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Seminar Schedule Spring 2006 BIOS 6050: Biological Science Colloquium Department of Biological Sciences |
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Room
1718 Wood Hall, Fridays at 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
Note: click on name for link to website
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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January 13 |
None –
meet with students |
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January 19* MLK speaker Thursday, 10-11 am 1710 Wood Hall |
Director
for Conservation and Development,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington DC. (host:
Steve Malcolm) |
Opportunities
and Challenges for Science-Based
Conservation in Gabon,
Central Africa |
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January 27 |
Dr Ramasamy
M. Mannan, Senior
Principal Scientist, Pfizer Animal
Health, Kalamazoo, Michigan. (host:
Rob Eversole) |
Structural
and Functional Characterization
of a Vaccine Adjuvant |
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February 3 |
Dr Joelle
Gehring, Department
of Biology, Central Michigan
University, Mount Pleasant,
Michigan. (host:
Maarten Vonhof) |
Avian Collisions with Communication Towers: Addressing a Long-term Conservation
Issue |
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February 10 |
Biology
Department, Hope College, Holland,
Michigan. (host:
David Rudge) |
The Role of the Zany in Teaching: Taking "Community of Learners" Literally |
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February 17 |
Director,
Technology Transfer & Licensing
Commercialization, Western
Michigan University. (host:
Steve Malcolm) |
Technology
Transfer, Innovation and
the Modern Academy: How the
Strategic Use of Intellectual Property
Rights can Benefit Your Research
Programs |
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February 24 |
Spirit day |
No
seminar |
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March 10 |
Dept.
Biology, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo,
Michigan (host:
Silvia Rossbach) |
Microbial
Interactions and the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Vaginosis |
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March 17 |
Dept.
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
University of Michigan. (host:
Steve Malcolm) |
Linking the Population Dynamics of Insects with Ecosystem Processes: Concepts and Data |
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March 24 |
Dept.
Biological Sciences, University
of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario. (host:
Steve Malcolm) |
The
Reproductive Biology of Moths
that Migrate in Response to
Habitat Change |
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March 31 |
Institute
for Genetics, University of
Cologne, Germany. (host:
Karim Essani) |
On
the Consequences of Foreign DNA
Insertion into Mammalian Genomes |
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April 7 |
Dr Mohammed Akaaboune,
Dept. Molecular, Cellular &Developmental Biology, Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan(host: John Jellies) |
Nicotinic
Acetylcholine Receptor Dynamics at the Neuromuscular Junction of Living
Animals |
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April 14 |
MSU-DOE
Plant Research Lab, Michigan
State University, East Lansing,
Michigan. (host:
Silvia Rossbach) |
Gene
Regulons and regulatory Pathways Involved in Plant Cold Acclimation |
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April 21 |
University
of Maryland Biotechnology
Institute, Rockville, Maryland. (host:
Karim Essani) |
Unwinding
the Function of Helicases |