Seminar Series 2011-2012
Thursdays at noon
Science Building 2 Rm 223
Fall 2011
* denotes special day or time
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 29 | Georgiana Purdy Dept Mol Micro & Imm Oregon Health Sci Univ |
Taking Out TB: Lysosomal Trafficking and Mycobactericidal Ubiquitin-Derived Peptides http://www.ohsu.edu/microbiology/purdy.shtml |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| October 06 | Stefanie Kautz Field Museum of Natural History Chicago |
How mutualisms shape the world of ants http://www.moreaulab.org/Stefanie_Kautz.html |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| October 21* | Peter Byers Dept of Pathology Univ Washington |
ALUMNI NIGHT LECTURE Identifying the Cause of Connective Tissue Disease: the pieces are coming together http://www.pathology.washington.edu/faculty/profile?id=79 |
Newman newmanl at pdx.edu 725-8757 |
| October 27 | William B. Davis Dept Vet Med Washington St Univ |
Unexpected Roles for Histone H2A in DNA Repair, Replication, and Silencing in Yeast http://www.smb.wsu.edu/faculty/davis/index.html |
Stedman kstedman at pdx.edu 725-3253 |
| November 03 | Anne Danielson-Francois Dept Nat Sci Univ Michigan-Dearborn |
Sperm competition in spiders: lessons from morphological and behavioral data http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~danfranc/ |
Masta smasta at pdx.edu 725-8505 |
| November 10 | Sarah Schaack Dept Biol Reed College |
The Mobilome-- the most dynamic and exciting portion of the genome https://sites.google.com/site/schaackwork/ |
Estes estes at pdx.edu 725-8782 |
| November 17 | Holly Simon Envir & Biomol Ssytems OHSU |
Characterization of Archaeal Assemblages in the Columbia River Coastal Margin http://www.ebs.ogi.edu/simonh/ |
Stedman kstedman at pdx.edu 725-3253 |
| November 24 | No seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 01 | Margaret Sedensky NW Mitchondrial Res Guild Seattle Children's Res Inst |
Worms as a model for mitochondrial function and, surprisingly, the phenomenon of anesthesia http://www.nwmito-research.org/doctors.jsp#sedensky/ |
Estes estes at pdx.edu 725-8782 |
Winter 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 24 | Andrew Esbaugh Env Phys Tox Univ Miami |
Evolution of carbon dioxide transport and impacts of a changing environment http://yyy.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/grosell/people.htm |
Podrabsky pdrabsj at pdx.edu 725-5772 |
| January 26 | Jay Hove Dept Mol Cell Phys Univ Cincinnati |
Going With the Flow: How Biofluids Shape Living Systems http://www.med.uc.edu/physiology/FACULTY_hove-jay.htm |
Podrabsky pdrabsj at pdx.edu 725-5772 |
| January 31 | Carol Bucking Comp Phys Univ Ottawa |
The guts of the matter: The integral role of digestion in fish homeostasis http://www.compphys.uottawa.ca/index.php?/Walsh/Personnel/ |
Podrabsky pdrabsj at pdx.edu 725-5772 |
| February 02 | Kim Brown Brigham Women's Hospital Harvard Univ |
Genomic Effects of Environmental Estrogens http://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/profiles/profile/person/19034 |
Podrabsky pdrabsj at pdx.edu 725-5772 |
| February 07 | Rahul Raghavan Dept Eco Evo Bio Yale Univ |
Non-Coding RNAs in Bacteria http://www.yale.edu/ochman/PERS/raghavan.html |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| February 09 | Rachel Whitaker Dept Micro Univ Ill Urbana- Champaign |
A genomic view of evolutionary dynamics in microbial island populations http://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/1544 |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| February 14 | Jeffrey Gardner Great Lakes Bioenergy Res Ctr Univ Wisc-Madison |
Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Study Plant Cell Wall Degradation in Bacteria http://sim.confex.com/sim/32nd/webprogram/Person13431.html |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| February 16 | Rachael Morgan-Kiss Microbiology Miami Univ - OH |
Ecophysiology of microbial eukaryotes in Antarctic ice-covered lakes: from the field to the lab http://microbiology.muohio.edu/people/morgan-kiss.html |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| February 22 | Ian Hewson Dept Micro Cornell Univ |
Foe or friend? New perspectives on aquatic viral diversity and roles in host ecology enabled by community genomics http://microbe.calsnet.cornell.edu/~hewsonlab/ |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| February 23 | Christopher Matthews Dept Biochem Oregon State Univ |
Precursor biosynthesis for mitochondrial DNA replication http://biochem.science.oregonstate.edu/people/christopher-k-mathews |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| March 01 | Becky Vega-Thurber Microbiology Oregon St Univ |
Viruses of Tropical Stony Corals http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/node/182 |
Buckley bbuckley at pdx.edu 725-4239 |
| March 08 | Martin Lawrence Biol Dept Montana St Univ |
Structural Genomics of Archaeal Viruses http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/people/person.php?id=31 |
Stedman kstedman at pdx.edu 725-3253 |
| March 14* SRTC150 | Victor Raboy Research Geneticist USDA-ARS |
Biology of Seed Phosphate and Inositol Phosphates http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=4561 |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| March 15 | Jennifer Loftis Dept Behav Neurosci Oregon Health Sci Univ |
