Colloquium Lecture Series (This Site is Subject to Change Daily - Check Back for Updates.)

 Fall 2009 & Spring 2010

All lectures are held Mondays

4:00 PM tea and cookies - McConnell Foyer

4:30 PM lecture - McConnell 103

Nov-23-09

No Colloquium Event Scheduled

 

Nov-30-09

No Colloquium Event Scheduled

 

Dec-7-09

Speaker: Paul Sievert, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Title: "It's A Wanderful Life: Movement Patterns and the Conservation of Short-Tailed Albatross"

Host: Laura Katz & Steve Tilley - Biological Science

 

Dec-14-09

No Colloquium Event Scheduled

 

Spring 2010

Last Day of Classes Tuesday Dec-15-09

 

  Start of Spring 2010
Jan-25-10

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Feb-1-10

Speaker: Dr. Michelle Mondoux, Smith '98

Postdoctoral Fellow

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Topic:"Sweet Toxicity: O-GlcNAc and Insulin Signaling Modulate the Nutrient Stress response in C. elegans"

Host: Steve Williams

Feb-8-10

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Feb-15-10

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Feb-22-10

Speaker: Bonnie Bassler

Princeton

Topic: TBA

Host: Stan Scordilis - BioChem

Mar-1-10

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Mar-8-10

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Mar-15-10

Spring Break - No Lectures Scheduled

Mar-22-10

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Mar-29-10

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Apr-5-10

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Apr-12-10

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Apr-19-10

Speaker: William Lensch

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Apr-26-10

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Apr-30-10

Last Day of Classes - No Colloquium

 

Past Lectures  
Sept-14-09

Speaker: Joe Jerry-UMass

Title: "The Paradoxical Role of Estrogen in Prevention and Promotion of Breast Cancer"

Host: Mary Harrington - Neuroscience

Sept-21-09

Speaker: Emily Jacobs

Title: "Estrogen Shapes Dopamine-Dependent Cognitive Processes: A Women's Health Approach to Frontal Lobe Function"

Host: Mary Harrington - Neuroscience

 

Sept-28-09

Speaker: Jenn Seavy -UMass

Title:"Piping Plover Conservation on the Barrier Islands of New York- Habitat Quality and Implications in a Changing Climate"

Host: Tom Litwin - Bio

 

Oct-5-09

CANCELED DUE TO MOUNTAIN DAY-

Rescheduled for Thursday Oct 29th

Speaker: Carolyn Wetzel

Title:"Transient proteins in a plant response to high light"

Host: Adam Hall - Biological Science

 

Oct-12-09

Fall Break - No Lectures Scheduled

 

Oct-19-09

Speaker: Alanna Schepartz

Rosenfeld Lecture Title: TBA

Host: Tanya Schneider -Chemistry

 

Oct-26-09

Speaker: Wilmore Webley - UMass

Title:  "Early Life Chlamydia Respiratory Tract Infection and Asthma Pathogenesis: More than Mere Exacerbations"

Host: Chris White-Zeigler - BCH

 

Thursday

Oct-29-09

McCon 103

5:00pm

Speaker: Carolyn Wetzel

(rescheduled from Oct 5th- Mountain Day)

Title:"Transient proteins in a plant response to high light"

Host: Adam Hall - Biological Science

 

Nov-2-09

Speaker:Carla Kim- Children's Hospital Boston

Title: "Stem Cell Biology in the Normal Lung and Lung Cancer"

Host: Michael Barresi - Bioloigical Science

 

Nov-9-09

Speaker: Yin Mei Lim

Title:  "Towards Delivery of DNA into Mitochondria by Bacterial Conjugation"

Host: Bob Merritt - Biological Science

 

Nov-16-09

Speaker: Cindy Van Dover- Duke University

Marine Laboratory Chair, Division of Marine Science and Conservation

Title: "Deep-Sea Gold Rush: Understanding the Environmental Impact of Mining Seafloor Hot Springs"

Host: Paulette Peckol - Five College

 

   

 

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