University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Fall 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. David Fidock
Tousimis-Lauffer Distinguished Lecture
Columbia University
"Malaria: Tackling the Tsunami of Drug Resistance"
Monday, September 18, 2017
169 Crawford
10:50 Refreshments
11:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Fall 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Scott Stark
Michigan State University
"Towards remotely sensed canopy function and forest dynamics, to understand forest change and its consequences for the atmosphere"
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Fall 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Tadashi Fukami
Stanford University
"Embracing historical contingency in ecological community assembly"
Monday, October 23, 2017
169 Crawford
10:50 Refreshments
11:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Fall 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Myla Aronson
Rutgers University
"An Urban Perspective on Community Assembly"
Monday, October 2, 2017
169 Crawford
10:50 Refreshments
11:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Fall 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Christopher Donnelly
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Shining light on TDP-43 proteinopathy and stress granules in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)"
Monday, September 11, 2017
169 Crawford
10:50 Refreshments
11:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Fall 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Matt Bochman
Indiana University
"RecQ4 family helicases in genome stability"
Monday, August 28, 2017
169 Crawford
10:50 Refreshments
11:00 Seminar
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Ge Yang
Carnegie Mellon University
"Understanding spatial organization of intracellular organelle networks through computational and experimental analysis"
Monday, March 13, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Scott Lindner
Penn State University
"Translational Repression Complexes Govern the Transmissibility of the Malaria Parasite"
Monday, March 20, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Stanislav Shvartsman
Princeton University
"Towards quantitative biology of developmental abnormalities"
Monday, April 17, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Brenda Bass
University of Utah
"ADARs, Dicer, and the dsRNAome"
Monday, April 10, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Christine Rushlow
New York University
"Awakening of the Drosophilia zygotic genome"
Monday, April 3, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Carmen Williams
National Institutes of Health
"Regulation of calcium influx during mouse egg activation"
Monday, March 27, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Stuart MacDonald
University of Kansas
"Leveraging a miltiparental population to dissect the genetic basis of variation in Drosophilia"
Monday, February 20, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Akito Kawahara
University of Florida
"Evolution of Anti-Bat Strategies in Moths: Sonar Jamming, Acoustic Deflection, and Nocturnal Visual Mimicry"
Monday, February 27, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Monday Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Dr. Andreas Pfenning
Carnegie Mellon University
"Linking genome sequence to behavior across birds and mammals"
Monday, February 13, 2017
169 Crawford
3:50 Refreshments
4:00 Seminar
Please join us in celebrating our graduating seniors at our annual Senior Recognition Ceremony. Students and families will have an opportunity to meet with faculty and staff from 5:30-6:45 while enjoying some light refreshments. The ceremony will begin at 7:00 pm with each student having the opportunity to be individually recognized as they walk across the stage, shake hands with the Chair of our Department, and receive their certificate.
Please join us for a mini-symposium by the incoming
Pittsburgh Ecology and Evolution Postdoc (PEEP) Fellows
Friday December 2
1:30-3:45
219B Langley Hall
1:30-2:15
Construction of individuality: spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics in the evolution of multicellularity and symbiosis
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Department of Biology University of Minnesota
2:30-3:15
Mechanisms of floral specialization by pollen foraging bumble bees
Michelle Spicer from the Carson Lab
"Discovering the forest amongst the trees: Testing community assembly hypotheses in diverse yet understudied forest strata"
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Dr. John Atkins
University of Utah
"Recoding Expansion of Decoding Rules Enriches Gene Expression"
Monday, October 31st, 2016
169 Crawford Hall
4:15 P.M.
4:00 P.M. refreshments
Host: Roger Hendrix
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Dr. Malcolm Campbell
Davidson College
"Synthetic Biology Approach to Build E.coli Analog Computers"
Monday, October 10th, 2016
169 Crawford Hall
4:15 P.M.
4:00 P.M. refreshments
Host: Suzanna Gribble
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Presents:
Dr. Laura Burkle
Montana State University
"Plant-pollinator interaction networks across wildfire-disturbance gradients"
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
169 Crawford Hall
4:15 P.M.
4:00 P.M. refreshments
Host: Tia-Lynn Ashman
Eden McQueen from the Rebeiz Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Melissa Plakke from the Morehouse Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Layla Freeborn from the Zawacki Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Kimberly Howell from the Zawacki Lab
"Drift or selection? Why is the strawberry poison frog so variable?"
Roni Lahr from the Berman Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Timothy Mackie from the Brodsky Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Jenna Zalewski from the VanDemark Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Dominique Barbeau from the Hatfull Lab
"To Be Announced ."
Daniel Totten from the Berman Lab
"To Be Announced ."
