BIOLOGY DEPARTMENTAL NEWS |
BIOLOGY STUDENT NEWS:
The SCSU Biology Department would like to heartily congratulate undergraduate biology major Norbert Tavares for becoming the SCSU Curagen Scholar for 2006. Below is a picture of Norbert at a poster session during a summer research program at Univ. Wisconsin, Madison. In addition, Ahsan Shah also spent the 2005 summer doing physiology
research at Yale and is continuing that work during this spring 2006 semester.
BIOLOGY FACULTY NEWS:
The following faculty have recently been successful in obtaining grants for their pedagogy and research efforts:
Dr. Crawford (CSU grant, 2005-6; Experimental Anti-Cancer Agents: Preventive and Therapeutic Effects in Solid Tumors in Vitro)
Dr. Edgington (CSU grant, 2005-6; Investigation of Cyclin-dependent
Kinase Control of Cell Morphogenesis; LI-COR Genomics Education Matching Grant)
Dr. Grace (CSU grant, 2005-6; The Effects of Water Flow on the Attachment Strength of a Competitive Dominant on an Intertidal Boulder Rocky Shore; Sea Grant received from the Connecticut Sea Grant
Developmental Funding, SCSU Curriculum Grant 2005-6)
BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES FOR FALL 2005:
* All lectures will take place in Jennings Hall, room 127 |
SPEAKER |
DATE /TIME |
TOPIC |
Dr. Jason Williams,
Hofstra Univ., NY |
10/25/05 (2-3pm) |
The unwanted guests of hermits: A world-wide review of hermit crab parasites. |
Dr. Kenneth Oliveira,
U. Mass., Dartmouth, MA |
11/16/05 (1-2pm) |
A multi-level examination of life-history strategies of the American Eel. |
Dr. Deborah Eastman,
Connecticut College, CT |
12/05/05 (1-2pm) |
Regulation of the Enhancer of split genes during Drosophila development |
Dr. Diane Brousseau,
Fairfield Univ., CT |
12/07/05 (1-2pm) |
Asian Shore Crab: Ecology of an Invader |
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