Seminars
Spring 2008
Friday, January 25-- Dr. Michael E. Hellberg of Louisiana State University will speak on " High rates of molecular evolution tied to sex, competition and immortality in the sea".4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus
Friday, February 1--Dr. Linda Ivany of Syracuse University will speak on "The Beginning of the Icehouse World in Antarctica: Eocene Climate Change and Evolution of the Shallow Marine Biota". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus
Friday, February 15--Dr. Carol M. Berman of UB will speak on "Strange bedfellows: Male Tibetan monkeys cooperate to compete". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, February 29--Dr. Matthew Gruwell of UB will speak on "Tracking evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, March 7--Dr. Chris Pennuto of Buffalo State College will speak on "Dynamics of an insect ectosymbiont/host interaction from streams in southern Maine". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus
Thursday, March 20--Dr. Howard Lasker of UB will speak on "Connectivity of coral reef populations: You can’t always get where you want". (Co-sponsored with the Pegrum Lecture Series, Dept. of Geology). Time and location TBA.
Friday, March 28--Dr. Bernard Chapais of the Université de Montréal will speak on "An unexpected meeting: Primatology, Claude-Levi-Strauss and the roots of human society". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, April 4--Dr. Megan Porter of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with speak on "Molecular Evolution of a complex visual system: Opsin Evolution in stomatopod crustaceans". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, April 18--Dr. Lynda Corkum of the University of Windsor will speak on "Chemical control as a mangement strategy for the invasive fish, the round goby". 4:00 pm, location TBA.
Friday, April 25--Dr. Micheal Dent of UB will speak on "The Perception of Complex Sounds by Birds".
4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Fall 2007
November 16, 2007-- Research Seminar. Dr. Anne Russon from York University will speak on "Innovation and intelligence in Bornean orangutans". 850 Natural Sciences Complex, 4 pm.
November 9, 2007--Research Seminar. Dr. Frank Mendel will speak on "A timely death: the utility of sabertoothy?", 850 Natural Sciences Complex, 4 pm.
October 5, 2007--Research Seminar. Dr. Daniel Brazeau, UB will speak on "Using a multi-locus technique to assess levels of self-seeding in marine invertebrates, two coral examples". 850 Natural Sciences Complex, 4 pm.
September 28, 2007--Research Seminar. Dr. Helen Hull-Sanders from Canisius College will speak on "The Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability Hypothesis: Experimental Ambiguity at its Finest". 850 Natuarl Sciences Complex, 4 pm.
September 21, 2007- Screening of A Flock of Dodos, the award winning, lighthearted and insightful documentary about the intelligent design controversy. 850 Natural Sciences Complex, 4 pm.