Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University

     
    Aug 26 Paul Magwene

    Duke

    Host: Cliff Zeyl

    		 Polymorphism and heterozygosity in the genomes of "wild" yeast
    Sept 2 Richard Loeser

    WFUBMC

    Host: Gloria Muday

    		 Cell signaling in cartilage and the development of osteoarthritis
    Sept 9 Stephen Kreager
    Clemson

    Joint with Chemistry and  Physics (Rm 126)

    		 Electrochemical energy storage and conversion
    Sept 16 Michelle DaCosta

    WFU

    		 Endemism in the Galápagos Islands: speciation in Darwin’s tiger moth
    Sept 23 Bill Kier

    UNC

    Host: Miriam Ashley-Ross

    		 Tentacles that twist, tense, telescope, and torque: biological inspiration for flexible robots 
    Sept 30 Diana Bautista

    UC Berkeley

    Host: Wayne Silver

    		 Tingling tongues and star-nosed moles: new approaches to study touch and pain
    Oct 7 Nick Hristov

    Center for Design  

           Innovation and WSSU

    Host: Bill Conner

    		 Colony size and population decline of the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)  

          investigated with thermal imaging
    Oct 14 John York

    Duke

    Joint with Molecular   

          Signaling Group

    Host: Gloria Muday

    (Rm 126)

    		 Decoding inositol intracellular signaling pathways: lessons learned from a six-carbon

          cyclitol
    Oct 21 John Long

    Vassar College

    Host: Miriam Ashley-Ross

    		 Vertebrate character evolution: using biomimetic robots to test adaptation hypotheses
    Oct 28 Catherine Bush

    WFU

    		 The phylogeny, biogeography, and morphological evolution of Gaultherieae (Ericaceae)
    Nov 4 Jim McNally

    National Cancer Institute

    Host: Anita McCauley

    Joint with Physics (Rm 126)

    		 The live cell kinetics of transcription
    Nov 11 Robert Anholt

    NCSU

    Host: Wayne Silver

    		 The genetic architecture of behavior
    Nov 18 Sarah Maveety

    WFU

    		 Ground beetles as biodiversity indicators in tropical Andean cloud forests
    Nov 25   Thanksgiving Holiday
    Dec 2   TBA