Randall Seminar Series

Since 2004 the Randall Seminar Series has featured one or two seminars per year by accomplished women in a variety of scientific fields.These seminars are accompanied by scheduled opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty to visit more informally with the speakers and talk about career and personal issues facing women in the sciences today.

This interdisciplinary seminar project is funded by Dr. Jan Randall, a member of the science faculty at San Francisco State University and an alumna of the University of Idaho Department of Biological Sciences. One of the most important themes in Dr. Randall’s career has been her concern for the professional development of women, and particularly women in scientific fields. In 2003, she and her husband, Bruce McEvoy, presented the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Idaho with an endowment to be used over the subsequent five years toward academic enrichment for women in science at UI. This five year gift was renewed in 2008.

2012-2013 Speakers

Dr. Margaret (Peg) Riley, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

The tip of the iceberg: the extraordinary diversity of antibiotic resistance in remote populations of bacteria

Date/Time: April 16, 2012 at 3:30 PM    SEMINAR CANCELLED
Location: Whitewater Room, U of I Commons

The Randall Seminar series is co-sponsoring the following seminars in the Department of Biological Sciences:

Dr. Donna Holmes, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University

Of mice and menopause: the comparative biology of ovarian aging

Date/Time:  March 6, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Location: LSS 277

Dr. Janet Jansson, Department of Ecology, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Illumina-tion of soil microbial functions using metagenomics

Date/Time:  February 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Location: LSS 277

Dr. Laura Lavine, Department of Entomology, Washington State University 

Insulin signaling is a mechanism for exaggerated growth and conditional expression of a weapon of sexual selection

Date/Time:  January 31, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Location: LSS 277

Minoti Hiremath, Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University

Crosstalk between parathyroid hormone related protein and cell signaling pathways in mammary development and breast cancer

Date/Time:  January 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Location: LSS 277

Dr. Susan Huse, Josephine Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Comparing Microbial Communities using DNA Clustering

Date/Time: November 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Location: LSS 277

Marilyn Parsons, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

Ticket to ride: Trafficking of membrane proteins to the relict chloroplast of Toxoplasm

Date/Time: October 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Location: LSS 277