Biology Department Seminar Schedule

Summer 2009 HHMI Seminar Series
Day & Date Time & Place Speaker Title Host
Wednesday
May 27
Millikan Auditorium, Pomona
4:30 pm
Ian Philips
KGI
Stem cells: science and politics in a Petri dish

BBQ will follow the talk
Wednesday
June 3
Beckman Auditorium, HMC
4:30 pm
Nancy Buckley
Cal Poly Pomona
Marijuana compounds, their receptors and the immune system Steve Adolph
Wednesday
June 10
Millikan Auditorium, Pomona
4:30 pm
Char Miller
Pomona
The once and future Forest Service: public-lands management in an age of climate change
Wednesday
June 17
Beckman Auditorium, HMC
4:30 pm
Adam Bailis
City of Hope
Genome stability in Yeast Rob Drewell
Wednesday
June 24
Millikan Auditorium, Pomona
4:30 pm
Karl Johnson
Pomona
Synapsing with Syndecan: how proteoglycans regulate synapse formation
Wednesday
July 1
Beckman Auditorium, HMC
4:30 pm
Sue Wessler
University of Georgia
TBA Cathy McFadden
Wednesday
July 8
Millikan Auditorium, Pomona
4:30 pm
Katherine Kantadrjieff
CSU-Fullerton
[Protein crystallography]
Wednesday
July 15
Beckman Auditorium, HMC
4:30 pm
Stijn Cassenaer
Caltech
[Neurobiology] Eliot Bush
Wednesday
July 22
Millikan Auditorium, Pomona
4:30 pm
Fred Grieman
Pomona
Kinetics of atmospheric species
Wednesday
July 29
Beckman Auditorium, HMC
4:30 pm
Hilary Goodwin
UCLA
[Public Health]

BBQ will follow the talk
Cathy McFadden
Spring 2009 Biology Seminar Series
Day & Date Time & Place Speaker Title Host
Tuesday
Feb. 3
Seaver Auditorium
4:30 pm
Rob Philips
Caltech
How Viruses Make New Viruses: A Single Molecule View Alfred Kwok
Thursday
Mar. 5
Millikan Auditorium
11:00 am
Adam Bailis
City of Hope
Genome instability associated with replicative senescence: A model for the serial genome destabilization that leads to tumor formation Daniel Martínez
Tuesday
Apr. 28
Seaver Auditorium
11:00 am
James Bowie
UCLA
What drives membrane proteins to fold? Tina Negritto
Tuesday
Apr. 28
Seaver South 121
7-9 pm
Senior Thesis presentations: Cris Cheney
7:00 Jade McGillBlack mustard, invertebrates and coastal sage scrub
7:15 Derek BuchnerBigcone douglas-firs: moving upwards
7:30 Hannah SalimFusion Genes in Eukaryote Genomes
7:45 Allison DubnerCiliates and Anti-malarial Drugs
8:00 Kathleen HallEndocrine disruptors and mosquitofish
8:15 Caitlin HowePurines in isopods in different habitats
8:30 Akana NotoSeed predation, allelopathy and invisibility
Wednesday
Apr. 29
Seaver South 121
7-9 pm
Senior Thesis presentations: Cris Cheney
7:00 Anne YoshizawaIon Regulation in Brooding Isopods
7:15 Amelia NordmannUsing QCM-D on Gint3-GDI interactions
7:30 Paul FieldsCre-1 endonucleases and trinucleotide repeats
7:45 Sabrina McNewScrub jay learning and communication
8:00 Sadie BarrBiofuel Expansion to the Year 2020
8:15 Liz Cerny-ChipmanUV protection in pHake Lake plankton
8:30PARTY!!!
Fall 2008 Biology Seminar Series
Day & Date Time & Place Speaker Title Host
Thursday
Sept. 18
Millikan Auditorium
11:00 am
Jay Mellies
Reed College
Regulation of Virulence in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Nancy Hamlett
Friday
Oct. 17
Place TBA
12:00 noon
Mary Beth Saffo
Harvard University
An Affair of Three Kingdoms: unraveling the secrets of a marine ménage a trois Nancy Hamlett
Wednesday
Nov. 5
Place TBA
4:30 pm
Paul Orwin
Cal State San Bernadino
Should I stay or should I go? Swarming motility and biofilm formation in Variovorax paradoxus Nancy Hamlett
Wednesday
Nov. 19
Place TBA
4:30 pm
Paul Stapp
California State University Fullerton
Unraveling the mystery of plague in grasslands of the Great Plains Nancy Hamlett