Fall 2010 Schedule

Lee Drain Building 214 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Date	Speaker		Title
Sep. 2		Dr. José Pedro Sousa do Amaral Department of Biology Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green	Thermoregulation of European vipers in a contact zone between Vipera aspis and Vipera latastei
Sep. 9		Dr. Jenny Archibald Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas, Lawrence	The southern African genus Zaluzianskya (Scrophulariaceae): systematics and coevolution
Sep. 16		Dr. Gregory Fredrick Department of Biology The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor	The Bugs That Bug Us: Understanding Them Better to Bug Them Back!
Sep. 22		Dr. Darryl de Ruiter Department of Anthropology Texas A & M University, College Station	Australopithecus sediba: A new species of Homo-like Australopith from South Africa
Sep. 27		Dr. Joel Berger Department of Biological Sciences University of Montana	Functioning Ecosystems: Does Science Matter?
Oct. 7		Dr. Daniel Childers Global Institute of Sustainability Arizona State University	How Internal Processes Affect Resilience to State Change in High-Disturbance Wetland Ecosystems
Oct. 14		Dr. Ashley Rowe University of Texas Austin	No pain, no gain: coevolution between bark scorpion pain-inducing neurotoxins and grasshopper mice pain receptors
Oct. 21		Dr. Michael Allan Department of Biological Sciences University of North Texas, Denton	Global Gene Regulation and Stress Response in the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris
Oct. 28		Dr. Carla Penz Department of Biology The University of New Orleans	Biology and phylogeny of owl butterflies
Nov. 4		Dr. Dave Queller Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Rice University	Cooperation and Conflict in Social Amoebas
Nov. 11		Dr. Michael P. Carey NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center	Exploring fish diversity as a determinant of aquatic food webs
Nov. 18		Dr. Michael Barger Department of Biology Peru State College, Nebraska	Parasite Diversity in Fishes of the Big Thicket:  Preliminary Results and Irresponsible Speculation
Dec. 2		Dr. Brian Langerhans Dept. of Biology, North Carolina State University	Predictable evolution and ecological speciation in Gambusia fishes
Dec. 9		Dr. Laura Mydlarz Department of Biology University of Texas at Arlington	Influence of climate on coral bleaching and disease

 

For additional information contact:

Dr. Madhu Choudhary
Phone: 936-294-4850
E-mail: mchoudhary@shsu.edu