Seminars will be held Tuesdays from 3:30 p.m. to approximately 4:20 p.m. in 100 Vickery unless otherwise noted. Further details will be provided when available. Date Jan 15 Jan 20 Jan 22 Feb 3 Feb 10 Feb 17 Feb 24 Mar 3 Mar 10 Mar 17 Mar 24 Mar 31 Apr 7 Apr 14 Apr 21 Speaker Christy Schnitzler, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Nick Teets, University of Florida Andrea Wills, Stanford University Evan Gallagher, University of Washington Ray Liu, Clemson University Saurabh Chatterjee, University of South Carolina Tara Raftery, University of South Carolina Charles Schwartz, Greenwood Genetics Center Carolina SETAC rehearsal No seminar: spring break No seminar: SOT Have three potentials; no confirmations Carolyn Mattingly Jerry LeBlanc, North Carolina State University Aaron Roberts, University of North Texas Notes/Topic How Genomic Studies of Early Branching Animal Lineages Contribute to Our Understanding of Animal Biology and Evolution. Genomics and physiology of environmental stress tolerance in insects: From Antarctica to invasive fruit flies New connections between development, regeneration and the chromatin landscape Mechanisms and biomarkers of chemical olfactory injury in fish Arsenic Inhibits Sonic Hedgehog Signaling and Alters miRNA Profile During P19 Cell Differentiation Toxicology, obesity, inflammation High-Content Screening in zebrafish embryos identifies abamectin as a potent neurotoxicant Will pick 2-3 student speakers The environment and human disease: in silico approaches to understanding mechanism Sex on Demand: Environmental Sex Determination in Crustacea Photoinduced toxicity of PAH following an oil spill: Considerations for early life stage organisms COURSE POLICIES Instructor: William Baldwin, 235 Long Hall (mailing address is 132 Long Hall), baldwin@clemson.edu,. Office hours by appointment. Seminars are in 100 Vickery. Attendance: Students are expected to attend a minimum of 10 seminars. Sign-up sheets will be present at each meeting. If a student is unable to attend a particular seminar due to professional duties such as a conference or field work, he/she may instead attend another departmental seminar for that week. You must email the instructor afterwards with the name and date of the seminar attended. Grading: Pass/Fail