February 2
|
Cagan H. Sekercioglu
Ecological implications of bird extinctions
Host Lab: Edwards
Speaker's Stanford University Center for Conservation Biology |
February 2
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--FACULTY CANDIDATE
Craig Albertson
Molecular basis of adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes
Host: OEB Evolutionary Development Faculty Search Committee
Speaker's The Forsyth Institute, Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
February 7
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--FACULTY CANDIDATE
Arkhat Abzhanov
Pecking at the origin of vertebrate craniofacial diversity: Lessons from
Darwin's finches
Host: OEB Evolutionary Development Faculty Search Committee
Speaker's Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
February 9
|
OEB SPECIAL SEMINAR
Ian T. Baldwin
The merger paradox: Are complex adaptations rendered dysfunctional as a result of the merging of genomes during allopolyploid speciation?
Host: Holbrook Lab
Speaker's Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology |
February 9
|
Andrew Groover
What genes make a tree a tree?
Host Lab: Holbrook
Speaker's UC-Davis & US Forest Service
|
February 23
|
Michael Doebeli
Adaptive speciation: theory and evolutionary experiments
Host Lab: Marx
Speaker's University of British Columbia |
March 2
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--FACULTY CANDIDATE
Jukka Jernvall
Host: OEB Evolutionary Development Faculty Search Committee
Speaker's University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology |
March 6
|
OEB SPECIAL SEMINAR
Yongyuth Yuthavong
Structural Biology and Drug Design: Dihydrofolate Reductase as Targets for Antiprotozoal Drugs
Host: Hartl Lab
Speaker's National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand |
March 9
|
Brian Charlesworth
Evolution of Y Chromosomes
Host Lab: Hartl
Speaker's University of Edinburgh |
March 10
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Prather Lecture
Jared Diamond
Host: OEB
Speaker's David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
March 16
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Junior Faculty Candidate
Hopi Hoekstra
University of California, San Diego
From genotype to phenotype and back again: morphological and behavioral adaptation in beach mice
Host: Evolutionary Genetics/ Genomics Junior Faculty Search
Committee
|
March 16
|
Ellen Simms
Evolutionary mechanisms promoting cooperation in legumes and rhizobia
Host Lab: Donohue
Speaker's UC Berkely |
March 20
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Junior Faculty Candidate
Jennifer Werngreen
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Evolutionary genomics of host-associated bacteria: Insights from insect endosymbionts
Host: Evolutionary Genetics/ Genomics Junior Faculty Search
Committee |
March 23
|
SPECIAL SEMINAR--Junior Faculty Candidate
Luciano Matzkin
University of Arizona
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
|
Marc Kirschner
Hemichordates and the origin of the chordate body plan
Host Lab: Haig
Speaker's Chair, Department of Systems Biology, Harard Medical School |
April 6
|
Mark Kirkpatrick
Chromosome inversions, local adaptation, and speciation
Host Lab: Hartl Lab
Speaker's Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin |
April 13
|
Enrico Coen
Evolutionary wormholes: the developmental genetics of diversity
Host Lab: Kramer / Dumais / Holbrook
Speaker's John Innes Center, Norich, UK
|
April 20
|
John Gosline
Bio-inspired materials design oozes out of Hagfish Slime
Host Lab: Biewener Lab
Speaker's Univ. British Columbia |
April 27
|
Mark Vellend
Connections between species and genetic diversity
Host Lab: Pringle Lab
Speaker's University of British Columbia |
May 4
|
Craig Moritz
History and the evolution of a rainforest fauna
Host Lab: Edwards
Speaker's UC Berkeley |
May 11
|
Genes, Genetics, Genomics
2nd Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium
For details and registration go to: http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu |
May 18
|
G4 Symposium
Day 1
Reception to follow |
May 19
|
G4 Symposium
Day 2
Reception to follow |
