Dr. Katy Gonder will co-chair a symposium and workshop focused on the biology and conservation of African apes at the Congress of the International Primatological Society at Edinburgh, UK in August. The title of the symposium is "Biology and conservation of the most endangered apes in Africa: Gorilla gorilla diehli and Pan troglodytes vellerosus" and the title of the workshop is "Pan troglodytes vellerosus: State of knowledge and future plans for research and conservation of an understudied ape". More about the work...

Veronika Agueeva - Great Dane Award
Zakhar Berkovich - Outstanding Senior & Rod Hart Memorial Award
Ian Feinstein - Great Dane Award
Natacha Jean-Louis - Outstanding Senior Award
Kendra Joseph - ResLife Outstanding Achievement Award
Eric Koch - Oustanding Senior & Five Quad Award
Neil Volk - Outstanding Senior Award

Glenn Bumpus Award
Eric Koch, Christina Padget
Bazzoni Fellowship
Eric Koch
Presidential Award
Erich Koch
Departmental Excellence in Research
Abigail Curtis, Jonathan Friedman, Wesley Harlow, Fraulin Joseph, Jessica Taylor, Jess Wess

Tue, July 22, 3:00PM,D'Ambra Aud. - PhD Thesis Defense: Qinglu Zeng, Biology, UAlbany. Collaborative homing directed by site-specific endonucleases in bacteriophages (Chair: Shub)
Thur, July 24, 2:00PM, D'Ambra Aud. - MS Thesis Defense: Jung Doh, Biology, UAlbany. A novel approach to identify sequence features for GLD-1 binding specificity (Chair: MH Lee)
Fri, July 25, 11:00AM, D'Ambra Aud. - MS Thesis Defense: Joshua Corrigan, Biology, UAlbany. Detoxification of N-6-Hydroxylaminopurine in Escherichia coli (Chair: Cunningham)

New graduate students will receive an introduction to the Department and its procedures on Wed, Aug 20:
9:15 Coffee/tea Welcome/Introductions (Bio 248A)
10:00 Env Health & Safety Office (Bio 248A)
10:30 EEB students mtg (Bio 248A) or tour of LSRB
11:00 MCDN student mtg (Bio 248A) or tour of LSRB
11:30 Lunch with Grad Student Reps (LSRB 1143)
12:30 Forensic Students mtg (Bio 248A)

Photographs of the Recognition Ceremony are available now. Thumbnail versions of Dave's photos and those from Don Elliott Studios can be seen now. The photos from Don Elliott Studios are representative of the available pictures: alternate versions are available for many of the poses, but all are not shown here.