Spring Break
Lecture series focuses on faculty members' research
Phil Bennett
Issue date: 10/17/06 Section: News
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The biological sciences department offers a special series of public seminars, the Peter J. and Edna L. Grilione Endowed Series, which covers topics from microbial diversity to the anatomy of dinosaurs.
"The endowed lecture is catered with food and beverages served before and after the talk," said Leslee Parr, the biological sciences seminar coordinator.
The 15-week series of graduate seminars will continue holding public sessions in Duncan Hall at San Jose State University every Wednesday until Dec. 6, with one exception being made Nov. 22 for Thanksgiving week.
"The usual room, Duncan Hall 250, holds 55 people ¬- our audience tends to range from 30 to 55 people weekly," Parr said. "At times we do overflow into 'standing room only' and into the hallway."
Parr said the seminar series has been going for more than 10 years.
"Our weekly seminars offer more casual snacks and coffee and tea in Duncan Hall 249 before and after the talks - this gives the audience time to interact personally with the speaker and other audience members," Parr said.
Parr said biology administrators strive to arrange weekly talks that appeal to a wide range of biologists, because the department is very diverse.
"The department includes three major areas: organismal/ecological/evolution, systems physiology and molecular/microbiology," Parr said.
The campus community and public "are welcome and encouraged to attend," Parr said.
On Nov. 8, SJSU assistant professor Cleber Ouverney will be leading a seminar titled "Dissecting Complex Microbial Communities by Type and Function."
"It will focus on the research that I do," Ouverney said. "In my laboratory, students and I study bacteria that are associated with human diseases, but that we do not know how to grow (cultivate) them in a laboratory setting yet."
"The goal is to establish environmental models to understand the role of bacteria in human diseases," Ouverney said.
Ouverney's students use various molecular techniques in order to study those bacteria.
"The endowed lecture is catered with food and beverages served before and after the talk," said Leslee Parr, the biological sciences seminar coordinator.
The 15-week series of graduate seminars will continue holding public sessions in Duncan Hall at San Jose State University every Wednesday until Dec. 6, with one exception being made Nov. 22 for Thanksgiving week.
"The usual room, Duncan Hall 250, holds 55 people ¬- our audience tends to range from 30 to 55 people weekly," Parr said. "At times we do overflow into 'standing room only' and into the hallway."
Parr said the seminar series has been going for more than 10 years.
"Our weekly seminars offer more casual snacks and coffee and tea in Duncan Hall 249 before and after the talks - this gives the audience time to interact personally with the speaker and other audience members," Parr said.
Parr said biology administrators strive to arrange weekly talks that appeal to a wide range of biologists, because the department is very diverse.
"The department includes three major areas: organismal/ecological/evolution, systems physiology and molecular/microbiology," Parr said.
The campus community and public "are welcome and encouraged to attend," Parr said.
On Nov. 8, SJSU assistant professor Cleber Ouverney will be leading a seminar titled "Dissecting Complex Microbial Communities by Type and Function."
"It will focus on the research that I do," Ouverney said. "In my laboratory, students and I study bacteria that are associated with human diseases, but that we do not know how to grow (cultivate) them in a laboratory setting yet."
"The goal is to establish environmental models to understand the role of bacteria in human diseases," Ouverney said.
Ouverney's students use various molecular techniques in order to study those bacteria.
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