NEWS
Congratulations to James Taylor who has been granted tenure!

Congratulations to the students who received Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research:
Hajar Alzerma
Gregory Fricker
Edward Kalkreuter
Aram Keteyian
Agnes Kim
Min Kim
Yo Sup Kim
Mythilee Kugathasan
Mathew Levy
Neil Patel
Jessica Nguyen
Peter Pham
Chad Slomovitz
Rachel Tobin
Billy Zhang

Congratulations to Chris Gilson and Sara Freeman who received Crystal Apple Teaching Awards in 2013!

EVENTS

Spring 2013 Biology Seminar Series

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

***February and early March slots have been held for Biology search talks.

Jan. 7 (Mon.)- Charles Kurland, Department of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Title: Cataclysmic rooting of the three superkingdoms
Host: Bruce Levin

Jan. 22 (Tues.)- James Taylor, Department of Biology, Emory University
Title: Making sense of genome-scale data

Feb. 20 (Wed.)- Steve Cole, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Finding meaning in big genomic data
Host: IQTM (Biology co host)
*12:00, Modern Languages Building, Room 201

March 19 (Tues.)- Hang Lu, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech University
Title: Microtechnologies for high-throughput high-content developmental biology and neurogenetics
Host: Dieter Jaeger

April 2 (Tues.)- Jill Schumacher, Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: The tousled kinetochore
Host: Bill Kelly

April 10 (Wed.)- Marcel Salathe, Penn State University
Title: TBA
Host: IQTM (Biology co host)
*12:00, Modern Languages Building, Room 201

April 16 (Tues.)- Andrew Smith, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California
Title: Dynamics of retrotransposon DNA methylation in mammalian germ cells
Host: James Taylor

April 25 (Thur.)- Harrison Dillon, Solazyme, Inc.
*12:00, RRC, Room 1052, Biology seminar
Title: Unlocking the power of microalgae

4:00, WHSCAB Auditorium, Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium
Title: Renewable fuels for a sustainable future

April 26 (Fri.)
*7:30 a.m., Maggiano's of Buckhead, Community/Business/Alumni Breakfast
Title: The future of fuel