OEB Seminar Archive
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Fall 2005 |
September 29
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Speaker: Klaus Mummenhoff |
October 6
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Speaker: Jim Clark |
October 13
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Speaker: Tom Daniel |
October 20
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Speaker: Dr. Ed Braun |
November 10 |
Speaker: Chris Simon |
November 17
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Speaker: Kathleen Pryer |
December 1
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Speaker: Dr. Stephen Secor |
December 8
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Speaker: Dr. Amy Dunham |
December 15
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Speaker: Ananth Karumanchi |
| Spring 2006 |
February 2 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Cagan H. Sekercioglu |
February 2 Noon-1:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--FACULTY CANDIDATE Speaker: Craig Albertson Seminar Title: Molecular basis of adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes Host: OEB Evolutionary Development Faculty Search Committee Speaker's Affiliation: The Forsyth Institute, Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
February 7 Noon-1:00 PM Haller Hall, Geological Museum |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--FACULTY CANDIDATE Speaker: Arkhat Abzhanov Seminar Title: Pecking at the origin of vertebrate craniofacial diversity: Lessons from Darwin's finches Host: OEB Evolutionary Development Faculty Search Committee Speaker's Affiliation: Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
February 9 2:00 PM Sherman Fairchild Auditorium, 7 Divinity Avenue |
OEB SPECIAL SEMINAR Speaker: Ian T. Baldwin Seminar Title: The merger paradox: Are complex adaptations rendered dysfunctional as a result of the merging of genomes during allopolyploid speciation? Host: Holbrook Lab Speaker's Affiliation: Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology |
February 9 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Andrew Groover |
February 23 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Michael Doebeli Seminar Title: Adaptive speciation: theory and evolutionary experiments Host Lab: Marx Speaker's Affiliation: University of British Columbia |
March 2 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--FACULTY CANDIDATE Speaker: Jukka Jernvall Seminar Title: Host: OEB Evolutionary Development Faculty Search Committee Speaker's Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology |
March 6 2:30-3:30 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
OEB SPECIAL SEMINAR Speaker: Yongyuth Yuthavong Seminar Title: Structural Biology and Drug Design: Dihydrofolate Reductase as Targets for Antiprotozoal Drugs Host: Hartl Lab Speaker's Affiliation: National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand |
March 9 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Brian Charlesworth |
March 10 2:30-4:00 Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Prather Lecture Speaker: Jared Diamond Host: OEB Speaker's Affiliation: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
March 16 12:00-1:00 PM HUH Seminar Room |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Junior Faculty Candidate Speaker: Hopi Hoekstra Affiliation: University of California, San Diego Seminar Title: From genotype to phenotype and back again: morphological and behavioral adaptation in beach mice Host: Evolutionary Genetics/ Genomics Junior Faculty Search |
March 16 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Ellen Simms |
March 20 2:00-3:00 PM Fairchild Seminar Room |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Junior Faculty Candidate Speaker: Jennifer Werngreen Affiliation: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Seminar Title: Evolutionary genomics of host-associated bacteria: Insights from insect endosymbionts Host: Evolutionary Genetics/ Genomics Junior Faculty Search |
March 23 12:00-1:00 PM HUH Seminar Room |
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Junior Faculty Candidate Speaker: Luciano Matzkin Affiliation: University of Arizona Seminar Title: Evolution at two levels: The role of expression and molecular evolution in host adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila Host: Evolutionary Genetics/ Genomics Junior Faculty Search Committee |
March 23 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Marc Kirschner |
April 6 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Mark Kirkpatrick |
April 13 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Enrico Coen |
April 20 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: John Gosline |
April 27 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs
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Speaker: Mark Vellend |
May 4 4:00-5:00 PM Main Lecture Hall Biological Labs |
Speaker: Craig Moritz |
May 11 9:00 - 5:00 Fairchild Auditorium 7 Divinity Ave |
Genes, Genetics, Genomics 2nd Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium For details and registration go to: http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu |
May 18 3:00 - 5:00 PM Biological Labs |
G4 Symposium Day 1 Reception to follow |
May 19 2:00 - 4:00 PM Biological Labs |
G4 Symposium Day 2 Reception to follow |
| Fall 2006 |
September 21 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Gabrielle Nevitt Affiliation: University of California Davis Seminar Title: The odor world of the sub-Antarctic procellariiform seabirds Host: Edwards Lab |
September 28 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Allen Collins Affiliation: National Systematics Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution Seminar Title: Beauty before brains: Animal evolution prior to the origin of Bilateria Host: Giribet Lab |
September 30 Time: 8:45 am Public Entrance to HMNH. |
** G1 Picnic ** Concord Field Station & Kimball Farms for ice cream, mini golf, and bumper boats!
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October 3 12:00-1:00 PM Sherman Fairchild Room 102 |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Gonzalo Giribet Affiliation: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Seminar Title: Unraveling the mysteries of metazoan evolution-from genomics to faunistics |
