BIOLOGY BULLETIN
March 10, 2008
UPCOMING
EVENTS
Spring 2008 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar
Series
Monday 4-5pm, in the Gold Auditorium, BioScience Center
Biol 696
Date: March 10, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Steve Murray, CSU Fullerton
Seminar Title: "MPAs and changing rocky intertidal
populations and communities"
GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR
"Defining the role of thioredoxin-interacting
protein (Txnip)
in modulating plasma triglyceride levels"
Eric Ratliff
Davis Lab
(
http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/pub/davis/davis.html)
Date: Wednesday,
March 12, 2008
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Place:
BioScience Center, Gold Auditorium
SDSU Molecular Biology Institute
Invitrogen-MBI Seminar Series
Dr. Kim Finley
Professor
Salk Institute
“Macroautophagy in the mature nervous system: Aging
gracefully requires taking out the trash”
DATE: Thursday, March 13, 2008
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Gold Auditorium, BioScience Center
HOST: Dr. Greg Harris
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Professor Ian R. Booth
Chair in Microbiology
School of Medicine
Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
“Bacterial channels – a physiological and molecular
perspective”
DATE: Monday, March 10, 2008
TIME: 11:00 am
LOCATION: Gold Auditorium of the BioScience Center
Host: Anca Segall
asegall@sunstroke.sdsu.
edu
THESIS DEFENSE
Sarah Hamilton
"Expression of exogenous
proteins containing rare codons in E. coli up-regulates ribosomal
RNA"
DATE: Monday, March
10
TIME:
10:00 am
LOCATION:
CSL 508
Committee Members:
John Love (Chair), Chemistry
David Pullman, Chemistry
Forest Rohwer, Biology
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Please join us for another meeting of the
Ecology Journal
Club (EJC)
at
5:00 p.m. this Friday (March 14).
There will be two new exciting twists this week:
1) We will be meeting
ON
CAMPUS in Life Sciences
#101.
2) We will be discussing
Three
(short) Papers covering a
lively controversy on bycatch, conservation, and compensatory
mitigation:
Wilcox, Chris, and C. Josh Donlan. 2007. Compensatory
mitigation as a solution to fisheries bycatch-biodiversity conservation
conflicts. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
5(6): 325-331.
and
responses:
Doak, Daniel, Victoria
Bakker, Myra Finkelstein, Ben Sullivan, Rebecca Lewison, Bradford Keitt,
Jennifer Arnold, John Croxall, Fiorenza Micheli, and M. Sanjayan.
2007. Compensatory mitigation for marine bycatch will do harm,
not good. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5(7):
350-351.
Wilcox, Chris, and C. Josh
Donlan. 2007. Compensatory mitigation for marine bycatch
will do harm, not good – Reply. Frontiers in Ecology
Hope to see you
there!
Student
Research Symposium President's Awardees
During the first-ever Student
Research Symposium at San Diego State University, 11 students were
recognized with president's awards of $500 each.
These students will also go on to represent SDSU at the California State
University-wide Student Research Competition. While 10 awards were
supposed to be given, 11 were awarded as there was a tie for tenth
place.
Awardees included two of our Biology Department Ph.D.
Students:
- Natalie Gude,
graduate student, Biology Department, "Notch Signaling in Adult
Mouse
Myocardium."
- Michael Virata,
graduate student, Biology Department, "Ascidians as a Novel
Invertebrate Chordate Model for Alzheimer’s Disease."
Congratulations !
Research Ethics
Seminar
Wednesday, March 12, 12-1 pm
All sessions will take place in the Alan and Debbie
Gold Auditorium in the BioSciences Center.
The upcoming March presentation concerns
authorship:
Two Sides of the Coin: Credit
and Responsibility in Authorship
What does it mean to be an author
on a paper? What does credit mean? Who gets to be an author? And what are
the responsibilities of authorship?
The panelists for this presentation will each present a case involving an
issue of authorship. The audience will then break into small groups to
talk further about the issues brought up in the cases. For the conclusion
of the presentation, the panelists will reconvene to address what the
audience identified as the most pertinent issues.
We look forward to
seeing you there!
Please note that Medora will now be doing
the BioBulletin. Please send your items to her directly at
bratlien@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
by Friday at 4:00
p.m.