BioNotes

January 30 through February 3, 2006

Monday, January 30, 3:30 p.m., 499 DSL--COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE SEMINAR, "Phase field models and simulations of vesicle bio-membranes," Dr. Xiaoqiang Wang, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Host: Dr. Max Gunzburger.

Tuesday, January 31, 3:30 p.m., 499 DSL--COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE SEMINAR, "Fast and reliable methods for determining the evolution of uncertain parameters in differential equations," Dr. Donald Estep, Colorado State University. Host: Dr. Max Gunzburger.

Wednesday, February 1, 3:30 p.m., 105 KRB--NEUROSCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, "Novel mechanisms and circuits regulating feeding," Dr. Ralph DiLeone, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut.

Thursday, February 2, 8:30 a.m., 333 BIO--PLANT SCIENCES SEMINAR, "Regulation of starch synthesis by Trehalose 6-phosphate via posttranslational redox activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase," Maitreyi Chattopadhyay, FSU.

Thursday, February 2, 11:15 a.m., 112 KRB--HOWARD BAKER RESEARCH SEMINAR, "Current genetic techniques to analyze the brain and animal behavior," Dr. Ralph DiLeone, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut.

Thursday, February 2, 12:00 noon, 1400 MSB--COLLEGE OF MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS, "In pursuit of socially modifiable contingencies in mental health and substance abuse problems," Dr. R. Jay Turner, FSU.

Thursday, February 2, 12:30 p.m., 499 DSL--SPECIAL SEMINAR, "TRIM5α: innate immunity to retroviruses," Dr. Byeongwoon Song, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Host: Dr. Hengli Tang. Dr. Song is a candidate for a faculty position in the Department of Biological Science, in microbiology.

Thursday, February 2, 3:30 p.m., 423 MCH--SCIENCE EDUCATION COLLOQUIUM, "Quality criteria in autobiography and connection to becoming a leader," Dr. Penny J. Gilmer, FSU.

Thursday, February 2, 3:30 p.m., 208 BIO--BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE FACULTY MEETING.

Friday, February 3, 11:00 a.m., 307 BIO--PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH PLANS, Dr. Byeongwoon Song, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Host: Dr. Hengli Tang. Dr. Song is a candidate for a faculty position in the Department of Biological Science, in microbiology.

Friday, February 3, 3:30 p.m., 105 KRB--NEUROSCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, "Progesterone receptor action in the brain: unity in diversity," Dr. Shaila K. Mani, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Friday, February 3, 4:00 p.m., 228 CON--ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SEMINAR, "All conservation biology is local: water quality and the Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) in a central Missouri watershed," Dr. Michael McManus, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, Florida. Host: Dr. Alice A. Winn.

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