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    Departmental Seminars

    Departmental seminars are held in Rm. 3110 Biosciences (opposite the main departmental office).

      2011-2012

     Date  Speaker  Title
    16 Sept. 12:30
    Dr. Trevor Hill, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, supported by the Principal's Development Fund
    Wetlands as proxies for climate change:  case studies from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
    23 Sept. 12:30
    Dr Anthony James, Al Downe Lecture
     TBA
    30 Sept.  12:30
    Dr. Cameron Ghalambor, Good Family Visiting Faculty Research Fellow
    Does phenotypic plasticity facilitate or constrain adaptive evolution?
    7 Oct. 12:30
    Shai Sabbah, PhD Candidate, Department of Biology
    Functional diversity in colour vision

    Tuesday

    8 Nov

    1:30

    Rm 1103

    Jean-Bernard Caron, Curator of the Invertebrate Paleontology ROM
    The Cambrian expolsion of life:  views fromthe Burgess Shale

    18 Nov.  12:30

     

    Jeff Dawson, Associate Professor, Biology Department, Carleton University
    Wing flips and vortical interactions:  new ideas about insect flight steering

    Thursday

    24 Nov.

    2:30

     

    John Poulopoulos, PhD candidate, Biology Department
    Travels through time:  How archived fish collections can reveal mercury biomagnification in historical food webs  Host:  Linda Campbell

    25 Nov. 12:30

     

    David Lean, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa Recent advances on the impact of mercury input to our environment  Host:  Linda Campbell

    Wednesday

    30 Nov.

    11:30

     

    Simon Labbe, Department of Biochemistry, University of Sherbrooke Molecular response to iron deficiency  Host:  Paul Young

    Wednesday

    14 Dec.

    12:30

    Derek Gray, PhD candidate, Biology Department
    The role of dispersal during the recovery of acid-damaged zooplankton communities  Host:  Shelley Arnott

    Jan 20

    12:30

    Martin Mallet , PhD candidate, Biology Department

    Jan 27

    12:30

    Chris Moyes, Professor of Biology, Queen's University
    Evolution of the muscle metabolic phenotype

    Feb 3

    12:30

    Rm 3110

    Elizabeth Weretilnyk, Department of Biology, McMaster University
    Thellungiella halophile - an Arabidopsis-like plant adapted to extreme Canadian environments.  Host:  Bill Plaxton



    Feb 17

    12:30

    Ken Welch, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus
    Integrative biology of a high performance machine:  the hummingbird flight motor

    Mar2

    12:30

    Xu Han, PhD candidate, Biology Department

    Mar 9

    12:30

    Graham Scott, McMaster University

    Mar 23

    Wednesday

    Mar 28

    12:30

    Jamie Morris-Pocock, PhD candidate, Biology Department

    Thursday

    March 29

    12:30

    Irby Lovette, Cornell University

    Apr 13

    12:30

    Scott Edwards, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology

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