Department of Biology Seminar Series, 2008 -2009

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All seminars are at 4:00 p.m. in 101 David Clark Labs unless otherwise noted. [campus map]
Refreshments in the lobby at 3:45.

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August 2008 21 August NONE
  28 August ZOOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY
"Meet the new Graduate students"
hosted by Bob Grossfeld and Harry Daniels
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/zoology/
September 2008 4 September Heather Patisaul
NCSU
"Plastic and Puberty: Can disruption of hypothalamic organization during development alter female reproductive maturation? "
hosted by Bob Grossfeld
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hbpatisa/
Keck Seminar 8 September
Room TBA
John Crabbe, Oregon Health & Science University
"Genetics for Alcohol Addiction"
Room TBA
http://frontiersin.org/neuroscience/profiles/johnc..crabbe/detail/
  11September

Bryan Stuart, NC Museum of Science
"Molecular systematics provides new insights into species diversity of Southeast Asian amphibians and reptiles"
hosted by Harold Heatwole

  18 September Tom Kwak , NCSU
"Ecology and Management of a Domestic Invasive Species -or -Why We Shouldn't Move Fish Around"
hosted by Bob Grossfeld
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwak/
  25 September

Mike Voiland, Sea Grant
Coastal Resource Research and Outreach Sponsorship Opportunities via the NC Sea Grant College Program
hosted by Jeff Buckel

October 2008

02 October

Walter Wilczynski,Georgia State
"Social Modulation of Hormones and Brains in Anuran Amphibians"
hosted by Heather Patisaul
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwpsy/faculty/wilczynski.htm

  9 October FALL BREAK , NO SEMINAR
Keck Seminar

16 October
Room TBA

Paul Sternberg, CAL Tech
"Chemicals, Genes, and Cells Controlling C. elegans Behavior"
hosted by Robert Anholt
http://wormlab.caltech.edu/

  23 October

Eric Hallerman , Virginia Tech
"Horseshoe Crabs, Red Knots, and Fishermen Interact to Pose a Challenge to Management"
hosted by Tom Kwak
http://www.nmfs.vt.edu/faculty/Hallerman.htm

 

30 October

David Coppola, Randolph Macon College
"Senses Lost, Senses Found: a Made for Disney Story"
hosted by John Vandenbergh
http://www.rmc.edu/academics/biology.aspx

November 2008 6 November David Buchwalter,NCSU Department of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology
"Evolutionary Perspectives in Aquatic Insect Pollution Biology"
For more information about Dr. Buchwalter's interests, consult http://service004.hpc.ncsu.edu/toxicology/faculty/buchwalter/index.htm
Also, you may consult the following link for a recent article of his published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/24/8321.full.pdf+html

  13 November

Alexander Franz, Colorado State University
"Developing RNAi-Based Transgenic Resistance against Dengue Virus in Aedes aegypti"
hosted by Damian Shea, Fred Gould
  20 November Sean Lema, UNCW
Topic: Behavioral Endocrinology of Fish
hosted by John Godwin
http://people.uncw.edu/lemas/publications.html
  27November No Seminar, Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2008 1 December
KECK SEMINAR 3503 Gardner

Chiara Cirelli, University of Wisconsin
Topic: Sleep
hosted by Robert Anholt
http://www.neuroscience.wisc.edu/cirelli.html

  4 December TBA
January 2009 7 January
Stephens Room, 3503 Gardner Addition - 11AM

Aaron Jasnow , Emory University
"Fear and Loathing in the Cages: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Emotional Learning"
hosted by Craig Sullivan

  15 January Tom Whitham, Northern Arizona University
"Plant-Herbivore Interactions"
hosted by Rob Dunn and Nick Haddad
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-10-03.asp
http://www6.nau.edu/biology/People/Faculty/Whitham/Whitham.htm
  22 January Kellee Siegfried, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
"Sex determination in zebrafish"
Faculty Candidate
  29 January TBA - Faculty Candidate
February 2009 February 9
Stephens Room, 3503 Gardner Addition - 9:00 AM
Brian Langerhans, University of Oklahoma
"Predicting evolution in a genus of livebearing fish"
Faculty Candidate
  February 12
Stephens Room, 3503 Gardner Addition - 2:00 PM

Jonathan Davies, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
"Entangled banks, phylogenetic trees, and the evolution of biodiversity gradients"
Faculty Candidate
  February 16 Oswald Schmitz, Yale University
"Behavioral Ecology"
http://www.cbc.yale.edu/people/schmitz/
  February 19 Stephens Room, 3503 Gardner Addition - 9:00 AM
Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh
"Taking a community approach to ecotoxicology: Insights from aquatic systems"
Faculty Candidate
  February 19 Bill Laurence, Smithsonian
"Tropical Forest Ecology"
hosted by Haddad and Wilson
http://128.121.179.67/english/scientific_staff/staff_scientist/scientist.php?id=20
  February 26 TBA - Faculty Candidate
March 2009 March 5 None - SPRING BREAK
  March 12 Erich Jarvis, Duke University
"Bird Song"
hosted by Heather Patisaul
http://www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/jarvis/
  March 16 Mike Rosbash, Brandeis
"Circadian Rhythms"
http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/rosbashlab/
  March 19 Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Brandt Lecture
hosted by Johnny Wilson
http://www.whoi.edu/profile.do?id=hcaswell
  March 26

Peter Thomas, University of Texas
Topic: Steroid Receptors
hosted by Russell Borski
http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/Staff/thomas/Main%20Pages/index.htm

April 2009 April 2
KECK SEMINAR
Room TBA
Jim Hudspeth, Rockefeller University
Topic: Hearing
hosted by Robert Anholt
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/hudspeth/hudspeth-lab.php
  April 9 None
  April 16
Ian Stirling,Canadian Wildlife Service
"Global Warming and Polar Bears"
hosted by Lancia
  April 23 Thorsten Wiegand, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Topic: population biology and ecological modeling
hosted by Haddad
http://www.oesa.ufz.de/towi/
 

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