Department Journal Clubs

January 23 Galen Priest, “Wood-boring beetles as ecosystem engineers in the Brazilian cerrado”

January 30 - Stephen Blake, "Tracking turtles from the volcanoes of Galapagos to Tyson and downtown St. Louis"

February 6 - Nancy Kohn, "Social interactions affect learning, memory, and behavior"

February 13 - Elizabeth Kellog, To be announced

February 20 - Michael McKain, "Phylogenomic placement of ancient polyploidy events within Poales and Agavoideae (Asparagales)"

February 27 - Bob Ricklefs, "Species formation in avian malaria parasites"

March 6 - Gary Langham, "Role of Academic Science in the Conservation and Policy World: Examples and Discussion"

March 13 - Eliot Miller “Phylogenetic community structure and assembly processes along environmental gradients”

March 20 - Vincenzo Ellis / Melanie Kunkel, "Species level variation in white blood cell responses to haemosporidian infection in birds"

March 27 - SPRING BREAK, No Biolunch

April 3 - Bob Marquis, "The head and tail of the caterpillar"

April 10 - Aimee Dunlap, "Looking for life history trade-offs for evolved behavioral strategies:plasticity, learning, and flies"

April 17 - Graduate student elevator talks

April 24 - Maria Pil, "Genetic variation and past demographic history of fishes in one of Brazil's longest rivers"

May 1 - Art Leverenz, "A review of the natural history and ecology of Nicrophorus americanus with a discussion of current conservation efforts"

May 8 - Walter Boeger, UFPR Brazil, "Evolution drives evolution"

January 25 at 12:15pm - Andrew Johnson, "STAT3 - An intracellular mediator of angiotensis II-induced hypertension"

Biology