Botany and Zoology seminars, Fall 2008

Location: 211 Bartram Hall
Time: (Tues, Zoology): Snacks at 3:15, seminar at 3:30; (Weds, Botany): Snacks at 3:30, seminar at 3:45
Day Date Speaker Title Host
Tues 2 September Lou Guillette, UF B&Z Alligators, Contaminants and Reproduction: from populations to genes Cohn
Tues 9 September Ed Braun, UF B&Z Models, rare genomic changes, and the early evolution of birds TBA
Weds 10 September Byung-Ho Kang, UF Microbiology & Cell Science Where is the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment in plant cells? Electron tomography characterization of cisternal assembly, Golgi-to-ER recycling, and polysaccharide synthesis in plant Golgi stacks Chen
Tues 16 September Marty Cohn, UF B&Z Sexual Differentiation of Genitalia and Limbs: How Global and Local Signals Pattern the Embryo Maden
Tues 23 September Steve Phelps, UF B&Z Getting caught in peculiar positions: Variation in the mechanisms of monogamy Brockmann
Tues 30 September Mike Antolin, Colorado State University Searching for Plague Reservoirs: Vast Lakes or Tiny Trickles? Wayne
Weds 1 October Doria Gordon, The Nature Conservancy Accuracy and potential impact of screening new plant species for invasiveness in the US TBA
Tues 7 October Chris Osovitz California's complex coastline: Biogeographic patterns of gene expression in marine invertebrates Julian
Tues 14 October Harvey Lillywhite, UF B&Z Sea Snakes Require Fresh Water: Linking Physiology and Climate Change TBA
Tues 21 October Lars Brudvig, USDA Forest Service Savannah River Confronting issues of scale in restoration ecology Holt/Levey
Weds 22 October David Baum, University of Wisconsin Genetic gardening: Moving genes between species to find the causes of morphological evolution Botany graduate students
Tues 4 November Thomas Sanger, Harvard Forays into the evolution and development of /Anolis /lizards: perspectives on diversification. Hsieh
Thurs 6 November Jimmy Liao, Cornell University Neurobiology and hydrodynamics underlying locomotor behaviors in fishes Hsieh
Weds 12 November Mi-Jeong Yoo, UF B&Z Ph.D. exit seminar Soltis
Tues 18 November Lisa Crummett, UF B&Z Ph.D. exit seminar: Testing "Evolution of Sex" Hypotheses using the Freshwater Snail, Campeloma limum Wayne
Weds 19 November Cancelled TBA Gitzendanner
Thurs 20 November Donovan German, UF B&Z Ph.D. exit seminar: Beavers of the fish world: can wood-eating catfish actually digest wood? Evans
Tues 25 November John Tschirhart, U of Wyoming Growth Functions for Multiple Species with Predator Saturation and Switching Holt
Tues 2 December Greg Glass  The Magic 25: Years, Millions of Dollars and Tens of Lives: What Has Hantavirus Taught Us About 'Real Biology'? Holt
Weds 3 December Joe Jez, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Uncovering Biochemical Sensing Mechanisms in Plant Thiol Metabolism  Harmon
Thurs 4 December faculty/group meeting
Tues 9 December Rebecca Blanton Johansen, FLMNH Evolution of the most variable of all darters, the Etheostoma flabellare species complex Page
Weds 10 December Monica Arakaki, UF B&Z Ph.D. exit seminar: Systematics of tribe Trichocereea and resolution of a thorny history of reticulate evolution and polyploidy in Haageocereus (Cactaceae) Soltis