University of Wisconsin–Madison

Biology Colloquium

Fall 2017

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

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
9/7	Emmet Judziewicz University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point	ILTIS LECTURE Wisconsin Floristic Time Travel: Challenging the Invisible Present
9/14	Katrina Dlugosch University of Arizona	*The rapid evolution of introduced plants: genetics, genomics, traits, and trade-offs*
9/21	Amy Alstad UW-Madison Integrative Biology (Zoology) PhD candidate	*Patterns and drivers of long-term plant community change in Wisconsin remnant prairies*
9/28	Bruce Baldwin University of California, Berkeley	Spatial patterns of diversity and endemism in the California flora
10/5	Hilary Callahan Barnard College	*Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts (UnPAK): Merits and impacts of manual phenotyping in the era of automation*
10/12	Julia Sigwart Queens University Belfast	*What species mean: Biodiversity dynamics in deep time and in the deep sea*
10/9	Richard Lankau UW–Madison Plant Pathology	Macroscale consequences of microbial interactions: Fungal influences on tree range dynamics in a changing world
10/26	Leslie Turner Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath UK	Genomics of Hybrid Sterility in House Mice
11/2	Carlos Eduardo Santibáñez López UW-Madison Integrative Biology (Zoology) postdoc	*The evolution of the peptide calcin family in Scorpion venom through a phylogenomic spyglass*
11/9	Frederick R. Prete Northeastern Illinois University	Cognitive Psychology to Interneurons: How Praying Mantises Construct the Abstract Category, “Prey”
11/16	Giovanni (Gio) Bosco Dartmouth University	Dissecting mechanisms of social learning and transgenerational inheritance in Drosophila
11/23	THANKSGIVING	no lecture
11/30	Daniel Rubenstein Princeton University	EMLEN LECTURE Social networks and animal societies: linking form with function
12/7	José Dinneny Carnegie Institution for Science,Department of Plant Biology, Stanford	Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic responses
12/14	Amy Litt University of California, Riverside	Genomic insights into the diversification of plant form and function