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2007-2008 SEMINARS
Seminars begin at 12:30 p.m. and will take place in McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220 (unless otherwise noted).
B.Y.O. Lunch (unless otherwise noted)
2/12/2008 (Tuesday)
12:30pm (lunch provided at 12:15pm)
MBH 216
Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick
Director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Professor, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Birds Can Save the World... And You Can Help Them Do It!
Since 1995 Dr. Fitzpatrick has been Director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. His long-term research on ecology, social behavior, and conservation of the endangered Florida Scrub‑Jay continues through the present. Fitzpatrick has led numerous scientific expeditions to remote areas of South America, and has published extensively on tropical American birds, including original descriptions of 7 new bird species he discovered, a book (Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation), and most recently, volume 9 of the Handbook of Birds of the World. Throughout his career he has been engaged in applying science to real‑world conservation issues.
Sponsored by the Biology Class of '88 Lecture Fund
Feb. 27 (Wednesday), 2008
12:30pm, MBH 216
(lunch available at 12:15pm )
JP Myers
CEO/Chief Scientist, Environmental Health Sciences
Co-author of "Our Stolen Future"
"A revolution in the environmental health sciences: New opportunities to advance public health and lower the cost of health care"
Pete Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on links between the environment and human health. Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the UC Berkeley, and his research focuses on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote “Our Stolen Future.”
Sponsored by the Department of Biology, the Department of Chemistry, and the Program in Environmental Studies
Feb. 29, 2008
12:30pm, MBH 220
(lunch available at 12:15pm)
Dr. Ralph Budd
Director of the Immunobiology program and
Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont Medical School.
"Molecular Immunology of Lyme Arthritis "
Dr. Ralph Budd is the Director of the Immunobiology program and Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont Medical School. His lab studies the function of the Death Receptor Fas and it’s inhibitor cFLIP in murine models of autoimmunity and in Lyme’s disease. Fas receptor is an important signaling molecule in programmed cell death in T lymphocytes. cFLIP is a natural inhibitor of Fas directed cell death. Dr. Budd will speak about their work studying the immune reaction to Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative bacterium of Lyme’s disease.
March 10, 2008 (Monday)
4:30pm, MBH 216
Middlebury College Faculty Research Symposium on Climate Change
Presenters: Trombulak, Lloyd, Landis, Manley, Munro, Wolfson, Isham
April 16, 2008 (Wednesday)
12:30pm, MBH 303
(lunch available at 12:15pm -
space is limited)
Dr. Cedric Wesley
Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UVM
(Candidate for Developmental Biology course, Fall 2008)
"An Introduction to Animal Development"
April 25, 2008
12:30pm, MBH 220
(lunch available at 12:15pm)
Dr. Catherine Racowsky
Center for Reproductive Medicine,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard "Challenges facing the human in vitro fertilization lab in 2008"
Late April - Early May: SPRING THESIS PRESENTATIONS