Queens College
Biology Department Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2008 — Wednesdays at 11:15am, NSB D-139

                                                                                                                                                       
Sept 3     Alison North, Rockefeller Univ. - Current microscopy tools and tricks — how to acquire good images while
avoiding the bad or the ugly...

Sept 10    Daniel Bunker, New Jersey Institute of Technology - Global change, community composition, and ecosystem functioning                                                                                 

Sept 17   Matthew Rockman, New York Univ. - Causes and consequences of heritable variation in C. elegans                                                                            

Sept 24   Liza Comita, Earth Institute — Columbia University - Drought as a driver of tropical tree species distributions and dynamics                                                 

Oct 15    Edo Kussell, New York Univ. - Stochastic switches in bacteria: A model of survival in fluctuating environments                                       

Oct 22   Chester Brown, Baylor College of Medicine - TGF-b superfamily signaling: Newly recognized roles in the regulation
of growth, adiposity and energy metabolism                                               

Oct 29  Ana Maria Cuervo. Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Selective autophagy in aging and age-related disorders                                 

Nov 5     Christine Johnson, American Museum of Natural History - The chemical and competition ecology of slave-maker ants                                                         

Nov 12     Scott Edwards, Harvard Univ - Species trees: a new paradigm in phylogenomics and molecular systematics                                                                                           

Nov 19  Melissa Grigione, Pace Univ. - Conservation of Patagonian pumas in Chile                               

Nov 26   Tatiana Rostovtseva, Nat’l Institute of Child Health and Human Dev., NIH - Regulation of the mitochondrial outer membrane voltage-dependent anion channel by cytosolic proteins                                      

Dec 03   Leonard Mindich, New Jersey Medical School of UMDNJ - Packaging and expression of segmented viral genomes                                                               

Dec 10    Gerald Thomsen, Stony Brook University - TBA                                                                                                        

Refreshments will be served
Supported in part by —

Dean of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Queens College

Queens College Biology Alumni Fund

Seymour Fogel Endowment Fund