oct. 04
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Jason Rosch Pneumococcal Pathogenesis: from Genomics to Therapeutic Strategies
Affiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Sep. 27
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Tim Keitt Modeling Ecological Dynamics in Heterogeneous Landscapes
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Sep. 20
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Petra Rocic Vascular Smooth Muscle Phenotype is a Critical Determinant of Coronary Collateral Growth
Affiliation: University of South Alabama
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Sep. 13
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Robert Peet Big Data Meets Darwin's Entangled Bank: Changing Perspectives on Plant Communities
Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Sep. 06
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Mark Welch Transcribed Microsatellites may be Engines of Adaptation
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, MSU
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Apr. 19
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Andrea Rodgers Jones M.S. Exit Seminar: Expression of DNA-damage Response Genes in Cells Affected by Pneumococcal Pneumonia
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Apr. 19
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Adef Othan M.S. Exit Seminar: Biochemical Characterization of the Saccharomyces cervisiae Mitochondrial Rhomboid Protease, Pcp1p
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Apr. 12
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Prachi Matsye Ph.D. Exit Seminar: The Defense Response of Soybean to Parasitic Nematodes
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Apr. 05
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Greg Wheeler M.S. Exit Seminar: Population-level Genetic Structure of Acmispon argophyllus on the Channel Islands of California
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Mar. 22
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Tom Schwan Cology of Relapsing Fever Spirochetes
Affiliation: NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Mar. 08
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Richard Webby Influenza Virus Transmission at the Swine-Human Interface
Affiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Department of Infectious Diseases
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Mar. 01
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Stephen Stray Evolution of Influenza Viruses in the Presence of a Polyclonal Immune Response: Simple in vitro and in silico Approaches to a Complex Biological Problem
Affiliation: University of Mississippi Medical Center
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Feb. 22
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Linda Bockenstedt Imaging Approaches to Understand Lyme Borreliosis
Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Feb. 15
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Damian Romero Role of MicroRNA-21 in Aldosterone-Mediated Cardiac Injury
Affiliation: University of Mississippi Medical Center
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Feb. 08
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Jeffrey Eells The Role of the Transcription Factor Nurr1 in Dopamine Neuron Function and in an Animal Model of Schizophrenia
Affiliation: Mississippi State University-College of Veterinary Medicine
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Feb. 01
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Christie Williams Resisting Attack by a Cereal Killer!!!
Affiliation: USDA, West Lafayette, IN
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Jan. 25
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Burt Bluhm Sensing Stomata: Dissection of Cercopora Diseases through Functional Genomics
Affiliation: University of Arkansas, Department of Plant Pathology
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Jan. 18
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Jim Sartin Surviving the Review Process, an Editor's Perspective
Affiliation: Auburn University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)
Jan. 11
3:00 pm to
4:00 pm
Dr. Sudeep George Membrane Induced Directional Cell Migration
Affiliation: University of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry
Location: Harned Auditorium (Rm 102)