NEWS

Mandatory Registration Meeting for Biol499
Jan 13 7pm, Room 230, 1462 Clifton Road
The Biol499 Undergraduate Research Course in Biology (http://www.biology.emory.edu/research-opportunities) provides an opportunity to learn the process of science and thereby apply knowledge that has been gained in classes. Students work under the direction of a faculty member engaged in biological research for at least two semesters. You may take Biology 499R for multiple semesters, but Biol499R may be used to satisfy only one elective and an upper level lab towards the Biology major.

Congratulations to Pat Marsteller who is among nine scientists from Emory University elected by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as 2014 Fellows!  http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/11/nine_aaas_fellows/index.html

Emory is #10 on the list of the best colleges in which to major in Biology!!!

http://college.usatoday.com/2014/09/13/top-%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%AD10-colleges-for-a-major-in-biology/

Change in Biology B.S. Requirements:  Students declaring a Biology B.S. major after the first day of classes, Fall 2014, will be required to take QTM 100 in addition to two Calculus classes.  QTM100 will not be required for the Biology B.A.

EVENTS

Spring 2015 Biology Seminar Series

The seminars & Science Cafe talks will continue to be on Tuesdays every week in Rm. 1052 of O. Wayne Rollins Research Center at 9 a.m.

Science Cafe talks are to have informal discussions on science- and education-related topics over a light breakfast.

Tues. January 13
Nick Parrish, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University and Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Acquired immunity through piRNAs derived from infecting viruses: a eukaryotic CRISPR?
Host: Bruce Levin

Tues., January 20
Andreas Fritz, Emory Biology
Title: A tale of tails and tumors

Tues., January 27
Julijana Gjorgjieva, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
Title: The developing brain: How single neurons and plasticity impact function and information transmission in neuronal networks
Host: Astrid Prinz
(Neuro Theorist Faculty Search candidate)

Tues., February 3
Cristina Savin, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Title: Hippocampal adaptations for efficient memory recall: from single synapses to behaviour
Host: Dieter Jaeger
(Neuro Theorist Faculty Search candidate)

Tues., February 10
Gordon Berman, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Title: Mapping the structure of animal behavior
Host: Sam Sober
(Neuro Theorist Faculty Search candidate)

Thur., February 12
John Murray, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Title: A hierarchy of intrinsic timescales across primate cortex
Host: Robert Liu
(Neuro Theorist Faculty Search candidate)

Tues., February 17
Ann Hermundstad, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Beyond independence: emergent neural function and the natural world
Host: Ilya Nemenman
(Neuro Theorist Faculty Search candidate)

Tues., February 24
Science Cafe led by Meleah Hickman
Topic: Science and Social Media

Tues., March 3
Science Cafe led by Cassandra Quave
Topic: Revitalization of the Emory Herbarium: Quo Vadis?

Tues., March 10
SPRING BREAK- no seminar

Tues., March 17
Shawn Martin, Emory Career Center
Title: Demystifying the Mysteries: What is PreHealth Mentoring?
Host: Kathy Campbell

Tues., March 24
Brian Gregory, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Global analysis of RNA-protein interactions and RNA secondary structure in eukaryotes
Host: Roger Deal

Tues., March 31
Science Cafe led by TBA
Topic: TBA

Tues., April 7
Wayne Aldridge, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Title: Neural Representations of Reward in the Ventral Pallidum
Host: Dieter Jaeger

Tues., April 14
Science Cafe led by Les Real
Topic: The natural history of beauty: pattern and form in art and nature

Sean B. Carroll, Departments of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Madison-Wisconsin

Tues., April 21, Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote Speaker
Title: Brave Genius: A Scientists’ Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Time and location TBA

Wed., April 22
Rhodes Lectureship
Title: Gene Co-Option and the Evolution of Novelty
Time and location TBA

Fri., April 24
LucchesiFest: A Celebration of the Science and Career of John C. Lucchesi
Schedule with talks and meals TBA