BIOL 252 Seminar Series 2009-2010
Thursdays at 4:10 pm • Genomics Auditorium
Refreshments served beforehand in the Moore Room (Spieth 3365).
Please contact the host to make an appointment with any of the speakers.
Current schedule:
Fall Quarter, 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution | host |
| 01-Oct-09 | Ryan Skophammer | "Uncovering Deep Prokayrotic Relationships to Root the Tree of Life" | UC Riverside | Sachs |
| 08-Oct-09 | Walter Metzner | "Expression of the 'Language Gene' FoxP2 in Echolocating and Non-Echolocating Bats and how it Affects Complex Vocal Behaviors" | UCLA | Altshuler |
| 15-Oct-09 | Nga Nguyen | "Behavioral Endocrinology of Motherhood and Reproduction in Wild East African Primates" | California State University - Fullerton | Saltzman |
| 22-Oct-09 | Renata Duraes | "The Paradox of the Lek is Dead: Long Live the Paradox of the Lek! Understanding Lek Behavior in Manakin Birds" | UCLA | Zuk |
| 29-Oct-09 | Amro Hadoum | "Success and Failure of Embryo Defenses in a Rapidly Changing World" | Scripps Oceanographic | Cardullo |
| 05-Nov-09 | Graham Slater | "Biomechanical Approaches to Studying the Evolution of Carnial Shape in Carnivores" | UCLA | Reznick |
| 12-Nov-09 | Helen Regan | "Assessing Risks to Native Plants Under Global Change" | UC Riverside | Department |
| 19-Nov-09 | Ken Dial | "Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Locomotor Development in Birds" | University of Montana | Altshuler |
| 26-Nov-09 | Academic Holiday | |||
| 03-Dec-09 | Anne Hirsch | "Stuck On You - Initiating Symbiotic Interactions Between Microbes and Plants" | UCLA | Sachs |
Winter Quarter, 2010
| 07-Jan-10 | Aimee Sue Dunlap | "Components of change in the evolution of learning and information use" | University of Arizona | Zuk |
| 14-Jan-10 | Erol Akcay | "The evolution of games and how to play them" | National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) | Sachs |
| 21-Jan-10 | Phil Pister | "Ethics and the Environmental Biologist" | Desert Fishes Council | Hammond |
| 28-Jan-10 | Jonathan Shurin | "Environmental Stability and Species Diversity in Plankton" | UBC | Anderson |
| 04-Feb-10 | George W. Gilchrist | "Adaptation in a Changing World: Lessons from some Little Flies" | National Science Foundation | Roff |
| 11-Feb-10 | Matt Daugherty | "Vector Behavior Affects Transmission Efficiency and Spread of a Generalist Plant Pathogen" | UC Riverside | Sachs |
| 18-Feb-10 | Trynke De Jong | "Neurobiological and Behavioral Correlates of Paternal Care in a Biparental Rodent Species, Peromyscus californicus" | UC Riverside | Saltzman |
| 25-Feb-10 | Sang-Hee Lee | "Evolution of Human Longevity" | UC Riverside | Fairbairn |
| 04-Mar-10 | Anupama Dahanukar | "Taste Coding in Drosophila: A Molecular Genetic Approach to Understanding Chemosensory Behavior" | UC Riverside | Altshuler |
| 11-Mar-10 | Jennifer Balch | "Frontier Wildfire in the Amazon: Local to Global Consequences of Human-Altered Fire Regimes in Tropical Forests" | NCEAS/UCSB | Regan |
Spring Quarter, 2010
| 01-Apr-10 | Len Nunney | "Genomics for Dummies: An Evolutionary Study of the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Xylella fastidiosa" | UCR | Department |
| 08-Apr-10 | Phil Pister | "Ethics and the Environmental Biologist" | Desert Fishes Council | Hammond |
| 15-Apr-10 | Jennifer Martiny | "The Functional Significance of Microbial Biogeography (in Salt Marshes)" | UC Irvine | Sachs |
| 22-Apr-10 | Jeff Arendt | "The Usual Suspects and a New One: Explaining Why Ectotherms are Larger in the Cold" | UCR | Department |
| 29-Apr-10 | Dr. Jatin Burniston | "Investigating Muscle Adaptation Using Proteomic Techniques" | TBA | Garland |
| 06-May-10 | Priyanga Amarasekare | TBA | UCLA | Regan |
| 13-May-10 | Alex van der Bliek | "Mitochondrial Fission, Fusion and Other Foibles" | UCLA | Maduro |
| 20-May-10 | Sandy Bernstein | "An Integrative Approach to Studying Muscle Myosin Function" | SDSU | Altshuler |
| 27-May-10 | Tim D. White | TBA | Hammond | |
| 03-June-10 | Robin Nelson | TBA | UCR | Zuk |