Department of Biology
Date: Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Time & Location: 2:15pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Thomas Alexander Dececchi
(Supervisor: Dr. Hans Larsson)
The ecology, tempo and mode of the dinosaur to bird transition:
examining multiple aspects of a major evolutionary event
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Date: Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Time & Location: 2:00pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Daici Chen
(Supervisor: Dr. Jacalyn Vogel)
Phospho-regulation of gamma-tubulin in budding yeast
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PhD Seminars: (See EEL schedule below)
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Date: Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Time & Location: 3:00pm in Redpath Museum Auditorium
Host: Dr. H. Larsson
Dr. Rebecca Young Brim
Yale University
Homology and homeosis: developmental genetics of the avian wing digit identity transformation
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Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Time & Location: 3:00pm in Redpath Museum Auditorium
Host: Dr. J. Davies
Dr. Steven Kemble
Department of Biology, University of Oregon
Architecture and the ecology of indoor microbes
Date: Monday, February 6th, 2012
Time & Location: 4:00pm in Stewart Auditorium, N2/2
Host: Dr. T. Western
Dr. Ljerka Kunst
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia
CER7, a Core Subunit of the RNA-processing Exosome, has a Specific Role in Regulation of Cuticular Wax Deposition in Arabidopsis
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Date: Monday, February 13th, 2012
Time & Location: 4:00pm in Stewart Auditorium, N2/2
Host: Dr. G. Brouhard
Dr. Ed Munro
University of Chicago
Title: TBA
EEL (Ecology & Evolution Lunches):
Date: Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Time & Location: 11:30am in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Julian Xue
(PhD Seminar)
The evolution of innovation rates and the role of innovations in directing long term evolution
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Date: Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Aerin Jacob, Matt Mitchell, Suzanne Gray
Impostor Syndrome Discussion Group
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Date: Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Dr. Bronwyn Rayfield
(Postdoctoral Fellow)
Metapopulation dynamics and habitat connectivity:
lessons from experimental habitat networks
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Date: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Aline Fouard
(TBA)
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Date: Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel
(PhD Seminar)
Effects of dynamic maritime transport on the invasion process of biofouling species
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Date: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Emily Bamforth
(PhD Seminar)
Drivers of Vertebrate Biodiversity in the Latest Maastrichtian (65Ma) of Central Canada
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Date: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Diana Sharpe
(PhD Seminar)
Phenotypic response to anthropogenic stressors in the African cyprinid Rastrineobola argentea
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Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Marie-Julie Favé
(PhD Seminar)
The dynamics of gene network evolution across the sky islands of Arizona
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Date: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Time & Location: 12:30pm in W4/12, Stewart Biology
Dr. Jonathan Davies & Dr. Andrew Hendry
WORKSHOP
Please contact Andrea Reid (andrea.reid2@mail.mcgill.ca) for details and scheduling.
February 6-7, 2012
SHARON KESSLER, University of Zurich
Seminar: 2:30pm - Monday 6 FEB in W4-12
Seminar Title: Looking for love: intercellular communication during plant reproduction
Roundtable: 10:00am - Tuesday 7 FEB in W4-11
Host: Tom Bureau
February 8-9, 2012:
ROSS BUCHAN, University of Arizona
Seminar: 1:30pm - Wednesday 8 FEB in W4-12
Seminar Title: Stress granules and P-bodies: Assembly, function and interactions
Roundtable: 10:00am - Thursday 9 FEB in W4-11
Host: Gary Brouhard
February 13-14, 2012:
JONAS DORN, University of Montreal (IRIC)
Seminar: 2:30pm - Monday 13 FEB in W4-12
Seminar Title: Quantitative imaging and computational analysis of cell division
Roundtable: 10:00am - Tuesday 14 FEB in W4-11
Host: David Dankort
February 15-16, 2012:
RODRIGO REYES LAMOTHE, University of Oxford
Seminar: 4:00pm - Wednesday 15 FEB in W4-12
Seminar Title: Studying the action of DNA machines in living cells
Roundtable: 10:00am - Thursday 16 FEB in W4-11
Host: Nam-Sung Moon
February 16-17, 2012:
PETER STIRLING, University of British Columbia
Seminar: 2:00pm Friday 17 FEB in W4-12
Seminar Title: The complete spectrum of genome instability pathways: biological networks to molecular mechanisms
Roundtable: 3:30pm Friday 17 FEB in W4-11
Host: Tamara Western
