BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

COLLOQUIA SCHEDULE—Fall Semester, 2009, B302 Birge, 3:30 p.m. 
 

Date Speaker       Host Title
9/10/09 Rick Vierstra, UW Genetics Host: Marisa Otegui Atomic Perspectives on Phytochrome Signaling
9/17/09 Nicole King, Asst. Prof., UC-Berkeley, Dept. Molecular and Cell Biology Host: Carol Lee Choanoflagellates, inter-kingdom signaling, and the building blocks of animal origins
9/24/09 Sandra McLellan, Great Lakes Water Institute (UW-Milwaukee) Host:  Carol Lee Identifying new alternative indicators of sewage contamination in the Great Lakes using comprehensive microbial community profiling
10/1/09 Timothy Kuhman, Ph.D., Zoology (PhD exit talk) Host: Monica Turner The influence of past and present land use on non-native plant invasion in the Southern Appalachians
10/8/09 Andrew Revkin, NY Times Reporter--Madison Ecology Symposium, 3:00-5:30 p.m. (No talks)  
10/15/09 John Havel, MO State University Host: Carol Lee Biological Invasions: the roles of dispersal and invasibility
10/22/09 Fariba Assadi-Porter, UW Dept. of Biochemistry and NMRFAM Host: Warren Porter Unravelling common threads in the fabric of disease
10/29/09 Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison

Dept. Pathobiological Sciences

 Host: Stephen Gammie Fish n' chimps: model systems for the ecology of infectious disease in a changing global environment
11/5/09 Alan Jones, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. Biology Host: Simon Gilroy How the G protein complex mediates control of cell proliferation in Arabidopsis
11/12/09 Patrick Masson, UW Genetics Host: Marisa Otegui Genetics of Root Growth Behavior in Arabidopsis
11/19/09 Suzanne Peyer-UW-Madison Department of Zoology Host: Carol Lee Morphology and the Mechanics Impacting Zebra and Quagga Mussel Invasions
12/03/09 Emily Stanley, Assoc. Prof.      

UW Center for Limnology

 Host: Steve Carpenter TBD
12/10/09 Tucker Gilman, UW-Madison Department of Zoology Host: Tony Ives "Evolution in changing environments: Insights from Theory"