Calendar
Calendar
Fall 2007
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursday's in Druckenmiller Hall room 20 at 4:00 pm
Paul Barber
Assistant Professor of Biology, Boston College
“Evolution and Conservation of High Marine Biodiversity in the Indonesian Archipelago”
September 13, 2007
Mark Bertness
Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
“Evolution and conservation of high marine biodiversity in the Indonesian Archipelago”
September 20, 2007
Nick Gotelli
Professor of Biology, University of Vermont
"The Ecological Impacts of Nitrogen Deposition: Insights from the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Sarracenia purpurea"
Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Mathematical Biology Seminar Series
September 20, 2007, 6:00 p.m. Searles 315
Nick Gotelli
Professor of Biology, University of Vermont
"Community Assembly: From Small to Large Spatial Scales"
September 27, 2007
Scott Santagata
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland
"Effect of osmotic shock as a management strategy to reduce transfers of non-indigenous species among low-salinity ports by ships"
October 4, 2007 - 1st Honors Seminar
James Lewis
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University
"Effects of introduced species on Northeastern forests"
October 11, 2007
Josh Kavaler
Assistant Professor of Biology, Colby College
"Sense and sense ability: D-Pax2 function in Drosophila sensory system development"
October 18, 2007 - 2nd Honors Seminar
Anthony LaMantia
Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Tale of Two Neurons: Specifying neural precursor cells in the mammalian olfactory system"
October 25, 2007
Nick Wolff, Aquatic Systems Group, University of Southern Maine
"Beneath the Waves: Plankton Behavior, Internal Waves and Trophic Linkages at a Biological Hotspot 40 Miles Offshore of Portland, ME"
November 1, 2007
Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Mathematical Biology Seminar Series
November 8, 2007
Liam O'Brien,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Colby College
"The Ins and Outs of Diagnostic and Screening Tests"
November 15, 2007
Paula Schlax
Department of Biological Chemistry, Bates College
"Roles of RNA Sequence and Structure in the Environmental Stress Response in Bacteria"
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Nicholas Putnam, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley "Reconstructing Ancient Transitions in Metazoan Genome Organization"
November 29, 2007
Jennifer A. Kennell, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan "The Wnt Beneath my Wings: Genomic approaches to studying Wnt signaling in Drosophila"
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Jack R. Bateman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston "Interchromosomal interactions in Drosophila"
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Nadia A. Ayoub, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside "Evolutionary genomics of spider silk diversity"