Science Seminars, Department of Biology, TWU

The Biology and Chemistry Departments co-sponsor a weekly seminar series. All seminars will be held in the Classroom and Faculty Offices (CFO) Building in room 202 or 203 from 3:00-4:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Seminars that have guest speakers or are dissertation defenses will have refreshments at 2:45 p.m. Biology graduate students are required to attend and to all others, we extend the invitation to attend as many seminars as you can.

Fall 2008 Science Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker	Title/Topic	Host
August 29	Introduction
September 5	Jyoti Shah, Ph.D., UNT	Plant Defense against Phloem-Feeding Insects	Maier
September 12	Joel Goodman, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center	Studying obesity and lipodystrophy in yeast	Bergel
September 19	Safety Seminar		Mills
September 26	Dr. Michael Van Dyke, M.D. Anderson	Parthenolide - a polymachic anticancer agent	Bergel
October 3	Meharvan Singh, Ph.D., UNT Health Science Center	Novel mechanisms of progesterone and androgen signaling in the brain: Implications for hormone therapy and women's health	Hynds
October 10	Mary Anderson, Ph.D, Chemistry, TWU	Adventures in Glutathione Synthetase	Sheardy
October 17	Doug Root, Ph.D., Dept. of Biology, UNT	High resolution fluorescence measurements of the muscle contractile apparatus	Bergel
October 24	Rafael Alvarez, Ph.D, UNT Health Science Center	Two protein guardians of human DNA integrity and Cancer	Bergel
October 31	Tieshan Tang, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center	TBA	Bergel
November 7	Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D., UT Arlington	Enantiomeric Separations and Their Importance in Pharmaceutical Science	Sheardy
November 14	Julie Y. Crider, Ph.D., Alcon laboratories, Inc.	TBA	Bergel
November 21	Konrad Huppi, Ph.D., Gene Silencing Section, NCI	TBA	Bergel
December 5	Nicholas Snow, Ph.D., Seton Hall Univ.	Analyzing Very Complex Mixtures Using Multidimensional Chromatography	Sheardy

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Science Seminars