Weekly Chairs & Director's Mailing October 25, 2007

To: Chairs & Directors
From: David C. Manderscheid, Dean College of Arts and Sciences

A symposium will be held on October 26, at the Nebraska Union, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Virology. The event includes talks by nationally-known experts in virology research. All interested faculty, and students, as well as researchers in industry, are invited to attend the day-long event and also present posters at the wine and cheese ...A symposium will be held on October 26, at the Nebraska Union, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Virology. The event includes talks by nationally-known experts in virology research. All interested faculty, and students, as well as researchers in industry, are invited to attend the day-long event and also present posters at the wine and cheese reception at the end of the day. The event is free; however, registration is required by September 29. Registration and further information can be found at http://www.unl.edu/virologycenter.

"Nanowires, Nanoscience & Emerging Nanotechnologies", Professor Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University. Washburn Award Lecture

Mike Edmonds, Oxford University "Hydrogeochemistry of Groundwater-fed Lakes in Semi-arid and Arid Environments"

Workshop including displays and experiments for Forensic Sciences. Dr. David Carter, Director of UNL Forensic Science Program Dr. Matthias Okoye, Director of Nebraska Institute of Forensic Science Sara LeRoy-Toren

Meeting to discuss current and future projects.

Phylogenetic inference presents enormous computational and mathematical challenges, but these are particularly exacerbated when dealing with very large datasets (containing thousands of sequences) or when sequences evolve under complex models of evoluiton. In this talk, I will describe some of the recent progress in large-scale phylogenetics. In pa ...Phylogenetic inference presents enormous computational and mathematical challenges, but these are particularly exacerbated when dealing with very large datasets (containing thousands of sequences) or when sequences evolve under complex models of evoluiton. In this talk, I will describe some of the recent progress in large-scale phylogenetics. In particular, I will talk about multiple sequence alignment and its implications for large-scale phylogenetics. Related Link: http://www.phylo.org - CIPRES project webpage

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“Cellular maladaptation in the pathogenesis of diseases: The roles of ATF3, an adaptive-response gene, in diabetes and cancer,” will be presented by Dr. Tsonwin Hai, Ohio State University. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Sheri Fritz, Willa Cather Professor in the Department of Geosciences and School of Biological Sciences, will discuss how she and her colleagues use lake mud to reconstruct the history of climate change and how humans have impacted the environment. A reception follows the lecture.

Lawrence Buell is the preeminent scholar of literature and the environment in the United States. His publications include The Future of Environmental Criticism; Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond; and the foundational The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the F ...