2004-2005 UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title (click for flyer)	Host
September 14	Jonathan Losos Washington University	Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants of Species Diversity in Caribbean Anolis Lizards Helen P. Mangelsdorf Distinguished Lecture	Biology Graduate Student Association
September 21	Cliff Cunningham Duke University	Using population persistence to reconstruct patterns of ecological community assembly	Christina Burch
September 28	Sabrina Burmeister UNC Biology	Social Control of Reproduction	Steve Matson
October 5	Carl Wu National Cancer Institute	Controlling gene expression by ATP-dependent movement and exchange of histones	Jason Lieb
October 12	Tim Mousseau University of South Carolina	Antioxidants, Fitness, and Mutation-Selection Balance: Lessons from Chernobyl	Bob Podolsky
October 19	Jules Hoffman CNRS, Strasbourg, France	The Drosophila Antimicrobial Response: A Paradigm for Insect Immunity	Larry Gilbert
October 21	Randy Schekman University of California at Berkeley	Mechanism and Regulation of Vesicle Traffic in the Secretory Pathway Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Biology	John Pringle
October 26	Jeff Sekelsky UNC Biology	Preventing bad crossovers and ensuring good crossovers when repairing broken DNA	Steve Matson
November 2	Matt Wolfgang UNC Dept of Microbiology	*Pseudomonas aeruginosa* host detection networks regulate bacterial virulence	Jeff Dangl
November 9	Dolph Schluter University of British Columbia	Ecology and the Origin of Species Distinguished Lecture in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology	David Pfennig
November 16	Joe Kieber UNC Biology	The Cytokinin Response Pathway: A bacterial Signaling Paradigm in a Eukaryotic World	Steve Matson
November 23	Scott Edwards Harvard University	BACs, Birds and Reptiles: The Final Frontier of Vertebrate Genomics	Joel Kingsolver
November 30	Bob Goldstein UNC Biology	Generating Cell Polarity in the C. elegans Embryo	Steve Matson
December 3	Sue Biggins	(cancelled)
Friday December 10	Dorothy Shippen Texas A&M	Telomeres and Telomerases	Steve Matson
December 7 - January 11: No seminars. Exam Period and Winter Break
January 18	Marty Cohn University of Florida	Fins, Limbs and Genitalia: From Evolutionary Origins to Congenital Malformations	Frank Conlon
January 25	Sean Carroll University of Wisconsin at Madison	Chance Caught on the Wing: The Origin and Parallel Evolution of Novelty Co-Sponsored by the Robertson Scholars Program	Bob Goldstein
February 1	Douglas Altshuler Caltech	Hummingbird Flight: Aerodynamics, Neural Control, and Behavioral Ecology	Bill Kier
February 8	Brad Seibel University of Rhode Island	Low Metabolic and Locomotory Capacity in Deep-sea Animals: Causes and Consequences	Ken Lohmann
February 15	James Liao Cornell University	Mechanics and control of fish swimming in turbulent flows	Maria Servedio
February 22	Tyson Hedrick University of Washington	Turning the corner: Muscle and maneuvering in animal flight	John Pringle
March 1	Jack Werren University of Rochester	Evolutionary Genetics of Nasonia and the Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia	Corbin Jones
March 8	Michael Balick New York Botanical Garden	Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany Co-Sponsored by UNC’s Freshman Seminar Program	Todd Vision
March 11 Friday, 2pm Coker 215	Trisha Davis University of Washington	Analysis of spindle pole mutants illuminates spindle forces	Kerry Bloom
March 22	Keith Sockman UNC Dept of Biology	Neuroendocrine integration of reproductive context in songbirds	Steve Matson
March 29	Sue Wessler University of Georgia	Transposable elements: teaching old genomes new tricks Co-Sponsored by the Robertson Scholars Program	Jeff Dangl
April 5	Zhongchi Liu University of Maryland	Regulation of the Floral Homeotic Gene AGAMOUS, a Model for Studying Transcriptional Repression in Higher Plants	Sarah Liljegren
April 12	John Godwin NC State University	Neuroendocrine mechanisms mediating aggression and sexual behavior in a sex-changing coral reef fish	Ken Lohmann
April 19	Mario de Bono MRC LMB, Cambridge, England	Social Behavior in C. elegans	Shawn Ahmed
April 26	Robert Holt University of Florida	Niche Conservation, Evolution, and Applied Ecology: Challenges and Opportunities Co-Sponsored by the Curriculum in Ecology Bob will also give an informal talk at noon in 215 Coker titled On the "inflationary" impact of temporal variation in sink environments.	Matthew McKown
May 2 Monday, 4PM 215 Coker Hall	Dr. Ian Hickson Oxford University	Genomic instability and cancer: role of the Bloom's syndrome helicase	Steve Matson