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Department Seminar

 

Fall 2007
 (unless otherwise noted, seminars are held in
Life Sciences 112 at 3:00 PM on Friday afternoons)

Date

Title/Speaker

November 9

Dr. George Folkerts
Auburn University
Evolution in the pitcher plant genus Sarracenia

November 16

Dr. Willie Wilson (hosted by Tony Moss)
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Berry stone viruses: 30-years of climate control and face cream

November 30

Dr. Meena Narshimhan (hosted by Narendra Singh)

Purdue University

Multitasking By Plant PR-5 (Thaumatin-like) Proteins

December 7

Dr. Mike Winterrowd (hosted by Steve Dobson)

Macon State College

Gene Dynamics in the Colonially Breeding Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus: Estimating Effective Population Size via Two Theoretical Approaches

 

 

Spring 2008
 (unless otherwise noted, seminars are held in
Life Sciences 112 at 3:00 PM on Friday afternoons)

Date

Title/Speaker

January 11
 

No Seminar Scheduled

January 18

Dr. Volker Brozel

South Dakota State University

Associate professor
 

"Dinner with Bacillus: A systems biology approach to characterizing growth of a soil bacterium"
January 25

Dr. Brian Helmuth

Associate professor

University of South Carolina
 

Ecological forecasting of rocky intertidal ecosystems:  triaging the train wreck of climate change
February 1
No Seminar Scheduled
February 8
No Seminar Scheduled

February 15

Dr. Ya-Xiong Tao
Assistant Professor College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University

Neural Melanocortin Receptors and Energy Homeostasis-- Insights from Naturally Occurring Mutations

February 22**

Dr. Dan Simberloff
Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science
University of Tennessee – Knoxville

Birds of the Solomon Islands: the domain of assembly rules and the equilibrium theory of island biogeography
February 29
Dr. Eugenio Carpizo-Ituarte
 Professor
Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Ensenada, Mexico

Sea urchin metamorphosis: From environmental cues to morphogenetic changes during settlement
March 7
Dr. Lisa Rapaport
 Adjunct Assistant Professor
Clemson University

Development of foraging behavior in wild golden lion tamarins: monkey see, monkey do?
March 14
Dr. James (Eddie) Watkins
Mercer Postdoctoral Fellow Arnold Arboretum,
Harvard University

Watergate: Tapping into the hydraulics of early land plants
March 21
Spring Break

March 28**

Dr. Nalini Nadkarni

Professor

Evergreen State College
 

Canopy Communities as Keystone Components of Rainforest Ecosystems

April 4**

Dr. Jim Leebens-Mack

Associate Professor

University of Georgia
 

Sex determination and the origin of dioecy in the genus Asparagus

April 11

Dr. Nanette Chadwick

Associate Professor

Auburn University
 

 Title: TBA

April 18**

Dr. John Burke

University of Georgia
 

Genetics and the Evolution of Cultivated Sunflower

April 25**

Dr. Laura Runyen-Janecky

Assistant Professor

University of Richmond
 

Life on the inside: stories of intracellular bacteria


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