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SOLS Seminar Schedule - Spring 2008

All Seminars are on Friday from 2:00 3:00 in LSE 104 (*exceptions are noted)
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January 18 SOLS and Wrigley Lecture Series on Sustainability featuring: Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University, Title: “The Slippery Slope to Slime or A Mutiny for the Bounty? Scientific Knowledge Informing Today's Choices and Tomorrow’s Ocean”, Host: Susanne Neuer
January 25 Katharine Nash Suding, University of California, Irvine, Title: “Living in a complex world: environmental change, species feedbacks, and ecosystem resilience’, Host: SOLS Grad Students (Brad Butterfield)
February 1 SOLS Science Studio featuring Quentin Wheeler, Host: Kathleen Pigg

February 8

Location Chg

Old Main

Dr. Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, Title: "From Morpho to Seurat: Insect Colour Reflections on an Entry to the L'Oreal Art and Science of Colour Competition", Hosts: SOLS Grad Students
February 15

Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Title: "Influenza Virus Pandemics: Past and Future", Host: Bert Jacobs

February 22 Zachary Burton, Michigan State University. Title: “Elongation catalyzed by human and yeast RNA polymerase II”, Host: Lei Lei
February 29 Robert Landick, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Title: "RNA Polymerase: Role of Active-site Movements in Regulation of a Complex Molecular Machine", Host: Josie Clark-Curtiss
March 7 Eileen Hebets, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Title: "Complex courtship signaling and variable female mate choice in spiders", Host: Kevin McGraw
March 14 Spring Break
March 21 SOLS Science Studio featuring Jim Elser, Title: Biological stoichiometry: a semi-random walk from plankton to proteomes, Host: Sharon Hall
March 28 Undergraduate Poster Symposium, Keynote: Dr. Shirley Malcom, Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
April 4

Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego, Title: "The Controlled Experiment that Wasn’t: Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate", Host: Andrew Hamilton

April 11 Nancy Manley, University of Georgia , Title: “Strange Bedfellows: Mechanisms controlling thymus and parathyroid organogenesis”, Host: Alan Rawls & Genomics, Evolution, and Bioinformatics Faculty Group (GEB)
April 18 Nipam Patel, University of California, Berkeley, Title: "The Evolution of Animal Body Patterning: Insights from Crab Claws and Snail Shells ", Host: Kenro Kusumi
April 25 Stephen Secor, University of Alabama, Title: “Evolutionary and Integrative Responses to Feast and Famine”, Host: Dale Denardo
   
   
   
   


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