October 3 4:00-6:00 PM HUH Herbarium |
**OEB FALL PARY** Please join us in welcoming our new Director, Faculty, and Students.
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October 5 12:00-2:00 PM MCZ 101 26 Oxford St |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Jane Melville Affiliation: Museum Victoria Seminar Title: Ecological diversification and evolutionary patterns in desert lizard communities Host: MCZ Herpetology Department |
October 5 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Bryan N. Danforth Affiliation: Cornell University Seminar Title: Phylogeny of the bees based on 5 genes plus morphology reveals an unexpected pattern of early diversification Host: Pierce Lab |
October 12 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Benjamin Normark Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Amherst Seminar Title: Phylogeny and evolution of unusual genetic systems in armored scale insects Host: Haig Lab |
October 13 12:00-1:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Sally Otto Affiliation: University of British Columbia Seminar Title: The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex Host: Hartl Lab |
October 14 - 15 Time: TBA |
** G1 Retreat ** Please check back for details. |
October 19 1:00-2:00 PM BioLabs Building |
PEGG Seminar Series Speaker: Chip Lawrence Seminar Title: The futility of Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Genomics and an Alternative Ensemble Based Estimator |
October 19 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Todd Streelman Seminar Title: Ecology, mosaic genomes and the evolution of organismal design |
October 26 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: John Wiens Affiliation: SUNY- Stony Brook Seminar Title: Explaining biogeography with evolution (and vice versa) |
November 1 4:00-6:00 PM Ernst Mayr Lib. MCZ Building |
MCZ Fall Open House--Ernst Mayr Library Sponsored by: Ernst Mayr Library Collections Staff |
November 3 3:30 PM Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum Rm 59D |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Daniel Rubenstein Seminar Title: Unravelling zebra movements remotely: |
November 7 12:00 PM Sherman Fairchild Rm 177 |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Professor Masami Hasegawa Affiliation: The Institute of Statisitical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan Seminar Title: Rooting the eutherian tree: The power and pitfalls of phylogenomics Host: A. Shedlock, Edwards Lab |
November 9 1:00-2:00 PM BioLabs Building |
PEGG Seminar Series Speaker: Dan Neafsey Seminar Title: Selection for Inefficient Translation |
November 9 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Sarah Mathews Seminar Title: Phytochrome evolution in land plants: red light sensing meets the challenges of changing light environments |
November 15 2:00 pm Pfizer Lecture Hall Mallinckrodt B23 |
PEGG Seminar Series Speaker: Kenneth Miller Seminar Title: Time to Abandon Darwin? Lessons from the Dover "Intelligent Design" Trial |
November 16 12:00 PM Haller Hall, Rm 102 24 Oxford St. |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Richard Lawler Seminar Title: Sexual selection, natural selection, and locomotion in Verreaux's sifaka |
November 16 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Juli Wade Affiliation: Michigan State University Seminar Title: Hormonal and Genetic Influences on Sexual Differentiation of the Zebra Finch Song System Host: Edwards Lab |
November 28 12:00 PM Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street |
Special Seminar Speaker: Kristi Montooth Affiliation: Brown University Seminar Title: From pathways to fitness: linking genes, physiology and ecology in the genus Drosophila |
November 30 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Sergey Gavrilets Affiliation: University of Tennessee Seminar Title: Dynamics of ecological speciation: case studies and mathematical models Host: Losos Lab |
December 4 11:30 AM BioLabs Building |
Special Seminar Speaker: Sheila Patek Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley Seminar Title: Fast movements and acoustic defenses: evolutionary physiology in the marine environment Host: Jonathan Losos |
December 6 12:00 P M BioLabs Building |
Special Seminar Speaker: Stacey Combes Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley Seminar Title: Insect flight beyond the laboratory: Complex aerial behaviors in an unpredictable environment |
December 7 1:00-2:00 PM BioLabs Building |
PEGG Seminar Series Speaker: Steven Orzack Seminar Title: TBA |
December 7 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Paul Moorcroft Affiliation: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Seminar Title: How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere?
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December 11 11:30 A M BioLabs Building |
Special Seminar Speaker: Alex Badyaev Affiliation: University of Arizona Seminar Title: Evolution of development and the origin of adaptation Host: Jonathan Losos |
December 13 12:00 PM Agassiz Conference Room 26 Oxford Street |
Special Seminar Speaker: David Patterson Affiliation: Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory Seminar Title: Taxonomic intelligence and the Encyclopedia of Life: using taxonomic principles to manage information about organisms on the internet Host: James Hanken |
December 13 2:00-3:00 PM Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Paul Moorcroft Affiliation: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Seminar Title: How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere?
