NEWS

Congratulations to Yan Chen who is the recipient of the 2012 Darrell Stokes Award in Biology!

Congratulations to these students who recently graduated with honors in Biology:

Ehi Akhirome, Moiez Ali, Sade Bell, Catherine Cai, Rebecca Cozad, Arsalan Derakhshan, Zoila Fernandez, Alexandria Hammons, Mark Harousseau, Yuncen Atticus He, Jeremiah Huang, Peter Bang, Vishal Kaila, Dong Kim, Ji-Ye Kwon, Hyun-Woo Lee, Zayir Malik, Aurasch Moaven, Maria Nellessen, Phan Nguyen, Alex Pan, Rachel Reiff, Marvi Rizwan, Melissa Shenep, Rohini Swamy, Jessica Wahi

Congratulations to Bruce Levin who has been inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.  This is one of the highest honors bestowed on an American scientist and Bruce joins a select group at Emory that includes Steve Warren (Human Genetics), Frans de Waals (Yerkes and Psychology), Rafi Ahmed and Max Cooper (both of the Vaccine Center).

http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2012_05_01_NAS_Election.html

EVENTS

Spring  2012 Biology Seminar Series

All seminars will be held in Rm. 1052 in O. Wayne Rollins Research Center at 4 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).

Jan. 11 (Wed.)- Susan Mango, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Harvard University
Title: Inter-generational signaling and developmental plasticity during gut formation
Host: David Katz

Feb. 2 (Thur.)- Greg Lang, Princeton University
Title: Genetic variation and the fate of beneficial mutations in asexual populations
Host: Bruce Levin (for CLS search)

Feb. 7 (Tues.)- James Bull, Molecular Biology, Section of Integrative Biology, UT Austin
Title: Genome engineering and evolution
Host: Bruce Levin

Feb. 13 (Mon.)- Gurol Suel, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Racing to decide: single-cell dynamics of cell fate choice
Host: Nicole Gerardo (for CLS search)

Feb. 15 (Wed.)- Douglas Osheroff, Department of Physics, Stanford University
Title: How advances in science are made
Host: Ilya Nemenman

Feb. 16 (Thur.)- Philip Johnson, Department of Biology, Emory University
Title: Population genomics: a clean look at messy data
Host: James Taylor (for CLS search)

Feb. 21 (Tues.)- Liyu Liu, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Title: Microfabricated landscapes advances for cancer biophysics research
Host: Keith Berland (for CLS search)

March 5 (Mon.)- Philip Batterham, Genetics Department, University of Melbourne
Title: Insecticides and insects: Towards a systems approach
Host: Todd Schlenke

March 20 (Tues.)- Jeanne Serb, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
Title: Molecular evolution of photoreception in a marine mollusc
Host: Shozo Yokoyama

March 28 (Wed.)- Jerry Coyne- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
Title: Why evolution is true
Host: Nicole Gerardo
*4:00 pm, Harland Cinema DUC (PBEE co-sponsor)

April 3 (Tues.)- Barry Yedvobnick, Department of Biology, Emory University
Title: Targeted genetic screening in Drosophila

April 17 (Tues.)- Deboleena Roy, Department of Women's Studies, Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology, Emory University
Title: Feminism and biology: The co-becoming of scientific practices
Host: Katy Shepard

April 25 (Wed.)- Martin Chalfie, , Columbia University
Title: Neuronal differentiation and mechanosensory transduction in C. elegans
*1:00 pm, SOM 120 (Rhodes Lecture)
April 26 (Thur.)
Title: GFP: Lighting up life
*5:00 pm, SOM 120 (Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote)
Host: Steve L'Hernault