Department of Biological Sciences-University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
SPRING SEMESTER - 2008

Seminars are held in Lapham Hall Room N101 at 4:00 PM; unless noted.

Please join us for coffee and cookies outside the lecture hall at 3:45.

January 25
First week of class - no colloquium
     


February 1 Harvey Bootsma
     UWM WATER Institute
Photons, Fire and Fish: Determinants of Nutrient Cycling in an African Great Lake

Sponsored by Erica Young

February 8 David Wilcox
      Medical College of Wisconsin
Gene Therapy for Inherited Bleeding Disorders

Sponsored by Julie Oliver

February 15 Antony Stretton
      UW-Madison
The Ascaris nervous system - a simple nervous system. Hah! Neuropeptides in nematodes

Sponsored by Graduate Students

February 22 Marc Bee
      University of Minnesota
Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World

Sponsored by Rafael Rodriguez

February 29 David Rogers
      UW-Madison
50 years of change in Wisconsin forests

Sponsored by Jason Mills

March 7 Marius Schmidt
      UWM Physics Department
Cis/Trans Isomerizations in Biomolecules: Conventional and Time-Resolved Crystallographic Investigations

Sponsored by Biological Sciences

March 14 Graham Moran
      UWM Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry
The Diverse and Pervasive Chemistry of 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate

Sponsored by Daâd Saffarini

March 21 SPRING BREAK
     
Enjoy the break


March 28 Jimmy Orjala
      University of Illinois-Chicago
Natural Product Discovery from Lake Michigan Algae

Sponsored by Eric Cheng

April 4 Art Brooks
     UWM Biological Sciences
From Vermont to the Great Lakes - my career in Limnology

Sponsored by Biological Sciences

April 11 Diana Pettit
      Albert Einstein University
My synapse spilleth over: Extrasynaptic NMDA receptor physiology

Sponsored by Biological Sciences Neuro/Phys group

April 18 Gerry Wright
      McMaster University / Canada
Genomic Enzymology of Antibiotic Resistance

Co-Sponsored by Biological Sciences Biotechnology Center and the College of Health Sciences

April 25 Holly Snyder
     UWM Biological Sciences
Ph.D. defense

Sponsored by Steve Forst

May 2 Katherine Kalil
      UW-Madison
Signaling Mechanisms in Growth and Guidance of Cortical Axons

Sponsored by Chuck Fink

Please check this page frequently as colloquium announcements will be posted as received.

Last Modified: February 28, 2008

Thomas P. Schuck