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December 14 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Andreas Wagner Affiliation: University of New Mexico Seminar Title: Gene networks and natural selection Host: Hartl Lab |
| Spring 2007 |
February 5
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Kirsten Bomblies Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Seminar Title: When good genes behave badly - characterizing hybrid necrosis in Arabidopsis thaliana Host: N.M. Holbrook | |
February 5 4:00 PM | Biological Anthropology Seminar Speaker: Karen Kramer Affiliation: Anthropology, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook Seminar Title: Mortality, Maturity and Maternal Constraints among Maya Host: Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology |
February 7 12:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Marc Johnson Affiliation: University of Toronto Seminar Title: The community genetics of plant-arthropod interactions Host: N.M. Holbrook |
February 8 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Mercedes Pascual Affiliation: University of Michigan Seminar Title: Shifting patterns: infectious disease dynamics in a changing world Host: Moorcroft Lab |
February 12 4:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Amy Angert Affiliation: University of Arizona Seminar Title: The evolution of species' distributions Host: N.M. Holbrook |
February 12 4:00 PM Fairchild 102 7 Divinity Ave |
Biological Anthropology Seminar Speaker: Edward Hagan Affiliation:Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University Seminar Title: Depression: Illness or Adaptation? Host: Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology |
February 15 4:00-5:00 PM | OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Jacques Dumais Affiliation: Organismic and Evolutinary Biology, Harvard University Seminar Title: Cell morphogenesis - What we have learned from rubber balloons and soap bubbles |
February 22 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Elena Kramer Affiliation: Organismic and Evolutinary Biology, Harvard University Seminar Title: Aquilegia as a new model system for the study of floral evolution |
February 24 - 25 Time: TBA |
** G2 & G3 Retreat ** Harvard Forest Please check back for more details |
February 26 5:00-6:00 PM Maxwell Dworkin Room G125 33 Oxford Street |
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Speaker: Stephen Brown Affiliation: Shorebird Conservation Research Program, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Seminar Title: Shorebird Distribution and Abundance on the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain Free and open to the public. Please contact Jenny MacGregor for more info |
March 1 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Vojtech Novotny Affiliation: Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic Seminar Title: The structure of plant-insect food webs in tropical rainforests Host: Pierce Lab |
March 7 3:30 PMRadcliffe Inst. 34 Concord Ave 2nd flr Colloquium Room |
2006-2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Speaker: David Mindell Affiliation: University of Michigan Seminar Title: Applied evolution: Domestication, disease, crime and culture Free and open to public. Please call 617-495-8212 for more info. |
March 8 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Ben Evans Affiliation: McMaster University Seminar Title: Duplicate gene evolution and expression Host: Hanken Lab |
March 12 11:00-12:00 PM Pierce 209 DEAS |
DEAS Seminar Talk Speaker: Douglas S. Fudge Affiliation: University of Guelph Seminar Title: Inspiring slimes: What hagfish slime can teach us about predator defense, cellular mechanics, and artificial silk Host: Weitz Lab |
March 15 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: James Nieh Affiliation: University of California at San Diego Seminar Title: The evolution of referential communication in highly social bees Host: Pierce Lab |
March 21 2:00 PM Sherman Fairchild Room 102 |
Biological Anthropology Seminar Speaker: Charles Nunn Affiliation:Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Title: Sex, Germ, and Worms: Infectious Disease in Primate Societies Host: Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology |
March 22 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series **CANCELLED** Speaker: Tom Sharkey Affiliation: University of Wisconsin Seminar Title: Heat flecks and thermal protection mechanisms of photosynthesis Host: Holbrook Lab |
April 5 12:00-1:00 PM Peabody Museum Putnam Lab, 59D 11 Divinity Ave |
Biological Anthropology Seminar Speaker: Rob Shumaker Affiliation: Great Apes Trust of Iowa Seminar Title: Cognitive Flexibility by Orangutans in Separate Domains Host: Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series |
April 5 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Robert Sharrock Affiliation: Montana State University Seminar Title: Phytochromes – plant red/far-red photoreceptor diversity and light sensing Host: Donohue Lab |
April 12 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Hrdy Fellow Lecture Speaker: Tamas Szekely Affiliation: Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath Seminar Title: Sexual conflict and the evolution of breeding systems in shorebirds Host: Hrdy Committee |
April 19 2:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB G4 Symposium 2:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
April 20 2:00-5:00 PM | OEB G4 Symposium 2:00-5:00 PM |
April 26 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Edith A. Widder Affiliation: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Seminar Title: Shedding New Light on Bioluminescence: Evolutions and Applications Host: Cavanaugh Lab and Hasting Lab (MCB) |
May 3 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Gloria Coruzzi Affiliation: New York University Host: Kramer Lab |
May 10 9:00-4:45 PM Fairchild Auditorium 7 Divinity Ave |
Third Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium For a list of speakers, updates, and further information please visit the PBI Website at www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu Free and open to the public. |
May 10 12:00-1:00 PM Haller Hall 24 Oxford Street |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Robert Martin Affiliation: Field Museum Chicago Seminar Title: Primate Brain Evolution: The Maternal Energy Hypothesis Revisted Host: Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series |
May 17 4:00-5:00 PM BioLabs Building |
OEB Special Seminar Speaker: Kathleen Donohue Affiliation: Organismic and Evolutinary Biology, Harvard University Seminar Title: TBA |
