IMEG

Institute of Molecular
Evolutionary Genetics

 
 
 
          
 

IMEG SEMINAR SPEAKERS

Previous IMEG Speakers:

Fall 2009

Spring 2009

Fall 2008 Spring 2008

Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006

Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005

Fall 2004
Spring 2004

Fall 2003

Spring 2003
Fall 2002

Spring 2002

Fall 2001
Spring 2001

Fall 2000

 

Fall 2009

Speaker

 

09/09/09

 

 

09/16/09

Dr. David Rand - Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology -

Brown University

 

09/23/09

 

 

09/30/09

 

 

10/07/09

 

 

10/14/09

 

 

10/21/09

 

 

10/28/09

 

 

11/04/09

 

 

11/11/09

 

 

11/18/09

 

 

11/25/09

NO IMEG SEMINAR - HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

12/02/09

 

 

12/09/09

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2009

Speaker

 

01/14/09

Dr. Mike Axtell - Department of Biology

 

01/21/09

Nick Polato - Department of Biology

 

01/28/09

Dr. Hong Ma - Department of Biology

 

02/04/09

Samir Wadhawan - Dept of Biochem, Microbiol & Mol Biol - CANCELLED

 

02/11/09

Dr. Abdelali Barakat - Department of School of Resources

 

02/18/09

Dr. Greg Wray - Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology - Duke University

 

02/25/09

Dr. David Geiser - Department of Plant Pathology

 

03/04/09

Dr. Ross Hardison - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

 

03/11/09

NO IMEG SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

 

03/18/09

Dr. Webb Miller - Department of Biology

 

03/25/09

Xin Ye - Department of Genetics

 

04/01/09

Dr. Eddie Holmes - Department of Biology

 

04/08/09

Sayaka Miura - Department of Biology

 

04/15/09

Yogeshwar Kelkar - Department of Integrative Sciences

 

04/22/09

Dr. Ken Weiss - Department of Anthropology

 

04/29/09

Dr. Anton Nekruntenko - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

 

 

 

 

Fall 2008

Speaker

 

09/03/08

Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai - Department of Biology

 

09/10/08

Dr. Norm Wickett - Department of Biology

 

09/17/08

Chungoo Park - Department of Biology

 

09/24/08

Dr. Masafumi Nozawa - Department of Biology

 

10/01/08

Erika Kvikstad - Department of Biology

 

10/07/08

Marker Lecture Dr. W. Ford Doolittle - Biochem & Mole Biol Dalhousie University

 

10/15/08

Dr. James Marden - Department of Biology

 

10/22/08

Dr. Sabyasachi Das - Department of Biology

 

10/29/08

Dr. Kazuhiko Kawasaki - Department of Anthropology

 

11/05/08

Dr. Nipam Patel - Department of Integrative Biology, University of CA, Berkeley

 

11/12/08

Dr. Eric Harvill - Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Science

 

11/19/08

Matthew Heinicke - Department of Biology

 

11/26/08

NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

12/03/08

Dr. Blair Hedges - Department of Biology

 

12/10/08

Chih-Hao Hsu - Department of Computer Science and Engineering - CANCELLLED

 

 

 

 

Spring 2008

Speaker

 

  01/16/08

Dr. Iliana Baums - Department of Biology

 

  01/23/08

Xiaofan Zhou - Department of Integrative Biosciences

 

  01/30/08

Dr. Hiroki Goto - Department of Biology

 

  02/06/08

Jill Duatre - Department of Biology

 

  02/13/08

Dr. Beth Shapiro - Department of Biology

 

  02/20/08

Dr. Steve Schaeffer - Department of Biology

 

  02/26/08

Dr. George Zhang - University of Michigan

Biology Department Seminar

4 PM Berg Auditorium

 

  02/27/08

Dr. George Zhang - University of Michigan

 

  03/05/08

Solny Adalsteinsson -  Department of Biology

 

  03/12/08

SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

 

  03/19/08

Melissa Wilson - Department of Biology

 

  03/26/08

Yan Zhang - Department of Biology

 

  04/02/08

Dr. Hiroshi Akashi - Department of Biology

 

  04/09/08

Dr. Masafumi Nozawa - Department of Biology

 

  04/16/08

Dr. Webb Miller - Department of Biology - CANCELLED

 

  04/23/08

Dr. John Carlson - School of Forrest Resources

 

  04/30/08

Dr. Benjamin Dickins - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

 

 

 

 

