seminar-series-2010-2011
Thursdays at noon
Science Building 2 Rm 223
Fall 2010
* denotes special day or time
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 30 | Keith Bahjat Chiles Res Inst Providence Cancer Ctr |
Suppression of cell-mediated immunity following recognition of phagosome-confined bacteria http://www.providence.org/oregon/programs_and_services/cancer/bahjat_keith.htm | Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| Oct 7 | Scott Wells Dept Civil & Envir Engin Portland State |
Water quality and hydrodynamic modeling of rivers, lakes, and estuaries and the challenges of modeling bacteria, algae, zooplankton, and fish |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| Oct 14 | Terry Green TGA, LLC Lake Oswego, OR |
Sustainable lessons learned from Nature - Biological integration, carbon sequestration and reduction of GHG footprint on recycling vegetal waste back into soil | Popa rpopa at pdx.edu 725-9503 |
| October 21 | Crispin Little Sch of Earth and Env Univ of Leeds, UK |
Fossilized microbial chemosynthetic communities http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/people/c.little | Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
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October 22* 4:30 cramer rm71 |
Kenneth Burnham Prof Emeritus Colorado St U |
Alumni Night Lecture: Analysis Methods for Northern Spotted Owl Demographic Monitoring Data |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| October 28 | Cynthia Haseltine Sch Molec Bio Washington State |
Recombination and Repair processes in the Archaea http://molecular.biosciences.wsu.edu/faculty/haseltine/index.html | Stedman kstedman at pdx.edu 725-3253 |
| November 4 | Donald Swiderski Department of Otolaryngology U Michigan Med Sch |
Diversity Among Squirrel Jaws: A tough nut to crack
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Ruedas ruedas at pdx.edu 725-9526 |
| November 11 | No seminar | Veteran's Day | |
| November 18 | Scott Landfear Dept Molec Micro & Immun OHSU |
Critical Roles for Membrane Transporters in Parasitic Protozoa http://www.ohsu.edu/microbiology/landfear.shtml | Bartlett micb at pdx.edu 725-3858 |
| November 25 | No seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 2 | Michael Thomas Molec Res Core Facility Idaho State U |
Biological significance of unmetabolized psychoactive pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
Winter 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 4* | Alison Bennett Scottish Crop Res Inst |
The Influence of Soil Microbial Communities at Multiple Scales http://entomology.wisc.edu/~bennett/ | Cruzan cruzan at pdx.edu 725-8391 |
| January 13 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| January 27 | Daniel Ballhorn Dept Gen Botany-Plant Ecol Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
Plant-herbivore and plant-microbe interactions: Functional analysis of multi-player systems |
Cruzan cruzan at pdx.edu 725-8391 |
| February 1* | Marc Libault Dept Plant Sci U Missouri |
Using comparative and functional genomics to dissect soybean nodulation |
Cruzan cruzan at pdx.edu 725-8391 |
| February 3 | Zoë Lindo Dept Biology McGill U |
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in the Bryosphere |
Cruzan cruzan at pdx.edu 725-8391 |
| February 10 | Brian Hedlund Dept of Biol Univ Nevada, Las Vegas U |
Thermophilic life in Great Basin hot springs: What's hot |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| February 17 | David Warmflash formerly at NASA Johnson Space Center |
Phobos-LIFE and Shuttle-LIFE: Terrestrial Organisms Traveling within a Simulated Meteoroid
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=did-life-come-from-anothe |
Popa rpopa at pdx.edu 725-9503 |
| February 24 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| March 3 | Jessica Green Ctr for Eco&Evo Biol U Oregon |
Relationship between cystic fibrosis bacterial communities and age, genotype, and antibiotics http://biology.uoregon.edu/people/Green |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| March 10 | Stuart McDaniel Dept Biology Univ Florida |
Genomic and macroevolutionary consequences of evolving separate sexes: insights from moss model systems http://www.biology.ufl.edu/People/faculty/stuartmcdaniel.aspx | Eppley eppley at pdx.edu 725-8986 |
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 31 | Dale Robinson Romberg Tiburon Center San Francisco St Univ |
Photoacclimation strategies of Antarctic marine microalgae |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| April 7 | Wayne Zundel Dept Radiation Med OHSU |
Determining Signaling Patterns & Pathways in Mammalian Cellular Responses to Oxygen Deprivation http://browncancercenter.org/CancerResearchers/tabid/85/Default.aspx?id=1654 | Stedman kstedman at pdx.edu 725-3253 |
| April 14 | Kristi Montooth Dept Biology Indiana U |
Mitochondrial-nuclear epistasis affects fitness within species but does not contribute to fixed incompatibilities between species of Drosophila http://sites.bio.indiana.edu/~montoothlab/ | Estes estes at pdx.edu 725-8782 |
| April 21 | Fred Rainey Dept of Biology Louisianna St Univ |
Bacterial Communities of the Atacama Desert: insights into their distribution and diversity http://www.biology.lsu.edu/faculty_listings/fac_pages/frainey.html |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| April 28 | David Reznick Dept of Biol Univ Cal, Riverside |
Experimental Studies of the Interaction Between Ecological and Evolutionary Processes in a Natural Ecosystem http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Reznick.html |
Cruzan cruzan at pdx.edu 725-8391 |
| May 05 | Mircea Podar Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tennessee |
Host genetics and disease associations in the mammalian microbiome and the use of single cell genomics to access the uncultured diversity http://www.ornl.gov/sci/besd/bsd/mss/people/m_podar.shtml | Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx.edu 725-3864 |
| May 12 | Linda Breeden Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res Ctr Seattle WA |
Quiescence in budding yeast http://labs.fhcrc.org/breeden/index.html | Singer jsinger at pdx.edu 725-8742 |
| May 19 | Peter Baas College of Med Drexel Univ |
Microtubule Severing Proteins in the Neuron http://neurobio.drexelmed.edu/baasweb/ | Singer jsinger at pdx.edu 725-8742 |
| May 26 | Stacey Halpern Dept of Biology Pacific Univ |
Herbivore effects on population dynamics of the perennial herb Solanum carolinense http://www.pacificu.edu/as/biology/faculty/halpern.cfm | Eppley eppley at pdx.edu 725-8986 |
| June 2 | Ray Monnat Dept of Path & Genome Sci Univ of Washington |
Human RECQ helicases in cancer risk and therapy http://depts.washington.edu/monnatws/ | Courcelle justc at pdx.edu 725-3866 |
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