Biology
Queen's UniversityDepartmental Seminars 2012-13
Departmental seminars are held Friday's at 12:30 pm normally in Room 1102 (or Room 3110) BioSciences Complex. The Departmental Seminar Coordinator for 2012-13 is Dr. Vicki Friesen. Please contact her if you have ideas for a speaker or wish to volunteer yourself.
Winter 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 14 Jan 11:30 ROOM 3110 |
Jun Liu, PhD candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University |
What can a worm tell us about cancer? |
| 15 Jan 12:30 ROOM 3110 | Julie Adams, MSc candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University | Identification of compounds in heavy fuel oil that are toxic to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) |
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18 Jan 12:30 ROOM 1102 |
Paul Grogan, Associate Professor, Biology Department, Queen's University |
Understanding patterns in ecology – What can the ‘ecosystem’ perspective contribute? |
| 25 Jan | No Seminar |
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1 Feb - 11:30 ROOM 101 SKHS |
Kathy Lindsay, Wildlife and Landscape Science Directorate, National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment Canada, | Biogeography for wildlife conservation planning. Special time and location:11:30 - 12:30 in Room 101, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies. |
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8 Feb CANCELLED |
CANCELLED |
CANCELLED |
| 15 Feb | Shelley Arnott, Associate Professor, Biology Department, Queen's University | Community response to dispersal depends on environmental context |
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22 Feb ROOM 3110 |
Kat Stewart, PhD candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University |
Contact zone dynamics and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a North American treefrog, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer). |
| 1 Mar | Mike Hedrick, Professor, Developmental Integrative Biology Research Cluster, Department of Biological Sciences, University North Texas | Lymph movement in anuran amphibians: What goes down must come up |
| 8 Mar | Bill Plaxton, Professor, Biology Department, Queen's University |
Feeding hungry plants: The purple acid phosphatase AtPAP26 plays a pivotal role in Arabidopsis phosphate nutrition |
| 15 Mar | No Seminar |
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| 22 Mar |
Howie Riessen, Biology Department, SUNY College at Buffalo |
Kairomones, calcium and daphnia defenses in lakes |
| 29 Mar |
GOOD FRIDAY NO SEMINAR |
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| 5 Apr |
Josh Thienpont, PhD Candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University |
Examining the impact of regional climate warming and intense localized disturbance on lakes of the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT, Canada |
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12 Apr CANCELLED |
Ryan Gregory, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph |
Title: Animal genomes large and small. Abstract & Biography . Host: Steve Lougheed. |
| 19 Apr |
Thierry Boulinier, CNRS, France |
Evolutionary ecology of a transgenerational response to papasites, the maternal transfer of antibodies |
| 26 Apr |
No Seminar | No Seminar |
| 10 May Room 3110 |
Kyle Bender, PhD candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University | The Arabidopsis putative calcium sensor, CML39, is required for seedling establishment under carbon limitation |
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17 May Room 3110 |
Niraj Kumar, PhD candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University | Molecular genetic responses of arctic soil communities to anthropogenic stress |
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23 May Room 3110 10:30 |
Daphne Goring, Professor, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto | Signalling events in the pistil initiated by pollen contact in the mustard family (Brassicaceae): Pollen acceptance or rejection? |
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24 May 11:30 Room 3110 |
Maggie Xenopoulos, Professor, Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario | Our silver-coated future: fate and effects of silver nanoparticles in freshwaters |
| 27 May 12:30 Room 3110 | Syndonia Bret-Harte, Associate Professor, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Tundra plant species and ecosystem response to environmental change |
| 28 May 12:30 Room 3110 | Tara Zamin, PhD candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University | Integrating the effects of climate change and caribou herbivory on vegetation community structure iin low Arctic tundra |
| 3 June Room 3110 | Anneli Jokela, PhD candidate, Biology Department, Queen's University | TBA |
| 20 June Room 3110 |
Peter Hodson - Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, Queen's University | TBA |