UNL Biotech/Life Science Seminars - Spring 2009

UNL Biotech/Life Science Seminars - Spring 2009

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

1/21/2009 Plasma membrane microdomains promote cell wall organization,
...........morphogenesis, and virulence of the fungalpathogen Candida albicans

...........Dr. James Konopka, SUNY-Stony Brook University
...........Hosted by: Dr. Audrey Atkin, School of Biological Sciences

1/28/2009 Improving T cell Therapy for Malignancy
...........Dr. Cliona Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine
...........Hosted by: Dr. Luwen Zhang, School of Biological Sciences

2/4/2009 Microbially-Mediated Anaerobic Metal Redox Cycling
...........Dr. Karrie Weber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences

2/11/2009 Metagenomic analysis of the obese and lean human gut microbiome
...........Peter Turnbaugh, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
...........Hosted by: Dr. Daniel Peterson, Department of Food Science & Technology

2/18/2009 HPV16 E5 Mediated Cell:Cell Fusion - A New Model for Inducing
...........Carcinogenesis

...........Dr. Brian Ceresa, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
...........Hosted by: Dr. Peter Angeletti, School of Biological Sciences

2/25/2009 Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy: Instrumentation, Principles and
...........Application to Translational Studies

...........Dr. George Casale, University of Nebraska Medical Center
...........Hosted by: Dr. Charles Kuszynski, UNMC, Department of Pathology and Microbiology

3/4/2009 Exosome-mediated mRNA degradation
...........Dr. Ambro van Hoof, University of Texas-Houston Medical Schoo
...........Hosted by: Dr. Audrey Atkin, School of Biological Sciences

3/11/2009 Hydrocarbon Microbiology
...........Dr. Roger C. Prince, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences Inc.
...........Hosted by: Dr. Ken Nickerson, School of Biological Sciences

3/18/2009 Spring Break – No Seminar

3/25/2009 Genetics of adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in the major hemoglobin of
...........Andean ducks

...........Dr. Kevin McCracken, University of Alaska
...........Hosted by: Dr. Jay Storz, School of Biological Sciences

4/1/2009 Emerging Biotechnologies and their Potential for Control of Termites and other
...........Social Insect Pests

...........Dr. Claudia Husseneder, Louisiana State University
...........Hosted by: Dr. Shripat Kamble, Department of Entomology

4/8/2009 A Bittersweet Story: Insect Glycosylation Processing At the Intersection of
...........Biotechnology, Biology, and Biochemistry

...........Dr. Mike Betenbaugh, Johns Hopkins University
...........Hosted by: Dr. Don Weeks, Department of Biochemistry

4/15/2009 Developing engineered baculovirus expression systems for humanized
...........glycoprotein production

...........Dr. Donald Jarvis, University of Wyoming
...........Hosted by: Dr. Jim Van Etten, Department of Plant Pathology / Nebraska Center for
...........Virology

4/29/2009 The Algal Endosymbioses of Hydra
...........Dr. Daniel Martinez, Pomona College
...........Hosted by: Dr. Guillermo Orti, School of Biological Sciences