Seminars
Fall 2009
Friday, September 25--Drs. Alexander Karatayev and Christopher Pennuto of the Great Lakes Center, Buffalo State College; Dr. Charles O'Neill of New York SEa Grant; and a representative from the New York Attorney General's Office will hold an Environmental Forum on "Invasive Species in New York State". 1:30-4:40 pm, Screening Room, Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Friday, October 9--Dr. Katharina Dittmar of the University at Buffalo will speak on "Biodiversity surveys of the Phillipine islands: Emerging threats for tropical ecosystems". 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus.
Thursday, October 15--Dr. Ned Ruby of the University of Wisconsin, Madison will speak on "Good food and conversation:
molecular approaches to understanding the physiology of the squid-vibrio symbiosis". 4:00 pm, 218 Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus.
Friday, November 13--Dr. Chris Larsen of the University at Buffalo will speak on "Do changes in forest composition in Western New York due to climate change in the future exceed those that occurred due to forest clearance in the 1800's". 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus. CANCELED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE SPRING.
Friday, December 4--Dr. Michael Boller of St John Fisher College will speak on "Success via flexibility in the wave-swept world: the eco-mechanics of intertidal macroalgae". 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus.
Spring 2009
Friday, February 13--Dr. Casey Dunn of Brown University will speak on "Scalable phylogenomic strategies for improving resolution of the Tree of Life". 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus.
Friday, February 27--Dr. Alexander Y. Karatayev of Buffalo State College will speak on "Change in global economies and trade: the potential spread of exotic freshwater bivalves". 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus.
Thursday, March 26--Dr. Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan will speak on "Origin and Early Evolution of Whales: A Profound Transition from Land to Sea". This talk is co-sponsored with Phi Beta Kappa. 7:30 pm. 201 Natural Sciences Center, North Campus.
Friday, April 3--Dr. Todd La Jeunessse of Pennsylvania State University will speak on "Survival-of-the-Fittest" among Coral-Algal Symbioses. 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus.
Friday, April 17--Dr. Julie Wieczkowski of Buffalo State College will speak on ""An investigation of seed eating in an African monkey, the Tana River mangabey". 4:00 pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus.
Friday, April 24--Dr. Angela Omillian, of the University of Buffalo. Title TBA. 4:00pm, 434 Cooke Hall, North Campus. CANCELED
Fall 2008
Friday, September 19--Dr. Linda Ivany of Syracuse University will speak on "The beginning of the Icehouse World in Antarctica: Eocene climate change and evolution of the shallow marine biota". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, October 3--Dr. Derek Taylor of UB will speak on "Quaternary evolution of lacustrine cladocerans". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, October 31--Dr. Janie Wulff of Florida State University will speak on "Sticking with simplicity: facile regeneration, versatile morphology,
and diverse collaborations promote persistence of the most basal
metazoans". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, November 7--Dr. Mark A. Teece of SUNY--College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry will speak on "Tracing ecological processes using stable isotopes and biogeochemical techniques". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, November 14--Dr. Howard Riessen of SUNY College of Buffalo will speak on "Turning Inducible Defenses On and Off: Adaptive Responses of Zooplankton Prey to a Gape-Limited Predator". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Spring 2008
Friday, January 25-- Dr. Michael E. Hellberg of Louisiana State University will speak on " High rates of molecular evolution tied to sex, competition and immortality in the sea".4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus
Friday, February 15--Dr. Carol M. Berman of UB will speak on "Strange bedfellows: Male Tibetan monkeys cooperate to compete". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, February 29--Dr. Matthew Gruwell of UB will speak on "Tracking evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, March 7--Dr. Chris Pennuto of Buffalo State College will speak on "Dynamics of an insect ectosymbiont/host interaction from streams in southern Maine". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus
Thursday, March 20--Dr. Howard Lasker of UB will speak on "Connectivity of coral reef populations: You can’t always get where you want". (Co-sponsored with the Pegrum Lecture Series, Dept. of Geology). Time and location TBA.
Friday, March 28--Dr. Bernard Chapais of the Université de Montréal will speak on "An unexpected meeting: Primatology, Claude-Levi-Strauss and the roots of human society". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, April 4--Dr. Megan Porter of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with speak on "Molecular Evolution of a complex visual system: Opsin Evolution in stomatopod crustaceans". 4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.
Friday, April 18--Dr. Lynda Corkum of the University of Windsor will speak on "Chemical control as a mangement strategy for the invasive fish, the round goby". 4:00 pm, location TBA.
Friday, April 25--Dr. Micheal Dent of UB will speak on "The Perception of Complex Sounds by Birds".
4:00 pm, 115 Talbert, North Campus.