Biomineralization Brown Bag

12:00-1300

MGG Conference Room (Bring Lunch)

January 10 Introduction (Swart)

Ries 2006

Stanley 2006

January 17 Coral Calcification (Langdon)

Cohen and McConnaughey (2003)

January 24 More Coral Calcification (Herman Wirshing)

Allemand et al (2004)

January 31 No Meeting

February 7 Nutrients and calcification in corals(Jim Klaus)

Marubini and Davies (1996)

14 No Seminar

21 Calcification and Photosynthesis (Andrew Baker)

Al Horani et al. (2003)

28 Primary Calcification Processes (Remy Okazaki) (ppt)

Raz-Bahat et al. (2006)

March 7 Guest Seminar Isabelle Daoust

Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: Structural Hierarchy from the Nanoscale ..

Silicatein alpha : Cathepsin L-like protein in sponge biosilica

Degradative calcification of a modern siliceous sponge….

14 Spring Break

21 Bicarbonate secretion in Fish (Josi Taylor)

Wilson and Grosell (2003)

28 Ouabain-sensitive bicarbonate secretion in fish

(Janet Genz) (presentation)

Grosell and Genz (2006)

April 4 No Seminar

11 Photosynthesis-Induced Biofilm Calcification and Calcium Concentrations in Phanerozoic Oceans

Noah

18 Early mineralization in a freshwater snail (Sue Ebanks)

Marzen et al (2003)

25 The Incorporation of Strontium into Coral Skeletons (Amanda Waite)

Weber (1973)

Marshall and McCulloch (2002)

Last Revised: January 9^th 2007