Graduate Core seminars
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
