UAA hosts an active program for biology seminars. Please contact Elizabeth Winfree for additional information. Seminar Calendar

All seminars are held on Friday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 118. Our seminar series is free and open to the public. Parking is complementary on UAA’s campus on Fridays. The Social Sciences Building is located north of Providence Hospital between UAA’s Parking Garage and the UAA/APU Consortium Library.

Date

Speaker

Title

Faculty and Graduate Student Hosts

8/29/08

Dr. Jerry Kudenov

Welcome to Academic Year 2008-2009 (TA orientation, etc.)

Jerry Kudenov

9/4/08

Dr. Cathy Wilson, Director of National Energy Laboratory, Los Alamos, LIBR 307  Thursday, Sept 4, 1:00-2:30 pm

"Water, Energy and Society: addressing challenges at the climate-energy-water nexus"

Andy Kliskey / Paula Williams

9/5/08

Mary Ann Osley, Ph.D.  Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center

"Dynamic chromatin and transcription"

Jocelyn Krebs / Shannon Uffenbeck

9/12/08

Pending

TBA

Dave Pfeiffer/Keiko Kishaba

9/19/08

Don Spalinger

"Seasonal constraints of nutrition in moose"

Don Spalinger/ Keri Lestyk

9/26/08

Lina Taneva, IPY Postdoc, ENRI

"Carbon Cycling"

Jeff Welker/  Matt Rogers

10/3/08

Brian Cohn, UAA Stable Isotope Lab

"Salmon Reconstruction: An Isotope Study"

Jeff Welker/ Buck Furin

10/10/08

WWAMI Science in Medicine lecture -- Guest Speaker: Dr. Robert M. Klein, University of Kansas School of Medicine

"Estrogen Receptors and Trigeminal Pain"

Quentin Reuer / Joel Gottschalk

10/17/08

WWAMI Science in Medicine lecture -- Guest Speaker: Gustavo Blanco, M.D., Ph.D. University of Kansas Medical Center

"The Sodium Pump and its Isozymes"

Dennis Valenzeno / Tony Carnahan

10/24/08

Dr. Miki Ii, UAA Biology

"Identification of RNase H2-interacting proteins in yeast"

Miki Ii /    Stormy Haught

10/31/08

Dr Carol Ann Woody* and Associates, Fisheries Research and Consulting

"Pebble Project"

Sarah Gerken / Kelly Walton

11/7/08

Karston Hueffer, UAF INBRE

"Tularemia"

Cindy Knall / Jacob Templin

11/14/08

Erik Beever, USGS

"Pikas"

Don Spalinger / Veronica Padula

11/21/08

Dr. Frank von Hippel, UAA Biology

"Scuds, FUDS and Crud: Stickleback Ecotoxicology"   

Frank von Hippel / Elvin Brown

11/28/08

Thanksgiving Holiday

No seminar will be held.

Thanksgiving Holiday

12/5/08

Scott Hatch, USGS

"Satellite (PTT) and GPS tracking of seasonal movements by Alaska seabirds"

Martha Hatch / Theresa Rzecycki

Spring schedule TBA