Biology Colloquium
(Fall 2013 TBA)
Colloquium Spring 2013, Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00pm, Darwin 103
| Date |
Host |
Speaker/Topic |
| January 15 |
Cohen |
Introductory Meeting – Dr. Hall Cushman, Colloquium Coordinator |
| January 22 |
Cohen |
Dr. Michael Cohen – Sonoma State University Bioenergy research:
From wastewater channels to the synchrotron
|
| February 5 |
Buckley |
Dr. Roderick Dewar – Australian National University
|
| February 12 |
Cohen |
Dr. Nina Kamennaya – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Impact of ocean acidification of marine life forms
|
| February 19 |
TBA |
Open
|
| February 26 |
Girman |
Dr. Mike Westphal – Bureau of Land Management, Hollister
H2 Meets the ESU: How quantitative genetics can be used to assess the evolutionary significance of phenotypic traits that diagnose the endangered San Francisco Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia
|
| March 5 |
Cushman |
Dr. David Ackerly – University of California, Berkeley
Climate change, plant distributions and conservation in the Bay Area
|
| March 12 |
Lin |
Dr. Kiowa Bower – Dominican University
Neuroreceptor function and mechanisms of drug action
|
| March 19 |
|
SPRING BREAK
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| March 26 |
Pillai |
Dr. Maggie Pearce – Stanford University
Modeling the spread of neurodegenerative disease in fruit fly brains
|
| April 2 |
Nielsen |
Dr. Jennifer Burnaford – California State University, Fullerton
|
| April 9 |
Rank |
Dr. Anne Todgham – San Francisco State University
|
| April 16 |
Geist |
Terri Thomas – The Presidio Trust, San Francisco
Trying to understand and create a healthy urban lake (wish lakes could talk)
|
| April 23 |
Whitkus |
Dr. Michelle Goman – Sonoma State University
Deciphering the paleoclimate signal from wetlands in the semi-arid Kenyan Rift Valley
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| April 30 |
Lin |
Dr. Margaret Elvekrog – University of California, San Francisco
All Clear for Take-off: The role of translation initiation factors in ribosome substrate selection
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