Fall 2007

Speaker

 

  09/05/07

Dr. Ross Hardison - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

 

  09/12/07

Dr. Masafumi Nozawa - Department of Biology

 

  09/19/07

Dr. Sabyasachi Das - Department of Biology

 

  09/26/07

Eleca Dunham - Department of Biology

 

  10/03/07

Zhenguo Lin - Department of Biology

 

  10/10/07

Fabia Battistuzzi - Department of Biology

 

  10/17/07

MARKER LECTURE Dr. Sean Carroll - University of Wisconsin

 

  10/24/07

Dr. Claude dePamphilis - Department of Biology

 

  10/31/07

Dr. Daniel Cosgrove - Department of Biology

 

  11/07/07

Dr. Chris House - Department of Geoscience

 

  11/14/07

Yogeshwar Kelkar - Department of Biology

 

  11/21/07

NO SEMINAR-THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

  11/28/07

Dimitra Chalkia - Department of Biology

 

  12/05/07

Dr. Sarah Melissa Witiak  - Department of Plant Pathology

 

  12/12/07

Rubing Chen - Department of Biology

 

 

 

 

Spring 2007

Speaker

 

  01/17/07

Dr. Eddie Holmes- Department of Biology

 

  01/24/07

Dr. Izabela Makalowska- Department of Life Sciences

 

  01/31/07

Dr. Wen-Ya Ko- Department of Biology

 

  02/07/07

Dr. Nikolas Nikolaidis- Department of Biology

 

  02/14/07

Fabia Battistuzzi- Department of Biology

 

  02/21/07

Dr. Hong Ma- Department of Biology

 

  02/28/07

Richard Meisel- Department of Biology

 

  03/07/07

Erika Kvikstad- Department of Biology

 

  03/21/07

Dr. Anton Nekrutenko- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

  03/28/07

Dr. Hiroshi Akashi- Department of Biology

 

  04/04/07

Dr. Saby Das- Department of Biology

 

  04/11/07

Valer Gotea- Department of Biology

 

  04/18/07

Song Li- Department of Biology

 

  04/25/07

Jill Duarte- Department of Biology

 

  05/02/07

Dimitra Chalkia- Department of Biology

 

 

 

 

Fall 2006

Speaker

 

  09/06/06

Dr. Dr. Stephen W. Schaeffer- Department of Biology

 

  09/13/06

Dr. Dr. Mark Shriver- Department of Anthropology

 

  09/20/06

Dr. Jamie Blair- Plant Pathology ~ CANCELLED

 

  09/27/06

Dr. Helen Piontkivska- Department of Biology -Kent State University

 

  10/04/06

Dr. Cooduvalli Shashikant - Dept of Dairy & Animal Science

 

  10/11/06

Kazuhik Kawasaki Dept of Biology

 

  10/18/06

Dr. Paula McSteen - Department of Biology

 

  10/25/06

Kerr Wall - Department of Biology

 

  11/01/06

Dr. Veronica Hinman- Department of Biology, Carnegie Mellon University

 

  11/08/06

Dr. Masafumi Nozawa - Department of Biology

 

  11/15/06

NO SEMINAR~ Dan Hartl - Marker Lecture

 

  11/29/06

Erika Kvikstad - Department of Biology

 

  12/06/06

Dimitria Chalkia - Department of Biology -Cancelled

 

 

Spring 2006

Speaker

 

  01/18/06

Dr. David Geiser- Department of Plant Pathology

 

  01/25/06

Dr. Christopher House - Department of Geosciences

 

  02/01/06

Dr. Kenneth Weiss -Department of Anthropology and Genetics

 

  02/08/06

Dr. Wojciech Makalowski -Department of Biology

 

  02/15/06

Dr. Webb Miller -Department of Computer Science.

 

  02/22/06

Dr.  Kai Meuller -Department of Biology

 

  03/01/06

Dr. Kateryna Makova -Department of Biology

 

  03/15/06

Matt Heinicke -Department of Biology

 

  03/22/06

Dr. Claude dePamphilis -Department of Biology

 

  03/29/06

Dr. Anton Nekrutenko -Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

  04/05/06

Xin Ye -Department of Biology

 

  04/12/06

Marc Bouchet -Department of Biology - Cancelled

 

  04/19/06

Jill Daurte -Department of Biology

 

  04/26/06

Chungoo Park -Department of Biology

 

  

 

 

 Fall 2005

Speaker

 

