Seminars
4:00 PM Monday, 502 Rieveschl Hall, unless noted otherwise**
Autumn Semester 2015
| Date | Speaker(s) |
| Sept 14 |
Tom Parchman Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno "Ecological genomics of adaptation and speciation in natural populations" Host lab: Tepe |
| Sept 21 |
Shelley Adamo Department of Biology, Dalhousie University Center "Reinventing yourself to survive: How immune systems reconfigure to respond to environmental stressors" Host lab: Uetz |
| Sept 28 |
Kimberly Cooper Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego "Musculoskeletal integration in hindlimb evolution of the bipedal three-toed jerboa" Host lab: Gross |
| Oct 5 |
Tim Sisson Western Wildlife Corridor "The story of Bender Mountain - How it became the best place in Hamilton County, Ohio to see spring wild flowers" Host lab: Conover |
| Oct 12 | Frances Sivakoff Department of Entomology, Ohio State University "If you build it: The consequences of wetland restoration for a rare butterfly" Host lab: Matter |
| Oct 19 |
Peter Armbruster Department of Biology, Georgetown University "The life history and molecular physiology of climatic adaptation in the invasive vector mosquito, Aedes albopictus" Host lab: Benoit |
| Oct 26 |
Dennis Mathew Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno "Functional Dissection of an Olfactory Circuit" Host lab: Rollmann |
| Nov 2 |
Arun Anantharam Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University "Secretory vesicle heterogeneity and the regulation of calcium-triggered exocytosis" Host lab: Benoit |
| Nov 9 | Kurt Gibbs Department of Biology and Chemistry, Morehead State University "Functional Recovery From Spinal Cord Injury in Xenopus laevis" Host lab: Buchholz |
| Nov 16 |
Jocelyn Biagini-Myers Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati "Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Pediatric Asthma â the NAT1 Story" Host lab: Mosley |
| Nov 23 |
Jeff Riffell Department of Biology, University Washington "Olfactory neuroecology of plant-pollinator interactions" Host lab: Rollmann |
| Date | Speaker(s) |
| Jan 25 |
Nick Teets Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky "Insect stress biology: From basic mechanisms to practical applications" Host lab: Benoit |
| Feb 1 |
Sensory Ecology Candidate Host lab: Polak |
| Feb 8 |
Annie Ray Department of Biology, Xavier University "How to lasso a longhorn: volatile pheromones as tools to monitor Cerambycidae" Host lab: Rollmann |
| Feb 15 |
Sensory Ecology Candidate Host lab: Polak |
| Feb 22 | Yun-Bo Shi National Institutes of Health "Chromatin remodeling and histone modifications in thyroid hormone-dependent adult intestinal stem cell development" Host lab: Buchholz |
| Feb 29 |
John Jellies Department of Biology, Western Michigan University "The color of up and other stories of how simple eyes encode complex visual image information" Host lab: Wagenaar |
| March 7 |
Randy Nelson Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University "Effects of light on neuroendocrine-immune interactions" Host lab: Graduate students |
| March 14 |
Mary Gardiner Department of Entomology, Ohio State University "Quantifying the value of urban vacant land for conservation and ecosystem services" Host lab: Buffam |
| March 28 |
Rita Rio Department of Biological Sciences, West Virginia University "Invertebrate microbiotas: Deciphering complexity through simplicity" Host lab: Benoit |
| April 4 | Cancelled |
| April 11 |
Vern Bingham Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University "Hippocampal properties supporting the spatial behavior of natureÃÂÃÂÃÂâ s supreme navigators" Host lab: Layne |
| April 18 |
Suzanne McGaugh College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota "Population genomics in cavefish reveals strong candidate loci" Host lab: Gross |
| April 21 (Thursday) |
UC Department of Biological Sciences Awards Ceremony at 4:00 p.m in Rieveschl 502 followed by a reception and refreshments sponsored by the Biology Graduate Student Association in Rieveschl 638. |
For information regarding these seminars, contact Dr. Joshua Benoit or Dr. Daniel Wagenaar