Seminars and Lectures
Additional information on the seminars and lectures below can be found in embedded links or, where indicated, at the websites listed in the right-hand column.
Agricultural Sciences
Colleges
University Institutes and Consortia
November 20, 2009
U.S. Domestic and Trade Policies for Biofuels in the Presence of Market Variability
3:00 p.m. in 215 Armsby Bldg.
Speaker: Yuki Yano, Swedish University of Ag Sciences, Uppsala (Host: Dept. Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology)
Geography of Disease: Using GIS to Visualize Disease Dynamics
4:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Bldg.
Speaker: Justing Blanford (Host: Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment)
November 24, 2009
Fundamental Factors that Determine the Transport and Surface Charge of Desalination Membranes
10:00 a.m. in 301 Steidle Bldg.
Speaker: He Xie, Penn State University (Host: Huck Institutes)
November 30, 2009
Implicating the Vector: The Link Between Mosquito Population Genetics and Pathogen Invasion
11:30 a.m. in 108 Wartik Lab
Speaker: Jason Rasgon, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health (Host: Huck Institutes)
Functional Studies of S-RNase-based Self-incompatibility
12:10 p.m. in 108 Wartik Lab
Speaker: Xiaoving Meng, Penn State University (Host: Huck Institutes)
Interfacing Microbial Ecology with Development Needs in Latin America
3:30 p.m. in 112 Buckhout Lab
Speaker: Paul Backman, Dept. Plant Pathology, Penn State University
Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction
Earth Talks: Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future
4:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Bldg.
Speaker: Russell Graham (Host: Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment)
Arp2/3-dependent Actin Nucleation and the Control of Polarized Cell Movements During Morphogenesis
4:00 p.m. in 101 Althouse Lab
Speaker: Martha C. Soto, Rutgers University (Host: Eberly College of Science)
