For anyone looking for more professional development, the following two lectures are taking place tomorrow.

Seminar:  Understanding the Landscape of Career Options in Biotech & Pharmaceutical Companies  

Brad Hartman, Speaker

Friday, April 12, 2013

9:00 to 11:00 am

Class of 1962 Auditorium, Medical Center G-9425

Seminar:  Swimming Downstream:  Networking, Interview and Resume Skills that will Impact your Career  

Brad Hartman, Speaker

Friday, April 12, 2013

11:15-12:15pm

Class of 1962 Auditorium, Medical Center G-9425

Dr. Harry Greene, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Faculty Curator of  Amphibians and Reptiles in the Museum of Vertebrates at Cornell University, is presenting a talk titled, “Natural history, aesthetics, and conservation” on Friday, April 12.

Dr. Greene received his B.A. from Texas Wesleyan College in 1968, then served three years as an army medic. He earned his M.A. from University of Texas at Arlington in 1973 and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1977. For two decades he was a professor and curator of herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, then moved to Cornell in 1999. Dr. Greene has taught natural history of the vertebrates, herpetology, introductory biology, evolution and biodiversity, desert ecology, and graduate field ecology; his research has focused on snakes and other predators in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia, with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation. His honors include the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, American Society of Naturalists’ Edward Osborne Wilson Award, elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and California Academy of Sciences, president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and Cornell’s Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship.  Dr. Greene’s Snakes: the Evolution of Mystery in Nature, won a PEN Literary Award and made the New York Times’ list of 100 Most Notable Books.  His next book, Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art, will be published later in 2013.

Adam Johnson, a member of the Lambert lab, will be giving a talk titled, “Posterior growth and shell formation in Ilyanassa” on Friday, February 22^nd.   Adam received his Biology BA at the University of Kansas, and worked with Jennifer Gleason and Paulyn Cartwright on mating behavior and Cnidarian sensory evolution, respectively.  Adam is a 2nd year PhD student.

Dr. Ellen Martinson, a post-doc in the Werren Lab, is presenting an EEB seminar entitled “Mutualism stability and gall induction in the fig and fig wasp interaction,” on Friday, February 15.  Ellen recently received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona under Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold and Jeremiah Hackett.

Dr. Noriyuki Suzuki recently completed his PhD at Kyoto University, Japan, where his research focused mainly on ecology of host specialization in phytophagous and predatory insects.  He is continuing his research at Tohoku University, Japan, and is currently a visiting researcher in the Jaenike lab from November 2012 to January 2013.  For more information on Dr. Suzuki’s research, please visit his website!