Visiting Hibernation Biologists
Friday, May 25, 2012
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Brian Barnes, PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Jun Yan, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Center on Global Change Seminar Series - John Seager, President & CEO, Population Connection presents "A World of 7 Billion: Population, the Environment, and Social Equity"
Monday, September 24, 2012
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
John Seager, President and CEO, Population Connection
"What's behind door #1?: An experiment in speed collaborating (Audience participation required!)"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 01, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Anne Yoder, PhD, Professor
Homage to diversity in the plankton, a food web perspective
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 15, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Matt Leibold
Signal diversity and behavioral flexibility: a lizard's-eye view
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 22, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Manuel Leal
"Let there be light:! A pilgrimage to the evolutionary origins of phototransduction"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, November 05, 2012
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Todd Oakley, PhD
Bioimaging at the Nanoscale: Single-molecule and Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
Monday, December 03, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farms Research Presentation
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Biology
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kathryn D. Breneman, PhD
Biology Lecture-James Mallet, PhD
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, December 10, 2012
1:00 am - 2:00 am
James Mallet, PhD
"The dynamics of optimal defense against parasites"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 11, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr. Andrea L. Graham
"The Herbivore's Dilemma: Never Enough Nitrogen"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 18, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Naomi Pierce
"The Physical Fitness of Leaves: Illuminating Everyday Science"Â
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 25, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Steve Vogel
"Intercellular communication by epithelial follicle cells during Drosophila oogenesis"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 04, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lynne Cooley
Contemporary human evolution: What we learned in Framingham
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 18, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Steve Stearns (Yale University)
42nd Annual Henry J. Oosting Memorial Lecture in Ecology
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Norman Christensen
"Making links: the computational biology of next-generation sequencing and microbiomes"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 01, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Allen Rodrigo
"Making your science matter: how to be a scientist outside as well as inside the academy"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 08, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Emily Bernhardt
Evolution of brain pathways for vocal learning, a continuum hypothesis: the mouse song system has features once thought unique to humans and song learning birds
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 15, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Erich Jarvis, Neurobiology Dept. DUMC
Size MATTERS: Duke Biology Majors Union announces the 2013 Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Memorial Lecture
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Mechanistic insights from single molecule tracking of individual enzymes, ribosomes and mRNAs in bacteria and mammalian cells
Monday, April 22, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr. Brian English
"Ecological genetics of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana"Â
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 29, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Douglas Schemske
Examining the interplay between viral evolution and disease dynamics
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 09, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Katia Koelle
"Primates and their Parasites: Disease Ecology in a Changing World"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 16, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Charlie Nunn, Ph.D.
"Genomic and functional variation among bacterial endosymbionts of ants"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 23, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Jen Wernegreen
Biology Department Seminar
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 30, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Jim Heffernan
Evolutionary development of the olfactory system in Drosophila
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Thursday, October 10, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
See description
Jia Pan (Volkan Lab)
Plant Responses to Changing [CO2]: Last Glacial Period Through the Future
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 21, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Joy Ward, U. of Kansas
The early development of basal Metazoans: Old Questions and New Approaches to Gene Regulatory Networks
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Thursday, October 24, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
See description
Antje Fischer (Woods Hole MBL)
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 28, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Justin Wright
"Evolutionary Rewiring of a Developmental Gene Regulatory Network"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Thursday, October 31, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
See description
Jennifer Wygoda
"The promise and problems of molecular genetic data in macroevolutionary comparisons: reconstructing ancestral deuterostome form and function"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, November 04, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Chris Lowe, Stanford University
"Algal mediated linkages of rivers, uplands and oceans: Â the good, the bad, and the algae"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, November 11, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Mary Power, UC-Berkeley
Linking ecosystem carbon budgets with food web function in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, November 18, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Bob Hall
C. elegans in an Evolutionary and Ecological Context: Vulva Development and Natural Pathogens
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, December 02, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Marie-Anne Felix, IBENS
"Using disease data to inform models of protein evolution"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, December 09, 2013
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Jeff Thorne, NC State
"Worm model systems for microevolutionary developmental genetics"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 03, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Matthew Rockman, PhD
"A structural perspective on molecular evolution"
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 10, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Claus Wilke, PhD
Extinction and the Population Genetics of Adaptation
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 17, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Allen Orr, PhD
The Two-Million-Year-Old Boy
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 24, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Steve Churchill, PhD
Canceled due to Severe Weather
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 03, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Brian Sillliman, PhD
Evolution of sexual reproduction, a view from the fungal kingdom
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 17, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Joe Heitman, PhD
Color vision in oxygenic photosynthetic species
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 24, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Clark Lagarias, PhD
Evolution of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Genes and Other Applications of Phylogeny
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 31, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
David Hillis, PhD
Life history evolution in monocarps: from population patterns to genetic mechanisms
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 07, 2014
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Jess Metcalf, PhD
Interspecies interactions: Soil microbes and their secreted metabolites
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 14, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Elizabeth Shank, PhD
Determinants of Forest Biomass in Gabon
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 21, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
John Poulsen, PhD
Sound localization and multimodal sensory processing in the toadfish
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 28, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Allen Mensinger, PhD
Light Signaling in Plants
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, August 25, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Prof. Meng Chen
Live and Let Die: A Plant Immunity Story 20 Years in the Making
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Friday, August 29, 2014
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Xinnian Dong
Food webs, climate change and new paradigms in Ecology
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 15, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Brian Silliman
Mechanisms of Extreme Growth
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 29, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Doug Emlen
Next Generation Theory of Cultural Evolution
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Marcus W. Feldman
The transcription factor MYB36 regulates both cell proliferation and differentiation in the Arabidopsis root endodermis
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Friday, October 17, 2014
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Louisa Liberman
Social Identity and the Evolution of Societies
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 20, 2014
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Mark W. Moffett
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