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SPRING 2017 SEMINAR SERIES 412‐396‐6332 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES [email protected] DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY All seminars are at 2:00 PM in Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall For updates, check seminar link @ www.duq.edu/biology DATE SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE HOST Dept. of Cell Biology “Arrestin(g) insights into regulation of protein 1/20/17 Dr. Christopher Burd Dr. Allyson O’Donnell Yale Univ School of Medicine sorting in the endosomal system” Research Manager ”Effects of host and pathogen diversity on tick‐
1/27/17 Dr. Sarah States Dr. John Pollock Phipps Research Institute borne disease emergence” Dept. of Biology “New Mechanisms for Control of Photosynthetic 2/3/17 Dr. Robert Blankenship Dr. John Stolz Washington Univ. in St. Louis Energy Transfer” Dept. of Oral Biology 2/10/17 Dr. Heather Szabo‐Rogers Dr. Kasey Christopher “TBA” University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Microbiology and “Why mutation rates vary among species and Dr. Joseph McCormick 2/17/17 Dr. Vaughn Cooper Molecular Genetics Dr. Wook Kim within genomes” University of Pittsburgh Darwin Lecture – Dept. of Genetics Evol & Env 2/21/17 Dr. John Stolz “Why is life the way it is?” Dr. Nick Lane University College London 3/3/17 TBA “TBA” 3/10/17 No seminar Spring Break Dept. of Food & Animal Scien “Regulation of phosphatidic acid phosphatase 3/17/17 Dr. Stylianos Fakas Dr. Allyson O’Donnell Alabama A&M University activity in the oleaginous yeast Yarrow lipolytic” Sch of Behav & Brain Sciences “Mechanisms of meningeal pain signaling and the 3/24/17 Dr. Gregory Dussor Dr. Ben Kolber Univ of Texas at Dallas pathophysiology of migraine” Dept. of Biological Sciences “Microbial Military Strategy: Defense and Counter‐
3/31/17 Dr. Graham Hatfull Dr. Sarah Woodley University of Pittsburgh Defense” Dir, Gene Therapy Program “Translational research in an integrated healthcare Allegheny Health Network 4/7/17 Dr. Michael Passineau GSOBs payer/provider: an emerging paradigm for 4/14/17 No seminar 4/21/17 Dr. John Wible 4/28/17 PHD Candidates‐TBA intersection of academic research and healthcare” Easter Break “Solving the riddle of the enigmatic 15 million‐year‐
Curator & Head of Section old subterranean mammal Necrolestes from Carnegie Museum of Natl Hist Patagonia: a marsupial, a placental, or what?” “TBA” Dr. Jan Janecka Please Post (revised 1/11/17)