Biology

Biology Department Seminars

 

Spring 2013

May 17, 2013 at 3:00pm
Jose Luis Rivera-Parra
Dissertation Defense, UMSL
"Galapagos seabirds' lice community: host species interactions and parasite evolution"
Research 121

May 7, 2013 at 4:00pm
Walter Boeger
UFPR Brazil
"Learning about evolution from a tiny fish parasite"
Research 121

April 26, 2013 at 9:30pm
Jeff Ettling
Curator of Herpetology & Aquatics, St. Louis Zoo
Dissertation Defense, UMSL
"Spatial ecology, genetic diversity and population structure of Armenian Vipers, Montivipera raddei, in two different landscapes"
Research 121

April 16, 2013 at 4:00pm
Jonathan Myers
Washington University in St. Louis
"Biodiversity and community assembly across ecological and biogeographic gradients"
Research 121

April 9, 2013 at 4:00pm
Scott Mangan
Washington University in St. Louis
"Soil-borne enemies as determinants of tropical tree diversity"
Research 121

 

Fall 2012

November 26, 2012 at 4:00pm
Kirk Barnett
Master's Thesis Defense, UMSL
"The 'slow-growth-high-mortality' hypothesis: how plant species, leaf quality, and the third trophic level contribute to the mortality of two common leaf-tying microlepidopteran herbivores"
Benton 101

November 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
Daniel Layton
Master's Thesis Defense, UMSL
"Species limits in the new model species Setaria viridis (Poaceae) and the closely related Setaria faberi"
Research 120

November 6, 2012 at 3:00pm
Sonya Bahar, Ph.D.
Dept. Physics and Astronomy, UMSL
"Speciation and Phase Transitions on a Neutral Landscape"
Research 121

October 22, 2012 at 4:00pm
Paul Marek, Ph.D.
Dept. of Entomology, University of Arizona
"Millipede systematics and the evolutionary ecology of warning coloration"
Benton 01

October 18, 2012 at 4:00pm
Nathan Mucchala, Ph.D.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska
Research 121

October 11, 2012 at 4:00pm
Haw Chuan (HC) Lim, Ph.D.
Dept. of Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Indomalayan birds and bumble bee microbes: population genetics and diversitication at disparate spatial scales"
Research 121

September 17, 2012 at 2:30pm
Michael Hughes, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
"Tempo and harmonic: orchestrating transcriptional rhythms in mammals and flies"
Research 121

September 10, 2012 at 2:30pm
Juan Santos, Ph.D.
NESCent 
Research 121

September 6, 2012 at 4:00pm
Marianne Porter, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Dept. of Biology, Vassar College
"No bones about it: mechanics of cartilaginous skeletons"
Research 121