Fall 2024
Seminars on Fridays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, in-person at Michael Smith Laboratories auditorium, MSL 102.
This series is organized by Colin Brauner, Doug Altshuler, Ben Matthews, and Ben Negrete
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
Sep 13 | Cameron Emadi | Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC | Physiological insights from conservation to toxicology: assessing swimming performance in texan fish and ammonia stress in juvenile Macrobrachium rosenbergii | Wood |
Sep 20 | Arimune Munakata | Miyagi University of Education, Japan | Endocrine control of migratory behaviors in Pacific Salmon | Brauner |
Sep 27 | Renato Filogonio | University of Missouri | Big-hearted reptiles: the importance of body size in the cardiovascular context | Milsom |
Oct 4 | Tamzin Blewett | University of Alberta | Mysteries of the North, metal toxicity in Arctic aquatic environments | Marshall |
Oct 11 | Alyssa Weihrauch | Postdoctoral Fellow | Ancient models in comparative endocrinology: sharks and their relatives | |
Oct 18 | Andrew Dittman | NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Centre, Washington | Remembrance of things past; molecular studies of olfactory imprinting and homing in salmon | Brauner |
Oct 25 | Michael Wilkie | Wilfrid Laurier University | Nature’s ultimate vertebrate survivors: physiological adaptations of lampreys | Richards |
Nov 1 | George Lauder | Harvard University | Fish robotics: using mechanical devices to understand the functional and evolutionary diversity of fishes | Shadwick |
Nov 8 | TBA | Richards | ||
Nov 15 | Sarah Woolley | McGill | Uncovering the neural circuits for social bonding in songbirds | Altshuler |
Nov 22 | David Buchwalter | North Carolina State University | Ions, fluxes and energetics in freshwater insects and other invertebrates | PMatthews |
Nov 29 | Elli Theobald | University of Washington | Mind the gap: active learning improves equity in STEM classrooms | Kalas |
Dec 6 | Gosline Memorial Lecture: Sharon Swartz | Brown University | The world in a wing: the integrative biology of bat flight | Altshuler |
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Feb 14 | Neill Herbert | U Auckland | Brauner | |
Feb 21 | Reading week | |||
Feb 28 | Randall Seminar: David McKenzie | CNRS, France | Brauner | |
Mar 7 | Jackie Lebenzon | U Calgary | PMatthews | |
Mar 14 | Andrea Morash | Richards | ||
Mar 21 | Andrea Durant | BMatthews | ||
Mar 28 | Clare Venney | Negrete | ||
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