Seminars
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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