Seminar Schedule

Biology Seminars


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January 31 at noon in Rooke 116: Yui Suzuki

    Yui Suzuki, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Wellesley College

    "How to grow back a leg: Insights from limb regeneration in the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum"

    Host: Prof. Elizabeth Marin

February 14 and 15: Harry Greene

    Darwin Day Talk

    Harry Greene
    Professor
    Cornell University

    Thursday, February 14 at 7:30 pm in Rooke 116
    Public Lecture: "Natural history, aesthetics, and conservation"
    Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies Program & Departments of Geography, Philosophy, & Religion

    Friday, February 15 at noon in Rooke 116
    Biology Seminar: "Pleistocene rewilding: Lions in a den of Daniels?"

    Host: Prof. Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks

March 7 at noon in Rooke 116: Pavithra Vivekanand

    Pavithra Vivekanand, Ph.D.
    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Susquehanna University

    "Investigating the mechanisms of establishing glial cell diversity in Drosophila"

    Host: Prof. Julie Gates

March 21 at noon in Rooke 116: Krissa Skogen

    Krissa Skogen, Ph.D.
    Conservation Scientist
    Chicago Botanic Garden

    "Vagrant pollinators, fragrant plants – Geographic variation in floral scent despite hawkmoth-mediated gene flow linking isolated populations"

    Host: Prof. Chris Martine

    Co-sponsored by the Burpee Fund for Plant Genetics

April 4 at noon in Rooke 116: Alison Hale

    Alison Hale
    Ph.D. Student
    University of Pittsburgh

    "Allelopathic invasive plant delivers a dizzying knock-out punch to natives by disrupting mutualistic mycorrhizal fungi"

    Host: Prof. Chris Martine

April 18 at noon in Rooke 116: DeeAnn Reeder

    DeeAnn Reeder, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Bucknell University

    "Death and darkness: Studying bat disease, ecophysiology and biodiversity in North America and Africa"

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