Date

Speaker

Host

 Affiliation

 Title

Jan 26th

Marshall Bloom

Hanley

NIAID

“Probing the pathogen-vector-host interface of tick-borne flavivirus infections”

Feb 2nd

Manjunath N. Swamy

Xu

Texas Tech El Paso

"Cell type-specific targeted delivery of siRNA"

Feb 9th

Lucinda McDade

Bailey

Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden

“From "pure" to "applied" phylogenetics:  Reconstructing phylogenies and using them to understand pattern and process in evolution”

Feb 16th

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

HHMI/Hansen

Johns Hopkins

“Fighting malaria with genetically modified bacteria and fungi”

Feb 23rd

Michael Markham

BRAIN/Unguez

University of Oklahoma

TBA

March 1st

Tim Wright

N/A

NMSU Biology

“How to be smart, popular, well-spoken, and live forever”

March 8th

Wade Wilson

Nishiguchi

Conservation Genetics Laboratory
Dexter Fish Technology Center

TBA

March 15th

Kathryn Hanley

N/A

NMSU Biology

“When mosquitoes monkey around: sylvatic dengue virus in wild and captive primates”

March 22nd

Spring break

March 29th

Alvaro Sagasti

BRAIN/Maio

UCLA

“Strategies for wiring the nervous system:  How touch-sensing cells in zebrafish target the skin”

April 5th

Patricia
Pietrantonio

RISE/Hansen

Texas A&M University

“Urine of the bloody enemy II: GPCRs involved in regulation of diuresis and excretion in the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.)”

April 12th

Jane Pierce

Hansen

NMSU/Entomology

“Chagas disease in New Mexico? A survey for Trypanosoma cruzi in kissing bugs in SE New Mexico”

April 19th

John Hammond

Mabry

UNM

"Phenotypic plasticity in larval Anurans"

April 26th

Ronald Rutowski

HHMI/Wright

Arizona State University

“Iridescent signals in animals: production, perception, and functions”

May 3rd

Vicky Hsiao-Wei Tu

Wright

Emory University

“Production and perception of sequential patterns in budgerigar warble”