Biology institute offers Life Science Hour on Friday afternoons

October 5, 2016

University Relations

Immunodominance, microbial ecology, sled dogs and the Beringia region will be featured topics during the Institute of Arctic Biology's Life Science Hour talks in October.

The public talks are every Friday at 3 p.m. in the Murie Building auditorium. Details follow:

• Oct. 7 — Dr. Andrea Ferrante, assistant professor of immunology with IAB and the Department of Biology and Wildlife will discuss genetic, structural and thermodynamic determinants of immunodominance.


• Oct. 14 — Dr. Vincent B. Young, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, will appear as a special guest of the Alaska Branch of American Society of Microbiology to describe the microbial ecology of Clostridium difficile infection.


• Oct. 21 — Kriya Dunlap, assistant professor of biochemistry with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and IAB, will discuss sled dogs as a model for human health.


• Oct. 28 — Steffi Ickert-Bond, associate professor of botany and curator of the UA Museum of the North's herbarium will discuss how systematics meet ecology, paleontology and genomics at the crossroads of Beringia and beyond.

Download a flier for the talks here.