Calendar

Spring 2009

February 12
Heather Koopman, Assistant Professor, Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington - "whales: candles, pigs and cheese in disguise"

February 19
Mila Plavsic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Babson College, Wellesley, MA - "Small mammal responses to fire in the Okavango Delta, Botswana"

March 5
Jennifer Hood-DeGrenier, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA -  "Exploring a novel connection between regulation of cell growth and cell division"

March 26
Anja Forche, Research Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Bowdoin College - "Loss of heterozygosity: a versatile tool to study genome dynamics in Candida albicans"

April 2
Rachel Merz, Professor of Marine Biology, Swarthmore College, PA - "Worms as weavers and potters - the unexpected complexity and evolution of marine polychaetes"

April 9
Cassandra Extavour, Assistant Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University  - "Comparative aspects of germ line development"

April 16
Kelly Dakin, '02, Neuroscience Program, pathology Department, Harvard Medical School - "Hemoglobin Expression in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease"

April 23
Jennifer Morgan, Assistant Professor, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin - "Constructing new synapses after spinal cord injury"

April 30
Mark Warner, Associate Professor, Marine and Earth Studies, University of Delaware - "The impact of projected climate change on the physiological ecology of symbiotic dinoflagellates"