Biology Colloquium


Botany/Zoology Colloquia and Seminars

Biology Colloquium schedule
Spring 2012

Most seminars on Fridays at 3:30pm in 168 Noland Hall

1/27/2012 William Karasov
University of Wisconsin
Digestive physiology: A view from molecules to ecosystem
2/3/2012
John Downing
Iowa State University
Global Limnology and the Global Carbon Cycle
2/10/2012 Chuck Davis
Harvard University
Clades and climate change: comparing notes with Thoreau
2/17/2012 David Baum
University of Wisconsin
Throwing open the "window of speciation"
2/24/2012 Becky Fuller
University of Illinois
Speciation among two killifish species: adaptation to salinity and reproductive isolation
3/2/2012
Eve Emshwiller
University of Wisconsin

3/9/2012 Ken Raffa
University of Wisconsin

3/16/2012 Ram Dixit
Washington University
Architecture without a blueprint: how the acentrosomal plant cortical microtubules form ordered arrays
3/23/2012 Johanne Brunet
University of Wisconsin
How far do pollinators move plant genes via pollen?
3/28-
3/29/2012

Wisconsin Ecology Symposium
3/30/2012 Jonathan Wendel
Iowa State University
Genes, jeans, and genomes: exploring the mysteries of polyploidy in cotton
4/6/2012
SPRING BREAK
4/13/2012 Joana Silva
Institute for Genome Sciences
Phylogenomics and the age of speciation events: dating the origin of mammalian Plasmodium parasites
4/20/2012 John Maron
University of Montana
Indirect effects of top predators and direct effects of rodent consumers in terrestrial food webs
4/27/2012 Thomas Seeley
Cornell University
House hunting by swarms of honey bees
5/4/2012 Erich Grotewold
Ohio State University
Systems Approaches to Unravel Plant Gene Regulatory Networks
5/11/2012 Nipam Patel
UC-Berkeley
The Evolution and Development of Arthropod Body Patterning

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