Departmental Seminars

Department of Biology

Seminar Schedule

Spring 2010

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Departmental seminars will be held on most Tuesdays at 4:00 PM, in Science 012, unless otherwise indicated. Enrolled students should arrive five minutes before the seminar begins to receive class materials. All seminars are open to the public.  Cookies and coffee are provided at 3:30 PM.  – For further information, please contact Seminar coordinator Dr. Rusty Gonser, Science Rm.298, Rusty.Gonser@indstate.edu, phone 237-2395.

 

Date

Speaker

12 January

Open

19 January

Dr. Dina Leech, DePauw
“From Blackwater Rivers to Quarry Ponds: An aquatic ecologist's journey from coastal North Carolina to central Indiana”

26 January

Robert MacArthur Speaker
Rick Douglass, Montana Tech
What can you learn about emerging and infectious diseases by studying deer mouse ecology for 15 years?"

02 Feb

Gram Microbiology Speaker
Dr. Hazel Barton, Northern Kentucky

09 February
4:00 pm at ISU

Darwin Day speaker
Dr. Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville
“The Altruism Equation: Evolution and the Origins of Goodness”

09 February
8:00 pm at SMWC

Darwin Day speaker
Dr. Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville
“Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose”

16 February

Darwin Day Speaker
Dr. Armin Moczek, Indiana University
“On the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution: a case study on horned beetles”

23 February

Women in Science Speaker
Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson, New Mexico
Primatologist

02 March

Dr. John Bickham, Purdue University

09 March

spring break

16 March

Mike Rowe, ISU

23 March

Dr. Andrew DeWoody, Purdue University

30 March

Dr. Michael Romanov, ISU

06 April

Tri-beta Speaker
Dr. Patrick Burton

13 April

Double Helix Speaker
Dr. Oliver Ryder

20 April

Earth Day Speaker

27 April

Diversity in Science Speaker
Dr. Maydianne Andrade from Toronto
"Sexual Selection in Spiders"