Seminar Series Fall 2010

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

Fall 2010

Unless otherwise noted below, seminars are held on Fridays at 2 p.m. in Room 303 Shoemaker Hall

Sep. 3

Ragan Callaway, University of Montana, Division of Biological Sciences
“Novel biochemistry and exotic plant invasion”

Sponsored by the UM Department of Biology’s USDA Graduate Training Program in Forest Restoration Ecology

Sep. 10

Duane McKenna, University of Memphis, Department of Biology
“Beetles on plants in ecological and evolutionary time”

Sep. 17

Mika Jekabsons, University of Mississippi, Department of Biology
“On the molecular events triggering neuronal apoptosis: Do metabolic changes facilitate Bax-dependent mitochondrial pore formation?”

Sep. 24

Robbie Etheridge, University of Mississippi, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
“The heart of Creek country: A tour through the eighteenth-century land of the Creek Indians”

Oct. 1

 

Janet Donaldson, Mississippi State University, Department of Biological Sciences
“Response of Listeria monocytogenes to environmental stresses”

Oct. 8

Bryan Carstens, Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences
“Community phylogeography of a carnivorous plant and its symbiontic arthropods and microorganisms”

Oct. 15

Andrew Casper, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Laboratory
“More than flowing lakes: Biotic, abiotic and geographic influences on the ecology of plankton in large rivers”

Oct. 22

Randy Wadkins, University of Mississippi, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
“Exploring unusual DNA structures with Pyrrolo-dC, a fluorescent cytidine analog”

Oct. 29

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Nov. 5

Theresa Levitt, University of Mississippi, Department of History
“Darwin’s ‘breath of life’ and the spontaneous generation debate in the 19th century”

Nov. 12 Dale Nagle, University of Mississippi, Department of Pharmacognosy
“Antitumor drug discovery reveals new insights into the chemical ecology of marine cyanobacterial blooms”
Please contact Jason Hoeksema (915-1275; hoeksema@olemiss.edu) in the Department of Biology to schedule an appointment with a speaker