Seminars

4:00 PM Monday, 502 Rieveschl Hall, unless noted otherwise**

Autumn Semester 2016
Date Speaker(s)
Sept 12


Mike McManus
Environmental Protection Agency
"Watershed Thinking: Spatial predictions of nutrient concentrations on stream networks"
Host lab: Buffam/Tepe
Sept 19



Chih-ying Su
Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego
"Modulation of pheromone sensitivity and courtship behavior by a reproductive hormone"
Host lab: Rollmann
Sept 26



Susan Gershman
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University
"Tricks of the trade-off, and how to smell like a winner: Sexual selection in three crickets and fly"
Host lab: Polak
Oct 3



Steve Horvick
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University
"When does increased population genetic diversity enhance colonization success?"
Host lab: Culley
Oct 10



Leah C. Kottyan
Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Dissecting the genetics of chronic allergic disease"
Host lab: Benoit
Oct 17



Duane McKenna
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis
"Genes and genomes reveal key functional and evolutionary innovations at the beetle-plant interface"
Host lab: DeBry
Oct 24



Rachel Whitaker
The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois
"The architecture of Sulfolobus islandicus genome"
Host lab: Hamilton
Oct 31



Edwin Griff
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati
"Integrating the arts improves learning"
Host lab: Benoit
Nov 7



Erin Haynes
Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati
"Manganese exposure and pediatric neurodevelopment"
Host lab: Mosley
Nov 14



Elizabeth Jakob
Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"How jumping spiders see the world"
Host lab: Uetz
Nov 21



Brooke Crawley
Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati
"Can spatial variability in strontium isotopes help protect endangered wildlife in Madagascar?"
Host lab: Hamilton
Nov 28



Jason Rasgon
Department of Entomology, Penn State University
"Wolbachia-induced pathogen interference phenotypes are highly variable: a problem for disease control?"
Host lab: Benoit
Spring Semester 2017
Date Speaker(s)
Jan 23


Takuya Konishi
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati
"The last 20 million years of mosasaur evolution: here comes again but for the last time, a fishy reptile"
Host lab: Benoit/Hamilton
Jan 30



Kenneth Tankersly
Division of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati
"Mass extinctions and climate change"
Host lab: Conover
Feb 6



Water Cluster Candidate
Host lab: Debry/Hamilton
Feb 13



Water Cluster Candidate
Host lab: Debry/Hamilton

 

Feb 20



Water Cluster Candidate
Host lab: Debry/Hamilton
Feb 27



Peter Piermarini
Department of Entomology, Ohio State University
Host lab: Benoit
Mar 6



Heather Farrington
Cincinnati Museum Center
Host lab: Lawson
Mar 20



Barney Lipscomb
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Host lab: Tepe
Mar 27



To be Determined
Host lab: To be determined
Apr 3



Yana Kamberov
Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Host lab: Gross
Apr 10



Laura Hurley
Department of Biology, Indiana University
Host lab: BGSA
Apr 17



UC Department of Biological Sciences Awards Ceremony

For information regarding these seminars, contact Dr. Joshua Benoit or Dr. Trinity Hamilton

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