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 Seminars

2009 Seminar Series

The School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series is held in the Goddard Building (8) on Fridays at 1pm.
All are welcome to attend.

Semester 1

Semester 2


Coordinator: Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos

 

 

Semester 1

13th February
1-2pm

Prof. John Vandermeer
Margaret Davis Collegiate Professor
University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Self-organized patterns in tropical agroecosystems


13th March
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Dr Ulrike Siebeck
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow
Colour communication and visual perception in reef fish

20th March
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Prof. Hugh Possingham
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor or Mathematics and Ecology
The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences
Protocols for optimal monitoring and decision support for setting global conservation priorities

 

27th March
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Prof. Eran Pichersky
Michael M. Martin Collegiate Professor
University of Michigan, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Mechanisms of origin of new biochemical functions in plant

3rd April
1-2pm
 

Prof. John Mattick
Foundation Professor of Molecular Biology and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland
Non-coding RNAs in the evolution and development of complex organisms
 

7th April
1-2pm
Room E302 Forgan Smith Building (1)
 

Prof. Tim Blackburn
Cambridge University, Director of the Institute of Zoology
Pattern and process in macroecology

 

24th April
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Prof. Andy Choo
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Laboratory and Community Genetics
Chromosome research
 

 

24th April
3-4.20pm
Room 139 Goddard

Prof. Steve Gaines
University of California, Santa Barbara


 

1st May
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Prof. Hamish McCallum
Professor of Wildlife Research.
University of Tasmania, School of Zoology
Wildlife disease and conservation biology

 

8th May
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Dr Siegy Krauss
Senior Research Scientist (Conservation Genetics)
Kings Park and Botanic Garden
Conservation and restoration genetics research

15th May
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Dr Kerrie Wilson
Senior Research Fellow (ARC)
The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences
Applied conservation resource allocation problems

29th May
1-2pm
Room 213 Richards Building (5)
 

Dr Michael Kearney
The University of Melbourne, Zoology Department
The impact of climate on animals and, the evolution of parthenogenesis

5th June
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Prof. Peter Chesson
University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Community Processes in Variable Environments

12th June
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

Prof. Rod Peakall
The Australian National University, School of Zoology and Botany 
Population genetics, conservation, and pollination biology

19th June
1-2pm
Room 388 Goddard

 

Prof. Barry J. Beaty
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
Colorado State University
Towards the control of epidemic dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever in the Americas



Semester 2

     

31st July
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Prof. Scott O'Neill
Head of School
The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences
Using inherited bacteria of insects to control human disease in the developing world – the need for multidisciplinary thinking in order to have impact

7th August
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard
 

Dr Joah Madden
The University of Exeter, UK
Networks of social interactions in cooperatively breeding meerkats

14th August
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Prof. Robin Chazdon
The University of Connecticut, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Tropical forest ecology, regeneration, and conservation

28th August
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Dr Devi Stuart-Fox
University of Melbourne, Department of Zoology
The evolution of animal signals

4th September
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard
 

Rene Vaillancourt
University of Tasmania, School of Plant Science
Associate Professor & Deputy Head of School
The natural history and genome structures of Tasmanian plants species

11th September
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Prof. Colin Brauner
The University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology
Conservation Physiology of Fish in Saline Lakes: From California Deserts to the Tibetan Plateau.

18th September
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Dr Dustin Marshall
Lecturer and ARC postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences
Links between life-history stages in marine invertebrates

16th October
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

John Bowman
Monash University, School of Biological Sciences
Associate professor, ARC federation fellow
Pattern formation in plant development

23rd October
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Steve Swearer
Melbourne University
A tale of two landscapes: causes and consequences of connectivity in marine metapopulations
 

30th October
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Dr Eric Treml
WWF Fuller Postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences
Spatial and temporal dynamics in marine population connectivity
 

6th November
1-2pm
Room 139 Goddard

Prof. Tony Ives
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Zoology
Two short seminars presented back-to-back
Seminar 1
Extreme fluctuations in midge densities in Lake Myvatn
Seminar 2
Species response to environmental change: Impacts of food-web interactions and evolution

1st December
1-2pm
Room 234 Parnell (7)

Prof. Richard Abbott
St Andrews University, Scotland, UK
Gene transfer and plant evolution: What we have learnt from Senecio