Queens College

Biology Department Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2007 — Wednesdays at 11:15am, NSB B–137

Feb 7     Jane Hubbard, New York University - Soma-germline Interactions and the

          Control of Germline Proliferation in C. elegans                                              

Feb 14   Karin Limburg, SUNY ESF – Use of Otolith Chemistry to Reconstruct the

          Life Histories of Fishes                                                                                               

Feb 28   Robert Anderson, City College - Biodiversity Informatics and GIS-based Methods

          for Modeling Species Distributions                                                                                 

Mar 7    Rebecca Burdine, Princeton University - Left-right Patterning and Kidney Cyst

          Formation in the Zebrafish                                                                   

Mar 14   Eddie Castañeda, Arizona State University - Rotational Behavior as an Index

              For Presynaptic Function During Degeneration of Mesotelencephalic Dopamine

          Pathways - Why is Turning a ‘Contraversive’ Issue?                                         

Mar 21   David Post, Yale University - The Tail of Two Fish: Ecological Implications

          of Intraspecific Phenotypic Variation in Alewives                                         

Mar 28  Paola Bellosta, City College - The Myc Proto-oncogene and its Role

          in Growth Control                                                                            

Apr 11    Sergei Sokal, Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Cell Polarity and Fate

          Determination during Vertebrate Development                                                 

Apr 18   James Carlton, Roger Williams University - Biological Invasions in the Sea:

          Science, History, and Policy                                                                    

Apr 25   Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, University of Pennsylvania - Neurons, Astrocytes, and

          Microglia: Death by a Thousand Cuts, Phosphorylations, Translocations,

          and Associations                                                                                                                 

May 2    Coleen Murphy, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University - From Birth to Death:

          How Three Transcriptional Pathways Regulate Age-Related Decline                  

May 9    Jeremy Nance, NYU Sackler Institute - Cell Polarity and Gastrulation in the

          C. elegans Embryo                                                                              

May 16   Jeffrey Bird, Queens College - Carbon Utilization and Succession within Microbial

          Communities during the Decomposition of Pinus ponderosa Fine Roots and Needles