Colby College Biology Department Seminars


2008 - 2009
Fridays at 1:00 pm*, Olin 1
*April 20 seminar will be 7:30 pm

 
Date
Speaker
Title
Oct 17
David Serreze 
Jackson Laboratories

Research Using Mouse Models of Type 1 Diabetes
 
Nov 7
Jeff DaCosta
Boston University

HapSTRs: Combining Loci with Different Mutation Rates
to Investigate Evolutionary History
 
Nov 21
Joerg Graf
UCONN

Taming a Pathogen,
the Leech Digestive-Tract Symbiosis
 
March 6
Patrick Keenan '00

Specialization and Coevolution
in the Adaptive Radiation of Crossbills
 
March 13
Robert Wheeler
University of Maine, Orono

Fungal Host-Pathogen Interactions
 
Monday
April 20
John van Wyhe
Cambridge University

Darwin Bicentennial
Charles Darwin: The true story
 

April 24

David Pimentel
Cornell University

Biodiversity and sustainable agriculture