BioNotes

April 7 through April 11, 2008

Tuesday, April 8, 3:30 pm, 204 LON—HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR, "The biopsychosocial model in psychiatry and natural morality," Dr. Niall McLaren, Sanderson, Northwest Territories, Australia.

Wednesday, April 9, 3:00 pm, 333 BIO—SEMINAR IN GENETICS, "Discussion of Suryavanshi and Dixit, 2007, Emergence of recombinant forms of HIV: dynamics and scaling, PLoS Computational Biology 3(10):e205," Arij Daou, Department of Mathematics, FSU.

Wednesday, April 9, 3:30 pm, A211 PDB—NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR, "Inositolphosphoglycans—carbohydrates in cell signaling," Dr. Gail Galasko, College of Medicine, FSU.

Thursday, April 10, 12:00 pm, 1400 MSB—COLLEGE OF MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS, "The struggle to keep public hospitals alive: a safety net for millions," Dr. Neil Shulman, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.

Thursday, April 10, 12:15 pm, A105 PDB—HOWARD BAKER RESEARCH SEMINAR, "Neural systems for attentional set shifting," Dr. Joshua S. Rodefer, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Thursday, April 10, 4:00 pm, 228 CON—BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, "Did Southern Hemisphere geographic disjunctions in the macadamia nut family (Proteaceae) arise coincidentally with each other and with the loss of terrestrial connections between relevant landmasses?," Dr. Austin R. Mast, Department of Biological Science, FSU. Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller.

Thursday, April 10, 7:00 pm, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory Auditorium, St. Teresa, Florida—COASTAL AND MARINE CONSERVATION LECTURE, "The Florida black bear: achieving successful coexistence," Stephanie L. Simek, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Refreshments will be provided.

Friday, April 11, 9:00 am, 246 BRF—HONORS THESIS DEFENSE, "Glucose and diet-induced obesity modulation of ion channel biophysics," Michael Henderson, Department of Biological Science, FSU. Advisor: Dr. Debra Ann Fadool.

Friday, April 11, 11:00 am, A113 COE—CHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, "Fuel cells," Dr. T. V. Nguyen, University of Kanses, Lawrence, and National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.

Friday, April 11, 4:00 pm, 228 CON—ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SEMINAR, "From microbes to ecosystems: linkages between detritus and primary producer based ecosystems," Dr. Jessica Hines, Department of Biological Science, FSU. Host: Dr. Nora Underwood.

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