EEB seminar speakers for Fall of 2011.

Jack Werren has assembled another terrific semester of EEB seminars.  The complete schedule is below, and is also available in PDF format.

Sept 16 – Dr. David Stern, HHMI at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, “How a complex enhancer region contributes to phenotypic robustness and morphological evolution”

Sept 23 – Dr. Sarah Kingan, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “Divergence Population Genomics of the Drosophila simulans clade”

Sept 30 – Dr. David Wheeler, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “Exploring the venom repertoire of Nasonia vitripennis”

Oct 7 – Dr. Amro Zayed, York University, Department of Biology, “Honey bee genes, behavior and adaptation”

Oct 14 – Dr. Xu Wang, Cornell University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, “New insights in X inactivation in mice and equids”

Oct 21 – Dr. Robert Minckley, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “Bees in drought, and when moistened”

Oct 28 – Dr. James Fry, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “TBA”

Nov 4 – Dr. Daven Presgraves, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “New findings on the evolution, expression, and regulation of the Drosophila X chromosome”

Nov 11 – Dr. Michael Nachman, Univ. of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, “The genetic basis of reproductive isolation in house mice”

Nov 18 – Dr. John Colbourne, Indiana University, Department of Genomics And Bioinformatics, “Duplicating Genes Allow Daphnia Populations to Thrive in Toxic Environments”

Nov 25 Thanksgiving holiday—no talk scheduled

Dec 2 – Daniel Scantlebury, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “A Post MacAurthur-Wilson Perspective of Island Biogeography: the View from Madagascar”

Dec 9 TBA