Seminars

 

Biology seminars are on Fridays at 2:30 pm from September - April.

Seminars are held in Cunningham 146 (unless otherwise noted).

Spring 2012

 

• Friday, February 24, 2011 ECS 116
  Dr. Kevin Lafferty
  

  US Geological Survey and Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
  https://profile.usgs.gov/klafferty/  http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/labs/kuris/
  

  Parasites and Food Webs?
  Host: Finn Hamilton
  Graduate Student Invited Speaker.

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• Friday, March 2, 2012
  Dr. Adam Summers
  

  Associate Director, Friday Harbour Laboratories and Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology and School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington
  https://faculty.washington.edu/fishguy/
  

  Sharks, sandlance and suckerfish: biomaterials from the sea
  Host: Dr. Francis Juanes

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• Friday, March 9, 2012
  Dr. Brian Starzomski
  

  School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria
  http://web.uvic.ca/~starzom/
  

  TBA
  Host: Dr. Steve Perlman

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• Wednesday, March 14, 2012
  Dr. Orson Moritz
  

  Dept. of Opthalmology and Visual Science, University of British Columbia
  www.cmr.ubc.ca/orson_moritz.html
  

  TBA
  Host: Dr. Bob Chow
  Joint seminar with Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology

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• Friday, March 16, 2012
  Dr. Sarah McFarlane
  

  Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary
  www.ucalgary.ca/smcfarla/
  

  TBA
  Host: Dr. Bob Chow
  

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• Friday, March 23, 2012
  Dr. David Kleinfeld
  

  Professor of Physics and Neurobiology, University of California at San Diego
  www-physics.ucsd.edu/neurophysics/
  

  TBA
  Host: Dr. Kerry Delaney / Dr. Craig Brown
  Joint seminar with Division of Medical Sciences.

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• Friday, March 30, 2012
  Dr. Marc Trudel
  

  Head of the Salmon Marine Interactions Section at the Pacific Biological Station, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  
  

  Swimming in hot waters: assessing the impacts off climate change and ocean conditions on Pacific salmon
  Host: Dr. Asit Mazumder

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• Friday, April 6, 2012
  No seminar.

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• Friday, April 13, 2012
  Dr. Andrew Waskiewicz
  

  Canada Research Chair in Developmental Genetics, Department of Biological Sciences Department, University of Alberta
  www.biology.ualberta.ca/waskiewicz_lab/Home_Page.html
  

  TBA
  Host: Dr. Bob Chow

Past seminars