This Friday we have two student presentations. Jing Zhu from the Fry Lab will be talking about “Ethanol preference in Drosophila melanogaster” and LeAnne Lovato from the Garrigan Lab will be speaking on “Whole-genome polymorphism in multiple wild isolates of C. elegans.” The Presgraves Lab has generously offered to provide beer following the seminar, so please join us for happy hour in the lounge immediately after the talks.
Author Archives: Rich Glor
Dr. Vicky Cattani
Vicky and her committee, from left to right: Dean of Graduate Studies Margaret Kearney, Allen Orr, Vicky Cattani, Daven Presgraves, Trisha Wittkopp (external committee member).
Presgrave’s Lab student Vicky Cattani just successfully defended her dissertation on “Genetic analysis of postzygotic isolation and recombination rate differences in Drosophila.” Congratulations to Dr. Cattani! Vicky will soon be heading off to start a post-doc in Matt Rockman’s lab at NYU.
Toasting Vicky's successful thesis defense.
Tap & Mallet Tonight (Thursday)
Some of our prospective graduate students are in town today and tomorrow. We’re going to join them for drinks at Tap & Mallet this evening. Hope to see you there at around 9PM.
Darwin Day Lectures
The Secular Student Alliance hosted Darwin Day lectures yesterday in Goergen Hall. Philosophy professor Brad Weslake used his lecture to challenge the widely held notion that Darwin was a materialist. I followed with a lecture that broke Darwin’s theory down into the five core components identified by Mayr. Thanks to the SSA and its president Gerard Markham for organizing this event.
Speciation Day, May 7, Cornell
Speciation Day will be an opportunity for researchers from Cornell, Syracuse, and Rochester to share their latest speciation research. The symposium will feature both talks and posters. Registration is currently open to groups at Cornell, Syracuse and Rochester. If you did not receive an invitation to participate, please consider contacting the event organizers through the links available at the registration page.
Pires da Silva Seminar Today
Andre Pires da Silva is here today to talk about “Evolution of animals with three sexual morphologies: how and why?” His seminar is at 2PM in Hutch 473.
Coffee Break Today: Battle of the Cakes
Today’s coffee break is at 3PM in the Graduate Student Lounge. Come and enjoy Amanda’s apple cinnamon cake and my tangerine sour cream bundt cake with chocolate walnut swirl.
Scantlebury on Species Diversification
Images from flickrhivemind.net/Tags/uroplatus/Interesting, scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/above-6500-feet-two-rare-chameleons/, www.fonozoo.com/Heterixalus_andrakata.htm, and www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/paroedura/interesting/
Daniel Scantlebury from the Glor Lab will be speaking at tomorrow’s EEB seminar on “A Post MacAurthur-Wilson Perspective of Island Biogeography: The View from Madagascar”
Coffee Break Today
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