Seminar Series

August 31, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Michael Olaopa, Indiana University School of Medicine,
"Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Failure during Development."

September 14, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Richard Phillips, Indiana University "Carbon trading goes underground: ramped-up nitrogen cycling and the terrestrial carbon sink."

September 21, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Dana Dudle, DePauw University
"Mechanisms and potential consequences of stress tolerance in common purslane, Portulaca oleracea."

October 5, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Pascal Lafontant, DePauw University
"Fishing for answers: Models of Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Regeneration."

October 12, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Sandy Davis, University of Indianapolis
"Floral Color Change and Gender Transition in Bouncing Bet (Saponaria officinalis)"

October 26 , 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Jennifer Freeman, Purdue University
"Zebrafish as a vertebrate model to investigate the underlying genetic mechanisms of lead (Pb) neurotixicity."

November 9 , 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Susanne Kraemer, Indiana University
"Relatedness and interactions of social bacteria on very fine scales."

November 16 , 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Irene Newton, Indiana University

Environmental Microbiology

November 30 , 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Jim Bever, Indiana University

Plant and Fungi Evolution

February 14, 2012(Tues.)
11:30 a.m. Olin Aud.

Dr. Amber Mosley, IUPUI, "The CTD phosphatase Rtrl regulates RNA Polymerase II transcription termination"

February 22, 2012

Dr. Andrew Bauer, DePauw University, "Socializing Paleoenvironmental Change: The Historical Ecology of Long Term Land-Use in Central Karnataka, South India"

February 29, 2012

 Monica Heltz, Marion County Public Health Department (Indiana),
"Outbreak: Public Health Response to Tuberculosis in the Homeless Population of Marion County"

March 7, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Amanda Ingram, Wabash College,
"The Evolution of the Lovegrasses (Eragrostis)"

March 21, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Patricia Parker, Saint Louis Zoo,
"Galapagos Birds and their Pathogens: Understanding their Histories"

April 4, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Rick Smock, DePauw University, Mathematical Modeling of Evolution

April 6, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. in Olin Auditorium (Fri.)

Dr.John Kruschke, Indiana University, "Bayesian Statistics",  (note time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

April 11, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Allan Albig, Indiana State University.

April 18, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Curt Lively, Indiana University
"Through the looking glass: host-parasite co-evolution and sex."

April 25 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Peter Coppinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 
Algal Biofuels

September 8, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Sarah Beth Redmond, DePauw University

"Why is there Salmonella in my eggs and what's being done about it?"

September 15, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Aud.

Dr. Vanessa Fox, DePauw University "Where has all the leaf litter gone?"

September 29, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Elizabeth Buescher, Purdue University "Identification and characterization of small RNA in a cereal yellow dwarf virus resistant wheat-wheatgrass introgression line using high throughput sequencing."

October 6, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Peeler Auditorium

Whitman Miller, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center "Ocean Acidification: Why Coastal Ecosystems are Different."

October 13, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Wade Hazel, DePauw University "Mighty Mini Mites"

October 27, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Kay Havens, Chicago Botanic Gardens Topic: TBA

November 3, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Susan McColmbs

November 10, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Aud.

Heidi Rantala, Southern Illinois University "Cache River: Ecology and Hydrology"

November 17, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Bryan Brown, Clemson University "Mutualism, parasitism, and everything in between: Alternative outcomes of interactions between ecosystem engineering crayfish and symbiotic annelids."

December 1, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Gary Stuart, Indiana State University "New ideas for using whole genome sequence information to compare and classify organisms"

November 13, 2007 at 12:00 Noon in Olin Auditorium

Dr. Hosler presented a seminar entitled “Grab Bag Biology” Dr. Hosler is a 2007-08 Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of Biology at DePauw University. He will be talking about three projects that his lab at Juniata College is currently pursuing.

February 7, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Darwin Days at DePauw 2008Dr. Armin Moczek, Professor of Biology at Indiana University, presented a lecture entitled "On the of Novelty and Diversity in Horned Beetles."

February 12, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Darwin Days at DePauw 2008Dr. Kevin Kinney, Associate Professor of Biology at DePauw University, presented a lecture entitled "Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands."

February 14, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Darwin Days at DePauw 2008Dr. Jay Hosler, a 2007-08 Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of Biology at DePauw University. presented a lecture entitled “Darwin, Comics and the "E" Word.”

February 19, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Biology Department Cleveland P. Hickman Lecture SeriesDr. Dhelia Williamson, from the Center for Disease Control presented a lecture entitled "Genetics, Genomics and Public Health."

February 26, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium

Biology Department Cleveland P. Hickman Lecture SeriesDr. Hongming Zhou, Research Assistant Professor, Wells Center for Pediatrics Research, Indiana University School of Medicine presented a lecture entited "Role of the Pax Gene Family in Cardiac Development."