Wednesday, Larkin Hall 170, 4:30 pm; Refreshments in Larkin Hall 150, 4:00 pm

January 16, 2008
Dr. Louis Levinger; Professor, Dept. of Natural Sciences, York College, City University of New York. "tRNase Z, the pre-tRNA 3' end processing endounuclease." 
Host: Dr. Edward Dubrovsky

January 23, 2008
 Dr. Ofer Tchernichovski; Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biology, City University of new York. 
"Developmental song learning in the Zebra Finch." 
Host: Dr. Alan Clark

January 30, 2008
 Dr. Jim Biardi; Asst. Professor, Biology Dept., Fairfield University.
"Ecological and evolutionary context of mammalian resistance to viper venoms."
Host: Dr. Alan Clark

February 6, 2008
Dr. Anton Seimon; Asst. Director, Latin America & Caribbean Program, 
Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo. 
"Observing ecosystem responses to climatic warming in the tropical high Andes of southern Peru."
Host: Dr. Alan Clark

February 13, 2008
Dr. Sherri Schultz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Cell Biology, 
Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
"Stem cells for neural tissue engineering."
Host: Dr. William Thornhill

February 20, 2008
 Dr. Alexander Konev, Research Associate, Dept. of Cell Biology,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
In vivo analyses of drosophila chromatin assembly factors."
Host: Dr. Dubrovsky

February 27, 2008
Dr. Silvia Finnemann, Assoc. Professor, Cell Biology in Ophthalmology, WCMC.
"Timing is everything: integrin receptor function in daily phagocytosis and adhesion in the retina."
Host: Dr. William Thornhill

March 5, 2008
Dr. Yuri Schwartz; Post-Doctoral Assoc., Rutgers University
"Polycomb silencing and epigenetic programming of the genome."
Host: Dr. Edward Dubrovsky

March 26, 2008
Dr. Melissa Grigione; Asst. Professor, Graduate Program in Environmental Science, Biology Dept., Pace University.
"Identifying priority habitats in the U.S. and Mexico for North America's neotropical cats: An international effort."
Host: Dr. Alan Clark

April 2, 2008
Dr. Jennifer Pramuk; Curator, Herpetology, Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo.
Forays into and adventures in amphibian and reptile biodiversity, evolution, and conservation."
Host: Dr. Alan Clark

April 9, 2008
Dr. Nikolai Kholodilov; Research Scientist, Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University.
"Programmed cell death in dopamine neurons of substantia nigra: Role of GDNF and its receptor in this process."
Host: Dr. Edward Dubrovsky

April 16, 2008
Dr. Sergey Ivanov; Asst. Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery Dept., NYU School of Medicine.
"Novel techonologies for gene discovery in the post human genome sequencing era."
Host: Dr. Edward Dubrovsky

April 23, 2008
Dr. Paul Turner; Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University.
"Adaptive and ecological landscapes in virus evolution."
Hosts: Huansheng Cao & Jillian Smith-Decker

April 30, 2008
Dr. Brian Walker; Asst. Professor, Biology Dept., Fairfield University.
"Happy Feet - or not: Human disturbance effects on the stress physiology of Magellanic Penguins."
Host: Dr. Alan Clark


Revised 2/15/08