Seminar Program Spring 2008

All departmental seminars take place on Tuesdays at 3:00 pm in NPC Room 2066 unless otherwise noted

*Denotes Graduate Student Presentation

January 16 - Mark T. Hamann - Organizational Meeting - in NPC 3057

January 22 - Steve White - St Jude Faculty - “Targeting Bacterial Fatty Acid Synthesis and Folate Synthesis for the Development of Novel Antibiotics ”

February 5 - Ed Laws – Louisiana State University- “Implications of Climate Change for Oceans and Human Health””

*February 12 - Damaris A.F. Meujo - “Seafood Safety; Controlling Vibrio in Raw Oysters with SCF”

February 19 - Meeting/Discussion with student presenters

February 26 - Gordon Research Conference - No Seminar

*March 4 - Sandipan Datta - “Marine Natural Product Immunosuppressive Agents and Inhibitors of Inflammation”

March 11 - Spring Break - No Seminar

*March 18 - Amir Wahba - “Natural Product Derived Treatments for Tropical Diseases”

***In order to accomodate everyone needing to present a seminar this semester, there will be back-to-back seminars on the dates noted in RED

*March 25 - 3:00 PM - Jiangtao Gao - “Marine Natural Products for the Control of Fungi and Bacteria”
4:00 Kevin Lewellyn - “MAA’s”

*April 1 - 3:00 PM - Jeffrey Morgan - “Marine Toxins from Dinoflagellates”
4:00 PM Xiang Fu - “Established and Experimental Treatments for Cancer from Plant and Microbial Natural Products”

April 8 - National ACS Meeting - No Seminar

April 15 - ASP Interim Meeting - No Seminar

*April 22 -3:00 Bin Wang - “Current Marine Natural Products Under Clinical Investigation for Cancer”
4:00 Jia Hong - “The Neuropharmacology of Marine Natural Products: Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases”

*April 29 - 3:00 Anna Kochanowska - “The Neuropharmacology of Marine Natural Products: Anxiety, Depression and Sleep Disorders”

May 1 or 2 - Dr. Steve Bobzin, Technology Planning Ceres, Inc. (Tentative title: Drought Resistant Switch-Grass for Ethanol Production).

*May 6 - 3:00 Mallika Kumarihamy - “Current and Future Strategies for Treatment of Mtb”
4:00 Yelkaira Vasquez - “Marine Toxins from Cyanobacteria”