Fall 2023/2024
Seminars on Fridays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, in-person at the Beaty Museum Auditorium.
This series is organized by Colin Brauner, Katie Marshall and Doug Altshuler.
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
Jan 12 | Shane Windsor | U Bristol | Inspiration from birds for new approaches to autonomous flight | Altshuler |
Jan 19 | Elizabeth Rideout | UBC | Sex differences in insulin biology: lessons from flies and mice | Marshall |
Jan 26 | Hoar Lecture: Holly Shiels | U Manchester | Fishing for the keys to longevity in the heart of the Greenland shark | Shadwick |
Feb 2 | Nick Pyenson | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Almost like a whale: a quarter of a billion years of evolutionary convergences and strange ecologies in marine tetrapods | Brauner |
Feb 9 | Jeff Doherty | UBC | Taking a dip with house crickets and hairworms | BMatthews |
Feb 16 | Gosline Lecture: Sheila Patek | Duke University | Exquisite energetics of the ultrafast: an interdisciplinary nexus of discovery | Altshuler |
Feb 23 | No seminar - Midterm break | |||
Mar 1 | Dan Baker | Vancouver Island University | Heatwave preparation: how we can get hatchery reared oysters ready for the warming ocean | Brauner |
Mar 8 | Joel Levine | University of Toronto | Using flies to understand social network | BMatthews |
Mar 15 | Z Yan Wang | UW | Death and the octopus | BMatthews |
Mar 22 | Jim Hicks | UCIrvine | Control of breathing in ectothermic vertebrates: integration of lung ventilation and cardiovascular function | Milsom |
Mar 29 | No seminar - Good Friday | |||
Apr 5 | Dave Metzger | UBC | Brauner | |
Apr 12 | CANCELLED: Tamzin Blewett | U of Alberta | Marshall |