Andrew Rypel, Research Fishery Ecologist at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, will give a seminar entitled "Towards a safe-operating space: aquatic conservation in an era of environmental change" on Tuesday, January 12 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Emily Farrer, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will give a seminar entitled "Integrating microbes into community ecology: the unseen majority and plant response to global change" on Thursday, January 14 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Stephen M. Beverley, Marvin A. Brennecke Professor and Chairman in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine, will present a seminar on January 26 at 4 pm. His talk is entitled: "Endogenous RNA viruses as virulence factors in parasitic protozoa".
Co-hosted by The Department of Biological Sciences and the Eck Institute for Global Health.
Xin Lu, Instructor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will give a seminar entitled "Bring Rare Cancer to the Spotlight: New Cancer Biology Revealed by Transgenic Mouse Modeling" on Thursday, January 28 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Jayshree Samanta, Post-doctoral Fellow at New York University, will give a seminar entitled "Mobilizing endogenous neural stem cells for repair" on Tuesday, February 2 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Albert L. Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer of Saint Joseph Health System, will give a seminar entitled "Modern Leadership and Health Care" on Wednesday, February 3 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Rishi Rakhit, Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical & Systems Biology at Stanford University, will give a seminar entitled "Chemical biology strategies to understand protein misfolding disorders" on Thursday, February 4 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Melih Acar, Insistant Instructor at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, will give a seminar entitled "Deep imaging of bone marrow shows hematopoietic stem cells are mainly perisinusoidal" on Tuesday, February 9 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Cody Smith, Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia, will give a seminar entitled "Ensheathment and Immigration in the Nervous System" on Thursday, February 11 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin..
PalEON has offered its summer course on integrating paleoecological data collection, Bayesian statistical analysis, and ecosystem modelling in both 2012 and 2014. They will be hosting the course once again in 2016.
Application Deadline: February 15, 2016.
You can find more information on the PalEON Project website.
David Waning, Assistant Research Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, will give a seminar entitled "Bone-muscle crosstalk in skeletal muscle oxidative stress and weakness" on Tuesday, February 16 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Tiago Goncalves, Research Associate at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, will give a seminar entitled "Imaging the Growth and Pruning of Dendritic Trees Using in vivo 2-photon Microscopy" on Thursday, February 18 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Clifford Folmes, Research Associate at Mayo Clinic, will give a seminar entitled "Metabolic reprogramming and stem cell fate" on Tuesday, February 23 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Scott Crawley, Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will give a seminar entitled "Building the brush border with adhesion: Implications for Usher syndrome research" on Tuesday, March 1 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
The Amelia Project, Giving Wings to Research, was created in 1998 by consumers in order to impact and expedite the breast cancer research agenda in Indiana.
The project is designed to improve the quality of care for Indiana women by fostering a statewide community of scientists and clinicians, who in partnership with the consumers, are working toward the eradication of breast cancer. The program brings senior and junior scientists, clinical investigators, and students from six different Indiana universities and colleges together on a neutral field under the consumer umbrella.
Mervin Yoder, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, will give a seminar entitled "Identification of the mesoderm subset that gives rise to iPS-derived ECFC" on Monday, March 21 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Samuel Flaxman, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, will give a seminar entitled "Predictions about the Genome-Wide Dynamics of Population Divergence Across the Speciation Continuum" on Wednesday, March 23 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Research Day is an excellent opportunity to learn about research being conducted in our community. The event will include:
- Poster Session
- Lectures
- Career Panel
- Keynote Address by Tom O’Halloran, Ph.D.
Sally Entrekin, Associate Professor at the University of Central Arkansas, will give a seminar entitled "Season- and Region-specific Environmental Conditions Can Mediate Stream Risk from Activities Associated with Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction" on Tuesday, April 19 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Last day of classes for the 2015-16 academic year. Good luck with your final exams!
The tenth annual College of Science Joint Annual Meeting (COS-JAM) will be held in the Jordan Hall of Science on Friday, April 29, 2016, as part of the ninth Undergraduate Scholars Conference. The intent of COS-JAM is to highlight the achievements of undergraduate students conducting research in all disciplines of science. Students present their original scientific research in either an oral presentation or poster presentation.
Keith March, Director of the Indiana Center for Vascular Biology & Medicine, and the Director of the Vascular and Cardiac Center for Adult Stem Cell Therapy, will give a seminar on Monday, April 25 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
The May 2016 Commencement Weekend activities will take place May 13-15, 2016. Mass and the diploma ceremonies for professional students (Graduate School, Law, Graduate Business) will be held on Saturday, May 14. The University Commencement Ceremony, which all students are invited to attend, and the undergraduate diploma ceremonies will be held on Sunday, May 15.
Woodbridge Foster, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology at Ohio State University, will give a seminar entitled "Blood-sucking mosquitoes feed on plants. How? Why? and So what?" on Tuesday, August 23 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Carissa Krane, Professor, and inaugural Schuellein endowed chair in the Biological Sciences in the Biology Department at the University of Dayton, will give a seminar entitled "FROZEN ALIVE" on Tuesday, September 6 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Morag Park, Director at Goodman Cancer Research Centre at McGill University, will give a seminar entitled "Functional heterogeneity of triple negative breast cancer" on Tuesday, September 13 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Brendan Cormack, Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will give a seminar entitled "Regulation of adherence and virulence by NAD+ in the yeast pathogen Candida glabrata" on Tuesday, September 20 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
William Kimbel, Director of the Institute of Human Origins and the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, will give a seminar entitled "What do we know about the origin of the genus Homo?" on Tuesday, September 27 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.
Dr. Eric Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He received his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, then did an internship and residency training in Pathology at the Ohio State University and the University of California-San Francisco.
Daniel Simmons, Professor of Chemistry and former Director of the Cancer Research Center at Brigham Young University, will give a seminar entitled "Cyclooxygenases and translational recoding in innate immunity" on Tuesday, October 4 at 4:00 pm in 283 Galvin.