OU Botany & Microbiology Blog

All Department Graduate Students are required to attend seminar and that it is your responsibility to sign in.

BOTANY GRADUATE SEMINAR 5971 (Thursday, May 1):
(No Seminar)

MICROBIOLOGY GRADUATE SEMINAR 5971 (Friday, May 2, in GLCH 129 at 3:00pm):
Speaker: Mr. Bryan Crable (OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student)
Title: “Developing a proteomic roadmap to understanding syntrophic metabolism”

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS:

FINAL GRADE REPORT: Due Tuesday, May 13 at Noon. For your convenience, I will be making periodic deliveries to Academic Records until deadline. My last trip will be on May 13 at 10am, if you would like for me to deliver the reports for you. If you deliver the reports yourself, please submit the yellow carbon copy to the office—Department Office must maintain all the copies.
- Use dark pen
- No “W” allowed (if the student dropped, it will be changed automatically on transcript)
- For “I” to be assigned, student must be passing the course
- Sign the bottom of the page

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Meeting (Fridays at 4:30PM in RH 304): All interested individuals are welcome - students and faculty. If you have a poster to present (or would like to create one), please email Ben Holt (benholt@ou.edu).

“TABS” mid-semester course evaluation offered: The Program for Instructional Innovation (PII) offers teaching faculty at OU a free mid-semester course evaluation called “TABS.” With a mid-semester course evaluation, professors have the opportunity to alter teaching strategies based on student feedback. They provide an answer sheet and question sheet for each student as well as instructions. If you want to administer TABS this semester, contact the PII office at pii@ou.edu or 325-2323.

For Academic Planning:

May 2: Final Day for Oral Dissertation Defense & Defense of Masters Thesis
May 2: Final Day of Classes
May 9: Final Day to Deposit Thesis/Dissertation in Library
May 3-9: Final Examination Week

All Department Graduate Students are required to attend seminar and that it is your responsibility to sign in.

BOTANY GRADUATE SEMINAR 5971 (Thursday, April 24, in GLCH 310 at 4:30pm): Speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Gou (OU Botany Post Doc) Title: "Functional analysis of Arabidopsis SERK subfamily genes"

MICROBIOLOGY GRADUATE SEMINAR 5971 (Friday, April 25, in GLCH 129 at 3:00pm): Speaker: Ms. Jyotisna Saxena (OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student) Title: "Medium Development/Optimization for the production of ethanol by Clostridial strain P11"

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS:

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Meeting (Fridays at 4:30PM in RH 304): All interested individuals are welcome - students and faculty. For the next 2-3 weeks we are discussing posters from individual labs - if you have a poster to present (or would like to create one), please email Ben Holt (benholt@ou.edu).

“TABS” mid-semester course evaluation offered: The Program for Instructional Innovation (PII) offers teaching faculty at OU a free mid-semester course evaluation called “TABS.” With a mid-semester course evaluation, professors have the opportunity to alter teaching strategies based on student feedback. They provide an answer sheet and question sheet for each student as well as instructions. If you want to administer TABS this semester, contact the PII office at pii@ou.edu or 325-2323.

For Academic Planning:

May 2: Final Day for Oral Dissertation Defense & Defense of Masters Thesis
May 2: Final Day of Classes
May 3-9: Final Examination Week
May 9: Final Day to Deposit Thesis/Dissertation in Library