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 | TBA | 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 | National Science Foundation | Roff | |
| 11-Feb-10 | Matt Daugherty | TBA | UC Riverside | Sachs |
| 18-Feb-10 | Sharon Swartz | TBA | Brown University | Altshuler |
| 25-Feb-10 | Sang-Hee Lee | UC Riverside | Fairbairn | |
| 04-Mar-10 | Anupama Dahanukar | TBA | UC Riverside | Altshuler |
| 11-Mar-10 | Jennifer Balch | TBA | NCEAS/UCSB | Regan |
Spring Quarter, 2010
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| 08-Apr-10 | ||||
| 15-Apr-10 | Jennifer Martiny | TBA | UC Irvine | Sachs |
| 22-Apr-10 | ||||
| 29-Apr-10 | ||||
| 06-May-10 | Priyanga Amarasekare | TBA | UCLA | Regan |
| 13-May-10 | ||||
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| 03-June-10 |