2007-08 Biological Science Colloquium Series
(listing updated 9 April 08)

Colloquia meet at 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays, in room 228 Conradi Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida.Colloquia are open to the public; faculty meetings and graduate-student orientation are not.

Spring 2008

• January 10: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 228 Conradi

• January 17: Dr. Trudi Schüpbach, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
  Control of EGF receptor activity and dorso-ventral patterning in Drosophila
  Host: Dr. Wu-Min Deng

• January 24: Dr. John N. Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Coevolving webs of species
  Host: Timothy D. Swain

• January 31: Dr. Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  Detecting footprints of selection in the human genome
  Host: Dr. Peter Beerli

• February 7: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 208 Biology Unit I

• February 14: Dr. Stanley M. Lemon, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
  Hepatitis C virus regulation of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor
  Host: Dr. Hengli Tang

• February 21: Dr. Mark Peifer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Building the body plan: the miracle of morphogenesis
  Host: Dr. Wu-Min Deng

• February 28: Dr. Oswald J. Schmitz, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  Predator identity determines ecosystem function
  Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller

• March 6: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 228 Conradi

• March 13: None scheduled (spring break)

• March 20: Dr. Peter Beerli, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Population genetic calculations that do not fit on the back of an envelope
  Host: Dr. David Houle

• March 27: Dr. Wu-Min Deng, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation in Drosophila development
  Host: Dr. Thomas C. S. Keller

• April 3: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 208 Biology Unit I

• April 10: Dr. Austin R. Mast, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Did Southern Hemisphere geographic disjunctions in the macadamia nut family (Proteaceae) arise coincidentally with each other and with the loss of terrestrial connections between relevant landmasses?
  Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller

• April 17: Dr. Janie L. Wulff, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Sticking with simplicity: facile regeneration, morphological versatility, and interspecific collaboration keep the most basal metazoans in the game
  Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan