(revised 8/24/08)

FALL 2008

“Charles Darwin”

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERISTY

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Tuesday afternoons at 3:45 p.m. in the Wertheim Conservatory (WC 130) at the University Park campus. Light refreshments are served beginning at 3:30 p.m. Please follow the hyperlinks (underlined), when available, for additional information.

Date Speaker Title

August 26^th Dr. Leung Kim “Mechanisms of eukaryotic cell

Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU differentiation and cell movement”

(Host: Biol. Depart.)

September 2^nd Dr. Steve Wathen “Another inconvenient truth: 2,000

Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU plus years of abrupt climate change

(Host: J. Richards) and ecosystem response in the Sierra Nevada?

September 9^th

September 16^th Dr. David Lee “FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus: Its

3:30 pm, WC Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU Environmental History and Future” Ballrooms (BBC) (Host: Biol. Depart.)

September 23^rd

September 30^th Dr. Tim Collins Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU

(Host: Biol. Depart.)

October 7^th

October 14^th

October 21^st

October 28^th

November 4^th

November 11^th No seminar--Veterans' Day Holiday (University Closed)

November 18^th Dr. Carolina Barillas-Mury “Anopheles gambiae immune

National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious responses that determine

Diseases, NIH (Host: F. Noriega) susceptibility to Plasmodium

Infection” (Mury’s abstract)

November 25^th No seminar--Thanksgiving Holiday (University Closed)

December 2^nd