09/07/05

Dr. Horoshi Akashi - Department of Biology

   09/14/05

Dr. Will Provine - Cornell University

   09/21/05

Dr. Yoshihito Niimura - Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

   09/28/05

Li Hao - Department of Biology

   10/05/05

Dr. Eddie Holmes - Department of Biology

   10/12/05

Wen-Ya Ko - Department of Biology

   10/19/05

Chiao-Feng Lin - Department of Biology Cancelled

   10/26/05

Wen-Yu Chung - Department of Computer Science and Engineering

   11/02/05

Chiao-Feng Lin  - Department of Biology

   11/09/05

Zhenguo Lin - Department of Biology

   11/16/05

Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai - Department of Biology

   11/30/05

Dr. Teh-hui Kao - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

   12/07/05

Fabia Battistuzzi - Department of Biology

   12/14/05

Dimitra Chalkia - Department of Biology

 

 

 

Spring 2005

Speaker

 

   01/12/05

Dr. Stephen Schaeffer - Department of Biology

 

   01/19/05

Dr. Cooduvalli Shashikant - Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology

 

   01/26/05

Dr. Reka Albert - Department of Physics

 

   02/02/05

Dr. Ross Hardison - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

   02/09/05

Dr. Chris House - Department of Geosciences

 

   02/16/05

Dr. Valeria Souza - National Autonomous University of Mexico

 

   02/23/05

Dr. Alexander Bolshoy - Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa and School of Informatics, Indiana University

 

   03/02/05

Dr. Eric Harvill - Department of Veterinary Science

 

   03/16/05

Dr. Webb Miller - Department of Biology

 

   03/23/05

Dr. Kateryna Makova - Department of Biology

 

   03/30/05

Dr. Anton Nekrutenko - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

   04/06/05

Valer Gotea - Department of Biology

 

   04/13/05

Dr. Laura Zahn - Department of Biology

 

   04/20/05

Jaime Blair - Department of Biology

 

   04/27/05

Wei Hu - Department of Biology

 

 Fall 2004

Speaker

 

 
   09/08/04


Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai - Department of Biology

   09/15/04

Dr. Jan Klein - Department of Biology

   09/22/04

Liying Cui - Department of Biology

   09/29/04

Dr. Hongzhi Kong - Department of Biology

   10/06/04

Richard Meisel - Department of Biology

   10/13/04

Dietmar Schwarz - Department of Biology

   10/20/04

Dr. Claude dePamphilis - Department of Biology

   10/27/04

Jongmin Nam - Department of Biology

   11/03/04

Indrani Halder - Department of Biology

   11/10/04

Dr. Kazuhiko Kawasaki - Department of Anthropology

   11/17/04

Dimitra Chalkia - Department of Biology

   11/24/04

NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

   12/01/04

Dr. Nikolas Nikolaidis - Department of Biology

   12/08/04

Jill Ricker - Department of Biology

 

Spring 2004

Speaker

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   01/14/04

 
Dr. Arthur Lesk - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

   01/21/04

Dr. Steven Schaeffer - Department of Biology

   01/28/04

Dr. Jim Marden - Department of Biology

   02/04/04

Fabia Battistuzzi - Department of Biology

   02/11/04

Dr. Izabella Makalowska - Department of Biology

   02/18/04

Dr. Hong Ma - Department of Biology

   02/25/04

WUN Bioinformations Online Seminar Series
Location:  310 Rider II         Time:  12:00 p.m. (Noon)

   03/03/04

Valer Gotea - Department of Biology

   03/10/04

NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

   03/17/04

Dr. Andrzej Konopka - BioLingua Research

   03/24/04

Dr. Laura Elnitski - Department of Biology

   03/31/04

Wen-Ya Ko - Department of Biology

   04/07/04

Dr. Anton Nekrutenko - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

   04/14/04

Dr. James Leebens-Mack - Department of Biology

   04/21/04

Dr. Eric Davidson - Department of Biology - California Institute of Biology, CA

   04/28/04

Bioinformations Workshop
Location:  310 Rider II         Time:  12:00 p.m. (Noon)

 

 

