Spring Seminar Series 2011
Fridays at 2 - 2:50pm
ENV 130
BIOL 4800/5860
For questions please contact Tom LaPoint (lapoint@unt.edu) Phone: x7776
Hosts are listed in parentheses.
Jan 21
No seminar: First meeting for class to discuss course policy etc
Jan 28
D. Johnson (host: S. Atkinson)
"Environmental Chemical Contaminants in Wild Sturgeon in the Lower Mississippi River"
Feb 4
M. Carey (host: D. Hoeinghaus)
(Cancelled due to snow day)
Feb 11
Sahortra. Sarkar (host: S. Atkinson)
University of Texas, Austin
"Spatial analysis in systematic conservation planning"
Feb 18
T. Hayes (host: A. Goven)
University of California, Berkeley
"From silent spring to silent night: a tale of toads and men"
Feb 19
Grad student presentations: Keynote speaker: T. Hayes
Feb 25
I. Hunt Von Herbing (host: A. Goven)
"Stressed out in Mexico! High-altitude conservation and aquatic physiology"
Mar 4
R. Primack (host: Chris Anderson, Chile Program)
"Searching for the impact of climate change on the plants and birds of Thoreau's Concord"
Mar 11
A. DeLong (host: A. Wright)
Mar 18
Spring break
Mar 25
A. Colon-Carmona (host: P. Padilla)
University of Massachusetts Boston
Apr 1
Ralph Tanner (host: M. Allen)
University of Oklahoma
"Energy Independence - Microbial Solutions"
April 4, 2011
2:00 – 3:00 PM
ENV-110 (EESAT)
Mark Mescher
Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University
"The chemical ecology of plant pathogen transmission by insect vectors"
Apr 8
B. Yates (host: S. Atkinson)
(cancelled)
Apr 15
Nathan Tublitz (A. Roberts)
University of Oregon
"A Spineless Approach to Peptide Mediated Neuroplasticity in Moths, Flies and Cephalopods"
Apr 22
L. Hansen (Host: R. Dickstein)
Michigan State University
"Interactions between pest control measures
and affects on managing sugar beet root rots"
Apr 29
R. Nelson (host Brian Ayre)
"Virus intercellular transport: “Conversations” with the plant host"
May 6
Prefinals week (no classes; no seminar)