New Mexico State University Department of Biology

College of Arts and Sciences

Biology Seminar Series Spring 2008

Thursdays, 4pm Foster Hall Room 231

Date	Speaker	Host	Affiliation	Title
January 17
January 24	Ned Ruby / Margaret McFall-Ngai	Nishiguchi	University of Wisconsin, Madison	The reciprocal molecular dialogue between host and symbiont in the squid-vibrio symbiosis
January 31	Roberto Rebeil	Smith	Sandia National Lab	Relevance of Yersinia pestis-Flea Interactions in Plague Transmission into the MammalianÊHost
February 7	Fabian Michelangeli	Bailey	NY Botanical Garden	Evolution in Neotropical glory bushes (Melastomataceae): what have we learned from phylogenies
February 14	Serafin Pinol-Roma	Curtiss	City College of NY	From genes to proteins in mitochondria: dissecting the role of RNA-binding proteins
February 21	Paul Dunman	Gustafson	Nebraska Medical Center	MRSA vs MRSA (Messenger RNA Stablizing Agents)
February 28	No Seminar
March 6	Helen McNeil	Shuster	Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto	Controlling growth and tissue organization in flies and mice with the planar polarity cadherin Fat
March 13	Alice Villalobos	Bernstein	Texas A+M University
March 20	Jennifer Funk	Throop	Chapman University	Plant invasion in low resource environments: implications for ecological restoration
March 27	SPRING BREAK
April 3	Seth Ruffins	Serrano	California Institute of Technology	The Construction of a Three-Dimensional Atlas of Avian Development
April 10	Don Cleveland	HHMI	Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UC San Diego	Centromeres, aneuploidy, and tumorigenesis
April 17	Kevin Nixon	BGSO	Cornell University	Archaefructus, an early fossil angiosperm
April 24	Kathy Hanley		NMSU Biology	The Fever from the Forest: The Evolutionary Ecology of Dengue Virus Emergence
May 1	Bonnie Bassler	HHMI	Princeton University	Small Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria