Life Sciences Colloquium SPRING 2013
All lectures are held Mondays. Tea and cookies are served at 4 p.m. in the McConnell Foyer. All lectures are at 4:30 in McConnell 103, unless otherwise noted.
April 29 - May 3
Honors Presentation Week
These lectures will be held in McConnell B15
Refreshments will begin at 3:30 and the talks at 4:00
See the most current schedule here
Hosted by the Biological Sciences Department
February 4
Speaker: Jonathan Tilly, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Female Germline Stem Cells in Development, Aging and Disease
Host: Michael Barresi
February 11
Speaker: Ana Soto, Tufts University
Topic: Self-organization, development and cancer
Host: L. David Smith & Michael Barresi
Special Rally Day Week Talk
Wednesday, February 20
Speaker: Kay Holekamp, Rally Day Medalist ('73) Professor of Zoology at Michigan State University
Topic: Effects of human disturbance on African carnivores
Host: Virginia Hayssen
February 25
Speaker: Rhian Waller, University of Maine
Topic: From the Poles to the Deep Ocean: Corals Living and Thriving in Cold Waters
Host: Paulette Peckol
March 4
Speaker: Jean Merrill, Smith Class of 1969 EMD Serono Research Institute, Inc./
Merck Serono
Topic: Finding a Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
Host: Mary Harrington
March 11
Speaker: Amy Camp, Mount Holyoke College
Topic: A feeding tube model for bacterial cell-cell communication and gene regulation
Host:
Christine White-Ziegler
March 25
Speaker: Jean Hardwick, Ithaca College
Topic: Coming soon
Host: Adam Hall
April 1
Speaker: Chris Lane, University of Rhode Island
Topic: Killer secretions: the evolution of oomycete effector proteins
Host: Laura Katz
April 8
This lecture will be held in Ford Hall, Room 240
Speaker: Banu Onaral, Drexel University
Topic: Bringing Life Saving Solutions to Health Care
Host: Robert Merritt
April 22
Speaker: Alison Fleming, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Topic: Neuropsychology of Mothering and Effects of Early Experience
Host: Annaliese Beery
Fall 2012
September 17
Speaker: Joy Lapseritis - Rescheduled from September 10
Topic: Wonderful Whiskers: Sensors Seals Use to Navigate the Deep, Dark Sea
Host: Virginia Hayssen
September 24
Speaker: Erik Zettler, Ph.D.
Assoc. Dean for Institutional Relations and Research
Sea Education Association
Topic: Microbial interactions with plastic marine debris: Life in the "Plastisphere"
Host: Mary Harrington
October 1
Speaker: Ken Petren, University of Cincinnati
Topic: "Unconventional" evolution: from the mundane finches of Galapagos to the exotic lizards of the midwest
Host: Laura Katz
October 8 FALL BREAK, NO COLLOQUIUM
October 15
Speaker: Angela Rasmussen, Smith Class of 2000
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle
Topic: Systems Biology of Viral Pathogenesis
Host: Chris White-Zeigler
October 22
Speaker: Daniel Simberloff
Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee
Topic: Impacts and management of biological invasions: What's the fuss?
Host: L. David Smith
October 29
Speaker: Brian Prendergast, University of Chicago
Topic: "Perception of Seasonal Time by the Neuroendocrine System"
Host: Mary Harrington
November 5
Speaker: Michael Barresi, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Smith College
Topic: A motor for stem cell division powers our understanding of vertebrate neurogenesis
Host: Adam Hall
November 12
Speaker: Ka Yee C. Lee, University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Topic: The Physics of Breathing: Stress Relaxation in Lung Surfactant Monolayers and Other Thin Elastic Films
Host: Betsy Jamieson/Stylianos Scordilis
November 19
Speaker: Luke Remage-Healey, UMass
Topic: The brain on steroids: Local synthesis and action in circuits that control songbird behavior
Host: Mary Harrington/Annaliese Beery
November 26
This lecture will be held in the Stoddard Auditorium, Stoddard Hall
Speaker: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, University of California-Davis
Topic: Mothers and Others: What it means to develop and evolve as a cooperatively breeding ape
Host: Kara Noble
December 3
Speaker: Teri Orr
Topic: The Effects of Reproductive State on Dietary Shifts Toward Insectivory in Artibeus and the possible evolutionary implications of reproductive delays
Host: Virginia Hayssen
December 10
Speaker: Arielle Selya
Topic: Visual expertise in the fusiform face area (FFA) and lateral occipital complex (LOC): a multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) examination
Host: Nick Horton
