Spring 2012 Seminar Series: Department of Biology

Seminars will be at noon in 139 Shumaker Research Building unless otherwise noted.

January 20: Job applicant seminar: Adventures in Amphibian Biology: Salamanders as Models for Problems in Ecology, Conservation, & Development. (139 Shumaker Research Building.)

January 23 (Monday): Job applicant seminar: The evolution of species interactions in a community context.  (Chao Auditorium.)

January 27: Job applicant seminar: Integration, adaptation, and constraint. (Strickler Hall, 208A.)

January 30 (Monday): Job applicant seminar: Bridging the gaps: how connectivity shapes ant ecology in the tropical forest canopy.  (Chao Auditorium.)

February 17 :  Job applicant seminar: Microbial competition and pathogenesis: insights from Xenorhabdus. (139 Shumaker Research Building.)

February 20 (Monday) : Job applicant seminar: Evolution of cooperation and conflict in social microbes.  (Chao Auditorium.)

February 24 : Job applicant seminar: Responding to disease emergence: the potential of microbial therapy (Life Sciences 101).

February 27 (Monday) : Job applicant seminar: Pathogenomics of the opportunistic respiratory
bacteria Burkholderia and Pseudomonas. (Chao Auditorium.)

March 2 : Dr. Heather Reynolds, Indiana University. Exotic Plant Invasions: Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together.  Host: Dr. Sarah Emery.[It was necessary to cancel the seminar due to approaching hazardous weather.]

March 9: Dr. Phil Crowley, University of Kentucky.  Title TBA.  Host: Dr. Rob Page.

April 6:  Dr. Heather Reynolds, Indiana University. Exotic Plant Invasions: Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together.  Host: Dr. Sarah Emery.[This presentation will be rescheduled for a date in the Fall semester.]

April 13:   Dr. Jeff Dukes, Purdue University.  "Burning buried sunshine:  How yesterday's
energy could make tomorrow's ecosystems weedier" Host Dr. Sarah Emery.