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Special Events Archive
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Special Seminar
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Stephen Muss Endowed Chair
University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Heterogeneous Neural Stem Cells and their Adult Niche"
Date: Thursday, April 17
Time: 2:30 pm refreshments, 3:00 pm seminar
Location: Stern Room of the Commerce Club, 14th Floor
Hosted by the Georgia State University Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate students
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Tanushree Soni
Title: "Endothelial Cell Factors Involved in Bartonella bacilliformis pathogenesis"
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: 10:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Barbara Baumstark
Convener of Defense - Dr. Julia Hilliard
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Prajakta Pradhan
Title: "Study of the Assembly and Function of the DrrAB Complex"
Date: Monday, November 19, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Parjit Kaur
Convener of Defense - Dr. Parjit Kaur
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Megan Dailey
Title: "Neuropeptide Y-Mediated Control of Appetitive and Consummatory Ingestive Behaviors in Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)"
Date: Monday, November 19, 2007
Time: 1:00PM
Room: Room 230 Aderhold Bldg.
Advisor - Dr. Timothy Bartness
Convener of Defense - Dr. Deb Baro
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Divya Rao
Title: "Characterization of the Structure, Function and Assembly of the DrrAB Antibiotic Efflux Pump in Streptomyces peucetius"
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Time: 10:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Parjit Kaur
Convener of Defense - Dr. Parjit Kaur
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Anthony Jones
Title:"The Role Cranberry Proanthocyanidins Play in the Primary Attachment of Bacteria to Surfaces: Bacillus cereus Model"
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 9:30AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Sidney Crow
Convener of Defense - Dr. Robert Maxwell
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Fadi Issa
Title: "Effect of Social Status on the Behavior and Neurophysiology of Crayfish"
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 9:00AM
Room: Troy Moore Library (939 General Classroom Bldg.)
Advisor - Dr. Donald Edwards
Convener of Defense - Dr. Charles Derby
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Samandra Demons
Title: "The Effect of S-triazines and Nitrobenzene on the Degradation of Toluene and Naphthalene in Solid Phase Systems"
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 10:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. George Pierce
Convener of Defense - Dr. Robert Maxwell
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Bor-Ruei Lin
Title: "Electrophysiological Studies on Escherichia coli Protein-conducting channel"
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 2:00PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Phang C. Tai
Convener of Defense - Dr. Chung-Dar Lu
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Kristy Welshhans
Title: "Neuronal Growth Cone Dynamics Are Regulated By A Nitric Oxide-Initiated Second Messenger Pathway"
Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007
Time: 10AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Vincent Rehder
Convener of Defense - Dr. Mathew Grober
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Edmund Rodgers
Title: "Sexual Plasticity In A Marine Goby, Lythrypnus Dalli: Social, Endocrine, and Genetic Influences on Functional Sex"
Date: Friday, August 17, 2007
Time: 10:30AM
Room: 200 GCB
Advisor - Dr. Matthew Grober
Convener of Defense - Dr. Deb Baro
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Li Zhu
Title: "B virus uses different mechanism from to counteract the PKR response"
When: Friday, August 17, 2007
Time: 1:30PM
Where: 441 NSC
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Chih-Ling Zao
Title: "B Virus Circumvents Innate Responses in Human Cells"
Date: Monday, August 6, 2007
Time: 1PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Julia Hilliard
Convener of Defense - Dr. Julia Hilliard
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M.S. Thesis Defense Notice
Emily Blalock
Title: "Comparative Study of HPV 16 and HPV18 Antibody Detection in Serum, Cervical Mucus, and Oral Mucosal Transudate "
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Time: 1PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Susanna Greer
Convener of Presentation - Dr. Susanna Greer
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Dissertation Defense
Bing Na
Title: "The Structure and Function of Escherichia Coli SecA: An Essential Component of the Sec Translocase"
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Time: 10AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Phang C. Tai
Convener of Defense - Dr. Phang C. Tai
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Special Seminar
Title: "The Regulation of Gene Expression"
Dr. Aeisha Robb
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hosted by:
Dr. Teryl Frey
Date:Friday, June 29th, 2007
Time: 10:45am
Room: 500 GCB
WELCOME! All faculty, staff and
students are cordially invited.
