Biology Department News
| April 13: Dr. Jonathon Muraskas, Director of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Chairman of Medical School Admissions Committee and Professor of Pediatrics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine will give a talk titled "Initiating and Enhancing the Medical School Application" at 12:00 in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. This talk is sponsored by Tri-Beta. |
| March 13: Dr. John R. Marquart of Eastern Illinois University will give a talk titled “Caves -- Worlds within the World: An Introduction to the Chemistry, Geology, and Ecology of Caves” at 7:30 pm in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences. This talk is sponsored by the Illinois Heartland Section of the American Chemical Society. |
| March 12: Mary Hennen, director of the Chicago Peregrine Program at The Field Museum, will give a talk titled “Return of the Peregrine” at 7 p.m. in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences. This talk is sponsored by the John Wesley Powell Audubon Society, the IWU Biology Department and the IWU Environmental Studies Program. To view the Field Museum website about Monitoring Endangered Peregrines in Chicago, click here. |
| Feb. 16: Beth Hussa, an alumna of Illinois Wesleyan student and microbiology student at Loyola will give a talk titled "Microbiology, Immunology, and Squid?!? The Grad School Experience of an IWU Alum" at noon in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences. This talk is sponsored by Tri-Beta. |
| Feb. 9, Dr. Gregory Poland, Illinois Wesleyan alumnus, class of 1977, and Director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, will give a talk titled "Avian/Pandemic Influenza: What's All The Flap?" at 3:00 pm in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences at IWU's weekly Natural Science Colloquium. For more information, please click here. |
| Dec. 1, Dr. Bart Muhs, from the New York University School of Medicine will give a talk titled "Voodoo, Aneurysms, and Other Things That Kill You" at 4:00 pm in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences at IWU's weekly Natural Science Colloquium. |
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Nov. 14, Nick Rossi, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "The role of antioxidants in nitric-oxide induced apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Nov. 9, Tri-Beta members will present a Summer Research Seminar about how to secure summer research at 6:30 PM in CNS E103. |
| Nov. 2, Bridget Wall, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Effects of dephosphorylation in 7E mutants of NPR-A" 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Oct. 31, Michelle Carrillo, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "A Behavioral Study of Sexual Behavior of Somali Wild Asses" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Oct. 17, Becky Gericke, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Effects of Fishing on Coral Reef Health" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Oct. 10, Shannon Baumer, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Behavior Analysis in a model of Pre-clinical Parkinsonism" 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Oct. 5, Eric Frost, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Identification and Migration of Fused BM Cells In-Vivo" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Oct. 3, Kristen Kopf, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Organization and Dynamics of Centromeric Chromatin" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
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Sept. 30, Open house for individuals interested in applying to the doctor of physical therapy program sponsored by the Bradley University Department of Physical Therapy and Health Science at 10:00 am in the Bradley University Olin Hall of Science, Room 338. |
| Sept. 29, Dr. Elizabeth Ainsworth, an USDA/ARS researcher and professor in the Department of Plant Biology at UIUC and Dr. Andrew Leakey, a fellow at the Institute for Genomic Biology at UIUC will give a joint talk titled "Food for Thought: Crop Responses to Climate Change" at 4:00 pm in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences at IWU's weekly Natural Science Colloquium. |
| Sept. 26, Brandy Blackwell, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Disequilibrium of E5 and E7 mRNA in HPV due to to Integration or a result of Formalin Fixation? Using Bovine Papillomavirus as a positive control" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
| Sept. 19, Jason Somogyi, a biology student at IWU, will present the talk "Anti-Inflammatory Agents in Childhood Epilepsy" at 12:15 pm in E103 in the Center for Natural Sciences as a portion of Bio 399's Brown Bag Seminar Series. |
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Sept. 1, Brian Powers, a Doctoral Student, in the Neuroscience Program at UIUC will give a talk titled "Developmental Exposure to Environmental Contaminants Leads to Hearing Impairment" at 4:00 pm in C101 in the Center for Natural Sciences at IWU's weekly Natural Science Colloquium. |
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April 25, Class of 2006 |