Biology Seminar TBA
WHERE: Room 116 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building
WHO: Randall S. Prather, Ph.D., University of Missouri
WHEN: Thursday, March 29, 4:00p.m.
Host: Edmund Rucker
WHAT: “Spinal Cord Injury: Molecular Responses Conserved from Lamprey to Human.”
WHO: Ona Bloom, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator, Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
WHERE: Room 116 THM
WHEN: Thursday March 22, 4:00p.m.
Host: Jeremiah Smith
WHAT:"Roles of Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Higher Education"
WHO: Michael T. Stevens, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology Utah Valley University
WHERE:Venue: Room 116 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building
Host: Melody Danley
WHAT:Biology Seminar: "Understanding the Relationship Between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee”
WHO: Gene Robinson, Ph.D. Interim Director, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
WHEN: 4:00 P.M. March 1, 2012
WHERE:116 T. H. Morgan Building, University of Kentucky Department of Biology
Sponsored by:
Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
Host: BGSA
*Refreshments served at 3:45
The annual Darwin Lecture Series will feature Eugenie C. Scott, who will present a lecture titled "Darwin: Demon or Revolutionary?" Presented by the Kentucky Section of the American Institute for Professional Geologists, the lecture will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall.
Biology senior Taylor Lloyd, of Union, Ky., has been named one of this year's 26 Astronaut Scholars and has received a $10,000 scholarship she will put toward her studies. While at UK, the agricultural biotechnology and biology senior has been active in research related to the germination of seeds.
What is Ann Morris' secret weapon in studying the genetic disorders that disrupt the human eye? A small, freshwater vertebrate called the zebrafish. Its innate ability to regenerate tissues within its retina following injury makes it a valuable tool for understanding the ocular disease that compromise the vision of thousands of people each year.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Catherine Linnen is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and researches how biodiversity arises. She is particularly interested in how organisms adapt to changing conditions and how that adaptation can lead to the formation of entirely new species. Currently she is working on two projects addressing this interest: one looking at changes in coat color among deer mice in Nebraska and the other looking at the relationship of host shifts to the formation of new species among pestilent insects to various pine tree species.