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Dissertation Defense
Barbara Musolf
Title:"Serotonergic modulation of the crayfish hindgut: Effects on hindgut contractility and regulation of serotonin on hindgut"
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2007
Time: 10:00AM
Room 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Donald Edwards
Convener of Defense - Dr. Donald Edwards
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China Visit
May 20-25
Dr. Phang C. Tai, Department Chair will be in Chengdu at Southwest JiaTong University.
Dr. Tai will be interviewing potential students for our graduate program.
If you would like to schedule an interview, please contact LaTesha Warren, Graduate Coordinator at lwarren@gsu.edu.
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Dissertation Defense
William Davis
Title:"West Nile Virus 3' (+) SL RNA Protein Binding Sites & Cis -acting Sequences"
Date: Monday, May 21, 2007
Time: 1:30PM
Room 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Chun Jiang
Convener of Defense - Dr. Chun Jiang
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Special Seminar
“Id Gene Family: Expression and Function in Prostate Cancer”
Dr. Jaideep Chaudhary
Associate Professor,
Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutics DevelopmentDepartment of Biological Services Clark Atlanta University
Date: Thursday, Feb.22 at
Time: 10 AM in
Location:
441 NSC
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Feb 24th 2007 8:30am - 2:00pm
Location: 4th Floor NSC
Come and meet our graduate students and faculty, and tour our facilities. Our Open House/Poster Day will be highlighted by platform and poster presentations featuring ongoing research in our Department.
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Interview For Biology PhD Program
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Dr. Phang C. Tai will be in China January 1-7 (Harbin, Jan.1-2 and Beijing, Jan. 3-7).
During his visit, he will be interviewing potential students for our PhD program.
Iinterested in scheduling an interview, please contact LaTesha Warren (lwarren@gsu.edu) by December 21, 2006
Dr. Yu (liyan_y@sohu.com) after December 21
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Autoclave Training
Tues. Jan. 9, 2007 10:00am in NSC 324
Wed. Jan. 10, 2007 1:00 pm in NSC 320
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Fengling Liu
Title: "Kinetic and Crystallographic Studies of Drug-Resistant Mutants of HIV-1 Protease: Insights into the Drug Resistance Mechanisms"
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2006
Time: 12:30PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Irene Weber
Convener of Defense - Dr. Yuan Liu
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Amy Horner
Title: "Functional Roles of the Crustacean Dual Chemosensory Pathways in Odor Mediated Behaviors" Date: Thursday, December 14, 2006
Time: 2:00PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Charles Derby
Convener of Defense - Dr. Charles Derby
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Hassan Wally
Title: "Identification and Characterization of MvaT and MvaU Global Regulators in Arginine Catabolism and Quorum Sensing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Date: Monday, November 27, 2006
Time: 10:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Chung-Dar Lu
Convener of Defense - Dr. Malcolm Zellars
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M.S. Thesis Defense Notice
Sean Graham
Title: “An Integrative Analysis of Reproduction and Stress in Free-Living Male Cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus ”
Date: Monday, October 23, 2006
Time: 10AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Matthew Grober
Convener of Presentation - Dr. Laura Carruth
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Heather O’Connell
Title: "The Role of Ecological Interactions in Polymicrobial Biofilms and Their Contribution to Multiple Antibiotic Resistance"
Date: Friday, October 27, 2006
Time: 10:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Eric Gilbert
Convener of Defense - Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum
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Special Event
MBD Seminar Series
Lee Gehrke
Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard Medical School
Title: “Structure and Function of RNA and RNA-protein complexes from positive-strand RNA viruses”
Date: Oct. 12th at 10AM Commerce Club
Host: Teryl Frey
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Come See The World's Largest Brain
The Brain Balloon Project
Who: Atlanta-based Neuroscientists and our Sponsors
What: The Brain Balloon Project featuring a nine-story hot air balloon shaped like a human brain and hands-on neuroscience education activities for all ages.
Where: The corner of Decatur St. SE and Piedmont Rd. SE on Georgia State University 's campus
When: Saturday, October 14, 2006, 4:00-7:00pm*
*Rain Date: Sunday, October 15, 2006
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M.S. Thesis Defense Notice
Ramata Cisse
Title: “Septal Infusions of the H-Channel Blocker ZD7288 Impair Spontaneous Alternation but not Inhibitory Avoidance”
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Time: 4PM
Room: 212 Kell
Advisor - Dr. Marise Parent
Convener of Presentation - Dr. Marise Parent
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Special Seminar
Benjamin Méndez
Title: "Shrimp Aquaculture: Biology and Industry"
Date: September 27, 2006
Time: 11:00 am - Noon
Locaiton: 501 Science Annex
Benjamin Mendez was Chief Biologist of a large shrimp company and currently works as a consultant in shirmp hatchery management in several countries throughout Central and South America, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Host: Charles Derby.
Please contact me if you wish to talk with Benjamin Mendez.
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Special Seminar
Title: "Evolution of metabolic pathways for synthesis of compatible solutes in plants"
Dr. Peddisetty Saradhi
Dept. of Environmental Biology University of Delhi, India
Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Location: NSC 441
Time: 3:35 PM
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Biotech Symposium
From Microbial World/Bacterial Physiology/Microbes to Biotechnology
In honor of Dr. John Ingraham
Date: September 21-22, 2006
Time: 8:00
Location: Sloppy Floyd Twin Towers, Atlanta Ga
Please visit the website for more information.
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Emad Hussein
Title: "Investigation into the Mechanism(S) Which Permit the High‑rate, Degradation of PAHs and Related Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Sequencing Batch Reactors by Attached Cells in a Controlled Mixed Bacterial Community"
Date: Friday, August 18, 2006
Time: 9:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor Dr. George Pierce
Convener of Defense ‑ Dr. George Pierce
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Special Announcement
Dr. Phang C. Tai
Chair of the Biology Department will be in China Date: July 5 - 18
Visiting Cities: Beijing, Lanzhou and Xian.
If you are interested in meeting Dr. Tai in:
Beijing: contact Prof. Duan
Lanzhou: contact Dr. Haoli
Xian: contact LaTesha Warren
please make contact by July 3, 2006
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Nadja Spitzer
Title: "Identification and Functional Analysis of Crustacean Serotonin Receptors"
Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Time: 10AM
Room: 104 Classroom South
Advisors - Drs. Donald Edwards and Deb Baro
Convener of Defense - Dr. Anne Murphy
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Bonnie Stephens
Title: "Chemosensory Responses in Azospirillum brasilense"
Date: Monday, June 26, 2006
Time: 10:00AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Gladys Alexander
Convener of Defense - Dr. Eric Gilbert
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Special Seminar
Department of Biology
Dr. Chun of Seegene
Title: Better Sensitivity, Better Specificity in PCR."
Date: Wed June 28
Time: 2:30pm
Locaiton: 441 NSC
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Chunru Lin
Title: " Functional Role of DEAD Box p68 RNA Helicase in Gene Expression "
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Time: 2:00PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Zhi-Ren Liu
Convener of Defense - Dr. Yuan Liu
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Special Seminar
Georgia State University
Department of Biology
Dr. Daling Zhu
Harbin University School of Pharmacy
Title: "The molecular and ionic channel mechanisms for hypoxic pulmonary arterial constriction: Role of 15-HETE"
Date & Time: Thursday, June 15th, 2006 at 2pm
Room: 441 Natural Science Center
Hosted by: Dr. Chun Jiang
WELCOME! All faculty, staff and
students are cordially invited.
