Department Seminars - Fall 2009


All seminars start at 3:35 pm on Fridays in Jordan G-33 unless otherwise noted. For questions and comments, please contact Saara DeWalt (SAARAD@exchange.clemson.edu).  Please note that that October 23rd presentation by Dr. Lesly Temesvari will be at 3:30 in 100 Brackett Hall.

Date

Speaker & Titile

  

Clemson Host

09/04

“DNA strand invasion during meiotic recombination”
Dr. Michael Sehorn
Department of Genetics and Biochemistry
Clemson University

 

Lisa Bain

09/11

“Implications and applications of bacterial
respiration of iron minerals”
Dr. Chuck Turick
Savannah River National Lab

  

Mike Henson

09/18

"Signal integration during zebrafish inner ear
development and tailbud stem cell maintenance"
Dr. Andreas Fritz
Department of Biology
Emory University

  

Susan Chapman

09/25

“In vitro cultivation of the trematode Microphallus
turgidus with continuation of the life cycle
in the laboratory
(How to grow a parasite outside of its host)”
Dr. Oscar Pung
Department of Biology
Georgia Southern University

  

Kim Paul
10/02

“Mechanotransduction in vocal fold ECM regulation”
Dr. Ken Webb
Department of Bioengineering
Clemson University 

  

Lesly Temesvari
10/09

No Seminar/Start of Fall Break

10/16

“Life in small populations: from orchids in tropical forest fragments to non-natives on SC beaches”
Dr. Courtney J. Murren
Department of Biology
College of Charleston

  

Saara DeWalt

10/23

 “Amoebic dysentery: Insights into virulence”
Sigma Xi Senior Researcher Seminar
Dr. Lesly Temesvari 
Department of Biological Sciences
Clemson University
3:30 in 100 Brackett Hall  

  

 

10/30

“Nitrate: Endocrine disruptor in disguise?”
Dr. Gerald LeBlanc
Department of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology
North Carolina State University

  

Lisa Bain

11/06

"Exploring the neuromechanics of locomotion: How do muscles power and help to stabilize movement?"
Dr. Andrew Biewener
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

  

Tim Higham
11/13
"Ecological forecasting and hindcasting in the intertidal
zone - from weather to biogeography"
Dr. David Wethey
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
 Peter Marko

11/20

No seminar

 

 

11/27

No Seminar/Thanksgiving

  

12/04

No Seminar

  


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