News & Events
Seminars
Seminars are held in Hutchison Hall, on the River Campus. (Campus map) Contact the Department of Biology at (585) 273-1139 at least three days in advance to request any special accommodations or if you would like to meet with an outside speaker. Refreshments provided.
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Monday, July 30, 2018
Dr. John Lueck, URMC, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
“Engineered tRNAs for suppression of premature termination codons”
Hutchison 47312:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Cara Brand, University of Rochester
“The evolutionary genetics of recombination and segregation in Drosophila”
Hutchison 47311:30 a.m.
PhD Thesis Defense
Friday, August 31, 2018
Dr. David Loehlin, Williams College
“Evolution of more: 1) Noncoding regulatory mutations drive enzyme activity evolution, 2) Tandem gene duplicate expression is greater than the sum of its parts”
Hutchison 3163:00 p.m.
Friday, September 7, 2018
Dr. Andrea Sweigart, University of Georgia
“Genetics and evolution of hybrid lethality in Mimulus”
Hutchison 3163:00 p.m.
Monday, September 10, 2018
Dr. Benoit Biteau, URMC, Department of Biomedical Genetics
"Chasing SOXs from development to stem cells"
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Dr. Geoffrey Hill, Auburn University
"Speciation and sexual selection as processes to maintain mitonuclear coadapation"
Hutchison 3163:00 p.m.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Dr. William Bement, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Nonlinearity and cell division: The cell cortex as an excitable medium”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Friday, September 21, 2018
Dr. Heather Fiumera, Binghamton University
"Mito-Nuclear and Mito-Mito Epistasis in Saccharomyces”
Hutchison 3163:00 p.m.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Dr. Nigel Atkinson, University of Texas at Austin
“Alcohol preference and alcohol-modulated social interactions in Drosophila”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Dr. Nina Therkildsen, Cornell University
“Contemporary evolution and adaptive divergence in open ocean environments: New insights and applications to fisheries management”
Hutchison 3163:00 p.m.
Monday, October 1, 2018
Dr. Matthew Gibson, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
“Understanding animal evolution: Mechanisms of development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, October 8, 2018
Dr. Veena Prahlad, University of Iowa
“Rethinking protein homeostasis in a metazoan: A case of nerves?”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Friday, October 12, 2018
Dr. Andrea Townsend, Hamilton College
"Crows and Zoonotic Disease: Victims or Vectors?"
Hutchison 3163:00 p.m.
Monday, October 15, 2018
Dr. Michael Rout, Rockefeller University
"A hole new view: Structure-function mapping of the nuclear pore complex"
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Dr. Lathiena Manning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The interplay between cytoskeletal and adhesion molecules in shaping epithelial tissue architecture”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, October 29, 2018
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Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, November 5, 2018
Dr. Lance Davidson, University of Pittsburgh
“Mechanics of morphogenesis: How physical mechanical processes shape the vertebrate embryo and guide cell fate decisions”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Dr. Vito Mennella, University of Toronto
"Super-resolution imaging drives mechanism, discovery and diagnosis of rare diseases"
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Dr. Jared Nordman, Vanderbilt University
“Developmental control of DNA replication and gene copy number in Drosophila”
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Dr. Vishwa Dixit, Yale School of Medicine
"Immunometabolic checkpoints of aging"
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Dr. William Theurkauf, University of Massachusetts Medical School
TBA
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Dr. SaraH Zanders, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
"Wtf causes infertility"
Hutchison Hall, Lander Auditorium12:00 p.m.