Department of Biological Sciences

 

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)

"The importance of being dephosphorylated: Protein Phosphatase 2A regulation of Arabidopsis seedling development"

 

Mar 18

Spring break

 

Mar 25

A. Colon-Carmona (host: P. Padilla)

University of Massachusetts Boston

Title TBA

 

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)