2012 Seminar Schedule
The Biological Sciences Department Seminar Series invites to our campus professional scientists to give a lecture on their current research. It is an important weekly event for our program, in which new findings and ideas are shared and discussed within an open and social setting. Department faculty members, staff, post-docs, and graduate and undergraduate students routinely attend the seminar. In addition, interested persons from the campus and greater community are very welcome to participate.
4:00pm LH 150
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Date
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Topic and Speaker
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| Jan. 26 | Jennifer Martiny, UC Irvine , Microbial biogeography and why it matters. |
| Feb. 2 | TBA |
| Feb. 16 | Peter Narins, UCLA. Aventures of an expeditionary biologist: Exploring Sensory Adaptations. |
| Feb. 23 |
Mike Alfaro, UCLA. Big fish trees! New perspectives on the radiation of fishes gained from megaphylogenies and sequence capture of ultraconserved DNA elements.
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| March 1 | Cancelled
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| March 13 | Ted Stankowich, Harvard University. Fear, Fleeing, and Fighting: The Evolution of Antipredator Defenses in Mammals |
| March 15 | Fernando Gomez, UCLA. Decreased bacterial colonization of the intestinal tract of C. elegans fed a coenzyme Q diet mediates increased life span and stress resistance. |
| March 20 | Christopher Clark, Yale University. 'Singing' hummingbird feathers and the costs of extreme courtship |
| March 22 | Sharlene E. Santana, UCLA. From bat bites to monkey faces: evolution of morphology, behavior and function in the diversification of mammals. |
| March 29 | NO Seminar. |
| April 2 Monday HSCI 100 at 4 pm | Dr. Birgitte McDonald, University of California San Diego. Pushing the Limit: Diving Physiology and Energetics of Marine Mammals
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| April 5 | Amanda Fisher,
Santa Ana Botanical Garden. Recent research in bamboo evolution.
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| Monday April 9 HSCI 100, 4 pm | Dr. Jennifer Taylor, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Balloons, Punching Bags, and Guiros: Untold Roles of the Arthropod Exoskeleton . |
| April 12 | Art Arnold, UCLA. Sex differences in physiology and disease. |
| Friday, April 13 10-11AM HSCI 103 | Dr. Douglas Pace, University of Georgia, Athens. Bringing It All Back Home: Apicomplexan Parasitism and the Marine Environment . |
| Monday April 16, 4-5 pm, HSCI 100 | Dr. John Eme, University of North Texas Plasticity of the Cardiopulmonary System, Energetics, and Thermal Tolerance of Reptiles and Fishes.
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| April 19 | Mark Pandori,
SF Public Health. Molecular diagnostics and drug resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. |
| Friday, April 20,10-11 am, HSCI 103 | Dr. Molly Dickens, University of Liege, Belgium. Translocation-induced Stress:Physiological Causes, Effects, and Implications for Conservation. |
| April 26 | Steve Dudgeon, CSU Northridge. Experimental tests of alternative stable states on Gulf of Maine rocky shores.
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| May 3 | Carolyn Kurle, UCSD. Moving beyond "you are what you eat:" broader applications of stable isotope biogeochemistry to ecological questions. |
| May 10 | Jennifer Burnaford, CSU Fullerton. It isn't always climate change: community effects and possible causes of changes in the abundance of an intertidal kelp. |
Questions about the Bio-Sci Department Seminar series? contact Dr.James Archie (James.Archie@csulb.edu)
