The Zoology Departmental Seminar Series is open to the public. Seminars
are usually held at 4:30-6:00 pm in George Lynn Cross Hall room 123, with
refreshments available inside GLC 123 (near the stage) at 4:15 pm. Exceptions
to the normal schedule are indicated below.
Spring 2009
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| 21-Jan |
Orientation |
|
|
| 28-Jan |
Dr. Allen Orr
University of Rochester, Biology Department |
The Genetics of Speciation
|
Kaspari/ EEB. Sutton Lecture
|
04-Feb
|
Gabriel Costa
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology |
Species Richness Gradients, Factors Shaping
Geographical Range Limits, and Niche Conservatism |
Vitt |
11-Feb
|
Dr. Scott Waddell
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Neurobiology |
Neural Circuit Control of Memory and Motivation in
Drosophila |
Zhang |
18-Feb
|
Dr. Pamela Soltis
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History |
Polyploid Evolution in Plants: Genetic and
Genomic Consequences |
Kaspari/ EEB. Sutton Lecture
|
25-Feb
|
Dr. David McCauley
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology |
SoxE Genes and the Evolution and
Development of Chondrogenic Neural Crest |
|
04-Mar
|
Nick Matzke
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology |
The Evolution of Antievolutionism |
Hutchison/Broughton |
11-Mar
|
Dr. Justin Wright
DukeUniversity, Biology Department |
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning" |
ZAGS |
| 18-Mar |
Spring Break |
No Seminar |
|
| 25-Mar |
Dr. Bert Hölldobler
Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences |
Regulation of Reproduction in Primitive and
Advanced Ant Societies |
Kaspari/ EEB. Sutton Lecture |
01-Apr
|
Tao Zhao
University of Oklahoma Department of Zoology |
Split ends, a Transcriptional Regulator, Inhibits the Actin
Cytoskeleton to Regulate Neuronal Remodeling During
Metamorphosis
|
Hewes
|
08-Apr
|
Dr. Anne Magurran
University of Saint Andrews, School of Biology |
Biodiversity and Time |
Schlupp. FOCAS Lecture |
| 15-Apr |
Dr. Garland Allen
Washington University at Saint Louis, Biology Department |
Mendel's Legacy: The Use and Abuse of Genetics,
1900-1950. What Can We Learn from the Past? |
Berkowitz. Presidential Dream Course Speaker
|
22-Apr
|
Dr. Lukas Keller
University of Zurich-Lrchel, Zoology Museum |
From Agriculture to Theory to Conservation Biology:
Inbreeding and its Consequences |
Schlupp. Weese Lecture
|
29-Apr
|
Dr. William R. Jeffery
University of Maryland, Department of Biology |
Evolution and Development: A View from the Blind
Cavefish, Astyanax |
McCauley |
| 06-May |
Dr. Brian Langerhans
University of oklahoma, Department of Zoology and Biological Station
|
Predicting Evolution in a Genus of Livebearing Fish |
|
Fall 2008
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| 27-Aug |
Orientation
|
|
|
03-Sep
|
Phil Gibson
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology (faculty)
|
"Ecological genetics of seaside alder: Fragmentation, isolation, & conservation"
|
|
|
10-Sep
|
Kelly Zamudio
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
|
"Brazilian Atlantic Forest frogs: evolutionary diversification in a biodiversity hotspot" |
Vitt/Caldwell |
17-Sep
|
Doug Gaffin
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology (faculty)
|
"From robotic eyes to scorpion pectines: decoding
the natural world" |
|
24-Sep
|
Mike Kaspari
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology (faculty)
|
"You eat what you are: biogeochemistry, biogeography, and biological diversity"
|
|
1-Oct
|
Rober Diehl
University of Souther Mississippi, Department of Biological Sciences
|
"Radar applications in landscape ecology" |
Kelly
|
8-Oct
|
Bret Sandercock
Kansas State University, Division of Biology
|
"Integrating Behavioural Ecology and Conservation
Biology: Lessons from Grassland Birds" |
Patten |
| 15-Oct |
James Gillooly
University of Florida, Department of Zoology
|
"The Energetics of Acoustic Communication: A Broad
Comparative View" |
Kaspari |
22-Oct
|
Bruce Carnes
University of Oklahoma HSC, Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
|
"Death, Sex & Aging: A Biodemographic Perspective" |
Schlupp |
29-Oct
|
Charles Brown
University of Tulsa, Biological Sciences Department
|
"Ecology and evolution of Buggy Creek virus, an
arbovirus associated with birds in the Great Plains" |
Mock |
| 5-Nov |
Michael O'Connor
University of Minnesota, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
"Control of Drosophila Developmental Timing and Body Size"
|
Hewes
|
|
12-Nov
|
Colden Baxter
Idaho State University, Department of Biological Sciences
|
"The fire pulse: effects of wildfire on linked stream-riparian food webs" |
Zoology Association of Graduate Students |
19-Nov
|
Heather Galbraith
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology (student)
|
"Reproduction in a changing environment: mussels, impoundments, and conservation" |
Vaughn
|
| 26-Nov |
Thanksgiving
|
No Seminar |
|
3-Dec
|
Jackie Paritte
University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology (student)
|
|
|
10-Dec
|
Warren Burggren
University of North Texas, Department of Biological Sciences
|
|
Schlupp/Hutchison |
|
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