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Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

Held Wednesdays from 4-5 PM in Room 200, Sullivan Science Building.
Parking is available in the McIver Street Parking Deck.
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM.

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

01/25/2012

Dr. James Costa
Department of Biology
Western Carolina University

Darwinian revelation: A primer to Charles Darwin's one long argument

Dr. Bruce Kirchoff

02/01/2012

Dr. Humberto Boncristiani
Department of Biology
UNC - Greensboro

Direct Effect of Acaricides on Pathogen Loads and Gene Expression Levels of Honey Bee Apis mellifera

Dr. Olav Rueppell

02/08/2012

Dr. Ben Blackman
Department of Biology
Duke University

Bridging genes to the environment in the evolution of phenotypic plasticity

Dr. Elizabeth Lacey

02/15/2012

Dr. T. S. Suryanarayanan
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology - Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Chennai India

Endophytes in biotechnology: Prospects and challenges

Dr. Stan Faeth

02/22/2012

Dr. Steven Frank
Department of Entomology
North Carolina State University

Hot in the city: Scale insect adaptation to urban environments

Dr. Stan Faeth

02/29/2012

Dr. Eric Walters
Department of Biology
Old Dominion University

The influence of ecological conditions on helping behavior in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker

Dr. Matina Kalcounis-Rüppell

03/14/2012

Dr. Deborah Smith
Department of Ecology & Evolution
University of Kansas

Biogeography of Eastern Honey Bees

Dr. Olav Rueppell

03/21/2012

Dr. Sita Ghimire
Center for Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology
Research Triangle International

An Endophytic Fungus, Sebacina vermifera, Provides Multiple Benefits to the Bio-energy Crop Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)

Dr. Stan Faeth

04/04/2012

Dr. Corina Tarnita
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Harvard University

Cooperation and Construction
**Will be held in Room 303 - Petty Building

Dr. Jan Rychtar
(UNCG Math)

04/11/2012

Dr. Kristen Lucia
Department of Biology
UNC - Greensboro

Landscape corridors and biodiversity conservation in a changing world.

Dr. Matina Kalcounis-Rüppell

04/18/2012

Dr. Kathleen Donohue
Department of Biology
Duke University

Pleiotropy in the wild: The organismal and environmental context of the genetics of life history

Dr. David Remington