Harvey Mudd College Biology Colloquium Spring 2015 Colloquium starts at 4:15 pm on Wednesdays* in Big Beckman Auditorium. (* except where noted) (Beckman Auditorium is Beckman 126, in the basement below the central stairway in the Olin Building) Monday, January 26: Dr. Matthew Mattozzi (HMC '02) Harvard University Title: "Improving growth with a hacked photosynthesis" Time and location: 4:00 pm in Room B480 (Drinkward Recital Hall), Shanahan Teaching and Learning Building February 4: Dr. Jae Hur Harvey Mudd College Title: "Prevention and Cure in the Context of Aging" February 11: seminar canceled February 17 Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellman CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Title: "Leadership, innovation and impact" ***Annenberg Lecture Series, 6 pm, Platt Green Room February 18 Dr. Anil Rana Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology UCLA Title: "Modulating Mitochondrial Dynamics: An Anti-Aging Intervention" February 25 March 4 Dr. Sara Wasserman Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology UCLA Title: "Multi-modal sensory integration underlying decision-making in flying Drosophila" March 11 Prof. Behzad Varamini Department of Biological Sciences Biola University Title: TBA March 25 Dr. Andrea Quattrini USGS, Southeast Ecological Science Center Title: TBA April 1: Dr. Raul Diaz La Sierra University Title: TBA (evolution of chameleon hands & feet) April 8 Dr. Douglas Fudge University of Guelph Title: Hagfish Slime Unraveled April 15 April 22 Prof. Diane M. Thomson Keck Joint Science Department Title: TBA April 29: Prof. Lars Schmitz Keck Science Department Title: TBA Fall 2014 Colloquium starts at 4:15 pm on Wednesdays in Big Beckman Auditorium. Four of the talks are marked with asterisks are part of the Nelson series (and are thus at non-standard times and places).
Senior thesis intro
September 10
Department Mixer - Hixon Court
September 17
All About Graduate School
September 24
Dr. Michael Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Title: "An overview of KAUST’s Reef Ecology projects: movement ecology, larval dispersal, population genetics, and cataloguing biodiversity in the Red Sea"
October 1 Dr. Daniel Pondella
October 8 Suzanne Kern Keck Science Department Title: "Pathogens, antibiotics, and redox cycling: a tale of anaerobic survival"
*October 9 (Thursday evening, 7 pm) Adam Arkin Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley;Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Title: “Knowledge, Context and Process: Engineering cells for use in an uncertain world” Shanahan 1430 *October 15 (Wednesday evening, 7 pm) Frances Arnold Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, Caltech Title: “Innovation by Evolution: Engineering Tiny Life” Shanahan 1430
October 22 Senior Thesis Proposal Presentations: Musa Kiyani
October 29 Senior Thesis Proposal Presentations: Elsie Gibson
*November 4 (Tuesday evening, 7 pm) Kristala L.J. Prather Theodore T. Miller Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT Shanahan 1430 November 5 Senior Thesis Proposal Presentations: Taylor Hanley *November 11 (Tuesday evening, 7 pm) Sarah Reisinger ’99 Senior Director, Research & Development, Amyris Shanahan 1430
November 12 No Colloquium
November 19 Dr. Jamil Momand Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry California State University, Los Angeles
"Cancer Biology: How cells become cancerous and evade chemotherapy" November 26
No Colloquium- Thanksgiving
December 3 Dr. Samantha Butler Department of Neurobiology, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research University of California, Los Angeles "Using developmental mechanisms to accelerate axon regeneration" December 10 Dr. Noa Pinter-Wollman BioCircuits Institute University of California, San Diego "Individual variation in collective behavior"
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