Colby College Biology Department

Spring 2008 Colloquium Series

Fridays at 1 pm in Olin 1 (except as noted)

 

Date

Speaker

Title

08 Feb.

 

Christine Avena

Dept. of Biology

Colby College

Llamas, Alpacas, and Conservation: Sustainable Agriculture in the

Ecuadorian Andes

15 Feb.

Frank Fekete

Dept. of Biology

Colby College

The Mercurial existence of

Antibiotic Resistance

22 Feb.

Keith Johnson

Dept. of Biology

Bradley University

(host: Frank Fekete)

Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacterial Antibiotic and Mercury Resistance

29 Feb.

Justin Touchon

Dept. of Biology

Boston University

(host: Cathy Bevier)

Ecology and Development meet Behavior: Environmental effects across the Life Cycle of a Neotropical Tree Frog

07 March

Carolyn Mattingly

Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

(host: Judy Stone)

Fishy Approaches to Understanding Environmental Effects on Human Health

14 March

Lloyd Cantley

Yale University

School of Medicine

 (host: R. Johnson)

Epithelial Morphogenesis during

Kidney Repair

 

21 March

no seminar

 

04 April

Kristin Lewis

Rowland Institute

Harvard University

(host: Judy Stone)

Chemical Ecology of Parasitic Plant Associations

11 April

Justin Guay

Functional Genomics Program

University of Maine

(host: R. Johnson)

Death-associated Kinase 2 and

Functional Genomics

18 April

Brendan Gavin

Biology Dept.

Dartmouth University

(host: Brook Jude)

The Day the Fly Stood Still: A Drosophila model of prion disease

25 April

no seminar

 

02 May

time: all day

Colby Undergraduate

Research Symposium

 

Many talks on many topics