Biological Sciences
Fall 2009 Colloquium Series

Seminars are held in Lapham Hall Room N101 at 4:00 PM; unless noted.
Please join us for coffee and cookies outside the lecture hall at 3:45.
September 4
 No Colloquium Today
September 11 Tia-Lynn Ashman
University of Pittsburgh
From sex ratio to sex chromosomes: ecological and genetic insights into dioecy and sexual dimorphism in strawberry. Sponsored by: Jeff Karon
September 18 Noah Gorden
From: University of Notre Dame
How long does Juliet listen? How male acoustic signals influence female reproductive endocrinology in the gray treefrog. Sponsored by: Gerlinde Hoebel
September 25 Alan Wolfe
From: Loyola University Chicago
Bacterial couch potatoes: sensing central metabolic stress Sponsored by:Daâd A. Saffarini
October 2 Erica Young
From: UWM Biological Sciences
A world in your teacup: ecophysiology across diverse ecosystems. Sponsored by: UWM Biological Sciences
October 9 Ava Udvadia
From: UWM Biological Sciences
Transcriptional regulation of axon growth during CNS development and regeneration. Sponsored by: UWM Biological Sciences
October 16 Eric Cheng
From: UWM Biological Sciences
Epigenetic Intervention of Cancer: FK228 Biosynthesis and Beyond Sponsored by: UWM Biological Sciences
October 23 Dazhong (Dave) Zhao
From: UWM Biological Sciences
Signaling Regulation of Cell Fate Determination and Organogenesis in Arabidopsis Sponsored by: UWM Biological Sciences
October 30 Sergei Kuchin
From: UWM Biological Sciences
Regulation of Snf1 protein kinase in yeast Sponsored by: UWM Biological Sciences
November 6 Brett Woods
From: UW-Whitewater
High Elevation Marmot Populations: Are they Different? Sponsored by: Rafael Rodriguez
November 13 Kasey Fowler-Finn
From: UWM Biological Sciences
The maintenance of two distinct male morphs in a population of Schizocosa wolf spiders Sponsored by: Rafael Rodriguez
November 20 James Hingham
From: University of Chicago
Signaling systems in Old World monkeys
Sponsored by: Jennifer Danzy
November 27 Thanksgiving Holiday

Enjoy the Break

December 4 Moiz Charania
From: UWM Biological Sciences (Thesis Defense)
Adenylate cyclases and their role in regulation of anaerobic respiration in Shewanella oneidensis MR1 Sponsored by: Daâd A. Saffarini
December 11 Debashish Bhattacharya
From: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources and Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University
Greening of the tree of life Sponsored by: John Berges


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