Colby College Biology Department Seminars

 

2009 - 2010 
Fridays at 1:00 pm, Olin 1

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Speaker

Title

September 24

Brian Penney

St. Anselm College

Host:  Paul Greenwood

 

Sea slugs that sting and steal:  The use of sequestered chemicals and nematocysts in nudibranchs

 

October 9

Linda Strausbaugh

MCB, UCONN

Host:  Herb Wilson

 

The fact and fiction of using human mitotyping in determining ancestry and solving crimes

 

October 30

Ramunas Stepanauskas

Bigelow Laboratories

Host:  Frank Fekete

 

Sequencing the invisible microbial jungle, one cell at a time

 

March 5

Alina Corcoran

Colby College

 

Effects of Urban Runoff on Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Southern California Bight 

 

April 9

Erin Bromage

UMASS

Host:  Lynn Hannum

TBA

 

April 16

Eric Lai

Sloan Kettering

Host:  Josh Kavaler

MicroRNAs and other small RNAs in Drosophila