Seminar Schedule for Spring 2006

Seminars are conducted at POST 127 unless otherwise stated.

Date Presenter, Topic Affiliation

January 13th

Dr. Francoise M Robert - Introduction and Organizational Meeting

Department of Microbiology, UHM

January 20th

Dr. Michael John Melzer (Junior Researcher) - "Closteroviridae: The Rattlesnakes of the Virus World"

Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences, UHM

January 27th

Dr. Diego Barrettino (Assistant Professor) - "CMOS-Based Microsystems for Life Science Applications"

Department of Electrical Engineering, UHM

February 3rd

Dr. DeWolfe Miller (Professor) - "Diseases of Egyptian Mummies"

Department of Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology, UHM

February 10th

No seminar

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February 17th

Hiroshi Yamaura - "Regulation of Differentiation and Patterning in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120"

Department of Microbiology, UHM

February 24th

Dr. Andrew Boal (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) - "Protein Structural Adaptations to Extreme Environments"

Institute for Astronomy, UHM

March 3rd

Dr. Peter Dunfield (Senior Microbiologist) - "Methane Metabolism in Extreme Environments"

Extremophile Research Group, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences

March 10th

Leena Mahdi (Graduate Student) - "A Survey of Hawaiian Marine Fungi and Yeast"

Department of Microbiology, UHM

March 17th

Jenny Saito (Graduate Student - "Aerotactic Signaling Mechanism of HemAT-Hs and HemAT-Bs"

Department of Microbiology, UHM

March 24th

Prerna Prasad (Graduate Student) - "Regulation and Function of Secretogranin III"

Department of Microbiology, UHM

April 7th

Alex Shibata (Graduate Student) - "Impact of Plant Roots and Contaminant on the Diversity & Activity of Petroleum-Hydrocarbon Degrading Bacteria in a Tropical Soil"
Asha Sivasankaran Nayar (Graduate Student) - "Genes involved in the Diazotrophic Growth of Anabaena PCC 7120"

Department of Microbiology, UHM

April 21st

No Seminar

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April 28th

Dr. Yong Li (Assistant Professor) - "Application of Microbiological Techniques in Food Research"

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, UHM