Summer Science Seminars

Through the summer, Knox College students and faculty presented a series of weekly seminars on their research in the sciences. Speakers and their topic are:

June 26
David Bunde, assistant professor of computer science ~ "Resource allocation & scheduling of computer programs"

July 3
Esther Penick, assistant professor of neuroscience ~ "Neuroscience & Me"

July 10
Linda Kelahan ~ "Effect of pheromones on female behavior"
Leigh Abrams ~ "Synthesis of ?-aminophosphoric acids"
Rosemary Ibis ~ "Macroinvertebrates in strip mine lakes"

July 17
Jamie Hadac ~ "Removal of nuclear localization signals from intersectin"
Jeff Johnson ~ "Creation of GrpE 34-112 Deletion Mutant for Structural Analysis"
Alex Varakin, assistant professor of psychology ~ "Change Blindness and Visual Memory"

July 24
Caitlyn Gillespie ~ "Cultural transmission of predator recognition in birds"
Kelby Okada ~ "Helix requirements in the GrpE gene"
Amanda Smith ~ "Intersectin knock-down rescue and domain coil localization"

July 31
Rachel Wintheiser ~ "Lateralization of visual discrimination in birds"
Catherine Ray ~ "Prenatal methamphetamine exposure: spatial learning & hippocampal LTP"

August 7
Tim Rairdon ~ "Auditory imagery in expert musicians"
Andy Arnold ~ "Investigating the role of the insular cortex in cocaine addiction"
Adri Greising ~ "Computational algebra and Groebner bases"
Aaron Lepkin ~ "MCH activity in the Nucleus Accumbens: the role of eating neuropeptides in the reward system"