Fall Term 2016 | |
September 28, 2016 | Matthew Andrews Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Administration OSU, Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics Genes that control hibernation in mammals |
October 12, 2016 | Zhongchi Liu University of Maryland Genomic approaches to identify genes and gene networks that regulate strawberry fruit development Host: Steve Strauss |
October 26, 2016 | Susannah Tringe Joint Genome Institute Microbial communities and greenhouse gas cycling in coastal wetlands Host: Dave Myrold |
November 9, 2016 | William Cresko University of Oregon The genomic basis of stickleback evolution in 50 years Host: Brett Tyler |
December 7, 2016 | Speaker rescheduled to February 1, 2017 |
Winter Term 2017 | |
January 18, 2017 | Keith Dunker Indiana University A Toolkit for Developmental Biology: Intrinsically Disordered Protein, Alternative Splicing, and Post-translational Modification (IDP-AS-PTM) Host: Andy Karplus |
February 1, 2017 | Liang Huang OSU, Computer Science Linear-Time Prediction of RNA Secondary Structures |
February 15, 2017 | Sue Biggins Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center How do cells get the right chromosomes? Host: Michael Freitag |
March 7, 2017Special Seminar 4:00 – 5:00 pm ALS 4001 | Yuanchao Wang Nanjing Agricultural University, China Defense and counter-defense during Phytophthora infection Host: Brett Tyler |
March 15, 2017 | Aaron Wright Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Activity-based profiling of nutrient acquisition and metabolism in microbes and microbial communities Host: Dave Myrold |
Spring Term 2017 | |
April 5, 2017 | Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder Searching for simplicity amidst the complexity of the soil microbiome Host: Thomas Sharpton |
April 19, 2017 | Lisa Fauci Tulane University Explorations in the bio-fluid-mechanics of locomotion Host: Juan Restrepo |
May 3, 2017 | John Reinitz University of Chicago From Drosophilidae to Sepsidae…and Back Again Host: David Hendrix |
May 17, 2017 | Laura Heiser Oregon Health & Science University An integrative systems biology approach to study therapeutic response in breast cancer Host: Siva Kolluri |
May 31, 2017 | June Medford Colorado State University Plant Synthetic Biology: From Computational Protein Designs and Engineering Approaches comes a pathway to sustainable systems Host: Molly Megraw |