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Biology Colloquia and Seminars

Spring 2012 Schedule

All located in 168 Noland Hall, Friday at 3:30p, unless otherwise noted*.



Date Title Speaker Sponsor
Jan 27 Digestive physiology: A view from molecules to ecosystem William Karasov, UW-Madison Stephen Gammie
Feb 3 Global Limnology and the Global Carbon Cycle John Downing, Iowa State University Jake Walsh
Feb 10
Clades and climate change: comparing notes with Thoreau Chuck Davis, Harvard University David Baum
Feb 17 Throwing open the "window of speciation" David Baum, UW-Madison --
Feb 24 Speciation among two killifish species: adaptation to salinity and reproductive isolation Becky Fuller, University of Illinois Carol Lee
Mar 2 The Andean tuber Oxalis tuberosa as an example for study of distribution of genetic diversity of clonally propagated crops Eve Emshwiller Ken Sytsma
Mar 9 Bark beetle outbreaks in western conifer ecosystems: Constraints, drivers, and how we’ve made a difficult lifestyle easier Ken Raffa Eve Emshwiller
Mar 16 Architecture without a blueprint: how the acentrosomal plant cortical microtubules form ordered arrays Ram Dixit, Washington University Simon Gilroy
Mar 23 How far do pollinators move plant genes via pollen? Johanne Brunet, UW-Madison --
Mar 28
Wisconsin Ecology Symposium
Mar 30 Genes, jeans, and genomes: exploring the mysteries of polyploidy in cotton Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University Tom Givnish
Apr 6
No Zoology colloquium
Apr 13 Phylogenomics and the age of speciation events: dating the origin of mammalian Plasmodium parasites Joana Silva, Institute for Genome Sciences Carol Lee
Apr 20 Indirect effects of top predators and direct effects of rodent consumers in terrestrial food webs John Maron, University of Montana John Orrock
Apr 27 Honeybee Democracy
Special Emlen Lecture
Thomas Seeley, Cornell University Carol Lee
May 4 Systems Approaches to Unravel Plant Gene Regulatory Networks Erich Grotewold, Ohio State University Marisa Otegui
May 11 The Evolution and Development of Arthropod Body Patterning Nipam Patel, UC-Berkeley Jeff Hardin
May 18 Evolution of Extreme Traits: Insulin signalling as a mechanism for exaggerated growth and conditional expression of a weapon of sexual selection Laura Lavine, Washington State University Carol Lee
 
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