Seminar Series 2006-2007
| Fall Quarter |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title | Host |
| Sep
28 |
Anna-Louise Reysenbach Dept of Biology Portland State U |
Discovery and exploration of deep-sea vents
in the South Pacific http://www.alrlab.pdx.edu/ |
Reysenbach reysenbacha at pdx 5 - 3864 |
| Oct
5 |
Mike LeMaster Dept of Biology Western Oregon U |
Snakes Make "Scents" Regarding Sex: Variation in the Sex Pheromone of a Garter Snake http://www.wou.edu/~lemastm/index.htm |
Estes estess at pdx 5-8782 |
| Oct 12 | Bill Cresko Dept of Biology U of Oregon |
Speciation and Stickleback fish, a
genomic approach http://evolution.uoregon.edu/Cresko.htm |
Masta smasta at pdx 5-8505 |
| Oct 20* | Leslee Parr Dept of Biology San Jose State U |
From manatees to crabs: implications of
marine population phylogeography to conservation* http://www.biology.sjsu.edu/facultystaff/parr.aspx |
Murphy murphym at pdx 5-8734 |
| Oct 26 | Sean Kohles Dept Mech Enginerring Portland State U |
Biomechanics of Chondrocytes http://www.me.pdx.edu/people/index.php?action=12&uid=60 |
Zelick zelickr at pdx 5-3086 |
| Nov 02 | Robin W. Baird Cascadia Research Coll Olympia WA |
Killer whales in Hawaiian waters: information on population identity and feeding habits http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/robin/robin.htm |
Courbis sarahc at rogue dot com |
| Nov 09 | Elizabeth Kutter Evergreen St College Olympia WA |
The age of phage! http://www.evergreen.edu/phage/ |
Stedman kstedman at pdx 5-3252 |
| Nov 16 | Jay Mellies Dept of Biology Reed College |
"SOS Response" in Enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/jmellies/index.html |
Courcelle justc at pdx 5-3866 |
| Nov 23 | No
Seminar |
Thanksgiving
Break |
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| Nov 30 | Michael Liskay Dept of Genetics OHSU |
DNA Mismatch Repair and Cancer http://www.ohsu.edu/genetics/liskay/index.html |
Courcelle justc at pdx 5-3866 |
*Alumni Weekend: Special Time and Date
| Winter Quarter |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title | Host |
| Jan 11 |
Susan Renn Dept of Biology Reed College |
Comparative Genomics of the
African Cichlid Fish: Modeling the genetics of behavior http://cgr.harvard.edu/hans/html/SCP_renn/SCPR.htm |
Courcelle justc at pdx 5-3866 |
| Jan 18 | Christopher Olsen Dept of EEOB Iowa State U |
Avian Incubation Behavior: Periodic Cooling and Consequences to Embryonic Growth http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cro/ |
Murphy murphym at pdx 5-8734 |
| Jan 25 | Karen Guillemin Inst of Molec Genet U Oregon |
Molecular Dialogues With the Microbiota in the Zebrafish Intestine http://www.molbio.uoregon.edu/facres/guillemin.html |
Stedman kstedman at pdx 5-3252 |
| Feb 01 | Stephen Lloyd CROAT OHSU |
Knockouts of DNA-glysosylase leading to
Obesity in mice http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/faculty/lloyd/ |
Stedman kstedman at pdx 5-3252 |
| Feb 08 | Marshal Hedin Dept Biology San Diego State U |
Comparative Phylogeography and Species
Discovery in Dispersal-limited Arthropods from the Appalachian
Mountains http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/pub/spiders/hedin.html |
Fishbein mfish at pdx 5-3872 |
| Feb 15 | Radu Popa Dept of Biology Portland State U |
An Introduction to Xenobiology http://www.bio.pdx.edu/faculty/Popa/Popa%20Homepage.html |
Popa rpopa at pdx 5 - 9503 |
| Feb 22 | Eric Baack CROAT U of British Columbia |
Where Have All the Hybrids Gone? Two Ecological Genetics Studies of Plant Population Boundaries http://www.bio.indiana.edu/~rieseberglab/eric_baack.html |
Eppley eppley at pdx 5-8757 |
| Mar 01 | Andrea Raven Plant Conserv Dept Berry Botan Garden |
Endangered PlantConservation at The Berry
Botanic Garden http://www.berrybot.org/ |
Stedman kstedman at pdx 5-3252 |
| Mar 08 |
Andrea Thorpe Inst Applied Ecol Corvallis OR |
Finally, proof of Weapons of Mass
Destruction: the effects of Centaurea maculosa on invaded
ecosystems http://www.appliedeco.org/ |
Rosenthal drosen at pdx |
| Mar 15 |
Richard Olmstead Dept Biology U of Washington |
What happened to the
Scrophulariaceae? The truth about monkeyflowers and Indian paintbrushes http://protist.biology.washington.edu/bio2/people/bio.html?parecID=273 |
Fishbein mfish at pdx 5-3872 |
| Spring Quarter |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title | Host |
| Apr 05 |
Amanda McCullough Dept of Mol Med Genetics OHSU |
"Skin-in-a-dish" assays for UV/DNA damage http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/faculty/mccullough/ |
Stedman kstedman at pdx 5-3252 |
| Apr 12 | Luis Ruedas Dept Biology Portland State U |
Mammals of Nepal: a conservation conundrum
http://www.biology.pdx.edu/people/ruedas/index.php |
Ruedas ruedas at pdx 5-9526 |
| Apr 19 | Mandy Cook College of Marine Science Univ of South Florida |
Hearing in Dolphins: Can You Hear Me Now? http://www.sarasotadolphin.org/personnel.asp |
Zelick zelickr at pdx 5-3086 |
| Apr 26 | Jack Sullivan Dept Biology U of Idaho |
Ecosystem Genetics of the Northwestern American Forest http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~jacks/index.htm |
Fishbein mfish at pdx 5-3872 |
| May 03 |
Benjamin Hall Dept Biology U of Washington |
Evolutionary changes in RNA Polymerase II
function http://faculty.washington.edu/benhall/ |
Bartlett micb at pdx 5-3858 |
| May 10 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| May 17 | Rafe Brown Dept Ecol & Evol Biol U of Kansas |
Love songs, acoustic adaptation, and
dynamics of adaptive/non-adaptive radiation in Melanesian frogs http://nhm.ku.edu/rbrown/ |
Ruedas ruedas at pdx 5-9526 |
| May 24 | Ted Morgan Dept Biology Kansas State Univ |
The genomics of thermotolerance in
Drosophila http://www.ksu.edu/morganlab |
Fishbein mfish at pdx 5-3872 |
| May 31 | Bitty Roy Ctr Ecol and Evol Biol U of Oregon |
Climate change and effects on pathogens and
herbivores http://evolution.uoregon.edu/Roy.html |
Eppley eppley at pdx 5-8757 |
| Jun 07 |
Robert Stansell Fish Field Unit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
The USACE Sea Lion Observation Project at
Bonneville Dam http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4609492 |
Duffield duffieldd at pdx 5-4087 |
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