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Liuqing Yang
Title: " A Novel Function of Dead Box p68 RNA Helicase in Tumor Cell Proliferation and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) "
Date: Monday, June 12, 2006
Time: 2:30PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Zhi-Ren Liu
Convener of Defense - Dr. Julia Hilliard
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Biotechnology Symposium
Date: June 7-8th
Location: 200 General Classroom Bldg.
Symposium Website
Register Today
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SPECIAL SEMINAR
Georgia State University
Department of Biology
Dr. Mohammad R. Karim
AMERICAN WATER
Innovation & Technology Environmental Scientist
Title: Microbiological Quality of Drinking Water
Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Time: 2:30pm
Room: 441, Natural Science Center
Hosted by: Dr. Sidney Crow
WELCOME! All faculty, staff and students are cordially invited. Candidate for Applied Environmental Microbiology
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SPECIAL SEMINAR
Georgia State University
Department of Biology
Dr. Jorge Antonio Benitez
Morehouse School of Medicine
Title: 'Regulation of Extracellular Protease Expression in Vibrio Cholerae'
Date: Monday, April 24th, 2006
Time: 2PM
Room: 441, Natural Science Center
Hosted by: Dr. Sidney Crow
WELCOME! All faculty, staff and students are cordially invited. Candidate for Applied Environmental Microbiology
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SPECIAL SEMINAR
Georgia State University
Department of Biology
Dr. Bijoy K. Mohanty
University of Georgia - Genetics Department
Title: 'Polyadenylation Emerges as an Important
Factor in Prokaryotic Gene Regulation'
Date: Monday, April 10th, 2006
Time: 2PM
Room: 441, Natural Science Center
Hosted by: Dr. Sidney Crow
WELCOME! All faculty, staff and students are cordially invited.
Candidate for Applied Environmental Microbiology
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Kenneth Rogers
Title: "Immunoglobulins and Immunoglobulin FC Receptors in Nonhuman Primates Commonly Used in Biomedical Research"
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Time: 2PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Roberta Attanasio
Convener of Defense - Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Chen Niu
Title: "The role of autoinducer-2 in Escherichia coli biofilm formation and the discovery of a plant-derived quorum sensing inhibitor"
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Time: 10AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Eric Gilbert
Convener of Defense - Dr. Chung-Dar Lu
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Special Seminar
Kenny Fernandez
Dept. of Biological Sciences,
University of South Carolina
Title: "Metamorphosis of an olfactory system: hormonal regulation of growth and patterning in the antennal imaginal disc of the moth Manduca sexta"
Date: Friday Feb 3rd
Time: 11am
Location:441 NSC
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Joint Biology/Chemistry Seminar
Dr. Ronald Breaker
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Title: "Riboswitches: Natural Chemical Sensors made of RNA".
Date:1/26/06
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Room: 441NSC.
Dr. Breaker's research explores the structural and functional capabilities of natural and engineered nucleic acids, including Aptamers and Allosteric
Ribozymes, Riboswitches, Deoxyribozymes, and Ribozymes.
