BIOLOGY BULLETIN
October 26, 2009

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Fall 2009 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series

Monday 4-5pm, in the BioScience Center, Gold Auditorium

Biol 696

DATE:  October 26, 2009

SPEAKER:  Dr. Irma Olguin, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste, S.C., MX

SEMINAR TITLE: "Natural and anthropogenic pressures on coastal ecosystems of the Baja California peninsula"

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GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR

Jenna Tabor-Godwin

Feuer Lab

http://rafeuer.googlepages.com/

“The Role of Autophagy during Coxsackievirus Infection in Neural Stem Cells”

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Travis Cottage

Sussman Lab

http://heart.sdsu.edu/~website/sussman.shtml

“Cardiac Progenitor Cell Cycling Stimulated by Pim-1 Kinase”


DATE: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Time: 3:15 p.m.

LOCATION: BioScience Center, Gold Auditorium

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SDSU Molecular Biology Institute
Fall 2009 - MBI Seminar Series

Mahtab Jafari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Director
Pharmaceutical Sciences Undergraduate Program

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

UC, Irvine


"Rhodiola rosea and Lifespan Extension"


DATE:  Thursday, October 29, 2009

TIME:  3:30 p.m.

LOCATION: BioScience Center, Gold Auditorium

HOST:  Kim Finley

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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MASTER’S THESIS PROPOSAL

Heather M. Elledge

"Expression and Purification of the Tip-link Components of Hair Cell Stereocilia of the Inner Ear"

DATE:  Tuesday, October 27, 2009

TIME:  1:00 pm

LOCATION: BioScience Center, Gold Auditorium

Committee Members:

Ralph Feuer (Chair), Biology
Ulrich Mueller (Co-Chair – Adjunct), TSRI (The Scripps Research Institute)
Robert Zeller, Biology

Ron Jacobs, Administration, Rehabilitation, & Postsecondary Education

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Howard M. Rootenberg will present "Darwin in the Market" on Thursday, October 29th at 4pm in LL430 (Leon Williams Room).  Mr. Rootenberg's talk will be an entertaining look at book collecting using Darwin, his books, and books about him and evolution as an example of collecting.

Howard M. Rootenberg is president of B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts in Sherman Oaks, California, a business started by his mother Barbara over forty years ago. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Howard attended U.C. Santa Cruz and law school at Loyola University.  He then practiced entertainment law for 15 years. But his love and reverence for books and research changed the course of his life and for the last 20 years he has been actively producing catalogues, writing articles, appraising rare book collections, and lecturing on the history of science and medicine. Mr. Rootenberg is a member of the  Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Grolier Club. Howard is married to singer Joan Ryan and has 3 daughters.

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Please send your BioBulletin items to Medora Bratlien at bratlien@sunstroke.sdsu.edu by Friday at 4:00 p.m.

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