Department of Biology
The University of Memphis
4:00 P.M. Thursday(s)
Ellington Hall Auditorium

September 10, 2009 – Dr.  Jerry Ware (host, Dr. Gartner), University of Arkansas Medical School, "Circulating blood platelets in thrombosis, inflammation and cancer"

September 17, 2009 – Dr. Kevin Boggs (host, Dr. Cole), Office of Technology Transfer, U of M: “Working to Bring your Inventions to the Market”

September 24, 2009 – Dr. Schoech, Department of Biology, U of M,  “Corticosterone, not just a stress hormone: What we’ve learned from long-term study of Florida scrub-jays.”

October 1, 2009 –  Dr. Don Thomason (host, Dr. Lessman), Professor, Dept. Physiology, UT-Memphis, ““What am I going to do with all these data? Surviving nextgen nucleic acid analysis!”

October 8, 2009 – Dr. Maria Davis (host, Dr. Goodwin), University of Alabama, Huntsville, “Plant Defense Mechanisms Against Fungal Pathogens: Polygalacturonase Inhibitor Proteins (PGIPs)”.

October 15, 2009 –  Dr. Howard Berg (host, Dr. Coons), Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, “TMV viral replication complexes: what microscopy is revealing of their dynamics and ultrastructure"

October 22, 2009 –  Dr. John Hogenesch (host, Dr. Liu), Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, “A genomic journey through the circadian network".

October 29, 2009 –Dr. Stephan Secor (host, Dr. simco), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,  - William H. N. Gutzke Memorial Seminar-"Evolutionary and integrative responses to feast and famine"

November 5, 2009 –  Dr. Minniear (host, Dr. Gartner), St. Jude Children’s Research Center, -“A Clinical Perspective of HIV for the Diverse Audience”

November 12, 2009 –  Dr. Jim Dale (host, Dr. Ourth), Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research, UTHSC Memphis.
“Molecular Pathogenesis of Streptococcus Group A and Vaccine Development”,

November 19, 2009 –  Dr. Larry Pfeffer (host, Dr. Homayouni), Muirhead Professor and Vice-Chair Department of Pathology, UTHSC  “Life And Death In The Balance: The Role Of NF-kB In Interferon¹s Biological Actions”

November 26, 2009 – Thanksgiving

December 3, 2009 –  Dr. Joel D. Bumgardner (host, Dr. Gartner), Biomedical Engineering, U of M, “Chitosan-based materials for bone implant applications”.