2006/2007
All seminars will be in SCEN-604 at 4:00 PM unless indicated otherwise.
Coffee and cookies will be available at 3:30 PM in SCEN 502.
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester 2006 | |||
| Sept. 7 | No seminar | College faculty meeting | |
| Sept. 21 | Don Phillips | U.S. EPA, Corvallis, OR | Stable isotopes in ecological studies: expanding the scope of mixing models |
| Oct. 12 | John Pickering | Institute of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia | Discover life: how to study and monitor one million species |
| Nov. 2 | cancelled | ||
| Nov. 9 | Wayne Kuenzel | Dept. of Poultry Science, Univ. of Arkansas | Neural regulation of the photoperiodic response responsible for initiating gonadal development in birds |
| Nov. 16 | Nick Money | Dept. of Botany, Miami Univ. | Fungal movement: the microscopic circus |
| Nov. 30 | Keith Gido | Division of Biology, Kansas State Univ. | Interactive effects of species composition and disturbance on prairie stream ecosystem processes |
| Dec. 7 | Bill McComas | Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, Univ. of Arkansas | The nature of biology: a view of the life sciences through a philosophical lens |
| Spring Semester 2007 | |||
| Jan. 18 | David W. Inouye | Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Maryland | The effects of regional and global climate change on wildflowers and animals in the Colorado Rocky Mountains |
| Jan. 29 SCEN 501 | Michelle Evans-White | Division of Biology, Kansas State Univ. | Chemical constraints on grazer-periphyton interactions in streams |
| Feb. 5 | Tom Sherry | Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane Univ. | Bird populations responding to global change: where theory meets data |
| Feb. 8 | Carol Horvitz | Dept. of Biology, University of Miami | Hurricanes, seed-predators and habitat-stage elasticity: global patterns with local consequences |
| Feb. 12 | Joseph Craine | Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota | Nutrient limitation in wild ecosystems: from roots to rhinos |
| Feb. 15 | Jacqueline Mohan | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA | Global change impacts on temperate forests: effects of increased temperature and elevated CO2 |
| Feb. 22 | Michael E. Douglas | Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Biology, Colorado State Univ. | Pleistocene climate fluctuations, North American pitvipers and global change biology |
| March 5 SCEN 501 |
Jeff Briggler | Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources | The recovery of the hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) |
| March 8 | Cindy Sagers | Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Arkansas | Environmental risks of transgenes in natural systems |
| March 15 4:30pm CHEM 132 |
Peter Moore | Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University | How antibiotics block ribosome function: A crystallographic perspective |
| March 22 | Spring Break |
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| March 29 | Helen Benes | Dept. of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
How to make gene activity sex-specific in a mosquito |
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April 2 SCEN 501 |
Marlis R. Douglas |
Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Biology, Colorado State Univ. | Molecular approaches to the conservation of desert fishes |
| April 12 | Sonja Hausmann | Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. of Arkansas | Lake sediments as archives for environmental change |
| April 19 | Gregory Mueller | Department of Botany, The Field Museum | Distribution and diversity of Costa Rican macrofungi |
| April 26 | Lidia Watrud | U.S. EPA, Corvallis, OR | Tracing gene flow from a genetically modified creeping bentgrass - methods, measures and lessons learned |
| April 30 10:30 AM SCEN 606 | Alfredo Ruiz | Dept. Genètica i de Microbiologia, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona | Galileo and the origin of chromosomal inversions in Drosophila |
| May 3 | John Fowler | Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State Univ. | A focus on the tip: pollen and polarized cell growth in two model plants |