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March 2005

Departmental and Program Seminar Calendar for March/April 2005

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
The Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology (MIP) sponsors a series of weekly faculty seminars. The seminars are held on Mondays, 4:10-5:10 p.m., in Room 103 of the Pathology Building. Coordinator for the series is Dr. Leonard Pearson. Committee members include Drs. James DeMartini and Dean Crick. For more information, and a complete schedule, go to www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mip/faculty_seminars.html

March 7 – Dr. Steve Dow, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, TBA.

March 21 – Dr. Peter Henson, Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pharmacology, National Jewish Medical Research Center, Denver, TBA.

March 28 – Dr. Christine Olver, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, presents “Blood Stage Malaria: A Mouse Model.”

April 4 – Dr. John Belisle, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, TBA.

Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
Flint Animal Cancer Center Seminars
All Animal Cancer Center Seminars are held on Mondays, 3-4 p.m., in Room 215 ACC, James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital. For a complete schedule, go to http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/erhs/whats_new/seminars/ACC_seminar_sched.htm

March 7 – Dr. Sandra Quackenbush, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, presents “Walleye Dermal Sarcoma Virus: A Model of Oncogenesis and Tumor Regression.”

March 21 – Dr. Doug Thamm, Department of Clinical Sciences, presents “Tumor-targeting Salmonella for Canine Cancer.”

March 28 – Dr. Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, TBA.

April 4 – Dr. Connie Cameron, ProtoMED Inc., presents “Hands-On Surgical Planning with CT Bone Models.”

Department of Biomedical Sciences
All Biomedical Sciences seminars are held on Mondays, 4:30 p.m., in Room W104 of the Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory, Foothills Campus.

 April 4 – Dr. D.N. Rao Veeramachaneni, Department of Biomedical Sciences, TBA.

 Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Degree Program Seminar Series
All seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:10 p.m. in Room 123 of the Molecular and Radiological Biosciences Building. For a complete schedule, go to http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CMB/seminar.htm

March 10 – Dr. Alice Sigurdson, National Cancer Institute, presents “Cancer and Genetic Susceptibility Within the U.S. Radiologic Technologist (USRT) Cohort: Preliminary Results and Ongoing Research.”

March 24 – Dr. Mary Weiser-Evans, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, presents “Perlican Sulfate and Smooth Muscle Cell Regulation in the Vascular Wall.”

March 31 – Dr. Justin Hanes, John Hopkins University, TBA.

April 7 – Dr. Christopher Rensing, University of Arizona, presents E coli Copper Homeostasis, Evolutionary and Structural Perspectives.”

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences Seminar Series
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are on Wednesdays, 4:10 p.m., in Room W1 Anatomy/Zoology Building. For a complete schedule, go to http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mcin/seminar/

March 9 – Dr. G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, presents “Learning at a Slug’s Pace: Oscillations and Waves in an Olfactory System.”

March 16 – Dr. Richard W. Tsien, Molecular and Cellular Physiology Department, Stanford University Medical Center, TBA.

March 23 – Dr. Andrew G. Herzog, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, TBA.

March 30 – Dr. Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Calcium Release Units in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles – Structure-Function Correlations and Phylogeny.

April 6 – Dr. Paul R. Selvic, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, TBA.