Home Schedule Syllabus
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Spring 2012
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Date |
Topics |
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January
19 |
open |
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January
26 |
open |
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February
2 |
open |
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February
9 |
open |
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February
16 |
open |
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February
23 |
open |
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March 1 |
open |
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March 8 |
open |
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March 15 |
Spring Break |
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March 22 |
open |
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March 29 |
open |
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April 5 |
Easter Break |
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April 12 |
open |
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April 19 |
open |
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April 26 |
open |
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May 3 |
open |
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May 10 |
open |
Fall 2011
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Date |
Topics |
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September 1 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Course
Policies, Syllabus, Website |
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September
8 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Suggestions for oral presentation |
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November 17 |
Pramod Kumar Reddy
Optimizing prolyl endo protease purification from sunn pest
infected wheat seeds for comparision to the recombinant protein and to
determine pep cleavage pattern of the gluten peptides
Instructor: Dr. B. Clack |
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November 24 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
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December 1 |
Rajni Sonavane
Profiling gene expression of caspase 3 and 7 in human colon cancer DLD-1
cells in the presence of
doxorubicin
Instructor: Dr. B. Clack |
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December 8 |
Canceled |
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December 15 |
Christopher Gonzales
Expression of apoptotic related caspase 3 and 7 genes in 22rv1 prostate
carcinoma cells in response to doxorubicin
Instructor: Dr. B. Clack |
Spring 2011
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February
24 |
Kiamalon Fletcher
Quantitative comparison of protease inhibitors in seeds from various
geographical and phylogenetic classifications
Instructor: Dr.
B. Starcher |
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March 10 |
Ruslan Khamadaliev
Monitoring Eimeria maxima, tenella and acervulina in challenged broilers
treated with coccidiostats.
Instructor:
Dr. A. Van Kley |
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March 17 |
Spring Break |
Fall 2010
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Date |
Topics |
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September 2 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Course
Policies, Syllabus, Website |
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September
9 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Suggestions for oral presentation |
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September
16 |
OPEN |
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September 23 |
Swathi
Gene expression profiling of apoptotic
related caspase 3 and 7 genes in colon cancer cells in response to
chemotherapy
Instructor:
Dr. B. Clack |
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September 30 |
Levi Cherian
Component based investigations on the inhibitory effects of
mouthwash on
PCR
Instructor: Dr. R. Stewart |
October
7 |
OPEN |
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October 14 |
OPEN |
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October 21 |
LaTerrica Williams
The Role of Tissue Factor in Disordered Fibrin Turnover in the Progression
of Human Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma and Mesothelial Mesenchymal
Transition.
Instructor: Dr. S. Idell |
November 11
at 2pm |
Sikta
Seasonal changes in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal communities.
Instructor: Dr. A. Van Kley |
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November 4 |
Canceled |
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November 11 |
Akash
Effect of a
“floor” treatment on the microorganisms diversity measured from
Pyrosequencing in chicken house.-
Instructor:
Dr. A. Van Kley |
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November 18 |
Vidya Boyanapalli
Characterization of Fatty Acid Binding Protein in Cryptosporidium parvum"
Instructor: Dr.
Fritzler |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
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December 2 |
Prema
Par
protein interaction study in Mycobacteria
Instructor: Dr.
Madiraju |
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December 9 |
OPEN |
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December 16 |
Exam week (no seminar) |
Spring 2010
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Date |
Topics |
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January
21 |
Ravi Yandamuri (cancelled)
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January
28 |
SFA site mandatory: LAB SAFETY VIDEO (part I)
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February
4 |
SFA site mandatory:
LAB SAFETY VIDEO (part II) |
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February
11 |
Sophia Karandashova
ADENOVIRAL DELIVERY OF GENES TO THE MESOTHELIUM OF THE RABBIT PLEURA.
Instructor:
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February
18 |
Daymon Hail
Using 454 pyrosequencing for cDNA library construction and
metagenomic analysis of the microbiome of the potato psyllid
Instructor: Dr. BlakeBextine
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February
25 |
open |
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March 4 |
113th Texas Academy of Science conference |
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March 11 |
Ravi Yandamuri
Prolyl endopeptidase from *Eurygaster integriceps -* Cloning,
Expression and Purification
Instructor:
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March 18 |
Spring Break |
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March 25 |
Ruslan (cancelled) |
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April 1 |
Easter Break |
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April 8 |
Bright Ideas Conference |
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April 15 |
Muthu Saravanan
Effect of coccidiostats on mycroflora in broilers detected by Pyrosequencing.
Instructor: Dr. Martynova-Van Kley
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April 22 |
IAVS meeting
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April 29 |
Sikta Patnaik
Seasonal changes in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal communities.
