January 15
January 22
January 29 Andy Christie, PhD, Investigator/Director, Imaging Core, Center for Marine Functional Genomics, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
"Identification of crustacean neuropeptides using transcriptomics and mass spectrometry"
February 5
February 12
February 19 Randy Dahn, PhD, Investigator,
MDI Biological Laboratory
"Comparative genomics of limb regeneration: basal vertebrates give a hand"
February 26-
March 5 SPRING BREAK
March 12 Jason Berman, MD FRCPC FAAP, MSC Clinician Scientist in Pediatric Oncology, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
" Zebrafish mast cells - structure, function and development: Implications for studying allergic, inflammatory and malignant diseases"
March 19 Anja Forche, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, "Loss of heterozygosity: a versatile tool to study genome dynamics in Candida albicans"
March 26 Bob Braun, PhD, Associate Director and Chair of Research The Jackson Laboratory
"Separate stem cell compartments support steady-state and regenerative spermatogenesis"
April 2
April 9
April 16 Dr Ron Mellgren, University of Toledo School of Medicine
April 19 Special Joint Seminar with SMS Arthur Grossman
April 30
