Biology Seminar

Biology Departmental Seminars are usually held on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. in Room 116 of the Supple (Science) Building, or as announced below.

Receptions are at 4:30 p.m. following the seminar. All are welcome to attend.

To find out more about the speaker, click on their links to their web pages or click next to their title if there is a related paper (pdf).

TBA indicates to be announced unless the date arrives and no seminar speaker has been scheduled at which point it means we do not have a seminar speaker for that day. Please check frequently.

See also the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry seminar schedule.


Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

January 14 Nancy Mangini, Indiana University School of Medicine (Garcia) CA ions

January 21

Holiday
January 28 TBA TBA
February 4 Susan Schwinning, TSU (Tomasso) Ecohydrological research in the recharge zone of the Edwards Plateau
February 11 Clay Green, TSU (Tomasso) Dimorphism, disturbance, and diet: implication for the ecology and conservation of a rare waterbird
February 18 Nihal Dharmasiri, TSU (Tomasso) Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Auxin Signaling in Plants
February 25 Weston Nowlin, TSU (Tomasso)  Resource Dynamics across Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems: Carbon, Contaminants, and Catfish
March 3 Taylor Feild, University of Tennessee (Upchurch)  Ecophysiology of the early angiosperms
March 10 Spring Break
March 17 Volker Rudolf, Rice University (Zhang) The influence of cannibalism and size-structure on the dynamics of communities
March 24 Manuel Torres, University of Georgia (Garcia) Integration of Genetic, BAC Hybridization, and BAC-End Sequence Data Toward a Physical Map of Rapid-Cycling Brassica oleracea
March 31 Janice Moore, Colorado State University (Garcia) Parasites that Change Host Behavior: Who Wins?
April 7 Steve Juliano, Illinois State University (Aspbury) The integration of invaders into a community: Diverse biotic interactions in small aquatic systems
April 14 Michael Marchetti, Cal State-Chico (Nice) TBA
April 21 Ray Arnold, Copper Development Association (Tomasso) Modelling copper bioavailability to freshwater organisms: the science behind the policy
April 28 Julian Olden, University of Washington (Grad students) Environmental Flows and the Ecological Consequences of River Regulation by Dams

Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule

August 27

Faculty Meeting
September 3 Labor Day TBA
September 10 Colleen Kelly, Merton College and University of Oxford (Schwinning) Phylogenies, niches, relative abundance and community structure
September 17 Floyd Weckerly, TSU (Tomasso) Niche divergence and social behavior in size dimorphic ruminants
September 24 Andy Gluesenkamp, UT Austin/Arlington (Rose/Gabor) Diversity in the Dark: phylogeography and morphological evolution in central Texas Eurycea
October 1 Susan Bertram, Carleton University (Gabor) Understanding Variation in Sexually Selected Traits: A Cricket Model
October 8 Steve Wolverton, University of North Texas (Huston) Applied Paleozoology of White-tailed Deer in Texas
October 15 Mike Arnold, Univ. of Georga Athens (Martin) The Genetic Architecture of Introgression and Reproductive Isolation in Louisiana Irises
October 22 Karen Carleton, University of Maryland-College Park (Garcia) Visual systems of cichlid fishes :
Using opsin genes to get a cichlid eye view
October 29 David Zamora, UTHSC (Koke) Vascular Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity and its Role in Ocular Disease
November 5 Valerie Sponsel, UT San Antonio (Dharmasiri) Gibberellin (GA) homeostasis in Arabidopsis seedlings: multiple levels of regulation of GA biosynthesis
November 12 Andy Sih, UC Davis (Gabor) Behavioral syndromes: an evolutionary ecology perspective
November 19 Alan Hitch, Auburn University (Green) Habitat relationships and probabilistic distributions of breeding birds and small mammals using occupancy analysis in the Cumberland Plateau
November 26 Lauren Mashburn-Warren, UT Austin (Mclean) Special Delivery: The Use of Outer Membrane Vesicles for Bacterial Cell Signaling

Previous Seminar Schedules


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