Feb. 6

Dr. Richard Goldsby, Amherst College

Feb. 27

Stephen Herbert UMass Amherst: "Nutrient Flows on Dairy Farms and Massachusetts Farm Practices"

Host: Sam Black

Mar 5

John Lopes, Department of Microbiology, UMass, Amherst
"Yeast Genomics: good news and bad news"

Host: Janice Telfer

Mar 12

Egil Lien, Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
UMass Medical School
"Evasion of LPS-TLR4 signaling and plague"

Host: Cynthia Baldwin

Mar 26

Joseph Jerry, Veterinary and Animal Sciences, UMass, Amherst
"Mechanisms of Breast Cancer Susceptibility: Nature and Nurture"

Apr 2

Alejandro Heuck
"How do bacteria make pores in eukaryotic membranes? From cholesterol sensing to toxin injection."

Host: Cynthia Baldwin

Apr 9

Horacio Nastri
"Using Phage Display for Discovering therapeutic human monoclonal antibodies."

Host: Pablo Visconti

Apr 16

Scott Coonrod, Cornell University, Ithaca

Host: Rafael Fissore

Apr 23

Senthil Muthuswamy, Cold Spring Harbor: "Cell Polarity: A novel regulatory step for cancer initiation and progression"

Host: Joe Jerry

Apr 30

Gerry Downes, UMass Amherst
"Fishing For Genes Required For  Locomotive Behavior:  Genetic Analysis Of Movement Disorders In  Zebrafish".

Host: Pablo Visconti

May 7

Leif Oxburgh, Main Medical Research Institute
"Organogenesis and TGF beta signaling. "

Host: Kim Tremblay