Glial cell activation and the innate immune system in substance use disorders: from basic research to clinical application http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/basic-science-departments/behn/people/loftis.cfm |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 05 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| April 12 | Robert Guralnick Dept Eco Evo Bio Univ CO, Boulder |
Species Response to Environmental Changes http://sites.google.com/site/robgur/ |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| April 19 | Janneke Hille Ris Lambers Dept Biology Univ Washington |
Life on the Edge: the Impacts of Climate Change on Range Limits http://protist.biology.washington.edu/oikos/ |
Eppley eppley at pdx.edu 725-8986 |
| April 26 | Steve Haddock Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
deep-sea gelatinous zooplankton http://www.mbari.org/staff/haddock/ |
Reysenbach and Lindgren reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| May 03 |
John McCutcheon University of Montana |
Extreme genome reduction in endosymbionts of insects: walking the line between bacteria and organelles |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
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CANCELLED May 10 |
CANCELLED Peter Wimberger |
Mystery of the Ice Worm Cocktail: Phylogeography of Ice Worms in the Pacific Northwest http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/biology/research/faculty-research/peter-wimberger/ |
Masta smasta at pdx.edu 725-8505 |
| May 17 | Edward Kipreos Dept Cell Biol Univ Georgia |
Cullin/RING finger complexes http://cellbio.uga.edu/people/kipreos.html |
Singer jsinger at pdx.edu 725-8742 |
| May 24 | Elizabeth Perry Dept Biology Univ Oregon |
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities http://biology.uoregon.edu/people/green/people.html |
Estes estess at pdx.edu 725-8782 |
| May 31 | Jason Merwin Dept Biol Lewis and Clark College |
Ribosome Biogenesis http://legacy.lclark.edu/%7Ejmerwin/bio200home.htm |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| June 07 | Rodney Rothstein Dept Genet and Dev Columbia Univ |
Exploring the Cellular Response to DNA Damage http://www.rothsteinlab.com/ |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
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Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 27 | Jeremiah Busch Washington State University |
The origin and loss of diversity at the S-locus in Brassicaceae |
Eppley eppley at pdx.edu 725-8986 |
| October 04 | Bitty Roy Center for Ecology & Evolution University of Oregon |
Perceptual bias in mimicry http://ceeb.uoregon.edu/faculty_pages/Roy/ |
Eppley eppley at pdx.edu 725-8986 |
| October 11 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| October 19* | Don Ennis Dept Biology University of Louisiana |
ALUMNI NIGHT LECTURE |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| October 25 | Christopher Taylor US Fish & Wildlife Abernathy Fish Technology Center |
Hatchery fish gone wild: ecological implications of developing a native steelhead broodstock http://www.fws.gov/aftc/index.html |
Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
| November 1 | Forest Rohwer Dept Biology SDSU |
Viruses, viruses eveywhere http://coralandphage.org/ |
Stedman kstedman at pdx.edu 725-3253 |
| November 8 | Loren Resiesberg Dept Botany UBC |
TBA |
Eppley eppley at pdx.edu 725-8986 |
| November 15 |
Annie Lindgren |
TBA | Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| November 22 | No seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| November 29 |
Scott Nuismer |
Estes estes at pdx.edu 725-8782 |
Winter 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 10 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| January 17 | Andrew T Smith School of Life Sciences Arizona State University |
A tale of two pikas: behavior, ecology, and conservation of Asian Plateau and American pikas http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/asmith.php |
Ruedas ruedas at pdx.edu 725-9526 |
| January 24 | TBA |
TBA | TBA |
| January 31 | Peter Kennedy Lewis and Clark |
Revisiting the specificity paradigm of Alnus-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal communities |
Rosenstiel |
| February 07 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| February 14 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| February 21 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| February 28 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| March 07 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| March 14 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 04 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| April 11 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| April 18 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| April 25 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 02 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 9 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 16 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 23 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 30 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| June 06 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
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