4 FEB 11 FEB 18 FEB 25 FEB 11 MAR 25 MAR 8 APR 15 APR 29 APR Justin Hollander, Ph.D., AICP, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University co- sponsored with environmental studies Urban absorption in a shrinking city: A close examination of land use and environmental change. Madeline Vargas, Ph.D., Department of Biology, College of the Holy Cross distinguished faculty seminar Genetic analysis of long-range extracellular electron transfer required for current production in Geobacter sulfurreducens . Maria Duenas Decamp, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Medical School Determinants of HIV tropism and neutralization. An approach to learn about Envelope structure. Marc Freeman, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, UMass Medical School brain awareness week Molecular mechanism of axon degeneration. Julie Blackwood, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, Williams College co- sponsored with mathematics & computer science and environmental studies Rabies persistence in vampire bats: Immunity, pathogenesis and immigration. Michael Summers, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Insights into the mechanism of HIV-1 genome packaging and virus assembly. Sean Ryder, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, UMass Medical School RNA regulation, metabolism, and cell fate specification in the brain. Harvey Florman, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, UMass Medical School Female control of fertilization. S P R I N G 2 0 1 4 SCHAEFFER FAMILY SEMINAR SERIES Darwin’s Birthday Robert Bertin, Ph.D., Department of Biology, College of the Holy Cross co- sponsored with environmental studies Land use, climate change, and the flora of central Massachusetts. all talks are from 12:30 - 1:30 p . m. i smith labs 154 i a light lunch is served college of the holy cross i department of biology