Biology Fall Seminar Schedule [2008]

11:40am - 12:30pm and the location is Multi-Purpose room 118 unless otherwise stated.

Date Name Keynote Affiliation Host
August 29 Dr. Stephen Novak Multiple introduction and post-immigration evolution in Phyla canescens (Verbenaceae). Dept. of Biological Sciences, Boise State University Smith
September 3        
September 5 Dr. Rueven Yosef Body composition and refueling of small migrating birds during migratory stopover at Eilat, Israel. Director of the International Birding and Research Center in Eilat, Israel Gregory Kaltenecker
September 12 Dr. Jim Reveal Identification of the plant and animal in Mark Catesby’s 1730-1747 Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands. Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University Smith/Ertter
September 19 Dr. Barbara Ertter Iran Flora. University of California-Berkeley/Boise State University/College of Idaho Smith
September 24 Alyson Webber Proposal. BSU Julie Heath
September 26 Dr. Stefan Wanke Aristolochia systematics. Technische Universität Dresden Smith
October 3 Dr. Jim Groome Sodium channel dysfunction in a temperature sensitive disease of skeletal muscle. Idaho State University Troy Rohn
October 10 Dr. Richard A. Fischer Migratory Bird Research and Conservation on
Department of Defense Lands
   
October 15 Dr. Jean Pfau Asbestos and Autoimmunity: Mechanisms of Induction and Pathogenesis Idaho State University Kristen Mitchell
October 24 Dr. David Tank Annual aneuploids and polyploid perennials: phylogeny and diversification of the paintbrushes and relatives (Castillejinae, Orobanchaceae) Department of Forest Resources,University of Idaho Jim Smith
October 31 Dr. Tom Hahn Evolution of environmental cue response systems in birds: Adaptive specializations or variations on a theme of white-crowned sparrow   Julie Heath

November 6
[SMITC 210] 1:30pm-3:00pm]

Will Keeley Ecology of Ferruginous Hawks in Two Grasslands in New Mexico With Differing Anthropogenic Alteration    
November 7 Dr. David Hulse Alternative Futures for the Willamette River Basin, Oregon Philip H. Knight Professor
Dept. of Landscape Architecture
Institute for a Sustainable Environment
University of Oregon
BRSC/Jim Smith
November 14 Dr. Abdelkrim Alileche   BSU Hampikian
November 21 Dr. Krista Shellie   ARS-USDA Parma Serpe
December 5 Dr. Dennis Stevens Toxins from Gram Positive Pathogens: Their Role in Pathogenesis
and Strategies to Attenuate Virulence
Chief, Infectious Diseases Section
VA Medical Center
Tinker
December 12 Dr. Kai Elgethun Organophosphate Pesticides Chief Environmental
Health Scientist for the state of Idaho
Mitchell

 

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