Seminar Schedule
Each Friday during the academic year the department offers a Friday afternoon seminar featuring special speakers and visiting scholars. Seminars are held at 3:00 p.m. in Corcoran Hall Room 106.
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Sept 2 | New Graduate Student Reception | ||
| Sept 9 | Federico G. Hoffmann, Mississippi State University | Evolution of vertebrate globins: gene and genome duplications in the evolution of oxygen transport. | Orti |
| Sept 16 | No Seminar | University Faculty Meeting | |
| Sept 23 | Risk Management, Environmental Health & Safety Departments | Saftey Seminar: Earthquakes. | Pizzonia, Rutter, Scully |
| Sept 30 | Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University | RNA-Seq and phylogenetics, and Next Generartion Sequencing applications to evolutionary biology (At the Smithsonian) |
Smithsonian |
| Oct 7 | Carl Wieman, University of British Columbia, University of Colorado, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1995 Nobel Prize (Physics) | Taking a Scientific Approach to Learning and Teaching Science | Doebel, Donaldson |
| Oct 14 | Ken Kozak, University of Minnesota | Phylogeny, ecology, and the origin and fate of species richness gradients | Pyron |
| Oct 21 | Photographies and narration by our own Alex Pyron, Cathy Forster, Jim Clark, and G. Orti | Biodiversity Explorations around the world: Sri Lanka, South Africa, China, and the Amazon. | Orti |
| Oct 28 | Lauren Buckley, University of North Carolina | The biogeography of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments | Pyron |
| Nov 4 | Robin Wright, University of Minnesota | From lecture to learning: teaching more by talking less | Doebel, Donaldson |
| Nov 11 | Erin Wilson, University of Maryland | Shifts in yellowjacket life history modify invasion impacts in Hawaiian ecosystems | Lill |
| Nov 18 | Dr. Mary Beth Saffo, NSF Program Director | A mutualism with parasitic origins: a surprising three-partner symbiosis in marine animals | Smith |
| Dec 2 | Dr. Alexa Bely, University of Maryland | Evolution of regeneration: insights from annelids | Orti |
| Dec 9 | Daniel LumbanTobing, GWU PhD Candidate | Phylogenetic Systematics and Biogeography of the Genus Rasbora sensu lato (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) | Orti |
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Jan 14 | |||
| Jan 21 | Louisa Wu, UMD | Recognition and Phagocytosis of Bacteria in Drosophila melanogaster | Smith, Eleftherianos |
| Jan 28 | Kathryn Walters-Conte | Dissertation Seminar | Johnson |
| Feb 4 | Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian | The evolution of lunge-feeding in rorqual whales: an integrative approach using evidence from comparative methods, biomechanics and the fossil record | Clark |
| Feb 11 | Katie Staab, GWU PhD Candidate | Dissertation Seminar | Hernandez |
| Feb 18 | Dr. David Inouye, University of Maryland, NSF | The effects of global and regional climate change on wildflowers and animals in the Colorado Rocky Mountains | Lill |
| Feb 25 | T'ai Roulston, Blandy Experimental Farm, University of Virginia | Flying Herbivores That Sometimes Pollinate: Toward A Revised Understanding of Bee - Plant Relations | Stoepler/Lill |
| Mar 4 | Thomas Finger, University of Colorado, Denver | Sorting food from mud: Brainstem circuitry for taste-mediated food selection by goldfish | Hernandez |
| Mar 11 | J. Conrad, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine | "Climbing the Squamate Tree: Monsters, Dragons, Skinks and Snakes." | Clark |
| Mar 18 | No Seminar | Spring Break | |
| Mar 25 | Weiqun Peng, Physics Department, GWU | Understanding the epigenome: from statistical analysis to biology | Donaldson |
| Apr 1 | Dusan Palic, Iowa State University | Why fish shouldn't wear sunscreen: environmental stress effects on fish immune responses | Jeremic |
| Apr 8 | Divya Uma, University of Maryland | Webs, Chemicals and Deception: predator-prey interactions between wasps and spiders | Stoepler/Lill |
| Apr 15 | Michael Cummings, University of Maryland | Quantifying lineage divergence: the genealogical sorting index | Orti |
| Apr 22 | Undergraduate Honors Students | Senior Honors Presentations | Smith |
| Apr 29 | John Jaenike, University of Rochester | Endosymbiont-mediated protection against nematode parasitism | Eleftherianos |
Fall 2010
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Sept 3 | No Seminar | No Seminar | N/A |
| Sept 10 | No Seminar | No Seminar | |
| Sept 17 | A. Ramamoorthy, University of Michigan | Structure of Membrane-Associated Cytochrome b5-P450 and Amyloid Proteins by NMR | Jeremic |
| Sept 24 | GWU Biology Saftey Seminar | Safety procedures for faculty, staff, students and researchers. | Steimer, Scully |
| Oct 1 | No Seminar | No Seminar | |
| Oct 8 | H. López-Fernández, Royal Ontario Museum | Phylogeny and adaptive radiations in Neotropical cichilds. | Orti |
| Oct 15 | Michael Alfaro, UCLA | Phylogenetic Macroevolution: New Tools and Perspectives | Hernandez |
| Oct 22 | Helen James, Bird Division at the NMNH | The Ecological and Evolutionary History of Hawaiian Birds | Clark |
| Oct 29 | Cindy Sagers, NSF/University of Arkansas | Title TBA | Lill, Stoepler |
| Nov 5 | James Hanken, Harvard University | Marrying the old and the new: Contemporary approaches to studying cranial development and evolution in vertebrates. | Hernandez |
| Nov 12 | T. Daeschler, Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia | Great Steps in the HIstory of Life; Investigating the Origin of Limbed Vertebrates. | Forster |
| Nov 19 | M. Massiah, GWU Department of Chemistry | Probing the structural basis of Opitz Syndrome: regulation of protein function | Jeremic |
| Nov 26 | no seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Dec 3 | Craig Albertson, Syracuse University | Toward a mechanistic understanding of craniofacial evolution among Lake Malawi cichilds | Hernandez |
| Dec 10 | Q. Wheeler, Arizona State University | Title TBA | Hormiga |