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| Spring 2010 | |
| Mar-8-10 | ~ No Colloquium scheduled ~ |
| Mar-15-10 | Spring Break - No Lectures Scheduled |
| Mar-22-10 | Speaker: Dr. Charles Ross Topic: "Using hybrid zones to elucidate adaptation and barriers to gene exchange in crickets" Host: Laura Katz |
| Mar-29-10 | Speaker: Daryl Bosco Topic: "SOD1 misfolding & toxicity in sporadic ALS" Host: Adam Hall - Neuro |
| Apr-5-10 | Speaker: Stephanie Soscia Topic: "The Alzheimer's disease-associated amyloid-β protein is an antimicrobial peptide" Host: Adam Hall and Mary Harrington |
| Apr-12-10 | NO COLLOQUIUM |
| Apr-19-10 | Speaker: William Lensch Topic: Host: Michael Barresi - Bio |
| Apr-26-10 | Speaker: Kimberly Johnson Topic: "Characterizing the role of Eg5 kinesin in mediating neural stem division in the zebrafish neural tube" Masters Thesis
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| Apr-29-10 | Speaker: : Lauren Ann Metskas Topic: "Seeing spots: Differential proteome profiling analysis of male and female skeletal muscle following a repeat bout of exercise."
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Oct-12-09 | Fall Break - No Lectures Scheduled
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| Oct-19-09 | Speaker: Alanna Schepartz Rosenfeld Lecture Title: TBA Host: Tanya Schneider -Chemistry
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| 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
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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
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| 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
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Nov-9-09 |
Speaker: Yin Mei Lim Title: "Towards Delivery of DNA into Mitochondria by Bacterial Conjugation" Host: Bob Merritt - Biological Science
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| 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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| Nov-23-09 | No Colloquium Event Scheduled
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| Nov-30-09 | No Colloquium Event Scheduled
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| 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
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| Dec-14-09 | No Colloquium Event Scheduled
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| Spring 2010 | Last Day of Classes Tuesday Dec-15-09
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| Jan-25-10 | Welcome back students! ~ No Lecture ~ |
| Feb-1-10 | Speaker: Dr. Michelle Mondoux 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 | Speaker: Laura A. Katz Topic:"Microbes Shake the Tree of Life and Alter Our Understanding of Genome Evolution" Host: President of Smith College |
| Feb-15-10 | Speaker: Dr. Susan Barry Topic: "Fixing My Gaze: Gaining Stereovision in Adult Life" Host: Gretchen Evans, Nu Rho Psi - Psychology/Neuroscience |
| Feb-22-10 | Speaker: Dr. Bonnie Bassler Princeton University Topic: "Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria" Host: Stan Scordilis - Biochem |
| Mar-1-10 | Topic: Biosciences Symposium Host: Lori Saunders and Judith Wopereis |