Spring 2022/2023
Seminars on Fridays from 10:00 am to 11:00 am, in-person at the Beaty Museum Auditorium.
Cookies and coffee are provided in BioSci 3rd floor area at 9:30 am.
This series is organized by Colin Brauner, Katie Marshall and Phil Matthews.
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
January 20 | Ben Negrete | UBC Zoology | Plasticity of a marine fish in response to chronic hypoxia | Richards |
January 27 | Gosline Lecture: Bob Shadwick | UBC Zoology | In the shadow of JMG: elastic adventures in the animal world | Altshuler |
February 3 | John Tuthill | University of Washington | Sensorimotor control in walking fruit flies and snow flies | B Matthews |
February 10 | Hannah Carey | U Wisconsin | Resource sharing during lean times: a functional role for the gut microbiome in mammalian hibernation | Milsom |
February 17 | Kevin Wei | UBC Zoology | The genetic battlegrounds shaping genome complexity and developmental processes | B Matthews |
February 24 | No seminar - Reading break | |||
March 3 | Frank van Breukelen* | U Nevada LV | Being too plastic for variable environments: physiological plasticity in the protoendothermic tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) | Milsom |
March 10 | No seminar | TBA | ||
March 17 | Early Career - Richard Fandino | Cornell University | Reverse genetics in Lepidoptera as a tool for gaining key insights into morphological and sensory evolution | B Matthews |
March 24 | Brad Dimos | Washington State University | Thermal physiology and local adaptation of chinook salmon | Schulte |
March 31 | Carol Lee | U Wisconsin | Pumping Ions to rapidly evolve in response to habitat invasions and climate change | Marshall |
April 7 | No seminar - Good Friday | |||
April 14 | Randall Seminar: Jodie Rummer | James Cook University, Australia | Amazing aquatic athletes, from the Pacific Northwest to the South Pacific and Great Barrier Reef | Brauner |
April 21 | Hochachka Lecture - Grant McClelland | McMaster University | Fueling the fire: conserved patterns and evolved strategies for exercise and thermogenesis | Schulte |
* Venue: Michael Smith Laboratories auditorium, MSL 102