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Biology Colloquium

BIOL 252 Seminar Series 2007-2008

Thursdays at 4:10 pm • Spieth 2200
(Seminars by job candidates may have different days, times, and locations)
Refreshments served beforehand in the Darwin Room (Spieth 1239).

Please contact the host to make an appointment with any of the speakers.

Current schedule:

Fall Quarter, 2007
date speaker title   institution host
11 October Kenneth Welch Fueling vertebrate hovering flight University of California, Riverside Doug Altshuler
18 October Massimo Piglucci Making sense of evolution: The conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology Stony Brook Univeristy Len Nunney
25 October Leonard Nunney Lineage selection and the population genetics of cancer University of California, Riverside
1 November Craig Heller Pushing the limits of human performance through the regulation of body temperature Stanford University Rich Cardullo
8 November Trynke de Jong Sexual behavior in rats and guinea pigs: Role of serotonin and neuropeptides Utrecht University, Netherlands Wendy Saltzman
15 November Morris Maduro Structure and evolution of a gene regulatory network in Nematodes University of California, Riverside Rich Cardullo
29 November Greg Russell Development at high altitude and aerobic metabolism in the deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus PhD Defense,
University of California, Riverside
6 December Khaleel Razak Neural adaptations in a gleaning bat, Antrozous pallidus University of California, Riverside Joel Sachs

WInter Quarter, 2008
date speaker title   institution host
10 January Elaine Bearer TBD Brown University Leah Haimo
17 January Michael Allen Mycorrhizae and C/N dynamics in Ecosystems: Integrating scales and processes University of California, Riverside Department
24 January Helen Regan Can endangered and threatened species listing protocols predict extinction? University of California, Riverside Department
31 January Kevin Hovel Linking lobsters with benthic landscapes: controls on American lobster population dynamics in New England waters San Diego State University Helen Regan
7 February Tracy Regan Developing quantitative criteria for listing species under the Endangered Species Act Southwest Fisheries Science Center
NOAA, La Jolla 		Helen Regan
14 February Louis Santiago TBA University of California Riverside Helen Regan
21 February Anand Ray The molecular basis of olfaction in Drosophila University of California, Riverside Wendy Saltzman
28 February Anthony Leonardo Complex dynamics and simple population codes in a retinal target tracking circuit Janelia Farm Doug Altshuler
6 March Cancelled
13 March Jeff Arendt Is resource induced morphological plasticity adaptive? Cost and benefits of mouth size in spadefoot toad tadpoles. University of California, Riverside Department

Spring Quarter, 2008
date speaker title   institution host
3 April     Joel Sachs The origins and breakdown of a plant-bacterial mutualism University of California, Riverside host department
10 April Chris Moyes Origins of variation in the muscle bioenergetic phenotype Queen's University Ted Garland
17 April CANCELLATION -- no speaker today
24 April Brian Trainor Environmental regulation of estrogen-dependent social behavior University of California, Davis Wendy Saltzman
1 May John Swaddle How noise and neighbors change mate preferences: environmental mechanisms in sexual selection College of William & Mary Marlene Zuk
8 May Paul S. Katz Homology and Homoplasy in Neural Circuits Georgia State University Doug Altshuler
15 May Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra Demography and selection: nucleotides and transposons in Arabidopsis lyrata University of California, Irvine TBD
22 May Rob DeSalle A Museum Case's View of Genomics American Museum of Natural History John Gatesy
29 May Robin Tinghitella Contributions to the rapid evolutionary loss of a sexual signal: Islands, parasites, and mating behavior in the Polynesian field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus PhD Defense
University of California, Riverside		 Marlene Zuk
5 June Scott Kelly       Phenotypic plasticity in house mice selectively bred for high voluntary locomotor activity PhD Defense
University of California, Riverside		 Ted Garland