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Lester Newman Seminar Series

Seminars will be held on Thursdays at noon in SB1 Room 107

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Title Host
September 27 Jeremiah Busch 
Washington State University

"The origin and loss of diversity at the S-locus in Brassicaceae"

 Eppley
October 04 Bitty Roy
Center for Ecology & Evolution
University of Oregon		 "Perceptual bias in mimicry" Eppley
October 12* Don Ennis
Dept Biology 
University of Louisiana

ALUMNI NIGHT LECTURE

 Courcelle
October 18

Lise Ovreas
University of Bergen, Norway

 "The vanishing North:
How will climate change influence on the microbial genetic resources in the Arctic?"

Reysenbach
October 25 Christopher Taylor
US Fish & Wildlife 
Abernathy Fish Technology Center		 "Hatchery fish gone wild: ecological implications of developing a native steelhead broodstock" Courcelle
November 1 Forest Rohwer
Dept Biology 
SDSU		 "Are You Just a Walking Phage Lysis Event?" Stedman
November 8 Loren Rieseberg
Dept Botany
UBC		 "Genomics of plant speciation" Cruzan
November 15

 

 cancelled  
November 22 No seminar Thanksgiving Break   
November 29

 

Scott Nuismer
Dept Biology 
University of Idaho

 

"Local adaptation in multi-dimensional trait space"

  Estes

 

 

Winter 2013

 

DATESPEAKERTITLEHOST
January 10 TBA TBA TBA
January 17 Andrew T Smith
School of Life Sciences 
Arizona State University		 "A tale of two pikas: behavior, ecology, and conservation of Asian Plateau and American pikas"
Ruedas
January 24 Chris Jordan
NOAA Fisheries		 "Recovering salmon populations- is stream habitat restoration a viable strategy?" Podrabsky
January 31   Jen Walker
Lewis and Clark

"Revisiting the specificity paradigm of Alnus-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal communities"

Eppley
February 7 Thorsten Lumsch
The Field Museum

"Goodbye morphology?-A paradigm shift in the delimitation of species in lichenized fungi."

 Ballhorn
February 14 Eric Cabronne
OHSU		 "Effector protein complexes that prime Legionella pneumophila for human infection" Raghaven
February 21 Katie Dugger
Oregon State University		 "To breed or not to breed: age-at first reproduction and breeding propensity of an Adelie penguin metapopulation" Murphy
February 28 Marc Morais
U. Texas Medical Branch		 Rescheduled June 6th; no seminar this date Stedman
March 7 Keith Garlid
Portland State University

"The central role of mitochondria in cell signaling"

 Garlid
March 14 Matthew Betts
Oregon State University 

"Why do species occur where they do?"

 Murphy

 

 

Spring 2013

DATESPEAKERTITLEHOST
April 04
George Weiblen 

 University of Minnesota

 "Community disassembly: dissecting plant-insect food webs in New Guinea rain forests" Ballhorn
April 11
Brenda Bass 

 University of Utah 

"Understanding the dsRNAome and its functions"

 Singer
April 18
Eric Selker

 University of Oregon


"Genome defense, gene silencing, and epigenetic dynamics in Neurospora"

 Stedman
April 25

 

Meg Daly

Ohio State University

 

 "Phylogeny and diversity of sea anemones." Lindgren
May 2 NA NA NA
May 9
Peter Kennedy

Lewis and Clark College

 "Ectomycorrhizal fungi and interspecific competition: species interactions and community structure." Rosenstiel
May 16
Chris Marx

Harvard University

 "Using mathematical models and experimental evolution to explore adaptation of metabolic systems." Reysenbach
May 23
John Bishop

Washington State University

 "Do depauperate interaction webs create unstable communities?  Insights from Mount St. Helens." Eppley
May 30
Andy Jones

Oregon State University

 "Below ground community assembly in a Neotropical forest revealed through DNA metabarcoding." Eppley
June 6 Marc Morais
U. Texas Medical Branch		 "Building a dsDNA virus" Stedman