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Darwinfest

Darwinfest

Arizona State University celebrates Darwin’s 200th birthday and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species with Darwinfest - a creative scientific enterprise.

Seminars

  • These are the days and times for the SOLS and related seminars. Each seminar listing links to the page that provides details of the talks and include any exceptions to the normal schedule.

Fall 2009

All SOLS Seminars are on Friday from 2-3 p.m. in LSE 104 (*exceptions are noted) Refreshments Served Before Seminar

August 28
Carlos Tirado, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Dallas

Title: FISH as a tool to monitor hematological malignancies
Host: Douglas Chandler

September 4 (The inaugural SOLS Distinguished Alumni Lecturer)
Barbara Knowles, Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Title: Reprogramming:  a career in STEM and stem cells
Host: Jim Elser

September 11
Taben M Hale, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences - The University of Arizona College of Medicine—Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University

Title: Can One Drug Improve Sex and Heart Disease?
Host: Alan Rawls

September 18
Betsy Arnold, University of Arizona

Title: Fungal endophytes from the tropics to the tundra: clues to the evolution of mycobiont-photobiont symbioses
Host: Tom Nash

September 25
Jo-Ellen Russell, University of Arizona

Title: Poleward-Intensification of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies: Antarctic Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Impacts
Host: Susanne Neuer

October 2
Peter Balint, Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy

Title: The Learning Curve for Southern African Community-Based Wildlife Management: CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe and Conservancies in Namibia
Hosts: Jim Elser and The Phoenix Zoo

October 9
Matthew Chew, Assistant Research Professor
ASU Center for Biology & Society, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Title: Biotic nativeness: a historical look at a "simply negative" idea
Host: Andrew Hamilton

October 16
Stephen P. Roberts, Department of Biology Central Michigan University

Title: A lifetime of hard labor: mechanisms, capacity and aging of honey bee flight
Host: Jon Harrison

October 23
James (Jim) Pfaus, Concordia University in Montreal

Title: The Path of Cupid's Arrow: How mechanisms of sexual reward stimulate sexual desire and partner preferences.
Host: SOLS Grad Students (Lori Hurley)

October 30 (Welcome Back Seminar)
Jim Collins, School of Life Sciences, ASU

Title: Extinction in Our Time: Global Amphibian Decline
Host: Jim Elser

November 6
Mark Edwards, ASU Polytechnic

Title: How can we produce abundant food after peak phosphorus and peak fossil fuels?
Host: Jim Elser

November 13
Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Title: Celebrating Darwin: 1909, 1959, and 2009
Host: Jane Maienschein

November 20
Charles Whitfield, University of Illinois

Title: Behavioral plasticity and evolutionary adaptation in the honeybee: toward a systems approach using microarrays, SNPs, eQTLs and whole-genome haplotype analyses
Host: Gro Amdam

December 4
Open

Title: TBA
Host: TBA