BioNotes

June 1 through June 5, 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 9:30 am, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE: EDWARD O. WILSON, A CELEBRATION OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, "Organismic biology in an age of molecules: E. O. Wilson and Jim Watson clash over the future of biology," Dr. Frederick R. Davis, Department of History, FSU. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 10:15 am, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "Subjectivity and sub-species: E. O. Wilson and Ernst Mayr on the trinomial," Dr. Richard Richards, University of Alabama, Tuskaloosa. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 11:00 am, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "Group selection thinking in the work of E. O. Wilson: was he ever a reductionist?," Dr. Mark Borrello, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 11:45 am, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "E. O. Wilson, island biogeography, and the rise of theoretical paleobiology," Dr. David Sepkoski, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 2:00 pm, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "E. O. Wilson and the linkage between historical and ecological geogeography," Dr. Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 2:45 pm, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "E. O. Wilson, conservation, and public education," Dr. M. C. Davis, Nokuse Plantation, Freeport, Florida. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 3:30 pm, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "E. O. Wilson, sociobiology, and the rise of evolutionary psychology," Dr. Jon K. Maner, Department of Psychology, FSU. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Tuesday, June 2, 4:15 pm, 201 PDA—WERKMEISTER CONFERENCE, "E. O. Wilson and the biology of ants," Dr. Walter R. Tschinkel, Department of Biological Science, FSU. Free of charge, but registration is required. Please contact Sarah Whylly, sfisk@fsu.edu.

Thursday, June 4, 2:00 pm, 2057 KIN—DISSERTATION DEFENSE, "Cell signaling and the regulation of axis formation, cell proliferation, and differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster," John Poulton, Department of Biological Science, FSU. Advisor: Dr. Wu-Min Deng.

Friday, June 5, 9:00 am, 208 BIO—DISSERTATION DEFENSE, "The effect of organic osmolytes on the functional properties of parvalbumin from a euryhaline stingray," Jennifer Kate Heffron, Department of Biological Science, FSU. Advisor: Dr. W. Ross Ellington.

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