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COLLOQUIA AND SEMINARS

Fall 2008 Schedule

All located in Rm 168 Noland at 3:30, unless otherwise noted*.
Coffee and cookies served in Rm 163 at 3:10.

Date Title Speaker Sponsor
Sept 12 -- -- --
Sept 19 -- -- --
Sept 26 The Altered States of San Francisco Bay: Surprises from 3 Decades of Observation Jim Cloern, USGS - Menlo Park Jake Vander Zanden
Oct 3 -- -- --
Oct 10 Birds of a Feather: Evolution of Sociality and the Social Brain Jim Goodson, Indiana University Lauren Riters
Oct 17
No Zoology colloqiuim - Annual Ecology Symposium sponsored by Wisconsin Ecology Group
Oct 24 Climatic and top-down herbivory controls on late-glacial no-analog plant communities Jack Williams
UW Geography		 Andy Peters
Oct 31 SNPs vs. microsatellites in population genetics Bret Payseur, UW Genetics Andy Peters
Nov 7 How Rapid Contemporary Evolution Alters Ecological Processes Nelson Hairston, Cornell University Carol Lee/ Bobbi Peckarsky
Nov 14 -- John Hawks, UW Anthropology Andy Peters
Nov 21 Building a brain: from trascription to morphogenesis Molly Nyholm, UW Zoology Jenya Grinblat
Nov 28
Thanksgiving weekend - no seminar----
Dec 5      
       

Spring 2008 Schedule

Date Title (click for flyer) Speaker Host
Jan 25 Modeling species range shifts in response to climate change Tom Stohlgren, USGS emailAlycia Crall
Feb 1 Why do birds sing? Neuroendocrine regulation of socially-appropriate vocal communication Lauren Riters, Zoology emailTony Ives
Feb 8 Reconstitution of contractile FtsZ rings in liposomes (bacterial cytokinesis) Harold Erickson, Duke Univ. Med. Center email
Feb 15 Is your "sister" a copycat? Using phylogeny to explain species invasion, extinction and response to disturbance Matt Helmus emailTony Ives
Feb 22 Environmental contaminants, short and long term reproductive outcomes.  The perspective of a Neonatologist caring for sick babies. Paul Winchester, MD emailWarren Porter
Feb 29 Climate Change and Animal Change:  Calculating Consequences of Behavioral and Evolutionary Adaptations Influencing Future Distributions Warren Porter emailWarren Porter
Mar 7    
Mar 14    
Mar 21 Spring Break!  

Mar 25
Tuesday!

 4:00 pm Tues, March 25
An Ecological Thriller:  Understanding the Decline of the Western Alaskan Steller Sea Lion by Assessing the Evidence Concerning Multiple Hypotheses 		Marc Mangel, UC Santa Cruz emailStephanie Schmidt
April 4 Don't mess with mama!  The neuroendocrine regulation of maternal defense behavior in mice Kimberly D'Anna, PhD exit seminar email Stephen Gammie
Apr 11 Breeding context-dependent neural regulation of singing behavior in male European starlings Sarah Heimovics emailLauren Riters
Apr 18 The non-models weigh in: Insights into the origin, pattern, and regeneration of vertebrate appendages Randall Dahn emailKurt Amann
Apr 25 Formin' Actin filaments for cell division:
fission yeast versus worms		 David Kovar, U of Chicago emailKurt Amann
May 2    
May 9 Food web linkages: understanding cross-habitat connections and allochthonous subsidies in lake ecosystems Chris Solomon emailJake Vander Zanden
     

 

 
 
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