Department of Biology

Mondays, 12:30-1:45pm, Old North 205

• April 15 "Water Management in an Ecology of Games," Mark Lubell, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Environmental Science & Policy at the University of California, Davis (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

Tuesdays, 12:30-1:45pm, Regents 239

• January 15 "The Blue Crab as a Model for Migratory Estuarine Species," Anson H. Hines, Director and Marine Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

• January 22 "Alaskan headwater streams – landscape linkages between juvenile salmon, alder, and bluejoint," Dennis Whigham, Senior Research Plant Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

• February 12 "Generality in ecology: the responses of North American and South African grasslands to fire and grazing," Scott Collins, Professor and Sevilleta LTER Director in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

• February 19 "New insights on the status of and solutions for global fisheries," Steven Gaines, Dean, Marine Science, Sustainable Fisheries at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

• March 12 "Climate Sensitive Water Policy: Diagnosing the Decision Process through Drought and Flood in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia," Amanda Lynch, Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

• April 16 "Constricting Bacteria for Cell Division," Kiani Gardner, Graduate student in Cell and Molecular Biology at Duke University

• April 23 "Asking a worm how it sees: Localization of photoreceptors in the cercaria of the Trematode Proterometra macrostoma," Marc Rowley, Assistant Professor of Biology at Berea College

Thursdays, 12:30-1:45pm, Regents 239

• January 17 "Elucidating the roles of redox alteration and oxidant stress in antibiotic mode-of-action," DJ Dwyer, NIH Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University

• January 24 "Natural Immunity Against the Intracellular Pathogen Leishmania major is Not Mediated by Immunological Memory: Implications for Vaccination Against Chronic Diseases," Nathan Peters, Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Parasitic Disease at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health

• January 31 "Regulation of a Major Metabolic Intersection in Bacillus subtilis," Shaun Brinsmade, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University

• February 7 "A multidisciplinary approach towards investigating bacterial adhesion," Eric Klein, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University

• February 14 "The role of environmental hosts in the evolution of a bacteria pathogen," Tamara O'Connor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University

• February 21 "New approaches for investigating nitrogen metabolism in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes," Patricia Scaraffia, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona

• March 21 "Bioeconomics of Malaria Control and Elimination," David L. Smith, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (Host: Steven Singer)

• April 4 "Subtelomeres and virulence in Candida glabrata," Brendan Cormack, Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Johns Hopkins University (Host: Biology graduate student Amanda Zirzow)

• April 18 "Extinction in our times: Global amphibian decline," James Collins, Ullman Professor of Biology, School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University (Host: Matthew Hamilton- part of the Environment Initiative)

• April 25 "Truths we must tell ourselves to manage climate change," Robert Socolow, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University (Hosts: Matthew Hamilton and YuYe Tong- part of the Environment Initiative)

Fridays, 3:30-4:45pm, Regents 239

• February 8 "Immunity, Giardia, and the Microbiome: Examining complex interactions in the host gut," Jenny Maloney, Biology graduate student in Professor Steven Singer's lab
  

• March 15 "Resource value and resource holding potential: Why do older and larger males win contests in Nasonia vitripennis (Jewel Wasp)?," Jean Tsai, Biology graduate student in Professor Edward Barrows' and Martha Weiss' labs

• March 22 "SIW14: The Stress Response and Biochemical Activity," Elizabeth Steidle, Biology graduate student in Professor Ronda Rolfes' lab

• April 5 "Understanding Sox Partner Interactions and Function," Niteace Whittington, Biology graduate student in Professor Elena Casey's lab

• April 12 "Life and death of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Shark Bay, Western Australia," Ewa Krzyszczyk, Biology graduate student in Professor Janet Mann's lab

• April 26 "The role of CD8 T cells in pathological giardiasis," Aleksander Keselman, Biology graduate student in Professor Steven Singer's lab

• May 3* "Giardia lamblia: Novel Strategies for Treatment and Control," Sweta Batni, Global Infectious Diseases graduate student in Professor Heidi Elmendorf's lab *Please note location change: Regents 339 and time change: 3:00pm*