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Graduate Defense:kovatch
Mon. Dec. 3, 10:30 am, 112 Lyman

Jeffrey Kovatch
(Hainsworth) will defend his doctoral dissertation "Resource allocation to growth and thermoregulation during early development in altricial nestlings."
Jeff is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, in Hungtington, WV


SPRING 2008 Online Registration ends Friday, Dec. 14 Spring 2008 Academic Calender


BIOLOGY FRIDAY SEMINARS
 Friday Biology Seminar Schedule
  • Dec. 5 Nipam Patel
  • Dec. 7 Erica Crespi
  • Dec. 14 Rob Doyle

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Biology Department
Holiday Party

Friday, December 14
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lyman Hall Lobby

College of Arts & Sciences Holiday Reception
Tues. Dec. 11, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
500 Hall of Languages


SU HOLIDAY CLOSINGS:
Christmas: Dec. 24 & 25
New Year's: Dec. 31 & Jan. 1

Winter Break Business Hours
Dec. 26, 27, and 28
9:30 am- 4:00 pm
The University returns to regular hours
on Wed. Jan. 2


cafe scientificNext Meeting:
7pm, Tues. Dec. 4, 2007

Ohm Lounge, 314 S. Franklin St.
Door Fee $5 (waived for studentsD

Topic: How Do We Predict Environmental Change When We Can't Predict Thursday's Weather?
Discussion Initiated by Prof. Brian Helenbrook
Dept. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University


 

IMPORTANT FACULTY REMINDERS .....

  1. Course Evaluations - Turn in course evaluations to Deb Herholtz no later than Monday, December 18th. Contact Deb for evaluation forms and indicate how many you need.

  2. Faculty CV Updates - CV Updates AND FULL CVs will be due soon!   Submit your completed form and updated FULL CV to “Q” before year's end!
    The link is:    http://casinternal.syr.edu/
    Thanks for your cooperation in helping to meet this important deadline!

AWARDS
Kari Segraves
and Dave Althoff received a grant from NSF to study "Direct and indirect effects of antagonists on mutualism" for $351,265.

Roy Welch, NSF Grant MCB-0746066: CAREER: Characterization of Transcriptional Activators that Regulate Emergent Behavior.

CONFERENCES
Suen, G
, Goldman, BS & RD Welch. Predicting Prokaryotic Ecological Niches using Genome Sequence Analysis. In: The 5th Ecological Genomics Symposium. November 9 ˆ 11, 2007, Kansas City, MO, USA.

PUBLICATIONS
Smith CI, Pellmyr O, Althoff DM, Balcázar-Lara M, Leebens-Mack J, and Segraves KA.  Pattern and timing of diversification in Yucca (Agavaceae): specialized pollination does not escalate rates of diversification. Accepted: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B.

The Calvi Lab contributed to the Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium (2007). Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature, 450:203-218.

Calvi, BR, Byrnes, BA, and Kolpakas, AJ (2007) Conservation of epigenetic regulation, ORC binding, and developmental timing of DNA replication origins in the genus Drosophila. Genetics, 177:1291-1301.

Schneiker, S, Perlova, O, Aysel, A, Altmeyer, MO, Bartels, D, Bekel, T, Beyer, S, Blocker, H, Bode, E, Bode, HB, Bolton, C, Choudhuri, JV, Doss, S, Elnakady, YA, Frank, B, Gaigalat, L, Gerth, K, Goesmann, A, Groeger, C, Gross, F, Jelsbak, L, Jelsbak, L, Kaiser, O, Kalinowsky, J, Kegler, C, Knauber, T, Konietzny, S, Kopp, M, Krause, L, Krug, D, Linke, B, Mahmud, T, Martinez-Arias, R, McHardy, AC, Merai, M, Meyer, F, Mormann, S, Munoz-Dorado, J, Rachid, S, Raddatz, G, Rosenau, F, Rückert, C, Sasse, F, Scharfe, M, Schuster, S, Suen, G, Treuner-Lange, A, Velicer, GJ, Vorhölter, F-J, Weismann, KJ., Welch, RD, Wenze, S, Whitworth, DE, Wilhelm, S, Wittmann, C, Pühler, A & R Müller. 2007. Complete Genome Sequence of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum. Nature Biotechnology 25(11): 1281-1289.


Additional Halloween photos, submitted by Brian Calvi. To see all photos visit our Photo Gallery
Calvi group    Craig
Calvi Lab Halloweeen 2007                                     Craig Albertson

Department of Biology * Newsletter Archives * Newsletter published by E. Lott, posted: 11/30/07