The lake at Beaver Hollow during yesterday's departmental retreat.
Due to Fall Break, there will be no Tuesday EEB Journal Club today. Hopefully everyone has had a chance to take in the lovely Fall colors!
No Journal Club Today (Oct. 11)
Author Archives: Rich Glor
EEB Seminar Oct. 14: Xu Wang on X Inactivation
Fig. 4 from Wang et al. (2010) Paternally biased X inactivation in mouse neonatal brain. Genome Biology 11:R79
This Friday, Xu Wang is here from Cornell University to discuss “New insights in X inactivation in mice and equids.”
Departmental Retreat at Beaver Hollow
Jack goes up for the spike on Adam as Yasir, Jeffrey, Mahul, LeAnne, Dave, Tom and others standby.
Thanks to all those who participated in this years Biology Department Retreat! It seems like everyone who came had a great time at Beaver Hollow. Be sure to let Brenna and Vera know what you thought of the venue so we’ll know whether to consider returning there next year.
UCIS Sustainability Seminar on Climate Change
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences newest faculty member – Vasilii Petrenko – will be talking on Oct. 13 at 12:30 in the Gowen Room on Wilson Commons on “Using ice cores to understand past climate change.” His talk is part of a series on sustainability being hosted by the University Committee for Interdiciplinary Studies (UCIS) .
Amro Zayed Seminar on Friday
Photo by Amro Zayed.
Amro Zayed is in town this Friday from York University for an EEB seminar on “Honey bee genes, behavior and adaptation.”
Andrew Read Seminar Today (Monday)
Andrew Read's group conducting work in Tanzania in 2003 (image from http://www.thereadgroup.net/gallery/)
Andrew Read is here from the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University to talk about “How best to manage the ‘natural’ selection created by medical practice.”
Special Beers at Services Tonight
I think we should hold services at Tap & Mallet again this week. My brother just brewed two new wet-hopped beers at Naked Dove that will be available for the first time tonight at the Tap & Mallet. These beers were brewed with fresh local hops and are only available once a year. They are delicious. More details are available at the Tap & Mallet blog. Try to get there early because the place will probably fill up before too long. Bob and I are going to try to be there by 6:30 or 7.
Kingan Seminar in Friday
Congratulations Dr. Loehlin!
David Loehlin successfully defended his PhD thesis earlier today! A reception is set for 4PM in the graduate student lounge followed later this evening by a party at Jack Werren’s house. David will be with us for a few more weeks before he plans on heading to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to do a postdoc with Dr. Sean B. Carroll. During his postdoc, he’s interested in studying the genetic mechanisms behind how new patterns (such as the wing spots in certain Drosophila species) originate.
Friday Features Talks by Two Davids (Loehlin & Stern)
Get ready for two cool talks this Friday (Sept. 16). First Werren Lab student David Loehlin will be defending his PhD thesis on “”Genetics of size and shape evolution in Nasonia” at 11AM in 102 Schlegel Hall. Later that afternoon, David Stern will give a seminar on “How a complex enhancer region contributes to phenotypic robustness and morphological evolution” at 3PM in Hutch 316.