Spring 2015 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker		Title
Jan. 22		Dr. Aaron Roberts University of North Texas Host: Dr. Harper Aaron.Roberts@unt.edu	Mercury and Macrophages: Implications for Toxicity in Fish and Wildlife
Jan. 29		Dr. Mark Siddall American Museum of Natural History Host: Dr. Cook siddall@amnh.org	Advanced genome and imaging technology totally sucks: lessons from leeches
Feb. 5		Dr. Jae-Il Park MD Anderson Cancer Center Host: Dr. Seeling jaeil@mdanderson.org	Manipulating Wnt Signaling in Stem Cells and Cancer
Feb. 12		Dr. Milt Ostrofsky Allegheny College Host: Dr. Wozniak mostrofs@allegheny.edu	Predicting Internal Phosphorus Loading in Stratified Lakes
Feb. 19		Dr. Jason Gibbs Michigan State University Host: Dr. Pascarella jgibbs@msu.edu	The social evolution, systematics and historical biogeography of sweat bees
Feb. 26		Dr. Kevin Lafferty USGS/UC Santa Barbara Host: Dr. Buck Lafferty@lifesci.ucsb.edu	Parasites and environmental change
March 5		Dr. Pinfen Yang Marquette University Host: Dr. Gaillard pinfen.yang@marquette.edu	Dare to imagine – beyond the dogmas of signal transduction and microtubule dynamics
March 12		NO SEMINAR
March 19		Dr. Tom Miller Rice University Host: Dr. Harper tom.miller@rice.edu	Ecological interactions of plants through the lens of demography
March 26		Dr. Jeffrey Rosen Baylor School of Medicine Host: Dr. Seeling jrosen@bcm.edu	Wnt and Fgf signaling in mammary gland development and breast cancer *BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE SEMINAR*
April 2		Dr. Peter Christie UT Medical School at Houston Host: Dr. Choudhary Peter.J.Christie@uth.tmc.edu	Biological and Structural Diversity of Bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems
April 9		Dr. Gil Rosenthal Texas A&M University Host: Dr. Carlson (Philosophy) grosenthal@bio.tamu.edu	Mate choice and its consequences: insights from natural hybrid zones
April 16		Dr. Carlos Santamaria Sam Houston State University Host: Biology	Diversification of coastal isopods in the Indo-Pacific Region: Preliminary results and future directions
April 23		Dr. Nicole Smolensky Texas A&M University Host: Dr. Santamaria nsmo@neo.tamu.edu	Cryptic Diversity of African Crocodiles and Implications for In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation
April 30		Dr. Tony Gamble University of Minnesota Host: Dr. Daza gambl007@umn.edu	Diversity and evolution of gecko sex chromosomes

Seminar location/time:
Lee Drain Building 214 - 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.*

For additional information contact:
Dr. Jim Harper
Phone: 936-294-1543
E-mail: jmharper@shsu.edu