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Department of Biology Seminars

Spring 2012 Schedule

All seminars are held at 3:15pm in 185 Life Science, unless otherwise noted.

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Seminar title

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Jan 20

Nancy Emery
Niche Evolution and Habitat Specialization in California Goldfields (Lasthenia, Asteraceae)
Julie Etterson
Jan 27
Ryan Oster
Assessing Corrosion of Port Infrastructure in the Duluth-Superior Harbor: Microbiological and Water Quality Factors

Randall Hicks

Feb 3
Tyler Ahrenstorff
Factors underlying vertical movements in aquatic food webs

Tom Hrabik

Feb 10
 Shuhai Xiao
Darwin Day

Article 1

Article 2

Howard Mooers

Feb 17

Don Schreiner
Status of the Lake Superior Fishery in Minnesota – Where the Rubber meets the Road!
Tom Hrabik
Feb 24
Christopher Kvaal

The merger of research and teaching using Bioinformatics

Clay Carter

March 2
Stephen Ekker
InSciEd Out Zebrafish Molecular Genetics in the 21st Century

Jennifer Liang

March 9
Annelie Lindberg-Livingston
A Geographic Mosaic of Speciation: A geographic mosaic of selection pressures and the evolution of reproductive isolation in Eurosta solidaginis

Tim Craig

March 23
Allison Coffin

Can you hear me now? Translating hair cell life and death in the zebrafish lateral line

Al Mensinger

March 30
Bjorn Bauer
Targeting the LOX/COX Dual Pathway: Blood-Brain Barrier Repair in Epilepsy

Jennifer Liang

April 6
Colleen Belk
Teaching Non-majors Biology in an online setting: An Interactive Discussion

Tim Craig

April 13
Graham Sherwood
Potential drivers and consequences of cod recovery in the northwest Atlantic

Tom Hrabik

April 20
Olaf Jensen
Rethinking the Global Fisheries Crisis

Tom Hrabik

April 27
Samantha Oliver

Nutrient regeneration by Mysis diluviana and the copepod community in the deep chlorophyll layer of Lake Superior

Tom Hrabik

May 4
Katie Winkler

Plasticity, genetic diversity, and natural selection: a native polyploid under simulated climate change

Julie Etterson

May 11

2:30pm

Elizabeth McGarry
Effects of herbivores on ground flora and nutrient cycles along Lake Superior’s North Shore Highlands
George Host

 

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