Instructor: Dr. Martynova-Van Kley
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May 6 |
Hari Gogineni
Taxonomical Assignment for High Throughput Massively
Parallel Pyrosequencing Data
Instructor: Dr. Martynova-Van Kley
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May 13 |
Sam Acholem
Phylogenetic study of genus Clostridium using pyrosequencing data
Instructor: Dr. Martynova-Van Kley
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Fall 2009
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Date |
Topics |
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September 3 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Suggestions for oral presentation |
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October 29 |
Charles Adams
CHANGES IN AQUATIC
PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND SPECIES
DISTRIBUTION AT CADDO LAKE |
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November 5 |
Cancelled (Swati Mall) |
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November 12 |
Hari
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November 19 |
LaTisha West
"The Inhibition of fIXa by Mutant KPI & BPTI." |
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November 26 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
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December 3 |
Canceled (Levi) |
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December 10 |
Sunil Acharya |
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December 17 |
Exam week (no seminar) |
Spring 2009
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Date |
Topics |
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February
5 |
Ruslan (adviser: Dr. Alexandra Van Kley)
"Effect of fecal sample storage conditions on RT-PCR for
quantitative analysis of Eimeria in poultry" |
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February
12 |
canceled |
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February
19 |
Maha Al Zayer (UTHCT, adviser: )
"Studies on MtrA-MtrB Two Component Regulatory Systems
in Mycobacterium tuberculosis." |
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February
26 |
Jennifer Edwards (adviser: Dr. Alexandra Van Kley)
Soil Bacterial Community Structure in East Texas Habitat Ecotypes |
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March 5 |
TAS conference: Dr. Van Kley and
some students will be at the conference* |
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March 12 |
Marina Maksimova “Monitoring of coccidiostats on Eimeria
development in broilers using real-time PCR assay”(adviser: Dr. Alexandra Van Kley) |
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March 19 |
Spring break |
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March 26 |
Elvira Kurmaeva “Profiling of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
communities by high-throughput sequencing.”(adviser: Dr. Alexandra Van Kley) |
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April 2 |
Moshiur " An Enzyme-linked Immunosorbnet Assay to
Quantitate Desmosine and Isodesmosine" (adviser: Dr. Barry Starcher). |
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April 9 |
Easter |
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April 16 |
Robert Brown "Introduction: Lymphostromal Interactions During
Thymic aging" (advisor: Dong-Ming Su) |
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April 23 |
Sikta Patnaik "Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and
mycorrhizal ecology" (adviser: Dr. Alexandra Van Kley), Tisha West
(advisor:Pierre Neueschwander) |
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April 30 |
Adrian Aguirre "Surveying for the Asymptomatic Presence of
HPV in the Oral Cavity Using PCR" (adviser: Dr. Robert Stewart). |
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May 7 |
Jeremy Davis and Misbah Hasan (adviser: Zissis Chroneos) |
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May 14 |
canceled |
* Students who do
not have Dr. Van Kley as a committee member for their thesis could schedule
their presentation on this day.
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
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Date |
Topics |
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January
17 |
Prabakaran Narayanasamy
Expression of Human Factor VIII alfa-Fragment in Mammalian Expression System |
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February
21 |
Marina Maksimova "Quantitative
analysis of Eimeria sp in field samples"
Elvira Kurmaeva "Phylogenetic analysis of Arbuscular Myccohizal Fungi found
in different natural habitat types of East Texas using 18S rRNA gene". |
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February
28 |
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March 6 |
*Dr. Van Kley and some students are going to
be at the TAS conference |
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March 13 |
Spring
break
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March 20 |
canceled |
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March 27 |
Erin Maloney |
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April 3 |
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April 10 |
Darya
"Microbial population analysis of natural east Texas habitat types" |
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April 17 |
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April 28, Monday, 14:30 |
Thesis Defense:
Darya
Fakhretdinova
"Microbial population analysis of natural east Texas habitat types" |
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May 1 |
canceled |
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May 8 |
Exam week (no seminar) |
Fall 2007
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Date |
Topics |
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August 30 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Suggestions for oral presentation |
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September 6 |
Krishna Sarva
"In vitro studies of Apoptosis by Passive Cigarette Smoke Extract
& TRAIL in Lung Cancer Cells." |
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September
13 |
open |
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September
20 |
open |
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September 27 |
open |
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October 4 |
Taka Nyaundi
"The Role of Mannan-binding Lectin and Its Structural Variants in
Phagocytosis" |
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October 11 |
Deepa Nadarajah
"Purification and Characterization of Mouse Pancreatic Elastase." |
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October 18 |
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October 25 |
Mohana |
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November 1 |
Charles |
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November 8 |
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November 15 |
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November 22 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
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November 29 |
Preethi Ravidranathan
"The Regulation of Surfactant Protein-B by Phorbol Ester PMA."
