Seminar Schedule
All seminars take place in Room 331 Klamath Hall at 4:00 p.m unless otherwise noted
See future available dates for hosting: here
Fall Term, 2009 |
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SEMINAR | HOST
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| Oct 5 | Dr. Joseph Thornton, University of Oregon "The Functional Synthesis in Molecular Biology and Evolution: Evolution of Steroid Hormone Receptor Structure and Function." |
Department of Biology |
Oct 12 1 1:30PM |
Dr. Mitchell B. Cruzan, Portland State University "Hybridization as an Evolutionary Stimulus." |
Barbara Roy bit@uoregon.edu |
| Oct 19 | Dr. Jessica Green, University of Oregon "Biodiversity and Biogeography Across Life's Domains." |
Department of Biology |
| Oct 26 | Dr. Susan Rosenberg, The Cullen Endowed Professor of Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine "Mutation as a Stress Response and the Regulation of Evolvability." |
Frank Stahl fstahl@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 2 | Dr. Steven Kembel, University of Oregon "Ecology without species: using metagenomics to understand microbial diversity. " |
Jessica Green jlgreen@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 9 | Dr. Heidi Tissenbaum, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine "Studying the aging process
in the lab." |
Patrick Phillips pphil@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 16 | Dr. Scott Miller, University of Montana "Temperature adaptation in hot spring cyanobacteria: Two tales, two scales." |
Richard Castenholz rcasten@uoregon.edu
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| Nov 23 | Dr. Lynne Houck, Oregon State University "Salamander Pheromones: Neural and molecular basis for sexual persuasion." |
Michelle Wood miche@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 30 | Dr. John Conery, University of Oregon "An Information Theoretic Framework for Global Sequence Alignment" |
CEEB |
Spring Term, 2009 |
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SEMINAR | HOST
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| Mar 2 | Dr. Alice Barkan, University of Oregon "A Parallel RNA Universe: Emergence of Novel RNA Binding Protein Families in the Context of Nuclear-Organellar Coevolution." |
Jessica Green jlgreen@uoregon.edu |
Mar 9 1 1:30PM |
Dr. Michael A. Huston,Texas State University, San Marcos "Rethinking the Planet: The Paradox of Global Productivity and What to Do About It." 1:30PM - 331 Klamath Hall |
Paul Cziko pcziko@uoregon.edu |
| Apr 6 | Dr. Brian A Maurer Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Associate Profess, Michigan State University "Estimating the Dimension of Ecological Change." |
Jessica Green & Brendan Bohannan jlgreen@uoregon.edu & bohannan@uoregon.edu |
| Apr 20 | Dr. Michael Eisen, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley "Understanding and exploiting the evolution of Drosophila cis-regulatory sequences." |
Patrick Phillips pphil@uoregon.edu |
| Apr 27 | Dr. Willie J. Swanson, Associate Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington "Adaptive Evolution and Coevolution of Sperm-Egg Recognition Molecules.” |
Patrick Phillips pphil@uoregon.edu |
| May 11 | Dr. Craig T. Miller, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley "Genetic analysis of evolutionary change in vertebrates." |
William Cresko & Charles Kimmel wcresko@uoregon.edu & kimmel@uoneuro.uoregon.edu |
| May 18 | Dr. Sarah Eppley,Department of Biology, Assistant Professor, Portland State University "Bryophyte Sexual Systems: Testing the Ecological and Physiological Constraints to Sexual Reproduction in Bryophytes." |
Bitty Roy bit@uoregon.edu |
| Jun 1 | Dr. Christa P. H. Mulder, Department of Biology and Wildlife and Institute of Arctic Biology, Associate Professor, Plant Ecology, University of Alaska Fairbanks "Rats, Seabirds, and Islands: Can Effects of Invasive Predators Be Reverse? " |
Bitty Roy bit@uoregon.edu |
Fall Term, 2008 |
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SEMINAR | HOST
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| Oct 6 | Dr. Rick Michod, University of Arizona IGERT Speaker "Cooperation and Conflict Durning the Evolution of Individuality in the Volvocine Green Algae." Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Kevin Emerson kemerson@uoregon.edu |
| Oct 13 | Dr. Andrew Hendry, McGill University, Quebec, Canada "Ecological Speciation (Or the lack thereof) in Guppies, Stickleback And Darwin’s Finches" |
Conor O'Brien cobrien1@uoregon.edu |
| Oct 20 | Dr. Paul Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts "Developing a Predictive Science of the Biosphere" Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Gabriel Yospin gyospin@uoregon.edu |
| Oct 27 | Dr. Sergey Nuzhdin, University Southern CA, Los Angeles, California "Where Will Systems Biology Meet Genetic Variation?" Reception following in 327 Pacific |