 Fall 2003

Speaker

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   09/03/03


Dr. Seogchan Kang - Department of Plant Pathology

   09/10/03

Dr. Laura Zahn - Department of Biology

   09/17/03

Barbara Bliss - Department of Biology

   09/24/03

Dr. Ning Zhang - Department of Plant Pathology

   10/01/03

Dr. Wojciech Makalowski - Department of Biology

   10/08/03

Dr. Kazuhiko Kawasaki - Department of Anthropology

   10/15/03

Li Hao - Department of Biology

   10/22/03

Jongmin Nam - Department of Biology

   10/29/03

Dr. Yoshihito Niimura - Department of Biology

   11/05/03

Dr. Hiroshi Akashi - Department of Biology

   11/12/03

Dimitra Chalkia - Department of Biology

   11/19/03

Norman Barr - Department of Entomology

   11/26/03

NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

   12/03/03

Dr. Kateryna Makova - Department of Biology

   12/10/03

Dr. Vamshi Veeramachaneni - Department of Biology

 

 

 Spring 2003

Speaker

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   01/15/03


Kerstin Kauffman
- Department of Biology - Cancelled

   01/22/03

Jongmin Nam - Department of Biology

   01/29/03

Dr. Blair Hedges - Department of Biology

   02/05/03

Helen Piontkivska - Department of Biology

   02/12/03

Dr. Hong Ma - Department of Biology

   02/19/03

Dr. Galina Glazko - Department of Biology

   02/26/03

Erin McMullin - Department of Biology

   03/05/03

Chiao-Feng (Joanne) Lin - Department of Biology

   03/12/03

NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

   03/19/03

Dr. Xun Gu - Department of Zoology/Genetics, Iowa State University

   03/26/03

Dr. Mark Shriver - Department of  Anthropology

   04/02/03

Dr. Nikolas Nikolaidis - Department of Biology

   04/7-8/03

Dr. Jan Klein - Max-Planck-Institue fϋr Biologie, Germany
SEMINARS:

Monday, April 7, 2003 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Room 207, The Penn Stater
Title: “The Place of Our Species in Nature”
Reception to follow.
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 11:30 a.m.
Location: 101 Althouse Laboratory
Title: “The Origin of Species: Lessons Learned from East African Cichlid Fishes”
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 4:00 p.m.
Location: 101 Althouse Laboratory
Title: “The Emergence of Novel Organ Systems in Evolution: The Origin of the Adaptive Immune System
Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.

   04/16/03

Liying Cui - Department of Biology

   04/23/03

Dr. Stephen Schaeffer - Department of Biology

   04/30/03

Dr. Yoshihito Niimura - Department of Biology

 

 

 Fall 2002

Speaker

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   09/04/02


Dr. David Geiser
- Department of Pathology

   09/11/02

Dr. Kazu Misawa - Department of Biology

   09/18/02

Shan Yang - Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

   09/25/02

Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai - Department of Biology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology

   10/02/02

Dr. Jim Leebens-Mack - Floral Genome Project - Department of Biology

   10/09/02

Li Hao - Department of Biology

   10/16/02

Dr. Kazu Kawasaki - Departments of Anthropology and Biology

   10/23/02

Jaime Blair - Department of Biology

   10/30/02

Dr. Yoshihito Niimura - Department of Biology

   11/06/02

Dr. Cooduvalli Shashikant - Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology

   11/13/02

Dr. Jianzhi Zhang - Department of Ecology and Evolution, Univ. of Michigan

   11/20/02

Dr. Nikolas Nikolaidis - Department of Biology

   11/27/02

NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

   12/04/02

Kerstin Kauffman - University of Jena, Germany

   12/11/02

Valer Gotea - Department of Biology

 

 

 Spring 2002

Speaker

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   01/16/02

Dr. Mark Shriver - Department of Anthropology

   01/23/02

Dr. Yoshiyuki Suzuki - Department of Biology

   01/30/02

Dr. Stephen Schaeffer - Department of Biology

   02/06/02

Dr. Malia Fullerton - Department of Anthropology

   02/13/02

Dr. Claude dePamphilis - Department of Biology

   02/20/02

Open

   02/27/02

Xi Wang - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

   03/06/02

NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

   03/13/02

Dr. Hiroshi Akashi - Department of Biology

   03/20/02

Brian Lazzaro - Department of Biology

   03/27/02

Joel McNeal - Department of Biology

   04/03/02

Open

   04/10/02

Dr. Mark Batzer - Louisiana State University

   04/17/02

Wen-Ya Ko - Department of Biology

   04/24/02

Kristi Montooth - Department of Biology

 

 

