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OEB Seminar Archive Fall 2007

September 18	Biological Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Maureen J. Devlin Harvard University Interactions of Estrogen, Strain and Bone Growth: Implications for Human Skeletal Robusticity
September 20	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Casey Dunn Brown Universitiy From the colony-level development of siphonophores to improved resolution of the animal tree of life: bringing new tools to old questions Host: Gonzalo Giribet
September 27	OEB Weekly Seminar Series David Roberts Hrdy Fellow, Kew Gardens Are we missing something? conservation & biodiversity prioritisation Host: Charles Marshall
October 4	Biological Anthropology Dr. Meike Kohler Intitut de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Spain Homo floresiensis, a product of insular evolution?
October 4	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Manolis Kellis Assistant Professor, MIT EECS, CSAIL, Broad Institute Phylogenomics in mammals, flies, and fungi Host: Scott Edwards
October 11	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Eric Schneider Author Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life Host: McCarthy Lab
October 18	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Tom Sharkey University of Wisconsin Heat flecks and thermal protection mechanisms of photosynthesis Host: Holbrook Lab
October 25	Biological Anthropology Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary Mouse Models and the Evolutionary Developmental Biology of the Mammalian Skull
October 25	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Joe Thornton University of Oregon The origins of complexity: Mechanisms of functional evolution in the steroid human receptors Host: Edwards Lab
November 1	Biological Anthropology Dr. Susan Perry Department of Anthropolgy, UCLA Seminar Title:Social learning and traditions in wild capuchin monkeys
November 1	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Dr. Michael Cant Department of Zoology, Cambridge University Reproductive conflict, demography, and the evolution of menopause Host: Pierce Lab
November 8	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Renee Duckworth Harvard University Adaptive dispersal strategies and the dynamics of a range expansion Host: Losos Lab
November 15	Biological Anthropology Dr. Tanya Smith Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology New approaches to understanding tooth development and life history in hominoid evolution
November 15	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Kevin Padian University of California, Berkeley Can Harvard biologists improve evolution education in America? Host: Edwards Lab, For more infomation contact Chris Organ.
November 29	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Trevor Price University of Chicago The role of phenotypic plasticity and selection in the colonization of a novel environment Host: Losos Lab
December 6	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Dr. Steve Orzack The Fresh Pond Research Institute TBA Host:
December 13	OEB Weekly Seminar Series Dr. John Lang Vassar College Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments to Test Adaptation Hypotheses Host: Lauder Lab
December 14	OEB Special Seminar James Edwards, Executive Director, EOL, Smithsonian Institution; and Jesse Ausubel, Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair, EOL Steering Committee Building the Encyclopedia of Life at Harvard