Bioforum (and Happy Hour) Fall 2007/Spring 2008 [Sponsored by the Washington University Biology Department Organizer: Bob Kranz, email kranz@biology.wustl.edu with questions or comments or if you are from the Biology Dept and want to present]

Time: Friday, 4:00 PM (Pizza and cold drinks will be available at ~ 3:50) Place: McDonnell 362 (Danforth campus)

Date	Speaker	Lab	Provisionary Title
September 7, 2007	Ashay Singh	Pakrasi	Formation of disulfide bonds in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms
September 21, 2007	Alexis Webb	Herzog	Identification of individual circadian pacemaker Neurons in the SCN
October 5, 2007	Liz Haswell	Haswell	Mechanosensitive Ion Channels: How Plants Resolve their Internal Tensions
October 19, 2007	PLANT RETREAT: NO Bioforum
November 2, 2007	Dr. Jill Harrison	Oxford University (UK)	Exploring the Origin of Leaves
November 16 , 2007	Jeremy Haag	Pikaard
November 30 , 2007	Cindy Richard-Fogal	Kranz	Cytochrome c synthesis: HTS and molecular mechanisms
December 14, 2007	Bob Kranz (moderator)		Discussion of dept equipment, methods etc.
SPRING semester
January 11, 2008	Mamiko Isaji	Miller	“Myosin VI: what does it do and how does it work?”
January 25, 2008	Jason Motl	Chalker	RNA interference and DNA elimination in T. thermophila: Together at last.
February 1, 2008	Miriam Rosenbaum Lars Angenent Bob Kranz	Kranz	Microbial fuel cells: photosynthetic, engineering, nanowires
February 22, 2008	Aaron Collins	Blankenship	“An introduction to circular dichroism and what it can do for your research”
February 29, 2008 Please note time change: 3:30-4:30	Pierre Francois Perroud	Quatrano	Actin nucleation complexes and their role in polar tip growth
March 7, 2008	Kate Huisinger	Elgin	“Can double-stranded hairpin RNAs target heterochromatin formation in flies”
March 21, 2008	TBD	Levin
April 11, 2008	Lori Wallrath U of Iowa	Elgin	“Life at the Edge of Drosophila Nuclear Envelope”
April 18, 2008	Sunjoo Joo	Goodenough	Molecular Mechanisms of Uniparental Inheritance in Chalmydomonas reinhardtii
May 2, 2008		TBD

Bioforum

Speakers: Please develop a ~45 minute talk for a general audience but with some data. [Outside guest speakers, I will set up things etc.] Departmental speakers: A practice talk beforehand is recommended. Speakers are typically introduced by their mentor. (Speakers are responsible for setting up the projector or whatever they need for the talk----a projector is present in McDonnell 361 and LS202. The lab of the speaker is responsible for throwing away garbage and cleanup, returning food cart to Wilson office---as payment, any leftover pizza and drinks are yours.

Duties for Bio office: 1) please make and post fliers, and send email to Bio dept, on the Monday before each talk (and on the Friday of talk). NOTE: Speakers are responsible for emailing Betty Daues title of talk at least the week before the bioforum: bdaues@biology2.wustl.edu

2) please order pizza and get together snacks and beer/soda with ice for ~ 3:50pm in McDonnell 361.