Seminar Program - 2012
First Semester, 2012
1.00 pm Thursday in Lecture theatre M3
Biological Sciences Seminar Program - First Semester, 2012 (pdf, 134kb)
| 1 March |
Prof. Paul Barnes, Loyola University, New Orleans
“How does solar UV influence litter decomposition? Studies in desert and marsh ecosystems”
Host: Ros Gleadow |
| 8 March |
Dr. Catherine Osborne, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University
“Response of soil bacterial and fungal communities to summer drought and first rainfall”
Host: Tim Cavagnaro |
| Friday 16 March |
******Change of Date and Venue********** Venue : S3, Building 25.
Genetics Symposium and Special Seminar 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM
2.00 PM to 3.45 PM : “Genetics at Monash”
4.00 PM: Special Seminar by Prof. Michael Snyder, Stanford University
“ Dissecting Complex Regulatory Codes”
Host: Coral Warr |
| 22 March |
PhD final seminar - Jessica C Lye (Supervisor: Dr Richard Burke)
Project title: In vivo Functional Characterization of SLC30 and SLC39 genes in Drosophila melanogaster
School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, 3800 Victoria, Australia. |
| 29 March |
Dr Elizabeth Duncan, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, NZ
http://www.otago.ac.nz/crg/staff/scientists/otago027578.html
Title: "Phenotypic plasticity in insects: How does the environment produce two different phenotypes from the same genome?"
Hosted by: Dr Anabel Herr |
| 5 April |
Assoc Prof Justin Borevitz, Australian National University, Canberra
"Genetics of climate adaptation : Plant model organisms in model environments"
Host: Sureshkumar Balasubramanian |
| 12 April |
Semester break |
| 19 April |
Dr. Tony Gendall, La Trobe University, Melbourne
"Evolution and function of NHX antiporter proteins in plant development"
Host: Sureshkumar Balasubramanian |
| 26 April |
Prof. Stuart Bunn, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
"Food web connectivitiy and consumer-resource coupling in tropical floodplain rivers"
Host: Ross Thompson |
| 3 May |
Dr. Edwina McGlinn, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University.
“A role for miR-196 in patterning the early vertebrate embryo”
Host: Rob Bryson-Richardson |
| 10 May |
Prof. John Endler, Deakin University,
"Using principles of vision to obtain new insights into sexual selection and speciation in
Australian Bowerbirds"
Host: Anne Peters and Kaspar Delhey |
| 17 May |
Dr. Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
"Ecological genetics of early speciation in Senecio pinnatifolius"
Host: Sureshkumar Balasubramanian |
| 24 May |
Assoc Prof John Stinchcombe, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Toronto.
"Ecological genomics of life history in plants"
Host: Dustin Marshall |
ALL VISITORS WELCOME
Seminar convenors:
Dr Anne Peters, Ph: 9905 6287, anne.peters@monash.edu
A/Prof Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Ph: 9905 1373, mb.suresh@monash.edu
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