UMASS Fly Club

Tentative Speaker Schedule Fall '96:

Time & Place: Wednesday 12:15-1:00
Morrill Science Center Room 215
(Biology Conference Room).
Pizza lunch provided.

(Note: Order of speakers may change as outside speakers are scheduled. In case of being bumped, everybody will be moved down in the schedule 1 week.)

Sept. 11 - J. Nambu
Sept. 18 - R. Phillis
Sept. 25 - L. Cheng
Oct. 2 - Debbie Statten will talk on her research topic:
"The Genetic Interactions Between Cytoplasmic Dynein Light Chain and Glued"
Oct. 8 Grae Davis, Postdoctoral in Corey Goodman's Lab
"Genetic dissection of synaptic plasticity"
Oct. 16 - (no talk) Monday schedule
Oct. 23 - Kalpana White (Brandeis University)
" ELAV Mediates Neuron-Specific Alternative Splicing "
Oct. 30 - J. Kunkel
"Studying subtle morphological difference using Drosophila melanogaster wing shape"
Nov. 6 - H. Xiao
"Interactions between Wingless and Decapentaplegic in dorsal-ventral leg pattern"
Nov. 13 - P. Jin
"Identification and use of a simple neural circuit in Drosophila"
Nov. 20 - S. Reddy
Nov. 27 - No meeting - Thanksgiving
Dec. 4 - Lei Zhou
Tanabe, Y. and Jessell, T.M. (1996) Diversity and pattern in the developing spinal cord. Science 274:1115-1123 (15 Nov 96)
Dec. 11 - CANCELLED
* * * to be resumed Spring Semester * * *
Feb. ? - Jenifer Klenz
Feb. ? - F. Kuelzer
Feb. ? - Y. Ma

Speakers, please Email joe@bio.umass.edu with any appropriate links associated with a talk.