Fall 2011
Monday, September 12
Get to know the Bio Department!
Reconnect with your Biology Department faculty or get to know someone new. Stop by the posters presented by the faculty and bio-related student groups. This is the kick-off event for the fall biology seminar series.
Monday, September 19
Randall E. Hicks
Professor of Biology, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Lesser Known Microbes from the Depths of Great Lakes: Planktonic Archaea and the Nitrogen Cycle
Monday, September 26
Jennifer Wolff
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Carleton College
Sex and neurons: insights from a worm
Monday, October 3
Steve Freedberg
Assistant Professor, Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies, St. Olaf College
What can DNA tell us about ecology? Lessons from turtles
Monday, October 10
Alyssa Anderson
Instructor, Department of Biology, St. Olaf College
Dynamics of Winter-Emerging Chironomidae in Minnesota Trout Streams
Monday, October 24
Sasha Mace - Cancelled
Friday, October 28
Dave Thomas
Muscle biophysics - The Synergy of Education and Research in Biophysics
Joint Biology and Chemistry Seminar
3:00pm, RNS
Monday, October 31
Greg Connell
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota
Therapeutic targeting of an RNA editing reaction within the Leishmania pathogens
Thursday, November 3
Andrew Crofton '09, Ph.D. student at Loma Linda University, CA
The Roles of Transition Metal Dyshomeostasis and Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease
Joint Chemistry and Biology Seminar
Monday, November 7
Chuck Huff, Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Olaf College with students Jacob Irvin '12, Scott Krepsky '12, & Emmett Larsen '13
Even the best fail: professional misconduct among moral exemplars in computing
Friday, November 11
Burckhard Seelig
Directed protein evolution
Joint Biology and Chemistry Seminar
Monday, November 28
Microbiology tenure-track candidate seminar
4:00 p.m., RNS 410
Wednesday, November 30
Microbiology tenure-track candidate seminar
5:00 p.m., RNS 410
Nikita Zimov
Director, Northeast Science Station in the East Siberian Arctic
Permafrost, Mammoth, and Global Warming: past and future impacts on our changing climate
3:45 p.m., RNS 310
Cancelled
Monday, December 5
Scott Dee
Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota
Biology Department Poster Session
This is an opportunity for distinction applicants and biology majors to present posters on research they have done in biology.
