Current 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.

• Tuesday, January 15, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Jennifer Bestman, Scripps Research Institute, CA, Dept of Cell Biology. "Watching Neurodevelopment in the intact animal." [Host: B. Szaro]
• Thursday, January 17, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Shi-Jie Chen, Ph.D., University of Missouri [Host: RNA Institute]
• Thursday, January 17, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Brendan Lilley, Harvard Unversity, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology. "A signaling network that controls multiple phase4s of neural development". [Host: M. Larsen]
• Monday, January 21, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium.Yu Sun, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cancer Biology. "The role of olig2 phosphorylation in neural stem/progenitor cells." [Host: P. Rangan]
• Tuesday, January 22, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Sharon Aviran, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley [Host: RNA Institute]
• Thursday, January 24, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Anurag Sethi, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Lab. "Evolution and Modeling of Information Processing in the Cell" [Host: RNA Institute]
• Friday, January 25, 12:35 P.M. Biology 248A. George Robinson, University at Albany, "Hydraulic fracturing: A geographic model to assess and limit cumulative ecological degradation from Marcellus Shale exploitation" [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Tuesday, January 29, 4:00 P.M., DAmbra Auditorium. Hong-Ping Xu, Yale University, Department of Neurobiology. "How activity regulates visual circuit development." [Host: H. Chen]
• Wednesday, January 30, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Jia Sheng, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, "Nucleic Acid Crystallography: from Methodology Development to the Origin of Life" [Host: RNA Institute]
• Thursday, January 31, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Annalisa Scimemi, NIH Neurological Disorders & Stroke. "Dynamics of synaptic transmission in the Brain." [Host: M. Larsen]
• Monday, February 4, 1:30 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dahai Luo, Yale University.
• Tuesday, February 5, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Chun Han, HHMI, University of California-San Francisco, Department of Physiology. "Regulation of dentrite phophogenesis by the neuronal environment." [Host: G. Lnenicka]
• Thursday, February 7, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Shengjian Ji, Weill Medical College, Cornell University. "Transcription factors in axons." [Host: H. Chen]
• Thursday, February 14, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Paolo Forni, NINDS Porter Neuroscience Center. "When the nose connects to the brain: new developmental prospective for smell and reproduction." [Host: B. Szaro]
• Tuesday, February 19, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Daniel Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Genetics. "tba" [Host: G. Lnenicka]
• Friday, February 22, 12:35 P.M., Biology 248A. Sarah Berke, Siena College. "Worms, Algae, and Climate: Ecosystem Engineering Polychaetes in the Northern Atlantic" [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Friday, March 1, 12:35 P.M., Biology 248A. Steve Campbell, Albany Pine Bush Preserve. "Long-term effects of a group-selection timber harvest on the bird community of a pine-oak forest in Maine" [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Friday, March 1, 3:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Daniel Molloy, Biology Dept., University at Albany. "Why Do These Rotifers Look So Odd? Investigating a Lethal Disease at a Remote Adirondack Lake" [Host: R. Zitomer]
• Friday, March 8, 12:35 P.M., Biology 248A. Ken Howard, Sage College of Albany. "Eusocial evolution: The role of competition, coercion, and parasites" [Host: EEB Seminar]
• Tuesday, April 9, 1:00 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Jason Biegel, PhD Defense: "Evolution and Expression of the Lysozyme and β1,4-Galactosyltransferase Families in Mammals: Possible Roles in Fertilization" [Chair: C-B Stewart]
• Friday, April 12, 3:00 P.M., LS 1143. Dr. Emily Park, BD Biosciences, Research and Development. "Analysis of low abundance RNAs in individual cells by multi-color flow cytometry". [Host: Paul Agris]
• Wednesday, April 17, 4:00 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Patrick Maxwell, Biology Department, RPI, "The Regulation and Influence of Retrotransposons During Cellular Aging". [Host: Marlene Belfort]
• Friday, April 19, 10:00 A.M., Biology 248A. Shannon M. Rauch, UAlbany. MS Defense: "A study of habitat selection by Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea Blandingii) in Dutchess County, New York" [Chair: G. Kleppel]
• Friday, April 19, 3:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Sunnie Thompson, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham "Ribosomal protein S25: An Achilles Heal for Viral Translation and tumorigenesis" [Host: Cara Pager]
• Thursday, April 25, 2:30 P.M. D'Ambra Auditorium. Rebecca A. Pinder, PhD Defense: "The Ecology of Earthworms in Riparian Habitats" [Chair: George Robinson]
• Friday, May 3, 3:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Dr. Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Biology Department, Texas A&M University. "Circadian Clock Control of MAPK Pathway Activation" [Host: Marlene Belfort]
• Friday, May 17, Workshops In Scientific Collaboration (WISC) “Viruses and Other Selfish Elements" [Host: Prashanth Rangan]