Biology Colloquium


Botany/Zoology Colloquia and Seminars

Biology Colloquium schedule
Fall 2012

Most seminars on Thursdays at 3:30pm in B302 Birge Hall

8/30/2012 Andrew Goryachev
University of Edinburgh
Autofocusing mechanisms of cellular pattern formation
***This talk will be in NOLAND 168
9/6/2012
Lynn Clark
Iowa State University
Annual Hugh H. Iltis Lecture: topic will be grass &/or bamboo systematics
with field trip on Saturday
9/13/2012 Santiago Ramirez
University of California, Berkeley
Coevolution, Coadaptation, and Specialization in a Plant-Pollinator Mutualism
9/20/2012 Trevor Price
University of Chicago
History and ecology as drivers of the latitudinal diversity gradient: a case study with Himalayan birds
9/27/2012 Doug Rouse
University of Wisconsin
Farming Systems, Ecology and Plant Disease
10/4/2012
Gail Patricelli
University of California - Davis
Courtship negotiations in sage-grouse: experiments using a robotic female
(Emlen lecturer)
10/11/2012 Alex Wiedenhoeft
Forest Products Laboratory-USDA
Nano-Micro-Macro-Meso/Evo-Devo/Eco-Phylo-Phys - The Growing Utility of Wood Anatomy Research sensu lato
10/18/2012 Charles Umbanhowar Jr
St. Olaf College
Western Mongolian Steppe and the historic absence of fire: paleoecology, people, and poop
10/25/2012 T.B.A.

11/1/2012 Ron Mittler
University of North Texas
T.B.A.
11/8/2012 Dazhong Zhao
UW-Milwaukee
Signaling Regulation of Anther Cell Fate Determination in Arabidopsis
11/15/2012 T.B.A.

11/22/2012 THANKSGIVING

11/29/2012 Michelle Jackson
University of Wisconsin, Zoology
The influence of climate and land-use history on native forest herbs and their pollinators in the Southern Appalachians
(Ph.D. defense seminar)
12/6/2012 Rick Karban
UC-Davis
T.B.A.
12/13/2012 John Pool
UW-Genetics
Natural selection drives bidirectional gene flow and alters genome-wide diversity in Drosophila melanogaster

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