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DEPARTMENT
OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SEMINAR SERIES SPRING 2001
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Date: January 9th 2001
Title: Bacterial Biofilms
- Their Growth on Earth and Potential Use in Spaces
Robert J.C. (Bob) McLean,
Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Southwest Texas State University
601 University Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 Phone:
512-245-3365 Fax: 512-245-8713
Email: rm12@swt.edu
URL: http://www.bio.swt.edu/micro/mclean/mclean.html
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Date: January 16th 2001(4
pm)
Presidential Lecture
Series 2001:
Nobel Laureate Dr. Murray
Gell-Mann
Title: Regularities,
Randomness and Complexity in the Universe
Venue: Graham Center
Ballroom, University Park
Murray Gell-Mann
Professor and Co-Chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501-8943
Phone: 505-984-8800
Fax: 505-982-0565
Email: mgm@santafe.edu
URL: http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/mgm/
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Date: January 23rd 2001
Burroughs Wellcome
Visiting Professor at FIU: Michael Zasloff, MD., PhD.
Title: The Aminosterols of the Shark:
Their Discovery, Function and their Development as Drugs to Control
Cancer and Obesity
Michael Zasloff, MD., PhD.
President, Magainin Research Institute
Magainin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
5110 Campus Drive
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Human Genetics, Pharmacology, and
Orthopedics
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Email: mzasloff@magainin.com
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Date: January 25th 2000 (12
noon)
Special
Seminar by the Canadian Killam Research Fellow:Elaine Newman, PhD.
Title: Does Escherichia
coli need s-adenosylmethionine? No SAM, no cell division.
Elaine Newman,
PhD.
Professor
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West,
Montreal, QC.,
Canada, H3G 1M8
Phone: (514) 848-3410
Fax: (514) 933-9558
Email: neweb@vax2.concordia.ca
URL: http://artsci-ccwin.concordia.ca/biology/
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Date: January 31th 2001
Tropical Biology
Distinguished Seminar Speaker:
Harry W. Greene, Ph.D.
Title: Heroes,
theories, and the importance of organisms in biology
Harry W. Greene, Ph.D
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
E251 Corson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 254-4265
Fax: (607) 255-8088
Email: hwg5@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.es.cornell.edu/greene/greene.html
More about Tropical Biology Symposium: http://www.fiu.edu/~biology1/symposium.html
Tropical Biology Program: http://www.fiu.edu/~biology1/tropical/index.html
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Date: February 6th 2001
Title: Damselfish Neurofibromatosis:
Features and Etiology
Michael C. Schmale, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy.
Miami, FL 33149
Phone: 305-361-4140 Fax: 305-361-4600
Email: mschmale@rsmas.miami.edu
URL: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/people/mschmale.html
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Date:
February 13th 2001
Title: Understanding population
growth for conservation biology: it's hard to predict, especially the
future
Gordon A. Fox, PhD.
Department of Biology, SCA 110
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620-5150
Phone: (813) 974-7352
Fax: (813) 974-3263
Email: gfox@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
URL:http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~gfox/
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Date: February 23rd 2001
Title: Analysis of Bacterial Communities
in Controlled Biological Systems
Jennifer L. Adams, PhD.
Microbial Ecologist
Kennedy Space Center
FL 32899
Phone: 321-476 4271
Fax: 321-853-4165
Email: jennifer.adams-1@ksc.nasa.gov
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Date: February 27th, 2001
MBRS Distinguished
Seminar Speaker:
Jeffrey D. Palmer, PhD.
Title: Evolutionary Transfer
of Mitochondrial Genes to the Nucleus: When, What, How, and Why (or
Why Not)?
Jeffrey D. Palmer, PhD.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biology
Indiana University,
Jordan Hall
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-8892
Fax: 812/855-6705
Email: jpalmer@bio.indiana.edu
URL: http://www.bio.indiana.edu/
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Date: March 7th 2001
Comparative
Immunology Distinguished Seminar Speaker
Title:
Dermo disease in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica caused by
Perkinsus marinus : Innate immunity and parasite adaptations
Gerardo
R. Vasta, Professor
University of Maryland Biotechnology
Institute
Center of Marine Biotechnology
Suite 236, Columbus Center
701 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel (410) 234 8800
Fax: (410) 234 8896
Email: vasta@umbi.umd.edu
URL: http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~comb/faculty/vasta/vasta.html
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Date: March 13th 2001
Title: The role of long
distance dispersal versus local retention in replenishing marine fish
populations.
