BioNotes

March 23 through March 27, 2009

Monday, March 23, 8:00 pm, Bethel AME Church, 501 W. Orange Avenue, Tallahassee—ORIGINS '09: CELEBRATING THE BIRTH AND LIFE OF BEGINNINGS, "Darwin's four great books: the origins of a revolution," Dr. E. O. Wilson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tuesday, March 24, 7:00 pm, FSU Student Life Center Theatre, Tallahassee—ORIGINS '09: CELEBRATING THE BIRTH AND LIFE OF BEGINNINGS, Screenings, featuring Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (2006).

Tuesday, March 24, 7:00 pm, Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, 261 Seventh Street, Apalachicola—APALACHICOLA NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE PUBLIC LECTURE, "Upstream sources of metal contaminants delivered to Apalachicola Bay," Richard Peterson, Department of Oceanography, FSU. Refreshments to follow. For more information contact Megan Lamb, megan.lamb@dep.state.fl.us or 850-670-4783 x113.

Wednesday, March 25, 3:30 pm, A211 PDB—NEUROSCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, "Neural control of meal size is anatomically distributed: a focus on leptin signaling in NTS neurons," Dr. Harvey Grill, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thursday, March 26, 9:30 am, 2057 KIN—PLANT SCIENCES SEMINAR, "Active DNA demethylation, focusing on findings in Arabidopsis," Dr. Thelma Madzima, Department of Biological Science, FSU.

Thursday, March 26, 2:00 pm, 208 BIO—SPECIAL JOINT BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND OCEANOGRAPHY SEMINAR, "Energy in the dark: fuel for life at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and beyond," Dr. Stefan M. Sievert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Host: Dr. Joel E. Kostka. Dr. Sievert is a candidate for a faculty position in the Department of Biological Science, in the Gulf Extreme Environment Observatory cluster.

Thursday, March 26, 4:00 pm, 1024 KIN—BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, "The evolution and maintenance of self pollination in the genus Collinsia," Dr. Susan Kalisz, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller.

Thursday, March 26, 8:00 pm, Fallon Theatre, FSU Mainstage—ORIGINS '09: CELEBRATING THE BIRTH AND LIFE OF BEGINNINGS, "The evolution of creationism in America," Dr. Ron L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Friday, March 27, 10:10 am, 110 OSB—STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM, "Epigenetics, mathematics, and stem cells," Dr. David M. Gilbert, Department of Biological Science, FSU.

Friday, March 27, 11:00 am, A113 COE—CHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, "Multiscale simulation of flow in microdevices," Dr. Randindran Chella, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FSU.

Friday, March 27, 2:00 pm, 327 OSB—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY SEMINAR "Variation in growth rate and diet of early juvenile gag, Mycteroperca microlepis, populations in two regions of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: effects of weather?," Stefan Bourgoin, Department of Oceaongraphy, FSU; Title to be announced, Lindsay Chipman, Department of Oceaongraphy, FSU.

Friday, March 27, 3:30 pm, 307 BIO—SEMINAR IN GENETICS: VIROLOGY, Innate immunity/antiviral response. Benjamin Pope, Department of Biological Science, FSU.

Friday, March 27, 4:00 pm, 1024 KIN—ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SEMINAR, "Indirect effects of herbivores on population and community structure: costs and benefits to unpalatable and invasive species," Dr. Susan Kalisz, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller.

Friday, March 27, 8:00 pm, IMAX Theatre, Challenger Learning Center, Kleman Plaza, Tallahassee—ORIGINS '09: CELEBRATING THE BIRTH AND LIFE OF BEGINNINGS, "The quest for human origins," Dr. Donald C. Johanson, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Saturday, March 28, 8:00 pm, Lee Hall Auditorium, Florida A&M University—ORIGINS '09: CELEBRATING THE BIRTH AND LIFE OF BEGINNINGS, "The origins of jazz: a tribute to the evolution of America's own musical art form," Scotty Barnhart and friends, College of Music, FSU.

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