Biology Seminar Series

The Department of Biology at Hofstra University invites you to the Hofstra University Biology Seminar Series. The seminars are open to the public, and we encourage all members of the scientific community to attend, especially biology students.

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Department of Biology Seminar Schedule
Spring 2012

Seminars are held on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in 209 C.V. Starr Hall. Refreshments are available at 3:15. Dr. Roger Greenwell, Jr. (email) is the coordinator this semester

DATE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE
February 10	Dr. Matthew Lehnert* Clemson University	Tongue of the butterfly: an interdisciplinary approach to structure and function
February 17th	Dr. Laura Macesic* Mount Holyoke College	Walking stingrays and hand-standing frogs: Using unusual locomotor systems to probe musculoskeletal form and function
February 24th	Dr. Andrew Stoehr* Denison University	Butterfly Wing Pattern Variation: A Look from the Outside to the Inside
March 9th	Dr. Xantha Karp Columbia University	Maintenance of developmental potential and cell fate plasticity during quiescence
March 16th	Dr. David Cundall Lehigh University	Viper striking behavior: Approaches to doing science
March 23rd	Dr. Bethany Rader University of Connecticut	Characterization of the Cellular Immune Response of Euprymna scolopes to its Bacterial Symbiont Vibrio fischeri
April 20th	Dr. Marc Symons Feinstein Institute	Novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of malignant brain tumors (TriBeta Invited Speaker)
April 27th	Dr. Jennifer Adams Krumins Montclair State University	Embracing the Good: When negative interactions turn positive in soil

* = Faculty job candidate

Information for Speakers

We look forward to seeing you at Hofstra.

The audience will be masters and undergraduate biology students, biology faculty and occasionally faculty from other departments with ties to biology (like biochemists or paleontologists). The majority of the audience will not be familiar with your particular specialty. Usually the number of people is fairly small. Some of the students attend the seminars for credit and are required to turn in abstracts of the talk, so those students typically take many notes.

Seminars begin at 3:30 (refreshments at 3:15) and most speakers talk for about 45-50 minutes. There is also plenty of time for questions.