UNL Biotech/Life Science Seminars - Spring 2008

UNL Biotech/Life Science Seminars - Spring 2008
WEDNESDAYS - Reception - 3:30 p.m., Seminar - 4:00 p.m.
Beadle Ctr Auditorium

1/30/2008 - Hidden Features of Arabidopsis Transcriptome Revealed by Genome-wide High-
...........Resolution Mapping of the Targets of the Exosome Complex

...........Dr. Dmitry Belostotsky, University of Missouri-Kansas City
...........Hosted by: Dr. Audrey Atkin

2/6/2008 - Phage all around us: Viruses in water, soil and sediment
...........Dr. Eric Wommack, University of Delaware
...........Hosted by: Dr. Jim Van Etten

2/13/2008 - Plasma Membrane-Associated Degradation of Misfolded Proteins
...........Dr. H. Johnny Fares, University of Arizona
...........Hosted by: Dr. Steve Harris

2/20/2008 - Development of Switchgrass into a Biomass Energy Crop
...........Dr. Ken Vogel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
...........Introduction by: Dr. Mark Lagrimini

2/27/2008 - Candida albicans: commensal colonizer and invasive pathogen
...........Dr. Carol Kumamoto, Tufts University
...........Hosted by: Dr. Ken Nickerson

3/5/2008 - Managing soil microbial community structure for disease suppression
...........Dr. Mark Mazzola, Washington State University
...........Hosted by: Deanna Funnell

3/12/2008 - Virus survival: Fitness is just the beginning
...........Dr. Isabel Novella
...........Hosted by: Dr. Peter Angeletti

3/19/2008 - No Seminar: Spring Break

3/26/2008 - The Molecular Genetics of Meiosis
...........Dr. R. Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
...........Hosted by: Dr. Larry Harshman

4/2/2008 - Molecular biology of the Bacillus thuringiensis with emphasis on genetic engineering and safety
...........Dr. Brian Federici, University of California-Riverside
...........Hosted by: Dr. Blair Siegfried

4/9/2008 - Gene Transfer in Bacteria: Interplay of Micro- and Macro-evolution
...........Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence, University of Pittsburg
...........Hosted by: Dr. Mark Griep

4/16/2008 - Evolution by gene duplication
...........Dr. Jianzhi Zhang, University of Michigan
...........Hosted by: Dr. Jay Storz

4/23/2008 - Darwinian Agriculture: When Can Intelligent Design of Crops and Argoecosystems
........... by Humans Improve on Nature?

...........Dr. R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota
...........Hosted by: Dr. Ken Cassman

4/30/2008 - The INO80 chromatin remodeling complex and transcriptional regulation
...........Dr. Joan Conaway, Stowers Inst