Ways of Knowing Biology
Seminars - Past Years
Faculty |
Department |
Seminar Title |
Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Baylis | Zoology | Sex and the single parent: Why do so many fishes have male parental care? | 1994 |
| J. Russell Bishop | Center for Dairy Research | Interfacing industry with research: Issues in dairy research | 1995 |
| Anthony Bleecker | Botany | Tracking genes that control behaviour... in plants! | 1996 |
| Sean Carroll | Genetics | How butterflies got their spots | 1997 |
| Alta Charo | Law School and Ethics | Biological research and public sensibilities | 1995 |
| Bruce Christiansen | Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences | Tropical diseases: New approaches towards the control of mosquito-borne parasites | 1996 |
| Richard Davidson | Psychology | The Emotional Brain | 2001 |
| Hector DeLuca | Biochemistry | The vitamin D system: From basic science to medicine | 1997 |
| John Doebley | Genetics | The evolution of plant form | 2001, 2002 |
| Ian Duncan | Neurology, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine | Breakthroughs in the study of the nervous system at the UW Research on repair of the central nervous system and Lorenzo's Oil: Where's the connection? |
1999
1995, 1994 |
| Peggy Farnham | Oncology | Oncogenes and antioncogenes: The yin and yang of cell growth | 1993 |
| Neal First | Animal Science | Animal biotechnology | 1993 |
| Jon Foley | Anatomy | Looking at biological systems at the planetary scale | 1998 |
| Norman Fost | Medical Ethics, Pediatrics | Ethical issues in AIDS research in the Third World | 1998 |
| Brian Fox | Biochemistry | 2001 | |
| Irwin Goldman | Horticulture | Take two onions and call me in the morning: The folklore, fact, and future of food-based phytoceuticals | 1998 |
| Robert Goodman | Horticulture | Twin peaks: Two odysseys of ecology | 1993 |
| Heidi Goodrich-Blair | Bacteriology | Molecular mechanisms of bacterium-host interactions | 2000 |
| Raymond Guries | Forest Ecology & Management | Ways of knowing: The forest and the trees | 1993 |
| Jo Handelsman | Plant Pathology | Life in the underground: Plant-friendly bacteia | 1995 |
| Cary Harding | Waisman Mental Retardation and Human Development Center | Gene therapy for inherited diseases: Promises and reality | 1996 |
| Virginia Hinshaw | Pathobiological Science | The good, the bad, and the ugly about virus epidemics in our world | 1994 |
| Susan Hirano | Plant Pathology | Bacteria and ice nucleation; The ecology of bacteria that inhabit leaves |
1999 1997 |
| Hazel Holden | Biochemistry and the Enzyme Institute | The structure of a bacterial protein that can detoxify chemical warfare agents | 1996 |
| Dean Krahn and Blake Gosell | Psychiatry | The relationship of eating to substance abuse: Chasing the hypothesis through the study of rats, college students, and patients | 1996 |
| Karen Luh | Psychology | Asymmetrical organization of the brain: Left is left, and right is right, but sometimes the twain shall meet | 1998 |
| John Magnuson | Zoology and Center for Limnology | Historical perspective on limnology at the UW | 1999 |
| Nancy Mathews | Wildlife Ecology | Social behavior in white-tailed deer: The importance of the mother-daughter relationship | 2002 |
| Debbie McKenzie | Animal Health & Biomedical Sciences | Why do muscles get weaker as we get older? | 2000 |
| Amy Moser | Human Oncology | Cancer susceptibility genes | 2001, 2002 |
| Regina Murphy | Chemical Engineering | Discovering causes and cures for Alzheimer's disease | 1998 |
| Ann Palmenberg | Biochemistry | Virus detection and vaccine development | 1998 |
| Grace Panganiban | Anatomy | Limb development and evolution | 2000 |
| Sara Patterson | Horticulture | 2002 | |
| Donna Paulnock | Medical Microbiology | Shooting back: The immune system andcancer | 1994 |
| David Pauza | Primate Research Center and Medical Sciences and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine | Reverse transcriptase and Howard Temin's impact on the field of AIDS research | 1999 |
| Francisco Pelegri | Genetics | Using the zebrafish to understand vertebrate development | 2001, 2001 |
| Tomas Prolla | Genetics | Studying the aging process and its modification through reduced caloric intake using DNA microarrays | 2000 |
| Ken Raffa | Entomology, Forest Ecology & Management | It's a small world: Dominance of life on earth by insects, and its effect on humans | 1994 |
| Martha Robbins | Zoology | Can research and conservation save mountain gorillas from extinction? | 1996 |
| Philipp Simon | Horticulture | Carrots and Carotene: plants and people | 2000 |
| Susan Smith | Nutritional Sciences | DNA is here to stay: Using molecular embryology to treat birth defects and design a space alien | 1995 |
| Charles Snowdon | Psychology and Zoology | The cotton-top tamarin: Conservation through research | 1995 |
| Paul Sondel | Pediatrics, Human Oncology, Genetics | Immune-mediated clinical cancer immuntherapy and gene therapy | 1997 |
| Edgar Spalding | Botany | How do plants sense blue light? | 1997 |
| Karen Strier | Anthropology | Primate behaviour, ecology, and conservation: What we can learn without words | 1993 |
| Ken Systma | Botany | Testing Evolution: Molecules, morphology, and adaptive radiations on islands | 2000 |
| James Thomson | Primate center | Human embryonic stem cells | 2000 |
| Bill Tracy | Agronomy | History of crop production: Then and now | 1994 |
| David Watkins | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Understanding the Immune Response to HIV: Implications for Vaccine Design | 2001, 2002 |
| Jamey Weichert | Radiology | Micro and Molecular Imaging | 2002 |
| Amy Wong | Food Microbiology, Toxicology | To eat or not to eat?-- Bacillus cereus, a food poisoning bacterium | 1998 |
| Daniel Young | Entomology | Wisconsin's Biological Diversity: Through the Compound Eyes of the Coleoptera | 2001, 2002 |
Contact
- Course Coordinator
- Brian Asen
- 118D Genetics Building
- beasen@wisc.edu
- (608) 262-5267