HUGHES PROGRAM IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Summer '11 Seminar Series

All seminars held at noon ~ 107 Shanklin* ~ Refreshments provided

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

8 June

Chandran R. Sabanayagam

Department of Physics

Delaware State University

Viral DNA packaging machineries: The most efficient, most powerful and smallest motors on Earth

Ishita Mukerji

15 June

Jonathan Woodruff Geosciences

UMass Amherst

Tidal Controls on Sediment Storage in the Lower Connecticut River

Suzanne OConnell

22 June

 

B. Jayaram

Supercomputer Center for Computational Biology

IIT-Delhi

The newest view on protein folding

David Beveridge

24 June

FRIDAY

Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
Molecular Biophysics Unit
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Analysis of allostery and free energy based on graph theory and protein structure networks

David Beveridge

 

27 June

MONDAY

Richard Long, Biological Sciences Department, University of South Carolina

Life and Death of Marine Bacteria

Sarah Kopac

29 June

Jennie Pyers
Psychology Department
Wellesley College

What the study of sign languages can tell us about the relationship between spatial language and spatial cognition

Anna Shusterman

6 July

9 am - 1 pm Symposium *Woodhead

Liz Lerman, Elizabeth Johnson, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

Science Choreography

Laura Grabel

Michael Weir

13 July

Stormy Chamberlain
Biology, Neuroscience and Behavior
UCONN Health Center

TBA

Janice Naegele

20 July

Caroline Dealy

Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development

UCONN Health Center

Genetic and Cellular Strategies in Cartilage Disease

Laura Grabel

29 July FRIDAY *150 Exley

Suzanne O'Connell
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wesleyan University

Earth Processes and Climate History: A Sedimentary Story

Michael Weir