Tag Archive for ‘Biology’
Biology Welcomes Faculty Candidate Shahid Mukhtar March 1
Shahid Mukhtar, a faculty candidate for the Systems Biology position within the Biology Department, will present a seminar titled “Making the Right Connections: How to Get the Edge in Systems Biology” at 12:00 Noon Friday, March 1, in 141 Starcher Hall. Shahid Mukhtar received his doctoral degree in Plant Microbe Interactions/Genetics from Max-Planck Institute for [...]
Biology Faculty Candidate to Present Seminar February 19
Dipak Barua, a faculty candidate for the Systems Biology position within the Biology Department, will present a seminar titled “Investigation of autophagic vesicle dynamics in single cells: a data-driven mathematical and computational modeling study” at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, February19, in 141 Starcher Hall. Dipak Barua received his bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Bangladesh University of [...]
Biology Seminar Scheduled for January 18th
Jill Weimer, Children’s Health Research Center at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls, SD will present a seminar titled “The CRMP2/CLN6/KLC4 signaling complex: A key regulatory mediator of vesicular transport and neuropediatric disease” at noon Friday, January 18, in 141 Starcher Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend. ~ Jeannie Lewis, office manager, Biology, 777.2622, jeannie.lewis@UND.edu.
NAVBO Workshops in Vascular Biology 2012
October 14-18, 2012, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula, CA. Abstract Submission Deadline: August 15, 2012. For information regarding the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO) workshops in vascular biology, please click here. For further information regarding the Developmental Vascular Biology Workshop V, please click here. For further information regarding the Genetics and Genomics [...]
Lecture will Focus on Conservation Biology April 13
The annual Glenn A. Paur seminar, hosted by the UND Wildlife Society, is at 3:00 p.m. Friday, April 13, in 10/12 Swanson Hall. Refreshments will be served at 2:30 p.m. The seminar speaker is John Carroll, professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Georgia and an alumnus of UND. His seminar is “Conservation Biology [...]
Professor Emeritus Omer Larson to Present Seminar
Omer Larson, professor emeritus, Biology, will present a seminar titled “Plague – Mostly From a Liberal Arts Perspective” at Noon Friday, February 3, 2012 in 141 Starcher Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend. — Jeannie Lewis, Biology, 777-2622, jeannie.lewis@email.und.edu.
Biology Faculty Named as National Academies Education Fellows in the Life Sciences
The following individuals from the UND have been named as National Academies Education Fellows in the Life Sciences for the 2011-2012 academic year: Brett Goodwin, associate professor, Biology Kathryn Yurkonis, assistant professor, Biology Robert Newman, associate professor, Biology Becky Simmons, assistant professor, Biology This honor is bestowed by virtue of their selection to and enthusiastic [...]
Biology Faculty Seminar is August 26, 2011
Diane Darland will be presenting a seminar titled, “The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of neural development” at noon Friday, August 26, in 141 Starcher Hall. All are welcome to attend. — Anna Strandell, Biology, 777-2621, anna.strandell@email.und.com.
Goldwater Scholarship Awards
Mrs. Peggy Goldwater Clay, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, announced today that the Trustees awarded 275 scholarships for the 2011–2012 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from the United States. The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a [...]
Biology Faculty Candidate to Present Seminar April 1
Chris Jacques, a faculty candidate for the Vertebrate Wildlife Ecologist position within the Biology Department, will present a seminar titled “Ecology of Pronghorn: Population Dynamics of an Endemic Icon” at Noon Friday, April 1, in 109 Leonard Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend. Chris Jacques (pronounced “Jakes”) is a research scientist for the Wisconsin Department [...]
Biology Faculty Candidate to Present Seminar March 28
T.J. Benson, a faculty candidate for the Vertebrate Wildlife Ecologist position within the Biology Department, will present a seminar titled “Understanding Habitat Quality and Population Status of Conservation Priority Bird Species” beginning at Noon Monday, March 28, in 141 Starcher Hall. Everyone is welcome. Originally from Iowa, Benson earned a B.S. in Biology from the [...]
Research team heads to Antarctica
A research team headed by University of North Dakota geomorphologist Dr. Jaakko Putkonen heads to the Ong Valley in a desolate, little-known region near the South Pole later this month on a National Science Foundation-funded expedition. The group includes Theodore Bibby, Tallahassee, Fla., a doctoral student in geology; Collin Giusti, Chanhassen, Minn., a junior majoring [...]
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