Seminars 2018-2019
| Date | Speaker(s) and Topic |
| Aug 27 |
LaTonya Jackson Department of Biology, Philander Smith College "Fish on Birth Control" Host: Dr. Margaret Hanson |
| Sept 10 |
Michael Booth Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati "There and Back Again: Fish Behavior as a Driver of Ecosystem Structure and Ecosystem Structure as Regulator of Fish Behavior" Host lab: Rowe |
| Sept 17 |
Ron Hoy Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University "Making Sense of Communication Signals in Mosquitos and Spiders" Host lab: Buschbeck |
| Sept 24 |
Balint Kacsoh Dartmouth-Geisel School of Medicine "Elucidating Genes, Circuits, and Behavior in a Novel Drosophila Social Learning and Memory Paradigm" Host lab: Benoit |
| Oct 1 |
Rob Baker Department of Biology, Miami University "Developmental Genetics for Sustainable Agriculture" Host lab: Tepe |
| Oct 8 |
Duncan Irschick Biology Department, University of Massachusetts-Amherst "Animal Attraction: Bioinspiration and Life in 3-D" Host lab: Lawson/Buchholz |
| Oct 15 |
Rebecca German Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Northeast Ohio Medical University "Functional Integration in Feeding: Lessons from Mammalian Swallowing" Host lab: Cameron/Jayne |
| Oct 22 |
Tyrone Hayes Department of Integrated Biology, University of California, Berkeley "TBA" Host lab: Lawson/Buchholz |
| Oct 29 |
Arnaud Martin Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University "Do Butterflies Dream of Genetic Tattoos? Exploring the Genotype-Phenotype Map Using CRISPR and a Knowledge-base of the Eukaryote Genetics Literature" Host lab: Morehouse |
| Nov 5 |
Dipti Nayak University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "CRISPR Guided Insights into the Physiology and Evolution of Methanogenic Archaea" Host lab: Rowe |
| Nov 19 |
Nick Rohner Stowers Institute for Medical Research "Metabolic Evolution in Cavefish" Host lab: Gross |
| Nov 26 |
Alex Filazzola York University "Not All Facilitation is the Same: Examining Mechanisms of Positive Interactions" Host lab: Matter |
| Dec 3 |
Matt Friedman University of Michigan "Scales of phenotypic diversification: from living fossils to adaptive radiations" Host lab: Konishi |
| Date | Speaker(s) and Topic |
| Jan 14 |
Kathyrn Spilios Department of Biology, Boston University "Enhancing Student Outcomesâ¦Itâs Not Just About Biology" Host lab: Rowe |
| Jan 28 |
Jason Slot Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University "Psilocybe Genomics and the Evolution of Magic Mushroom Alkaloids" Host lab: Tepe |
| Feb 4 |
Lee Dugatkin Department of Biology & Behavior, University of Louisville "How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog" Host lab: Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association |
| Mar 11 | Allison Roy USGS Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit "Stream Restoration Through Dam Removal: Where to Begin" Host lab: Booth |
| Mar 25 |
Oscar Schofield Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University "TBA" Host lab: Benoit |
| Apr 1 |
Stephanie Pierce Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University "Fish out of Water: Did Our Earliest Ancestors Walk onto Land?" Host lab: Konishi |
| Apr 8 |
Christine Parent Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho "Volcanic Islands as Dynamic Models for the Study of Evolutionary Diversification" Host lab: Lawson |
| Apr 15 |
Kentaro Arikawa Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, Sokendai-Hayama "Another View of Our World - Neuroethology of Butterfly Color Vision" Host lab: Morehouse |
| Apr 22 |
Awards Ceremony Awards Ceremony Host: Department of Biology |
For information regarding these seminars, contact Dr. Annette Rowe or Dr. Michael Booth