Seminars

Fall 2009 OEB Seminars

All seminars take place at 4:00 p.m. on Friday in the OEB Seminar Room (319 Morrill Science Center 2), University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Refreshments precede seminars at 3:45 p.m.

Each seminar is followed by an opportunity for further refreshments and continued conversation.

Sep 18

Molecular responses of fish to hypoxia
BERNARD REES , Department of Biology, University of New Orleans
HOST: David McMillan

Sep 25

Stars, whiskers, and tentacles: Sensory specializations and behavior in some rare predators
KEN CATANIA , Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Integrated Science Building 221
HOST: Eric Bittman
Sinauer Associates Lectureship in Biology

Oct 2

Species invasions, climate change and species extinctions: The prospects for biodiversity at the end of the 21st Century
DOV SAX, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
HOST: Peter Alpert

Oct 16

Sex, germs and worms: Infectious disease in primate societies
CHARLES NUNN, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
HOST: Sharlene Santana

Oct 23

Island restoration in the Americas: Invasive species, return on investment and dropping poison from helicopters
JOSH DONLAN, Copeland Global Sustainability Fellow, Amherst College
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
HOST: Ethan Clotfelter

Nov 6

The role of plasticity in fish colonization and adaptation to deglaciated streams
ANDREW WHITELEY, Natural Resources Conservation and OEB, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nov 13

Causes and consequences of an early critical period for survival in salmonid fishes
KEITH NISLOW, Department of Natural Resources Conservation and OEB, University of Massachusetts
HOST: Francis Juanes

Nov 18

The evolution of comparative cognition: Is the snark still a boojum?
SARA SHETTLEWORTH, Departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
HOST: Elizabeth Jakob
Co-sponsored with NSB--note that this seminar is on a Wednesday

Dec 4

Bat evolution: Old problems and new approaches
NANCY SIMMONS, Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History
HOST: Tom Eiting

Dec 11

Darwin Gets Swine Flu: Celebrating the Origin of Species in an Age of Pandemics

CARL ZIMMER, Author and science writer for the New York Times, Scientific American, and Discover
NOTE LOCATION AND TIME:
5:00 p.m. in the Integrated Sciences Building 135 - Auditorium
HOST: Skye Long