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December 6 |
Candice Dean
The Role of Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Human Plueral Malignant Mesothelioma |
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December 13 |
Exam week (no seminar) |
Spring 2007
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Date |
Topics |
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January
18 |
Kranthi Kunkalla
"Mannan-binding Lectin: Expression and Functional Studies." |
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January
25 |
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Alexandra Van Kley "Note from the instructor" |
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February
1 |
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Mohanna Indramohan "Antibody
based therapy for celiac disease" |
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February
8 |
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February
15 |
Jennifer Edwards |
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February
22 |
Vijay Thakur |
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March 1 |
110th Annual Meeting, March
1-3, 2007 |
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March 8 |
Bruce Machona |
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March 15 |
Spring
break
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March 22 |
Yulia Leontieva |
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March 29 |
1.Joshua Rutland
"The Interaction of the Activation Peptide of Blood Clotting Factor X with
the Factor IXa Heparin Binding Site."
2.Angela Jones |
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April 5 |
Krishna Sarva
"In vitro Study of Apoptosis Using Passive CSE and TRAIL in Lung Cancer
Cells." |
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April 12 |
Krishna Kishore Midde |
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April 19 |
Karla Villegas - Thesis defense at 3pm |
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April 26 |
Jorge Del Aguila |
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May 3 |
Jasmine Wong; Paul Whitehurst |
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May 10 |
Exam week (no seminar) |
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
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Date |
Topics |
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January
19 |
Rao Gottipati
Effects of Passive Cigarette Smoke Exposure on UVB and Chemically Induced
Skin Cancer |
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January
26 |
(open) |
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February
2 |
Armen Nalian
Engineering of cellulases for industrial use |
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February
9 |
Kranthi Kunkalla |
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February
16 |
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February
23 |
Seshu Inkollu
Identification of Anti- cancer compounds from Rumix crispus |
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March 2 |
109th Annual Meeting, March
2-4, 2006, Lamar University Beaumont,TX |
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March 9 |
Kevin Stroup
DIVERSITY OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN EAST TEXAS HABITATS. |
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March 16 |
Spring Break |
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March 23 |
Jorge Del Aguila
COMPARISON OF THE CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES OF THE WILD TYPE ENDOGLUCONASE FROM
PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII AND ITS MUTANTS DEVELOPED BY COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH. |
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March 30 |
Kwame Bautsie
Structural studies of Myosin Light Chain Kinases |
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April 6 |
Jasmine Wang
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF ENDOGLUCANASES FROM PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII. |
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April 13 |
Alexander Fedotov
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES IN OIL-CONTAMINATED
SOILS OF EAST TEXAS. |
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April 20 |
Yulia Leontieva
Phylogenetic Analysis and Identification of Southeastern USA Earthworms
using 16S rDNA and COI Sequences. |
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April 27 |
canceled |
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May 4 |
canceled |
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May 11 |
Exam week (no seminar) |
Fall 2005
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Date |
Topics |
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September
1 |
welcome |
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September 8 |
Dr.Beatrice A. Clack |
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September
15 |
Stacey Rutherford |
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September
22 |
canceled |
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September 29 |
canceled |
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October 6 |
(open) |
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October 13 |
Dr.Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley.
Suggestions for oral presentation |
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October 20 |
(open) |
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October 27 |
Karla Villegas |
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November 3 |
Sunita Kothari, Seshu Inkollu |
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November
10 |
(open) |
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November 17 |
Kristi McKee |
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November 24 |
Thanksgiving |
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December 1 |
(open) |
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December 8 |
class evaluation |
Spring 2005
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Date |
Topics |
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January
20 |
fist week of classes - no seminar |
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January
27 |
Introduction |
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February
3 |
(open) |
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February
10 |
Kevin Stroup
Detection of arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi in an East Texas forest |
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February
17 |
(open) |
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February
24 |
Jorge Del Aguila/Seshu Inkollu
Isolation of Genomic DNA, Amplification and Sequence analysis of
mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I (COI) gene fragment isolated from
the Corbicula clams found in East Texas |
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March 3 |
TAS meeting |
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March 10 |
(open) |
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March 17 |
Spring break |
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March 24 |
(open) |
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March 31 |
Kronthi Kunkalla/Sunita Kothari |
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April 7 |
Bre Dorsett |
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April 14 |
Amrita Kandlur |
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April 21 |
Sierra McGarity |
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April 28 |
(open) |
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May 5 |
Ravi Ramireddy
Verification of the Recombinant
pBIN-19 vector containing 2* 35S Cauliflower Mosaic Virus promoter,
Strictosidine Synthase gene and its stable transfection in Camptotheca
acuminata |
Fall 2004
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