Date

Speaker

Institute

Title and Host

Jan. 31

Brian Tissot

HSU Marine Laboratory

“Conservation and Conflict in the Marine Aquarium Trade”, MSCI

Feb. 7

Matthew Smith

University of Florida

“Ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the Guiana Shield region of South America – a molecular perspective”, Henkel

Feb. 21

Alan Barbour

UC, Irvine

“Borrelia Infection in a Natural Host, Peromyscus leucopus”, Zhong

Feb. 28

Michael B. Smeaton

Stanford Univ.

“Interstrand cross-link repair in mammals involves TopoisomeraseIIβ”, O'Gara

March 7

Camilla Richmond

Boston Children's Hospital

TBA, CIRM

March 14

Bengt Allen

CSU Long Beach

“Ecological Consequences of Thermal Stress to Marine Rocky Intertidal Organisms: Insights from a Model Ecosystem”, Craig

March 28

Darren Ward

HSU Wildlife

“The plastic portfolio effect: can the plastic expression of diverse life histories stabilize salmon populations in small watersheds?”, BGSA

April 4

David D. Myrold

Oregon State University

“Combining Traditional and Metagenomic Methods to Understand Soil C Cycling Responses to Precipitation Variation”, Siering

April 11

Christine Cass

HSU Oceanography

“Zooplankton of the Northern California Current: Community Structure and Energy Content”, MSCI

April 18

Roel Nusse

Stanford

TBA, CIRM

April 25

William Fredman

Harvard

“Charles Darwin and the “abominable mystery” of the evolution of flowering plants”, Tomescu

May 9

Tim James

University of Michigan

“Molecular epidemiology of the amphibian killing fungus in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest”,.Henkel