OEB Spring 2008 Seminars
February 5 1:30 PM MCZ Lecture Hall 101 26 Oxford Street |
OEB Seminars Speaker: Prof. Hiroyoshi Higuchi Affiliation: University of Tokyo Seminar Title: The Ecology of Bird Migration in East Asia Host: Edwards Lab |
February 14 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Robert Trivers Affiliation: Rutgers University Seminar Title: The logic of self-deception Host: Haig Lab |
February 21 12:00 PM Center for the Environment Seminar Room 310 |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Dr. Maria Serrat Affiliation: Cornell University College of Vetrinary Medicine Seminar Title: Temperature and limb length in mice: A comparative model for human skeletal adaptation |
February 27 12:00 PM Geological Lecture Hall MCZ Building |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Mark Shriver Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University Seminar Title: The evolutionary/genetic architecture of normal variation: skin pigmentation and facial features |
February 28 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
**This seminar has been cancelled.** Speaker: Dr. Ben Sheldon Affiliation: Oxford-Edward Grey Institute for Ornithology Seminar Title: Phenodynamics: evolution and ecology of change in a wild bird population Host: Edwards Lab |
March 6 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Stuart Pimm Affiliation: Duke University Seminar Title: The laws of biodiversity - and how they set a practical agenda for saving species from extinction Host: Farrell/Pierce |
March 13 12:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search Speaker: Kenneth Feeley Affiliation: Wake Forest University Seminar Title: Fragmentation and climate change: tropical forests in a changing world |
March 13 12:00 PM Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Avenue |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Seminar Title: Population genomics of human gene expression |
March 13 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Robert Turgeon Affiliation: Cornell University Seminar Title: Phloem loading: mechanisms, evolution and ecophysiology Host: Holbrook |
March 17 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search Speaker: Claudia Czimczik Affiliation: University of California Irvine Seminar Title: The fate of carbon in northern ecosystems in a warmer world
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March 20 10:30 AM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search Speaker: Andrew Richardson Affiliation: University of New Hampshire Seminar Title: Vegetation phenology at scales from organism to biosphere: Why it matters |
March 20 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Hanna Kokko Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Finland Seminar Title: Which sex does what and why? Host: Pierce Lab |
April 3 12:00 PM Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Avenue |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Carlos Bustamante Affiliation: Duke University Seminar Title: Detecting natural selection and reconstructing demographic history from global patterns of human genomic diversity |
April 3 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Brian O'Meara Affiliation: NESCent Seminar Title: Finding and filling holes in the evolutionary biologist's toolbox Host: Brian Farrell |
April 7 12:00 PM Geological Lecture Hall MCZ Building |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: Jianzhi George Zhang Affiliation: University of Michigan Seminar Title: Molecular dissection of primate evolution and human origins |
April 10 12:00 PM Geological Lecture Hall University Museum |
OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search Speaker: Jeannine Cavender-Bares Affiliation: University of Minnesota Seminar Title: Linking evolutionary history, plant traits and communities in space and time: Consequences for ecosystem function and stability on a changing planet
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April 10 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Karen Warkentin Affiliation: Boston University Seminar Title: Phenotypic plasticity in complex life cycles: lessons from amphibians Host: Hanken Lab |
April 16 12:30 PM Seminar room 122 Herbaria |
OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search Speaker: Sabrina Russo Affiliation: University of Nebraska Seminar Title: Biodiversity in Forest Communities
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April 17 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Robert Holt Affiliation: University of Florida Seminar Title: Niche Conservatism, Evolution, and Applied Ecology: Challenges and Opportinities Host: Donohue Lab |
April 24 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Mike Ryan Affiliation: University of Texas Seminar Title: Sexual Communication in Tungara Frogs: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution Host: Losos Lab |
April 28 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Seminar Speaker: David Penny Affiliation: Massey University, New Zealand Seminar Title: Demonstrating the sufficiency of microevolutionary processes Host: Davis Lab |
May 1 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Chris Amemiya Affiliation: Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle Seminar Title: Evolution of vertebrate developmental complexity Host: Edwards Lab |
May 8 9:00 - 4:45 Fairchild Auditorium Sherman Fairchild Building |
Fourth Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium Topic: Phylogeny Informs Biology Lunchtime poster session Event is open to the public
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May 8 4:00 PM Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building |
OEB Weekly Seminar Series Speaker: Kiisa Nishikawa Affiliation: Northern Arizona University Seminar Title: Neuromechanics of ballistic movements Host: Biewener Lab |
May 21 12:00 PM Room 52H Peabody Museum |
Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Speaker: William Hylander Affiliation: Duke University Seminar Title: Canine reduction in hominins: functional links between jaw mechanics and canine height |
