anemoneDepartment of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa


Zoology Seminar Schedule

 
Spring 2006 Zoology Seminars
Friday afternoons 3:30 - 4:30
St John RM 011
(unless noted otherwise)
printable pdf schedule

September
1

Steve Stanley (Geology & Geophysics, SOEST) "Life and death of a remarkably diverse pre-Ice Age shallow marine benthic fauna of central Florida"

7
Dan Blumstein (UCLA) "Predation and tetrapod evolution" [special Thursday seminar]
8
Matt Craig (HIMB) "All the pretty fishes: the importance of color pattern to species boundaries in the sea"
15
cancelled
21
Eugenia del Pino (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Escuela de C. Biologicas; Quito, Ecuador) "Development of marsupial and dendrobatid frogs"
[special Thursday seminar, 2:00 p.m., Edmondson 153]
22
Luiz Rocha (HIMB) "Distribution patterns and speciation processes in coral reef fishes: Are allopatric distributions evidence for allopatric speciation?"
29
Steve Robinow (Department of Zoology)
October
6
Adam Summers (UC Irvine) "The cartilaginous skeleton: strange truths from soft fishes"
13
Mike Rappe (HIMB) " Coral-associated microorganisms in Kaneohe Bay and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands reef environments."
20
Yuki Yamazaki (Institute for Biogenesis Research, JABSOM, UH) "Assessment of the developmental totipotency of mouse germ cells by nuclear transfer"
27
Elaine Seaver (Pacific Biological Research Center, UH) "Animal body plan evolution: a developmental perspective from polychaetes and their kin"
November
3
Alan Nighorn (University of Arizona) "Eph/ephrin signaling in the development of model olfactory systems"
10
no seminar: Veterans Day Holiday
17
Florence Thomas (HIMB) "Role of gamete properties and water flow in fertilization of free spawning marine invertebrates"
24
no seminar: Thanksgiving
December
1
Rob Fleischer (Genetics Program, National Zoological Park) "Trouble in paradise: invasive diseases and vectors, and the Hawaiian avifauna"
8
Erin Baumgartner (Center for Curriculum Development, College of Education, UH)