Fall 2007 Schedule

Lee Drain Building 213 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Aug. 23	Orientation for students taking BIO 411 - No Seminar
Aug. 30	Dr. Jennifer Rudgers Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Rice University	Small fungi with big impacts: Community-level consequences of mutualisms between fungal endophytes and grasses.	Hargrave
Sep. 6	Various SHSU Faculty Dept. of Biological Sciences; Sam Houston State University	Do you want to do biology research? A show-case of the active research programs in our department seeking student assistants.
Sep. 13	Dr. Ricky Cothran Dept. of Zoology; University of Oklahoma	The evolution of mating biases in a freshwater amphipod species complex.	Deaton
Sep. 20	Dr. Alex Flecker Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University	Migratory fishes as functional linkages across tropical Andean landscapes.	Hargrave
Sep. 27	Dr. Danielle Garsin Grad. School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston; University of Texas	The role of insulin signaling in C. elegans innate immunity.	Primm
Oct. 4	Dr. Steve Churchill Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy; Duke University	The mean streets of Ice Age Europe - Carnivore ecology and the demise of the Neandertals.	Lewis
Oct. 11	Dr. Mark Mort Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Kansas	Diversification of Crassulaceae: Unraveling the botanical equivalent to Darwin's finches.	Randle
Oct. 18	Kerri Snyder Environmental Sciences Section Manager; HDR Engineering, Inc.	Environmental Consulting: An Alternative Career Path for Biologists.	Hargrave
Oct. 25	Dr. Caitlin Gabor Dept. of Biology; Texas State University-San Marcos	Evolutionary maintenance of a unisexual-bisexual species complex of mollies.	Deaton
Nov. 1	Dr. James Easton University of Oklahoma Biological Station; University of Oklahoma	Golden Algae invades Oklahoman waters: Monitoring and toxicology of Golden Algae (Prymnesium parvum) in Lake Texoma.	Hargrave
Nov. 8	Dr. Stephen Ash Bullard Gulf Coast Research Laboratory; University of Southern Mississippi	Fishes according to parasites- what do blood flukes tell us about the evolution of vertebrates?	T. Cook
Nov. 15	Dr. Jerry Cook National Science Foundation and Dept. of Biological Sciences; Sam Houston State University	Mysteries and New Insight on the Insect Order Strepsiptera.	Lutterschmidt
Nov. 22	Thanksgiving Break - No Seminar
Nov. 29	Dr. Chris Bell Dept. of Geological Sciences; University of Texas	Applications of phylogenetics to Quaternary vertebrate paleontology: Linking paleontological and neotological approaches to vertebrate diversity and faunal dynamics.	SHSU Students

 

For additional information contact:

Chad Hargrave
Phone: 936-294-1543
E-mail: cwhargrave@shsu.edu