FA07 / SP08 Science Seminar Series Schedule

Science Seminar Series Schedule

Fall 2007 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation	Seminar Title	Room	Time	Host
8/22	Dr. Alan Christian	Assistant Professor	ASU, Biological Sciences	SmartBoard Sympodium Demonstration	LSE219	4:00	Christian
8/29	Dr. Robyn Hannigan	Director	ASU Environmental Sciences Program	EVS Faculty and Student Meeting from 3 to 5 pm	ABI107	3:00 to 5:00	Hannigan
9/5	Dr. Mario De Tullio	Professor	Department of Biology and Plant Pathology Universita di Bari, Italia http://xoomer.alice.it/mariodetullio	Vitamin C as a sensor of environmental conditions and a regulator of plant development	ABI107	4:00	Lorence
9/12	Dr. Aldemaro Romero	Professor and Chair	ASU Biological Sciences	Shifts in Yankee Whaling Practices in the Caribbean 1762 -1921: a statistical analysis to human behavior and species conservation	LSE219	4:00	Christian
9/19	Dr. Colin Young	Assistant Professor	Galen University, Belize Director of Environmental Sciences Program	Belizean Creole Ethnobotany: Species richness and diversity patterns of ethnobotanically useful species in Belizean lowland tropical rainforest.	LSE219	4:00	Romero
9/20	Dr. Colin Young	Assistant Professor	Galen University, Belize Director of Environmental Sciences Program	SPECIAL: Mother Nature’s Best Kept Secret’: Opportunities for Research in Belize	ABI107	4:00	Romero
9/26	Dr. Thomas Algeo	Associate Professor	University of Cincinnati, Department of Geology	The Big Kill: renewed oceanic overturn at the Permian-Triassic Boundary	ABI107	4:00	Hannigan
10/3	Sindhu Kaimal	Doctoral Student	ASU Environmental Sciences Program	TiO₂ Photocatalysis: A review	ABI107	4:00	Allen
10/10	Dr. David Gilmore	Assistant Professor	ASU Biological Sciences	Superbug: Epidemiology and molecular Biology of Staphylococcus aureus	LSE219	4:00	Christian
10/17	Dr. William W. Stephens	Senior Scientist / Project Manager	ENSR / AECOM Houston, Texas	Applying Your Science	ABI107	4:00	Bouldin
10/24	Katie McKeon	PhD candidate	Arkansas State University Molecular Biosciences Program	Arousal, Monoamines and Tobacco Smoke: Consequences of Maternal Smoking	ABI107	4:00	Buchannan
10/31	OPEN					4:00
11/7	Dr. Ron Adkins Dr. Julia Krushkal		UT Memphis http://132.192.16.42/AdkinsHome/Index.html UT Memphis http://cgb.utmem.edu/jkrushkal/	Use of Bioinformatics to Detect the Role of Epigenetics in Fetal Growth Regulation Bioinformatic analysis of bacterial, viral, and human genome and expression data	ABI107	4:00	Weathers
11/14	Dr. James Stoeckel	Assistant Professor	Auburn University Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture	Reservoirs, Herbicides and Endocrine Disruption: the Cost of Parthenogenetic Male Production	LSE219	4:00	Christian
11/21	FALL BREAK
11/28	Dr. Bruce Wilson		Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental Sciences Division Bruce Wilson Abstract and Biosketch	Ecoinformatics: A View of a World of Data About Our World.	ABI 107	4:00	Christian
12/5	Dr. Joe Chappell	Professor	University of Kentucky - Lexington Plant Biology Program	Unraveling the wizardry of Terpene biosynthesis in plants	ABI107	4:00	Weathers

Spring 2008 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation	Seminar Title	Room	Time	Host
1/16/08	Alan Christian	Assistant Professor	ASU Jonesboro	EVS Seminar Organizational Meeting	LSE219	4:00	Christian
1/23/08	Dr. Carole Cramer	Executive Director	Arkansas Biosciences Institute ASU - Jonesboro	Plant-based vaccines – enhancing efficacy through delivery, presentation and immuno-modulation	ABI107	4:00	Christian
1/30/08	Dr. Beth Hood	Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Technology	Office of Research and Technology Transfer ASU- Jonesboro	TBA: IT Communication	ABI107	4:00	Christian
2/06/08	Dr. Zariff A. Chadhury	Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering Technology	Technology Program College of Agriculture ASU-Jonesboro	New Metallurgical Program at ASU-Jonesboro beginning Fall 2008	ABI107	4:00	Phillips/Coleman
2/13/08	Dr. Reeta Prusty Rao	Assistant Professor of Biology and Biotechnology	Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Perception and transport of IAA in yeast	ABI107	4:00	Weathers
2/20/08	Dr. Bob Reis		UAMS	TBA: Aging / metabiolism	ABI107	4:00	Lorence
2/27/08	Dr. Meg Allen	Research Entomologist	USDA ARS BCPRU Stoneville, MS	Designer drool: host plants and plant bug salivary enzymes	ABI107	4:00	Teague
3/05/08	Dr. Al Romero	Chair, Department of Biological Sciences	Arkansas State University	The hypogean fishes of China	LSE219	4:00	Romero
3/12/08	Todd Levine	Doctoral Candidate	Miami University	Conservation and population dynamics of a unique and critically endangered mussel	LSE219	4:00	Christian
*3/19/08*	SPRING BREAK
3/26/08	Dr. Fred Bourland		University of Arkansas Extension	Meeting cotton's future needs through varietal improvement	ABI107	4:00	Teague
4/02/08	Dr. Richard Segall	Associate Professor Department of Computer and Information Technology	College of Business Arkansas State University	Data mining of micro-array databases and environmental stress tolerances for plants	ABI107	4:00	Weathers
4/09/08	Dr. Jon Gering	Associate Professor of Biology	Truman State University	Phylogenetic community ecology of Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in Missouri and Belize: Patterns, Problems, and Statistical Innovations	LSE219	4:00	Christian
4/18/08* Note different day of the Week	Dr. Mark Tomkins	Assistant Professor Department of Infectious Disease	College of Veterinary Medicine University of Georgia	Protection against zoontic influenza virus infection by targeting conserved viral antigens	ABI107	2:00	Cramer
4/23/08	Dr. Alex Biris	Director of the Center for Nanotechnology	University of Arkansas - Little Rock	Carbon Nanostructural materials and their applications for advanced composite materials, biology, and medicine	ABI107	4:00	Ingle/Buchanan
4/30/08	Mr. Randal Looney	Environmental Coordinator	Arkansas Division Office Federal Highways Administration	TBA: National Environmental Policy Act and FHWA	LSE219	4:00	Christian
5/07/08
5/14/08	Dr Dimuth Siritunga	Associate Professor	University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez	Molecular Approaches to Elucidate the Importance of Cyanogenic Glucosides in Cassava Abstract PDF	ABI107	4:00	Lawrence

Alan D. Christian, Ph.D. & Aquatic Ecology Laboratory (AEL)

Science Seminar Series Schedule

Fall 2007 Schedule

Spring 2008 Schedule