Charles Darwin Biology
Seminar Series 2008-09
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida International
University
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Tuesday afternoons at 3:45 p.m. in the Wertheim Conservatory (WC 130) at the University Park campus. Light refreshments are served beginning at 3:30 p.m. Please follow the hyperlinks (underlined), when available, for additional information.
The Department of Biological Sciences is grateful for financial support for enhancement of several seminars from the FIU University Graduate School and the Office of the Dean, FIU College of Arts & Sciences. These special seminars are indicated by the following symbol: ►
The Dept. of Biological Sciences is also grateful for financial support from the Stanley J. Glaser Professorship in Biology Endowment for the visit of Dr. Andy Sih during the week of January 26-30, 2009.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 26, 2008 | Leung Kim, Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU | Mechanisms of eukaryotic cell differentiation and cell movement |
| September 2 | Steve Wathen, Dept. of
Biological Sciences, FIU (Host: Jennifer Richards) |
Another inconvenient truth: 2,000+ years of abrupt climate change in the Sierra Nevada |
| September 16 | David Lee, Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU | FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus: Its Environmental History and Future |
| September 23 | Joseph Parkos, Dept. of
Biological Sciences, FIU (Host: Joel Trexler) |
The role of parental behavior and ontogenetic diet shifts in the recruitment variation of an aquatic predator |
| September 30 | Tim Collins, Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU | Using phylogenies and building confidence in phylogenies |
| October 21 | Patrick Griffith, Executive
Director, Montgomery Botanical Center, Coral Gables, FL (Host: Suzanne Koptur) |
Collections-based research: Insights into evolution, conservation, and comparative biology from botanic gardens |
| October 28 | Jessica Schedlbauer, Dept. of
Biological Sciences, FIU (Host: Steve Oberbauer) |
Environmental service payments in a Costa Rican biological corridor: Consequences for forest retention and recruitment |
| November 4 |
Akira
Chiba, Dept. of Biology, University of Miami (Host: Lidia Kos) |
The beginning of dendrite and the beginning of synapse |
| November 11 | No seminar (Veterans Day) | |
| November 18 |
Carolina Barillas-Mury,
National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research,
Rockville, MD (Host: Fernando Noriega) |
Anopheles gambiae immune responses that determine susceptibility to Plasmodium infection |
| November 25 | No seminar (week of Thanksgiving) | |
| December 2 | Tiffany Troxler, Dept. of
Biological Sciences and Southeast Environmental Research Center, FIU (Host: Steve Oberbauer) |
Study of arctic ecosystem changes in the International Polar Year using the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) |
| January 6, 2009 | Javier Francisco-Ortega, Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU | From Sir Hans Sloane to Charles Darwin: Early accounts of plant exploration in the Macaronesian Islands |
| ► January 13 |
Rick Relyea, Director,
Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh, PA (Host: Kelsey Reider/ Donnelly lab) |
The impacts of pesticides on aquatic communities: Connections to global amphibian declines? |
| ► January 20 | John Bruno, Marine Sciences
Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Host: Aaron Miller/ Richardson lab) |
Climate change and coral reef resilience: Are we expecting too much from marine reserves? |
| ► January 23 | David Tilman, Dept. of
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul (Host: Bryan Dewsbury/ Fourqurean lab) |
Competitive coexistence and the evolutionarily universal trade-off surface |
| January 27 (Glaser Distinguished Biology Lecture) |
Andrew Sih, Dept. of
Environmental Science & Policy and Center for Population Biology, University
of California, Davis (Host: Philip Stoddard) |
Behavioral syndromes: an
integrative overview (For other presentations this week by Dr. Sih, please click here.) |
| February 3 |
Pedro Oliveira,
Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Host: Fernando Noriega) |
Radical metabolism in the gut of blood-sucking animals |
| February 10 | Eric von Wettberg, Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI (Host: Tim Collins) |
Ecological genomics in heterogeneous habitats: Approaches and mechanisms |
| February 24 |
John Chick, Great Rivers Field Station, Illinois Natural History Survey (Host: Joel Trexler) |
Development of planktonic food webs in large rivers and the role of long-term monitoring with increasing globalization |
| ► March 5 |
Rita Perlingeiro, Lillehei
Heart Institute and Dept. of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN (Host: Sudhakar Veeranki/ Kim lab) |
Lineage reprogramming and stem cell-based therapies |
| March 17 | No seminar (Spring Break) | |
| March 24 |
Eric Denkers, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY (Host: Lorenzo Menzel/ Bigger lab) |
Dysregulation of host cell signaling by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii |
| ►
Monday, April 6, at 3:00 PM in WC 130 |
Robert Gourdie, Dept. of Cell
Biology and Anatomy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (Host: Amy Saldana/ Kos lab) |
The Cx43 carboxyl-terminus: Linking skin wound healing and cardiac arrythmia |
| April 7 | Biology and Biomedical Undergraduate Honors Presentations | DeEtta Mills, FIU (host) |
| ► Monday, April 13, at 3:00 PM in WC 130 |
Edward Kravitz, Dept. of
Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Host: Anya Goldina/ Stoddard lab) |
Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club: Love and war in a single gene and other stories |
| April 14 | Biology and Biomedical Undergraduate Honors Presentations | DeEtta Mills, FIU (host) |