Seminars
Date | Speaker(s) |
Sept 28 | Dr. Richard P. Elinson "EvoDevo of direct development, an alternative frog life history" |
Oct 5 | Dr. Valeria A. Conforti "Reproductive biotechnologies for conservation of endangered cats" |
Oct 12 | No seminar |
Oct 19 | Dr. George Langford "Actin Cytoskeleton in Axonal Transport and Cell Migration: Live Cell Imaging" |
Oct 26 | Dr. Brian L. Storz "The ultimate and proximate regulation of cannibalistic tadpole development in spadefoot toads" |
Nov 2 | Dr. Robert A. Skipper, Jr "Coyne vs. Wade on Wright's Shifting Balance: Localizing Influence in Scientific Controversies" |
Nov 9 | Dr. Trevor D. Price "Ecological influences on bird speciation" |
Nov 16 | Dr. John D. Harder "Neuroendocrinology of estrus and ovulation in opossums: the role of male stimuli" |
Nov 23 | Darwin Sesquicentennial Celebration Symposium: "The Vision and Legacy of Charles Darwin" Speakers include Kenneth Petren (University of Cincinnati), Arnold Miller (University of Cincinnati), C. Owen Lovejoy (Kent State University), Mohamed Noor (Duke University, awarded the 2008 Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London), and David Quammen (Montana State University) For symposium details please see https://uc.edu/darwin/coming_events/ also Radiation Retraining |
Nov 30 | Dr. David Weisrock "New perspectives on species delimitation and phylogeny reconstruction: examples from salamanders and lemurs" |
Date | Speaker(s) |
Jan 4 | Dr. Christina Grozinger "Genomics and evolution of chemical communication systems in social insects" |
Jan 11 | Dr. Carolyn Price "New telomere proteins that are involved in telomere replication and de novo telomere synthesis" |
Jan 18 | Dr. Martin Luther King's Day Holiday |
Jan 25 | Dr. Greg Byrnes "On a wing and a prayer: ecological and biomechanical insights into the origins of gliding in mammals" |
Feb 1 | Dr. John Klein and Tom Borgman "So Many Deer, So Little Biodiversity" and "Good Plants Gone Bad" |
Feb 8 | Dr. Steven de Belle and "Pavlov's Flies: Behavioral Neurobiology of Learning & Memory in Drosophila" |
Feb 15 | Dr. Ivan Gomez-Mestre "'From plasticity to diversity: the role of plasticity in evolution from an amphibian perspective" |
Feb 22 | Dr. Robert J. Denver "Stress hormones: mediators of developmental plasticity" |
Mar 1 | Dr. Theodore Morgan "The genomics and evolution of thermotolerance in Drosophila" |
Mar 8 | Dr. Nusha Keyghobadi "Issues of scale in landscape genetics: case studies using insects" |
Date | Speaker(s) |
Mar 29 | Dr. Madhuri Kango-Singh "The role of Hippo signaling pathway in development and in cancer" |
Apr 5 | Dr. Rudolf Raff "Hunting the First Embryos" |
Apr 12 | Dr. Amy Henrici "Digging through the past: the evolution of burrowing in frogs" |
Apr 19 | Dr. James Tiedje "The New Science of Metagenomics: Promises, Advances, Challenges" Co-sponsorship by the Fellows of the Graduate School and Sigma Xi |
Apr 26 | Dr. Karin Pfennig "The evolutionary and ecological implications of fitness trade-offs in mate recognition" |
May 3 | Dr. Anand Ray "Novel approaches to modify olfactory system function in insects" |
May 10 | Dr. David Pfennig "Polyphenism and the origins of diversity" |
May 17 | Dr. John Darling "More than one way to invade: lessons from genetic studies of invasive Carcinus shore crabs" Host lab: Petren |
May 24 | Dr. Carol Lee "Evolution of ionic regulation during habitat invasions" |
May 31 | Memorial Day Holiday |