Calendar
Calendar
Fall 2009
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursday's in Druckenmiller Hall room 20 at 4:00 pm
Thursday, September 10
James Walters, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
"Sexual selection and the molecular evolution of reproductive proteins in Heliconius butterflies"
Thursday, September 24
John Stella, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
"A river runs through it: physical drivers of riparian forest development in arid regions"
Thursday, October 1
Ricca Gardner, Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach
"Cell Proliferation in the Septo-Hippocampal Pathway: Season, Lesion, and Species Effects"
Thursday, October 8
Erica Larschan, Assistant Professor, MCB Department, Brown University
"Dosage compensation in Drosophila: A complex voyage to the X chromosome"
Thursday, October 15
Ken Foreman, Director, Environmental Science Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
"Disruption of the Global Nitrogen Cycle, Dead Zones, and Innovative strategies for Remediating Coastal Nutrient Pollution on Cape Cod"
Thursday, October 22
Sam Zeeman, ETH, Institute of Plant Science, Zurich, Switzerland
"Understanding the Metabolism of Starch-the Basis of our Nutrition and a Key Renewable Resource from Plants"
Thursday, October 29
Elissa Lei, Laboratory Cellular & Developmental Biology, {NIH} National Institute of Health
"RNA dependent higher order chromatin organization"
Thursday, November 5
Lynn Fletcher, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
"Charismatic microfauna: Social lives of little creatures"
Thursday, November 12
Koty Sharp, Ocean Genome Legacy
"Bacterial Communities in Early Life Stages of Tropical Reef Corals"
Thursday, November 19
Peter Woodruff. Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Bowdoin College
Monday, December 7
Edward Burtt, Professor, Department of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan
"Life in a Forest of Feathers"
Thursday, December 10
Eve Marder, Professor of Biology, Modulation of Neural Networks, Brandeis University