BIOLOGY BULLETIN
April 21, 2008
UPCOMING
EVENTS
Spring 2008 Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Seminar Series
Monday 4-5pm, in the Gold Auditorium, BioScience Center
Biol 696
Date: April 21, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Syphard
San Diego State University
Seminar Title: "Modeling interactions between humans,
fire, and vegetation in southern California"
THESIS DEFENSE
Wendy Kozlowski
"Pigment derived
phytoplankton composition along the western Antarctic
Peninsula"
DATE: Monday, April
21
TIME:
2:00 pm
LOCATION: North Life Sciences
101
Committee Members:
Douglas Deutschman (Chair), Biology
Charles Trees, Biology
Doug Stow, Geography
Maria Vernet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
GRADUATE
STUDENT SEMINAR
"Examining APP processing and amyloid-beta plaque
formation in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis"
Michael Virata
Zeller Lab
http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/faculty/zeller.html
Date: Wednesday,
April 23, 2008
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Place:
BioScience Center, Gold Auditorium
IPP Training this April
Most of you recall the safety training Bruce Wingerd presented
each Fall and Spring semester. Environmental Health and Safety has
taken over this safety training and has split the training into two
separate areas of regulatory interest. Cal OSHA Injury and Illness
Prevention Program and SD County HMD Hazardous Materials and Waste
Management. EH&S will be presenting the IIPP portion of the
training on the dates and times listed below in the
Gold Auditorium of
the BSC building.
All Biology employees are required to
attend the IIPP training. It is true that Work Study students
are employees and need to attend. It is also true that the graduate
students that are employees or interact in the biology labs need to
attend. For those undergraduate students that volunteer work in a
laboratory setting it is recommended. There will be a sign-in sheet at
the training that requires you to provide your red ID number. You
need go to only one of these presentations.
The IIPP training dates and times to choose from are:
April 21,
2008
9:00 AM to 12:00
PM
April 29,
2008
12:30 PM to 3:30
PM
Employees who work with hazardous materials and generate hazardous wastes
need to take an additional on-line course that covers the Hazardous
Materials and Waste Management. you will be able to access the
on-line training through Blackboard very soon. The course is
complete, but the administrative details surrounding tracking are being
ironed out. I will let you know the next step.
See you at the presentations.
Jim Zimmer
THESIS PROPOSAL
Roberto Alvarez
"Creation of a novel reporter
mouse"
DATE: Wednesday, April
23
TIME:
2:30 pm
LOCATION: North Life Sciences
101
Committee Members:
Mark Sussman (Chair), Biology
Christopher Glembotski, Biology
Michael Buono, Biology
SDSU Molecular
Biology Institute and SDSU Heart Institute
Invitrogen-MBI Seminar Series
Donald Wassenberg Memorial Lecture on
Genetic Disease Research
Jeffrey Robbins, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
“Progenitor cell populations: the birth of a cardiac
syndrome”
DATE: Thursday, April 24, 2008
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Gold Auditorium, BioScience Center
HOSTS: Dr. Sanford Bernstein and Dr. Mark Sussman
THESIS DEFENSE
Mary Jawlik
"The effects of land use on
Nutrient export from a lowland tropical wet forest in Costa
Rica"
DATE: Thursday, April
24
TIME:
10:00 am
LOCATION: Gold Auditorium, BioScience
Center
Committee Members:
Walt Oechel (Chair), Biology
David Lipson, Biology
Ed Beighley, Civil and Environmental Engineering
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SDSU Herbarium Joins the Consortium
The SDSU Herbarium
<
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/herb> joins the Consortium of California
Herbaria on 21 April 2008 (John Muir's birthday). Our herbarium has
over 17,000 specimens of plants, all of which are databased, and 89% of
which are from California. The California records will now be
accessible through The Jepson Interchange
<
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/interchange.html>, organized through
UC-Berkeley. The Interchange allows searches of records by
scientific name, herbarium, county, locality, collector, date of
collection, and accession number. All records are displayed, and
all records that are geo-referenced may be mapped in several different
formats. The Interchange has become an invaluable resource for
plant systematists and ecologists.
The SDSU Herbarium is located in LS 267 (Life Science South) and will be
open during the week of 21 April. Come by, have some refreshments,
and search on-line for your favorite plant!
-M.G. Simpson
ATTENTION
BIOLOGY FACULTY, STAFF, and STUDENTS
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE
13th Annual
Department Banquet
on Friday, May 16, 2008, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
at San Diego State University, Scripps Cottage
beginning with a complimentary cocktail reception, dinner,
and a program to honor department awardees, retirees, and guests!
Meal choices include the following:
Grilled Salmon with Lemon Dill Sauce
Chicken Marsala served with Mushrooms and Pearl Onions
Vegetarian Option: Roasted Stuffed Eggplant with Fresh Tomato
Coulis
Due to the expense of printing invitations,
you may not receive an individual invitation in the mail.
If you did not get an invitation in the mail but are interested in
attending, please contact Patricia Swinford at (619) 594-5504 or
swinford@sciences.sdsu.edu, or drop by LS 104 for an invitation.
Please RSVP by May 9, 2008. To help the department meet the
costs of this event, we are requesting a tax-deductible contribution of
$25 per person.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please send your BioBulletin items to Medora Bratlien at
bratlien@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
by Friday at 4:00
p.m.