William Cresko wcresko@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 3 | Dr. Alison Power, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York "Host Diversity, Vector Diversity, and Virus Spread in Plant Communities" Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Bitty Roy bit@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 10 | Dr. Franklin W. Stahl, University of Oregon "Crossover Interference: A Slippery Concept." |
Jessica Green jlgreen@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 17 | Dr. Joshua W. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology "Collective Decision Making in Bacterial Viruses." Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Jessica Green jlgreen@uoregon.edu & Brendan Bohannan bohannan@uoregon.edu |
| Nov 24 | Dr. Dee Denver, Oregon State University "Evolution of Caenorhabditis Genomes" Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Patrick Phillips pphil@uoregon.edu |
| Dec 1 | Dr. Bill Peterson, Federal NOAA Fisheries "Climate Variability and Change in the Northern California Current: Impacts on the Ocean Conditions, Zooplankton and Salmon Populations" Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Michelle Wood miche@uoregon.edu |
Spring Term, 2008 |
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SEMINAR | HOST
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| Mar 31 | William Cresko, University of Oregon "Developmental genetic basis of evolution in the wild: Lessons from stickleback." Reception following in 327 Pacific |
Department of Biology |
| Apr 7 | Stevan Arnold, Oregon State University "Resolving the paradox of stasis: models with stabilizing selection explain evolutionary divergence on all timescales." |
Conor O'Brien |
| Apr 14 | Beverly Pierson, Emeritus Professor, University of Puget Sound (Seminar in honor of Richard Castenholz's fifty years of service to the University of Oregon.) "Biogeochemistry of Fe(II) oxidation in a photosynthetic microbial mat: Implications for Precambrian Fe(II) oxidation." |
Michelle Wood & Richard Castenholz |
| Apr 21 | Artyom Kopp, University of California - Davis "How the fly got its sexy legs: Origin and evolution of a novel sex-specific trait." |
William Cresko |
| May 12 | Matthew Hahn, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and School of Informatics, Indiana University "Natural selection on gene duplicates in mammals." |
Julian Catchen |
| May 19 | John Taylor, University of California, Berkeley "Evolutionary camparisons of fungal genomes" |
CEEB |
| June 2 | Ben Blackman, Indiana University "Connecting the Sun to Flowering in Sunflower Evolution and Development" |
Sean Carroll |
Winter Term, 2008 |
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SEMINAR | HOST
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| Jan 28th | Dr. William Rice, UC Santa Barbara "The Consequences of the Evolution of Sex Differences." |
Morran/Phillips |
| Feb 4th | Dr. Frances White, Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Science, University of Oregon.
"Bonobos: Evolution of Female Power without Female Dominance." |
Michelle Wood |
| Feb 11th | Greg Retallack, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon.
"Mallee Model for Paleogene and Mesozoic Precursors of Grasslands." |
Michelle Wood |
| Feb 25th | Daniel Gavin, Department of Geography, University of Oregon.
"The History of Disjunct Species Distributions: Insights from Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology in the Interior Wet Belt of British Columbia." |
Michelle Wood |
| Mar 3rd | Terry L. Root, Ph.D, Senior Fellow/Faculty, Center for Environmental Science and Policy Institute for International Studies Stanford University.
"Biotic Consequences of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction." (Sponsored in association with Environmental Studies) |
Brendan Bohannan |
| Mar 10th | Matt Rockman, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University.
"Finding the Genetic Basis of Heritable Phenotypic Variation in C. Elegans." |
Bryn Gaertner |
Fall Term, 2007 |
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SEMINAR |
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Oct 15 |
Dr. Scott Bridgham, University of Oregon "Global Change: From Microbes to Landscapes." Reception following in 327 Pacific. |
Wood |
Nov 5 |
Scott Nichols, UC Berkeley Sponges, choanoflagellates and the origin of animals |
Bradshaw |
Nov 12 |
Jennifer Wernegreen, Marine Biological Laboratory Evolutionary genomics of host-dependent bacteria: Insights from insect endosymbionts. |
Bohannan |
Nov 14 |
Lena Hileman,University of Kansas Evolution of petal and stamen developmental patterning: from poppies to snapdragons |
Cresko |
Nov 19 |
Dr. Charalambos P. Kyriacou, University of Leicester, "Molecular Analysis of Circadian Clocks: An Evolutionary Perspective." |
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Nov 26 |
Olin Silander,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Evolution in small populations: the dynamics of mutational effects |
Wood |
Dec 3 |
Andrea Sweigart,University of Rochester he genetics of speciation in Mimulus |
Thornton |
Dec 5 |
Jennifer Brisson,UC Davis Contrasting environmental and genetic control of morphological variation: lessons from the pea aphid wing dimorphism |
Cresko |