Upcoming Biology Seminars

Everyone is encouraged to attend seminars in the Department. Seminars are normally held either in the D'Ambra Auditorium on the 2nd floor of the Life Sciences Building or in room 248A on the 2nd floor of the Biology Building.

SPRING SEMESTER, 2012
• Tuesday, January 17, 10:00 A.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Auinash Kalsotra, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine , "MicroRNA regulation of alternative splicing networks during heart development and disease". [Host: Melinda Larsen - Biology and RNA Institute Search Committee]
• Wednesday, January 18, 1:00 P.M. An informal "Chalk Talk" with the Dr. Auinash Kalsotra. For faculty, postdocs, grad students. LSRB 1143.
• Thursday, January 19, 10:00 A.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Prashanth Rangan, Kimmel Center for Biology & Medicine, Skirball Institute. "RNA regulation in the Germline" [Host: Ben Szaro - Biology and RNA Institute Search Committee]
• Friday, January 27, 12:30 P.M., Biology Rm 248. Dr. Dan Molloy, UAlbany. "Cracking the life cycle of a zebra mussel parasite". [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Friday, January 27, 3:00 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Melinda Larsen, Biology, UAlbany. "Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Salivary Gland from the Bottom Up" [Host: Al Millis]
• Monday, January 30, 10:00 A.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Jason Herschkowitz, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology , Baylor College of Medicine. "Non‐coding RNAs and the claudin‐low subtype of breast cancer: The long and the short of it" [Host: Al Millis]
• Wednesday, February 1, 12:35 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Richard Ribchester, Euan MacDonald Center for MND Research, School of Bio Medical Sciences, University of Edinburgh. "Development, plasticity and repair of neuromuscular connections [Host: Greg Lnenicka]
• Friday, February 3, 12:35 P.M. Biology 248, Dr. Alexander Karatayev, Great Lakes Center, Buffalo State College. "invasive bivalves as ecosystem engineers". [Host: EEB]
• Friday, February 3, 3:00 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Douglas Frank, Department of Biology, Syracuse University. "The grazing ecology of Yellowstone National Park. [Host: Gary Kleppel]
• Thursday, February 9, 2:00 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Xantha Karp, HHMI/Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University. "Modulation of microRNA pathways and the maintenance of developmental potential during quiescence". [Host: Marlene Belfort]
• Friday, February 10, 12:35 P.M., Biology 248. Dr. Shannon LaDeau, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. "Ecological complexity and vector-borne disease: West Nile virus and the phenology and composition of urban mosquito communities". [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Monday, February 13, 2:00 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Shou Gu, Department of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University. "From dsRNA to ssRNA: Unwinding the
  mystery of RISC maturation". [Host: Ing-Nang Wang]
• Thursday, February 16, 2:00 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr.Cara Pager, Department Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University. "Hepatitis C Virus Subverts Cellular RNA Granules to Promote Viral Gene Expression" [Host: Marlene Belfort]
• Friday, February 17, 12:35 P.M. Biology 248. Dr. Chris Harbison, Siena College. "Feather-lice, flat-flies and phoresis: Studying the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions". [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Monday, February 20, 2:00 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr.Rebecca Tirabassi, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Big Viruses, Small RNAs: Coregulation of target genes by human cytomegalovirus miRNAs" [Host: Melinda Larsen]
• Thursday, February 23, 2:00 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Eizabeth Tran, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University. "Exploring the Roles of RNA Helicases in Transcriptional Fidelity" [Host: Paul Agris]
  
• Tuesday, February 28, 2:00 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr.Michelle Arnold, NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease. "Cells Lose Their Inhibitions: Subversion of the Innate Immune Response by RNA Viruses" [Host: Ing-nangWang /Hua Shi]
  
• Monday, March 12, 2:00 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr.Alena Shkumatava, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT. "Conserved developmental roles of lincRNAs: Illuminating the "dark matter" of the genome" [Host: Ben Szaro]
  
• Tuesday, April 24, 4:30 P.M., Dr. Barry Stoddard, Hutchinson Cancer Research. "Finding and creating gene targeting proteins using nature's raw materials: homing endonucleases and TAL effectors". [Host: Marlene Belfort/ John Welch].