Colloquium Schedule-Biology | Northeastern University

FALL 2011 ColloquiA Schedule

All Seminars in 90 Snell Library at Noon unless otherwise noted
Refreshments at 11:45 a.m.

September 2011

September 12 - Dr. Sergei Merkin (Tufts University)

Title: "It's a mad, mad, mad DNA repeat: Unraveling the mechanisms of repeat expansion disorders"

Host: Phyllis Strauss

September 19 - Dr. Erin Cram (Department of Biology, Northeastern University - Tenure Seminar)

September 26 - Dr. Craig Albertson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Title: "Toward the Origin of Craniofacial Diversity in Cichlid Fishes: Patterns Processes and Mechanisms"

Host: William Detrich

October 2011

October 3 - Gabriel Kreiman (Programs in Biophysics and Neuroscience, Harvard University)

Title: "Towards deciphering the neural mechanisms of visual object recognition"

Host: Don O'Malley

October 10 - NO SEMINAR (Columbus Day)

October 17 - Dr. Dennis Lee Kasper (Havard University)

Title: TBA

Host: Kim Lewis

October 24 - Dr. Donald Cheney (Northeastern University)

Title: "Going Green: Thirty Years of Making Seaweeds Healthful and Not Harmful to Humans"
Host: Fred Davis

October 31 - Dr. Alan Grossman (Department of Biology, MIT)

Title: "Regulation and visualization of horizontal gene transfer"

Host: Veronica Godoy-Carter

November 2011

November 7 - Dr. Jason Kolbe (University of Rhode Island)

Title: "From big cities to small islands: evolutionary responses Anolis lizard introductions"

Host: Rebeca Rosengaus

November 14 - Dr. Jonathan Losos (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University)

Title: "Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anolis"

Host: GRADUATE STUDENTS

November 21 - Dr. Dan Gruner (Department of Entomology: University of Maryland)

Title: "Food web interactions in an archipelago of volcanically isloated forest fragments"

Host: Matthew Bracken

November 28 - Dr. Carl D. Hopkins (Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University)

Title: "Taxa, Trees, Tones and Timing: Temporal Coding and the Origins of Electrogenic Diversity in Fishes"

Host: Günther Zupanc

December 2011

December 5 - Dr. Frank A.J.L. Scheer (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital)

Title: "The human circadian clock impacts cardiovascular, metabolic, and pulmonary function"

Host: Fred Davis