Robert K Cowen, Ph. D.
Professor and Maytag Chair of Ichthyology
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Phone: 305 361 4023
Fax: 305 361 4600
Email: rcowen@rsmas.miami.edu
URL: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/divs/mbf/people/rcowen.html
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Date: March 27th 2001
Co-sponsored by Biology
Graduate Student Association
Title: Quorum
Sensing Regulation of a Capsular Polysaccharide Virulence Factor in
the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium, Pantoea stewartii - Not Quite
Like the Paradigm.
Susanne von Bodman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut
Department of Plant Science
Ag. Biotech Building, U- 163
1390 Storrs Road
Storrs, CT 06269-4163
Phone: 860-486-4408
Fax: 860-486-0534
Email: svbodman@canr.uconn.edu
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Date:
April 3rd 2001
The Glaser Seminar Distinguished
Lecturer:
Dr. Mark V. Lomolino
Title: Splendid Isolation,
Downsizing Nature, and the Parable of the Woolly Mammoth.
Dr. Mark V. Lomolino
Associate Professor and Heritage Zoologist
Oklahoma Biological Survey and Department of Zoology
University of Oklahoma.
Phone: 405 325 2440
Email: island@ou.edu
URL: http://www.ou.edu/cas/zoology/faculty/cv/Lomolino.htm
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Date: April 5th 2001
in GC243W at 12 noon
Presidential Seminar Series 2001
proudly presents :
Gunther Stent
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Member of National Academy of Sciences
The editor of THE DOUBLE HELIX by JimWatson.
Title: Consciousness: The
Last Great Unsolved Biological Problem
Gunther Stent
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
142 Life Sciences Addition #3200
Berkeley, CA 94720-3200
Phone: (510) 642-5214
E-mail: stent@uclink4.berkeley.edu
URL: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/stentg.html
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Date:April 6th at 2 pm in
Wertheim Conservatory 130
Title: Origins of Molecular
Biology: Looking for "Other Laws of Physics"
Gunther Stent
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
142 Life Sciences Addition #3200
Berkeley, CA 94720-3200
Phone: (510) 642-5214
E-mail: stent@uclink4.berkeley.edu
URL: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/stentg.html
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| Date:
April 10th 2001
Title: The evolutionary significance
of photosymbiosis in fossil and Recent Soritacea (Foraminifera)
Dr. Susan Richardson
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Marine Station at Ft. Pierce Florida
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Date:
April 17th 2001
LTER Distinguished Seminar
Speaker:
Hans W. Paerl-Kenan, Ph.D.
Title: Anthropogenic nitrogen
inputs to coastal ecosystems in the 21st century: evolving sources,
scales and consequences
Hans W. Paerl-Kenan, Ph.D.
Professor of Marine & Environmental Sciences
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3431 Arendell Street
Morehead City, NC 28557 USA
Phone: (252) 726-6841, Ext. 133
Fax: (252) 726-2426
Email: hpaerl@email.unc.edu
URL: www.marine.unc.edu/neuse/modmon
What is Long Term Ecological Research?
http://www.fiu.edu/~ecosyst/lter/
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Date: April 24th 2001
Special Undergraduate
Honors Year Seminar
Waveform detection of conspecifics in the weakly
electric fish Gymnotus carapo
by Montserrat Alfaro
(Dr. Philip Stoddard, research supervisor).
Population
structure of spotted sunfish (Lepomis punctatus) in the Florida
Everglades as revealed by DNA microsatellite analysis
by Janette Garcia
(Dr. Joel Trexler, research supervisor).
Changes in electrolocation
as a function of amplitude of the weakly electric fish, Brachyhypopomus
pinnicaudatus
by Marina Olman
(Dr. Philip Stoddard, research supervisor).
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