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Cha-Kyong Song
Title: " Social Status-Dependent Changes in Behavioral Responses and Neurogenesis in the Crayfish Procambarus clarkii "
Date: Friday, January 27, 2006
Time: 1PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Donald Edwards
Convener of Defense - Dr. Donald Edwards
(A draft copy of the dissertation is available in 422 Kell for your review)
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Sangeeta Ganguly
Title: " Enhanced Stabilization of Nitrile Hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. DAP 96253 and Rhodococcus hodochrous DAP 96622"
Date: Monday, November 28, 2005
Time: 9:30AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. George Pierce
Convener of Defense - Dr. Roberta Attanasio
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M.S. Thesis Defense Notice
Kerry E. Maxwell
Title: "Neurolipofuscin is a measure of age in the Carribean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus , in Florida"
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Time: 10AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Charles Derby
Convener of Presentation - Dr. Charles Derby
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The GSU Neurobiology and Behavior
Graduate Student Association presents:
Dr. Robert Sapolsky
The John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor
Biological Sciences, Stanford University
"Stress & Health: From Molecules to Societies"
When: Thursday, December 1, 2005
Time: Refreshments @ 3:30 PM, Talk @ 3:45 PM
Where: Aderhold Learning Center Room 005
Download Flyer
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Griselle Montanez
Title: "The role of the sia and siu ABC-type transporters in iron utilization virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes"
Date: Monday, November 21, 2005
Time: 10:30AM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum
Convener of Defense - Dr. Barbara Baumstark
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Michelle Foster
Title: "Central Nervous System Regulation of Fat Cell Lipid Mobilization: The Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System"
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Time: 1:00PM
Room: 441 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Timothy Bartness
Convener of Defense - Dr. Timothy Bartness
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Meet the Department of Biology Chair
Phang C. Tai, Chair of the Biology Department will be in China October 8-21, 2005 and will be visiting Beijing (10/9-10/12), Chengdu (10/15-10/18), and Suzhou (10/20 and 10/21). If you would like to meet Dr. Tai, please email LaTesha Warren at lwarren@gsu.edu to schedule a meeting. Interested applicants are to bring the following information: PhD discipline (brief statement of goals), transcripts and GRE and TOEFL scores.
Outline of Genetic Epidemiology of Skeletal System Aging in Apparently Healthy Human Population
Gregory Livshits
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology,
Sackler Faculty of Medicine,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Date: Thursday, April 14th, 2005
Time: 10:00 AM
Room: 441, Natural Science Center
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From Bench to Trench: The Role of Stress in Genetic Susceptibility to Allergens Implications for Environmental Policy, Law, and Practice
Guest Speaker:
Pedro X. Elsas, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Immunology
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
& Visiting Research Scholar, Harvard Medical School
Date: Thursday, April 14
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Room: 330 Urban Life Building
Reception to follow
Sponsored by:
Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Public Health, & College of Law's Center for the Comparative Study of
Metropolitan Growth
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Dissertation Defense Notice
Michael Black
Title: " Social interactions of Lythrypnus dalli and their effect on aggression, neuropeptides, steroid metabolism and sex-typical morphology"
Date: Monday, April 18, 2005
Time: 9:00AM
Room: 218 NSC
Advisor - Dr. Matthew Grober
Convener of Defense - Dr. Kyle Frantz
(A draft copy of the dissertation is available in 422 Kell for your review)
- Dr. Rosemary Knapp
Department of Zoology University of Oklahoma
Title: Steroid hormones and male parental care in fishes
Date: April 21,
Time:noon
Room: 441 NSC
hosted by the Neurobiology and Behavior graduate students. Contact Michael Black for more information.
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Atlanta Calcium Signaling Symposium
Date: April 23
Location: Indian Creek Lodge
For more information: http://chemistry.gsu.edu/faculty/Yang/program.htm
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Open House / Poster Day 2005
Poster Day | Photo Album
Feb 26th 2005
5th Floor NSC
Our Open House/Poster Day will be highlighted by platform and poster presentations featuring ongoing research in our Department.
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Neuro BGSA Coffee break
Come out of the lab and mingle with your fellow students and faculty.
Date: Friday, November 5th,
Time: 2:45p.m.
Location: 5th Floor NSC Lobby
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The Biology Department Poster Day and Open House
Poster Day | Photo Album
Saturday, Feb 21, 2004
Natural Science Center
50 Decatur St.
This is an opportunity to learn about the research conducted in the Biology department and to meet graduate students and faculty.
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2nd Georgia State Biotech Symposium, 2004
SECABC Conference | Photo Album
From Molecules to Neurons to Biocomputing
May 24-25, 2004
102 Library South
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