Biology Colloquium

Fall 2018

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

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
9/6	Alan Weakley University of North Carolina	ILTIS LECTURE Assembly of the Native Flora of the Southeastern United States: an Evolutionary Tale
9/13	Hong Ma Penn State	*Nuclear phylogenomic analyses of the Rose family and implications on evolutionary history of distinct fleshy fruit types*
9/20	Jan Huisken Morgridge Institute	*Light sheet microscopy for biological multi-scale imaging inside and outside the optics lab*
9/27	Gay Reinartz Zoological Society of Milwaukee	Assessing bonobo and forest elephant populations in the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
10/4	Norm Wickett Chicago Botanic Garden	*Applying phylogenomic datasets to multiple scales in diverse organisms, from Onagraceae to mosses to diatoms*
10/11	Anna Sala University of Montana	*Ponderosa pine survival to mountain pine beetle: growth rate tradeoffs, resin duct defenses and genetic drought predisposition*
10/18	José Feijó University of Maryland	Ion signaling and reproduction: molecular basis and integrative mechanisms
10/25	Kate McCulloh Department of Botany	The plant danger zone: assessing different strategies to deal with abiotic stresses
11/1 Weeks Hall- Room AB20	Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University	*Another round of metazoan phylogeny: current progress and future directions*
11/8	Warren Porter UW-Madison	P-GMO crops and pesticide use – unexpected relationships and risks to animals and humans
11/15	Pamela Geddes Northeastern Illinois University	Identifying cattail species and their hybrids using molecular markers: lessons learned
11/22	THANKSGIVING	no lecture
11/29	Jeannine Cavender-Bares University of Minnesota	*Diversification, adaptation and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution*
12/6	Veronica di Stilio University of Washington	*Reconstructing the ancestral role of flowering pathway genes*
11/29	Thomas Givnish Department of Botany	*The Green Empire Strikes Back! Ecology and evolution of carnivorous plant*s