February
2007
Jason Somarelli (Major Advisor: Rene Hererra) presented his dissertation
proposal seminar entitled “A new immunosuppressive drug binding
protein leads a double life as a splicing factor” on 14 February
2007 at 11:00 in WC 130.
Marcy Lowenstein (Major Advisor: Lidia Kos) presented her dissertation
proposal seminar entitled “Interactions among Endothelin receptor
B and transcription factors, Sox10 and Pax3, in melanocyte development”
on 27 February 2007 at 10:00 in WC 130.
Roxaneh Khorsand (Major Advisor: Suzanne Koptur) received a $5000
grant from the National Science Foundation program Global Cyberbridges:
A Model Global Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science Between
US and International Partners. Roxaneh was one of four FIU students
to receive the funding that will allow her to incorporate grid computing
into her research that examines how pollinator diversity affects
fruit set in the face of forest fragmentation. Roxaneh will also
conduct a side project with her collaborators in Brazil. Congratulations
Roxaneh!
The CI club held a meeting on 30 January 2007 to continue discussion
of the article entitled: Rab22a Regulates the Sorting of Transferrin
to Recycling Endosomes by Javier G. Magadán, M. Alejandro
Barbieri, Rosana Mesa, Philip D. Stahl, and Luis S. Mayorga.
The BGSA hosted the Departmental Seminar Speaker, Dr. Joe Travis
from FSU, on 6 February 2007. Dr. Travis’ seminar was entitled
“Do we - should we - have an evolutionary ecology?”.
The MCB club hosted a movie night on 7 February 2007 outside of
HLS I. The club selected “An Inconvenient Truth” for
the feature film.
The BGSA hosted a seminar by Michael Beecher from the NSF Division
of Integrative and Organismal Biology gave a presentation regarding
the procedures required to apply for an NSF Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grant (DDIG). In addition to talking about DDIGs, he
outlined other available funding opportunities at NSF (for PhD and
MS students) and the basic strategies for writing these grants on
20 February 2007.
The MCB club held a meeting on 28 February 2007 to discuss a paper
by Andermann and Moore entitled: “A somatotopic map of vibrissa
motion direction within a barrel column”.
Laura May-Collado (Major Advisor: Doug Wartzok) recently learned
that one of her dissertation chapters was accepted for publication
in the journal Marine Mammal Science: May-Collado, L.J., Agnarsson
I., D. Wartzok. 2007. Reexamining the relationship between body
size and tonal signals frequency in whales: a comparative
approach using a novel phylogeny. Marine Mammal Science [in press].
Longin Kaczmarsky (Major Advisor: Laurie Richardson) recently published
a co-authored paper: L. Kaczmarsky and L.L. Richardson. 2007. Transmission
of growth anomalies between Indo-Pacific Porites corals. Journal
of Invertebrate Pathology 94:218-221.
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