 Fall 2001

Speaker

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   09/05/01

Dr. Wojciech Makalowski - Department of Biology

   09/12/01

Dr. Kazuharu Misawa - Department of Biology

   09/19/01

Dr. Jonathan F. Wendel - Department of Botany, Iowa State University

   09/26/01

Jongmin Nam - Department of Biology

   10/03/01

Dr. Christopher House - Department of Geosciences

   10/10/01

Jaime Blair - Department of Biology

   10/24/01

Liying Cui - Department of Biology

   10/31/01

Dr. Yoshi Suzuki - Department of Biology

   11/07/01

Dietmar Schwartz - Department of Entomology

   11/14/01

Li Hao - Department of Biology

   11/28/01

Dr. Daniel Cosgrove - Department of Biology

   12/05/01

Dr. Takeshi Itoh - Department of Biology

 

 

 Spring 2001

Speaker

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   01/17/01

Erin McMullin - Department of Biology

   01/24/01

Dr. Stephen Schaeffer - Department of Biology

   01/31/01

Brian Lazzaro - Department of Biology

   02/07/01

Dr. Hong Ma - Department of Biology

   02/14/01

Dr. Mark Shriver - Department of Biology

   02/21/01

Kristi Montooth - Department of Biology

   02/28/01

Dr. Takeshi Itoh - Department of Biology

   03/07/01

NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

   03/14/01

Dr. Yoshi Suzuki - Department of Biology

   03/21/01

Dr. Hiroshi Akashi - Department of Biology

   03/28/01

Dr. Blair Hedges - Department of Biology

   04/04/01

Alison Bell - Department of Biology

   04/11/01

Dr. Ross Hardison - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

   04/18/01

Helen Piontkivska - Department of Biology

   04/25/01

Dr. James Marden - Department of Biology

 

 

 Fall 2000

Speaker

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   09/06/00


Dr. Thomas Whittam - Department of Biology

   09/07/00

Dr. Eric Harvill - Department of Veterinary Science

   09/13/00

Dr. Malia Fullerton - Department of Anthropology and Biology

   09/20/00

Helen Piontkivska, Jongmin Nam - Department of Biology

   10/04/00

Dr. Christopher House - Department of Geosciences

 

 

 Spring 2000

Speaker

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 Fall 1999

Speaker

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   09/08/99


Dr. Mark D. Shriver - Department of Anthropology

   09/15/99

Dr. James Lyons-Weiler - Department of Biology

   09/22/99

Dr. Junhyong Kim - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

   09/29/99

Marcel VanTuinen - Department of Biology

   10/06/99

Dr. Ron Adkins - Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts

   10/13/99

Alberto Civetta - Department of Biology

   10/20/99

Dr. A. Bernardo Carvalho - Department of Biology

   10/27/99

Chen Su - Department of Biology

   11/03/99

Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai - Department of Biology

   11/10/99

Dr. Ivane Nasidze -  Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

   11/17/99

Dr. David Stock - Department of Anthropology

   12/01/99

Tanya Sitnikova - Department of Biology

   12/08/99

Melisande Wolf - Department of Biology

 

 

 Spring 1999

Speaker

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 Fall 1998

Speaker

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 Spring 1998

Speaker

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   01/21/98


Jennifer M. Hay

   02/04/98

Meredith Yeager

   02/11/98

Dr. Ingrid Jacobsen

   02/18/98

Dr. Jack da Silva

   02/25/98

Dr. Fredrica Verra

   03/04/98

Daniel Wang

   03/18/98

Dr. Stephen Schaeffer - Department of Biology

   04/01/98

George Zhang - Department of Biology

   04/08/98

Dr. Sarah Tishkoff

   04/15/98

Dr. Chen Su - Department of Biology

 

 

 Fall 1997

Speaker

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   09/03/97


Dr. Xun Gu - Department of Biology

   09/10/97

Dr. Blair Hedges - Department of Biology

   09/17/97

Dr. Esther Siegfried - Department of Biology

   09/24/97

Dr. Austin Hughes - Department of Biology

   10/01/97

Sean Reid - Department of Biology

   10/08/97

Dr. Billie Swalla - Department of Biology

   10/15/97

Sara Good - Department of Biology

   10/22/97

Dr. Andy Clark - Department of Biology

   10/29/97

Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai - Department of Biology

   11/05/97

Dr. Ivane Nasidze -  Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

   11/12/97

Dr. David Stock - Department of Anthropology

   11/19/97

Tanya Sitnikova - Department of Biology

   12/03/97

Melisande Wolf - Department of Biology

   12/10/97

Elizabeth McGraw - Department of Biology