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27 August 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Sexually distinct vocal pattern generation
Speaker: Ayako Yamaguchi
Assistant Professor of Biology
Boston University
Host: Franz Goller (585-1929)
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10 September 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Cyanobacteria: Are they going to change the world again?
Speaker: Stan Williams
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Utah
RPT Seminar
Host: Sandy Parkinson (581-7639)
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17 September 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Protein synthesis and turnover: Life's critical balance
Markus Babst
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Utah
RPT Seminar
Host: Erik Jorgensen (585-3517)
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24 September 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: The genetic basis of convergent evolution
Speaker: Mike Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Utah
RPT Seminar
Host: A. Villu Maricq (581-6318)
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8 October 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: The influence of body size on the structure and function of large herbivore communities
Speaker: Johan du Toit
Professor at the College of Natural Resources
Utah State University
Host: Denise Dearing (585-1298)
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9 October 2009, Friday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Biodiscovery, biodiversity & biogeography: The life of sponges
Speaker: John Hooper
Director, Queensland Centre for Biodiversity
Queensland Museum, Australia
Host: Eric Schmidt (ews1@utah.edu)
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22 October 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Cell lineage history and cancer
Speaker: Steve Frank
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Host: Fred Adler (585-6202)
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29 October 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Community assembly through adaptive radiation: Spiders on islands
Speaker: Rosemary Gillespie
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Don Feener (581-6444)
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5 November 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Genetic dissection of neural circuits in Drosophila: Disease models and interventions
Speaker: Kendal Broadie
Stevenson Professor of Neurobiology
Vanderbilt University & Medical Center
Host: A. Villu Maricq (581-6318)
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9 November 2009, Monday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: High-resolution measurements on the plasma membrane: Distinguishing between the endocytic clathrin-coated pits and coated plaques in living cells
Speaker: Saveez Saffarian
Post-doctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Monday Seminar
Host: A. Villu Maricq (581-6318)
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12 November 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Ecological immunology: The organism in context
Speaker: Susannah French
Assistant Professor of Biology
Utah State University
Host: Dale Clayton (581-6482)
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19 November 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Genes, hormones and neurons in social decision making
Speaker: Hans Hofmann
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Texas, Austin
Host: Franz Goller (585-1929)
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3 December 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Perspectives on the origin and early diversification of dinosaurs
Speaker: Randy Irmis
Curator of Paleontology
Utah Museum of Natural History
Host: Colleen Farmer (581-4236)
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10 December 2009, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Potassium channels in lymphocytes: therapeutic targets for autoimmune diseases
Speaker: George K. Chandy
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
University of California, Irvine
Host: Baldomero (Toto) Olivera (581-8370)
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14 January 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Reducing the irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum
Speaker: Kelly Hughes
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Date changed from Jan 28th to Jan 14th
Host: kelly.hughes@utah.edu
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21 January 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: The flight of avian genomics
Speaker: Wesley Warren
Assistant Director, Genome Sequencing Director
Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Mike Shapiro (581-5690)
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4 February 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: The plant vascular system: physiology, ecology and evolution
Speaker: John Sperry
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: j.sperry@utah.edu
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11 February 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: The Fight or Flight Dichotomy: Functional Tradeoffs in Specialization for Aggression
Speaker: Dave Carrier
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: carrier@biology.utah.edu
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17 February 2010, Wednesday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Confronting the challenge of environmental change on the Colorado Plateau
Speaker: Barry Baker
The Nature Conservancy
Wednesday Seminar
Host: Jim Ehleringer (581-7623)
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18 February 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: How a bacterial chemoreceptor works
Speaker: Sandy Parkinson
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: parkinson@biology.utah.edu
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4 March 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Guess who's coming for dinner? Reciprocal interactions between Darwin's finches and invasive parasites and pathogens
Speaker: Dale Clayton
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: clayton@biology.utah.edu
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11 March 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Gastrointestinal ecology, phenotypic variation, and Salmonella pathogenesis
Speaker: Brad Cookson
Professor of Microbiology
University of Washington
Host: Kelly Hughes (587-3367)
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18 March 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Regulation of Endosperm Cellularization in Arabidopsis
Speaker: Gary Drews
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: drews@bioscience.utah.edu
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1 April 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: MAPping the tree of life: the structure, function, and evolution of a microtubule-associated protein
Speaker: Dave Gard
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: gard@biology.utah.edu
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8 April 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Why adaptation is bad for your genome
Speaker: Jon Seger
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: seger@biology.utah.edu
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15 April 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title: Glia, neurons, and cell death in C. elegans
Speaker: Shai Shaham
Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics
Rockefeller University
Host: Erik Jorgensen (585-3517)
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22 April 2010, Thursday |
Department Seminar
4:00 pm, 210 ASB
Title to be announced
Speaker: A. Villu Maricq
Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Host: maricq@biology.utah.edu
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