Fall 2010

September  2 –  Nat Wheelwright, Professor of Biology, Bowdoin College –“Family resemblance: heritability and evolutionary potential in an island bird population”

September 9 - Ron Hoy, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - “The Lovesongs of Mosquitoes”

September 16 – Jay T. Kearney, Osprey Leadership Consulting, and Sport Performance Director, U.S. Olympic Committee - “Optimization of Olympic Performance: Use of Science and Technology – Biathlon as a Model”

 

September 23 -  Lukas Keller, University of Zurich - “The consequences of inbreeding in the wild”

September 30 –  David McCobb, Cornell University - STRESS !!! natural history, electrophysiology, experimentation

October 7 – Alexa Veenema, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston College - "Impact of early life stress on social, brain, and immune function"

October 14 –  Vlad Douhovnikoff, Assistant Provessor, Department of Ecology, Simmons College, Boston -“Ecology of clonal plants – Who needs seeds anyway”

October 21 – Scott Santos, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University -“Islands under Islands: The ecology and evolution of anchialine organisms in the Pacific Basin”

October 28 –  Matthew Fuxjager, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Social Behavior, University of Wisconsin –Madison -        “How does winning adjust future fighting behavior? Unraveling the proximate causes of the winner effect”

November 4 –  Timothy Y. James, Assistant Professor and Curator of Fungi in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Herbarium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -"Origin and spread of the fungal disease linked to globally declining amphibian populations"

November 11 – Charla Lambert, NIH IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow -“Searching for signatures of natural selection in the human genome”

November 18 – Frans E. Tax, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona - “Arabidopsis as a model for understanding the regulation of fruit size in crops”