UNL Biotech/Life Science Seminars - Fall 2010

UNL Biotech/Life Science Seminars - Fall 2010

WEDNESDAYS - Reception - 3:30 p.m., Seminar - 4:00 p.m.
Beadle Ctr Auditorium

9/8/2010 - Protein Intrinsic Disorder and Cell Signaling
...........Dr. A. Keith Dunker, Indiana University School of Medicine
...........Hosted by: Dr. Etsuko Moriyama, School of Biological Sciences

9/15/2010 - How many auxin receptors does it take to make a plant?
...........Dr. Mark Estelle, University of California San Diego
...........Hosted by: Dr. Sally Mackenzie, Center for Plant Science Innovation
...........Dermot P. Coyne Distinguished Lectureship

9/22/2010 - Sex, cells: The origin and evolution of meiosis
...........Dr. John Logsdon, University of Iowa
...........Hosted by: Dr. David Dunigan, Department of Plant Pathology

9/29/2010 - TBA
...........Dr. Michael Betenbaugh, Johns Hopkins Univ.
...........Hosted by: Dr. Don Weeks, Department of Biochemistry

10/6/2010 - High throughput screening for new drugs and useful genes to tackle fat in food and fuel
...........Dr. Concetta DiRusso, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
...........Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences / Department of Biochemistry

10/13/2010 - Therapeutic strategies that accelerate serum clearance or promote intracellular degradation of targeted proteins
...........Dr. Charles Shoemaker, Tufts University
...........Hosted by: Dr. George Oyler, Department of Biochemistry

10/20/2010 - Bacillus thuringiensis Cry34Ab1/Cry35Ab1: development in stacked Bt gene corn products for control of Diabrotica spp
...........Dr. Kenneth Narva, Dow AgroSciences
...........Hosted by: Dr. Blair Siegfried, Department of Entomology

10/27/2010 - Astrocyte function: critical determinant of neuronal survival following ischemia
...........Dr. Rona Giffard, Stanford School of Medicine
...........Hosted by: Dr. Rodrigo Franco Cruz, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

11/3/2010 - New Insights In The Biosynthesis Of Phenylalanine In Plants
...........Dr. Natalia Doudareva, Purdue University
...........Hosted by: Dr. Gilles Basset, Center for Plant Science Innovation

11/10/2010 - Beyond Ethanol: Advanced Biofuels Research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute
...........Dr. Blake Simmons, Department of Energy
...........Hosted by: Dr. Paul Blum, School of Biological Sciences

11/17/2010 - Playing word games with DNA: IME and Bind-n-Seq
...........Dr. Ian Korf, University of California, Davis
...........Hosted by: Dr. Harkamal Walia, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

11/24/2010 - No Seminar: Thanksgiving Break

12/1/2010 - Transcriptional control of B cell development and transformation
...........Dr. Runqing Lu, University of Nebraska Medical Center
...........Hosted by: Dr. Luwen Zhang, School of Biological Sciences

12/8/2010 - Root growth under water deficits: physiological complexity and coordination
...........Dr. Robert Sharp, University of Missouri
...........Hosted by: Dr. Julie Stone, Center for Plant Science Innovation