Seminar Series

Note that most of the seminars will be held in Lied Auditorium; any changes to seminar rooms will be e-mailed in advance of the scheduled presentation.

Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

Date, Time, Location	Speaker	Topic
Thursday, August 6	Peggy Petroff, Ph.D., KUMC
Thursday, August 27 3:30 pm	Doug Wright, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology - KUMC	“The Anatomy and Cell Biology of Peripheral Nerve Disease”
Thursday, September 17 3:30 pm	Andrew Symons, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology - KUMC	”Genetics of the response of the retinal vasculature to hyperoxia”
Tuesday, October 6 3:30 pm	Michael A. Fox, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology - Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA	"Novel roles for the extracellular matrix in synapse formation"
Thursday, October 15 3:30 pm	Binu Paul - Graduate Student - KUMC	"Cutting through polycystic kidney disease"
Thursday, November 5	Kim Schmitt - Graduate Student - KUMC
Thursday, November 12	Megan Dunn - Graduate Student - KUMC
Thursday, December 3 3:30 pm	Zoltan Ferjentsik, Ph.D. Research Associate - Department of Cell and Developemental Biology, University of Dundee, UK	“Notch signalling in somitogenesis of vertebrates”
Thursday, December 17 3:30 pm	Robert S. Cohen, Ph.D. Chairperson and Professor - Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas - Lawrence	The localization of Drosophila gurken mRNA; breaking convention and Symmetry

 

Spring 2010 Seminar Schedule

Date, Time, Location	Speaker	Topic
Thursday, January 14	Chris Tanzie - Graduate Student - KUMC
Thursday, February 11	Anastasia Aleksandrova - Graduate Student - KUMC
Thursday, March 11	Brian Ackley, PhD, Assistant Professor - Dept of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas - Lawrence