Seminar/Symposia schedule

2008 AGA Symposium "Genetics and Genomics of Behavior"

Seminars, Symposia and Workshops

Spring 2008 Departmental Seminar Listing

The Genetics seminar series be on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. in 3503 Gardner Hall unless otherwise indicated. Please stay posted for new information as it becomes available.

Date	Time	Speaker and Affiliation	Title	Host
Thurs., Jan. 31 101 David Clark Labs	4:00 p.m.	Dr. John G. Hildebrand Division of Neurobiology University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Seminar: "Explorations of a 'Simple' Olfactory System"	Robert Grossfeld
Mon., Feb. 11	1:30 p.m.	Dr. Jeffrey Thorne Depts. of Genetics and Statistics NCSU Raleigh, NC	"Adding Phenotype and Population Genetics to Interspecific Evolution"	Bill Atchley
Mon., Feb. 18	1:30 p.m.	Dr. Trudy F.C. Mackay Dept. of Genetics NCSU Raleigh, NC	W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Seminar: "Quantitative Genetics of Behavior: Lessons from Drosophila"	Fred Gould
Mon., Feb. 25	1:30 p.m.	Dr. Stephen A. Goff Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC	"The Past, Present, and Future of Plant Genomics"	Steve Spiker
Mon., Mar. 10 Talley Student Center, Grand Ballroom	4:00 p.m.	Dr. Linda B. Buck Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute Seattle, WA	W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Seminar: "Olfactory Sensing in Mammals"	Robert Anholt
Fri., Mar. 14		32nd Annual Genetics Graduate Student Symposium
Mon., Mar. 24	1:30 p.m.	Dr. Gregory A. Wray Dept. of Biology and Director, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy for Evolutionary Biology Duke University Durham, NC	"Positive Selection on Noncoding Sequences during Human Evolution: From Genome to Nucleotide"	Genetics Graduate Students
Mon. Mar. 31 Talley Student Center, Grand Ballroom	4:00 p.m.	Dr. Francisco J. Ayala University of California Irvine, CA	W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Seminar: "The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Behavior"	Trudy Mackay
Mon., Apr. 7	1:30 p.m.	Dr. Sergey Gavrilets Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Dept. of Mathematics University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN	"Dynamic Patterns of Adaptive Radiation"	Owen McMillan
Mon., Apr.14	1:30 p.m.	Dr. Alison Motsinger-Reif Dept. of Statistics NCSU Raleigh, NC	"Exhaustive SNP Exploration: A Filter Method for Genome-Wide Association Studies that Considers Interactions"	Jeff Thorne
Mon., Apr.21	11:00. a.m.	Dr. David W. Threadgill Dept. of Genetics UNC-CH School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC	"Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor: An Example of Pleiotropy and Heterogeneity Gone Wild"	Damian Shea
Thurs., Apr. 24 101 David Clark Labs	4:00 p.m.	Dr. Eric I. Knudsen Stanford University Stanford, CA	W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Seminar: "Mechanisms of Attention in the Auditory System of the Owl"	Robert Grossfeld
Thurs., May 1	2:00 p.m	Dr. Walter F. Eanes Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stonybrook Stony Brook, NY	"Natural Selection and Metabolic Pathways-the Drosophila Model"	Damian Shea
Thurs., May 1	4:00 p.m.	Dr. Paul Ehrlich Department of Biological Sciences Stanford Unversity Stanford, CA	W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Seminar: "Some Perspectives on Cultural Evolution"	Nick Haddad
Tues., May 6	10:30 a.m.	Dr. Lawrence G. Harshman School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE	"Evolutionary Genetic Investigations of Drosophila: Sperm Storage, Starvation Resistance, and Lipid Abundance"	Damian Shea

2008 AGA Symposium "Genetics and Genomics of Behavior"

The website for the 2008 AGA symposium on "Genetics and Genomics of Behavior" in the Sheraton Hotel in Raleigh is now available. Please, visit www.agasymposium2008.org for information about the program, abstract submission and registration.

32nd Annual Genetics Graduate Student Symposium

Each year the Genetics Graduate Student Association organizes a symposium where graduate students in the Department of Genetics present their research. Short presentations are given throughout the day. The 32nd Annual Symposium will be held on March 14, 2008.

17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

The 17th Annual NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Monday, April 21, 2008. The web site for the UGRS is http://www.ncsu.edu/ugrs/

7th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

The Seventh Annual NCSU Undergraduate Summer Symposium will be held on Thursday, July 31, 2008. The web site for the NCSU Summer UGRS is http://www.ncsu.edu/ugrs/summer/

7th Annual CALS Honors Undergraduate Teaching Symposium

The Seventh Annual CALS Honors Undergraduate Teaching Symposium was on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The web site for the CALS UTS is http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/academic/ugts/

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