Graduate core seminars are organized on an ad hoc basis around
topics of current interest to faculty and students. Participants read and
critically discuss selected papers from the primary literature. A typical
core seminar meets for two hours once a week, for seven or eight weeks
(one half semester). Because they are so interesting and timely, core
seminars also frequently attract unofficial participation by faculty,
postdocs, graduate students, and advanced undergrads. Here are the titles
of some recent offerings.
Genomics for Biologists: So Many Genomes, So Little Time
Colin Dale
Biological Responses to Climate Change
David Bowling
Biological Clocks: Molecular Mechanisms, Physiology and Ecology
Franz Goller and Stan Williams
Host-Parasite Evolution
Dale Clayton & Wayne Potts
Prions: Strange Diseases, Strange Genetics, and Strange Protein Folding
David Goldenberg
Ion Channels: Molecular Biology, Function, Disease
Toto Olivera
Mechanics and Energetics of Terrestrial Locomotion
Dave Carrier
Endothermy: Physiology and Evolution
Colleen Farmer & Franz Goller
The Biology of Aggression and Violence
Dave Carrier and Jon Seger
Biodiversity Dynamics
Dinah Davidson
Kinky Reproductive Isolation
Glenn Herrick & Jon Seger
Human Impacts on the Earth's Ecosystems
Lissy Coley & Tom Kursar
Experimental Evolution
Wayne Potts
Topics in Biometry
Don Feener
Water and Ecology of Western Ecosystems
Dave Bowling
Scaling in Ecology
Dinah Davidson
Ecology of Adaptive Radiation
Dale Clayton
Faculty Research Forum
Lynn Bohs & Dale Clayton
Teaching Cell Biology to Undergraduates
Janet Shaw
Animal Communication: Physiology, Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution
Neil Vickers & Franz Goller
'Sixth Senses' in Animals
Neil Vickers & Franz Goller
Classic Controversies in Ecology
Don Feener
Introduction to Phylogenetics
Bob Minckley, Patrice Corneli & David Reed
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