Date

Speaker

Title

Host

January 12

Organizational Meeting

January 19

Dr. Charles Louis
Department of Biology
Georgia State University

"Isoform-specific regulation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release channel"

Charles Derby

January 26

Dr. Jim Lauderdale
University of Georgia

"Insights into Aniridia: to PAX6 and beyond"

Vincent Rehder

February 2

Dr. Hans-Rudi Berthoud

"Neural mechanisms of food intake control"

Timothy Bartness

February 9

Dr. Jon Amster
Department of Chemistry
University of Georgia

"Characterization of Metalloproteins by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry"

Teryl Frey

February 16

Dr. Eric Gilbert
Department of Biology
Georgia State University

"The Two Sides of Microbial Biofilms"

February 23

Dr. Patricia Wilson
Department of Biology
Georgia State University

"Meiosis in Drosophila males: new rules for old tools"

March 2

Dr. Igor Stojiljkovic
Emory University

TBA

Zehava Eichenbaum

March 16

Dr. Duncan Krause
Department of Microbiology
University

"Organization, Assembly & Function of the Terminal Organelle of Mycoplasma pneumoniae"

Barbara Baumstark

March 23

Dr. Ilya Frolov
Department of Microbiology
University of Texas Medical Branch

"Replication of viral genome and translational shutoff in Sindbis virus infected cells"

Teryl Frey

March 30

Dr. Leslie Tolbert
University of Arizona

"Key neuron-glia interactions in the developing insect olfactory system"

Charles Derby
Sponsor*

April 6

Dr. Paul Katz
Department of Biology
Georgia State University

"Sea Slug Swimming, Serotonin Synthesis, and Second-messenger Signaling"

April 13

Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum
Department of Biology
Georgia State University

"Iron acquisition and regulation by the human pathogen S. pyogenes"

April 20

Dr. Giovanni Gadda
Department of Chemistry
Georgia State University

"Mechanistic studies on flavoprotein oxidoreductases"

Teryl Frey

April 27

Dr. Shawn Hochman
Emory University

"Serotonin and the neuromodulatory control of spinal cord function"

Paul Katz
Sponsor*