Biology Department seminars upcoming

A handful of seminars from the Biology Department at Western Washington University are scheduled for the remainder of spring quarter:

• 4 p.m. Monday, April 25, in Biology Building Room 234: "Some Like it Cold: Diversity, Biogeography and Genomics of Sea Ice Bacteria," by James T. Staley, professor emeritus of microbiology, University of Washington
• 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, in BI234: “Tapping” into the genes that mediate habituation: High-throughput characterization of wildtype C. elegans and a nervous-system-biased mutant library,” by Andrew Giles, Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience Program, University of British Columbia. Co-sponsored by the Behavioral Neuroscience Program
• 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in BI234: “Love Kills: spontaneous male death in the fishing spider Dolomedes tenebrosus,” by Steven K. Schwartz, Ph.D. candidate, University of Nebraska at Lincoln and former WWU Biology Dept. graduate student. Co-sponsored by the Biodiversity Initiative
• 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, in BI234: "DNA replication in the context of chromatin: A possible role for histone acetyltransferases in the survival of an origin-deficient chromosome," by Naomi Bogenschutz, Ph.D. candidate, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, University of Washington, and WWU Biology Dept. alumna
• 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, in BI234: “Hypoxia excitatory response in C. elegans requires a conserved G-protein signaling pathway,” by Jason N. Pitt, postdoctoral student, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and WWU alumnus.