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Week
Date
Speaker
Title
 Link
1
1/24
  No Speaker  All Bio871 students are required to attend the first week of class to obtain enrollment/course information.  
2
1/31

Alfred M. Spormann Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University
Molecular interactions of microbes in biofilms
Publications 
3
2/7
 Xianmin Zeng Assistant Professor
Buck Institute for Age Research
Dopaminergic differentation of human embryonic stem cells
Publications
4
2/14
 Dr. Greg Dewey Professor, Keck Graduate Institute
A Network Analysis of Gene Expression in Tumor Cell Lines
Publications
5
2/21
 Dr. Anne Todgham Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara
Field notes from a physiologist: Phenotypic plasticity in current & future oceans
6
2/28
 Dr. Kim Hoke Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Brain networks mediating reproductive decisions in túngara frogs
7
3/6

No Speaker
8
3/13

Dr. Mary Beth Mudgett Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

Mechanisms for altering eukaryotic signal transduction: How bacterial pathogens alter plant physiology during infection to promote disease

Publications
9
3/20
 Dr. Graciela A. Unguez
Professor, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University
Evolution of muscle and regeneration in electric fish
Publications
 
3/27
 Spring Break
10
4/3
 Dr. Benjamin D. Ortiz Associate Professor
Department of Biology, Hunter College 
The T-cell receptor alpha gene locus control region: Configuring chromatin and gene expression in a multi-gene locus
Publications
11
4/10
 Dr. Kaveh Ashrafi Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UCSF
Neural Regulation of Fat and Feeding
Publications
12
4/17
 Dr. Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani
TBA
13
4/24

Dr. Joanna Wysocka Assistant Professor, Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University

TBA
  Publications
14
5/1
 Dr. Beatriz Quiñones Research Molecular Biologist, USDA
TBA
  Publications
15
5/8
 TBA
TBA