Photo by Hans Smid from http://www.bugsinthepicture.com/
Dr. Hans Smid from Wageningen University is in town this Friday to discuss his work on “Variation in learning and memory in parasitoid wasps: Genes, brains and behavior.” Judging from the photographs Dr. Smid has posted at Bugs in the Picture, seminar attendees may enjoy both scientific and visual treats.
Our own Bob Minckley will be speaking tomorrow on “Response of desert pollinators to an extreme drought and long-term implications.”
Florence Marlow is here today to talk on “Maternal control of oocyte polarity – setting aside the germline and the embryonic axes in zebrafish.” Hopefully I’ll have a chance to give Dr. Marlow my award for best use of alliteration in the title of a scientific paper for her Developmental Biology paper titled “Bucky ball functions in Balbiani body assembly and animal-vegetal polarity in the oocyte and follicle cell layer in zebrafish.”
Join us for a beer after Xu Wang’s seminar today! I’ll bring a growler of Naked Dove’s Oktoberfest to share, so bring a mug if you want to give it a shot. This growler is from the first batch of a new beer that will be arriving in local bars over the next few weeks. It was brewed with inspiration from the German adage that an Oktoberfest should taste so good you don’t realize how strong it is until you stand up.
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.”
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.
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) .
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'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.”
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.