Departmental Seminars

Department of Biology

Seminar Schedule

Fall 2008

Departmental seminars will be held on most Tuesdays at 4:00 PM (with one exception: Fri 9/26), in Science 012, unless otherwise indicated. Enrolled students should arrive five minutes before the seminar begins to receive class materials. All seminars are open to the public.  Cookies and coffee are provided at 3:45 PM.  For further information, please contact Seminar coordinator Dr. Peter Scott, Science 287F, pscott@indstate.edu, phone 237-2403.

Date

Speaker

Title (if in parentheses, likely topic; title not yet received)

Faculty       Host

 

 

 

 

8/26

Organizational meeting

Enrolled students only

 

 

9/2

(Students: paper discussion)

 

 

 

9/9

 

Dr. Patrick Zollner

Purdue Univ.

Oversimulated? Insights into landscape ecology from models and empirical data

Lima

9/16

 

 

 

 

9/26 (Fri)

 

Dr. David Stocum

IUPUI

On the mechanism for self-organization of the limb regeneration blastema in amphibians

Special date/time/room: Friday 12:15 pm, Sci 216

Ghosh

9/30

Dr. Bill Mitchell

ISU

 

 

Scott

10/7

 

Dr. Mark Sukow

Univ. of Notre Dame

Tissue vaccines for cancer

Ghosh

10/14

Dr. Lindsey Mayo

IU School of Medicine, Indianapolis

(Biochemical mechanisms that control tumor suppressors)

 

Albig

10/21

 

Dr. Donald Waller

Univ. Wisconsin

(Fifty years of change in Wisconsin forests: the role of white-tailed deer and other factors)

Scott

10/28

Dr. Kristi Montooth

Indiana Univ.

Genetic interactions and the evolution of physiological performance in  Drosophila

Angilletta

11/4

 

 

 

 

11/11

Dr. Danielle Whitaker

Indiana Univ.

Inbreeding avoidance, major histocompatibility, and olfactory signals in a songbird

Hews

11/18

 

Dr. Chinghai Kao

IU School of Medicine, Indianapolis

(Regulation of PSA antigen in prostate cancer, and gene therapy)

Albig

11/25

 

Thanksgiving week

 

 

12/2