U. of Akron Department of Biology - Spring
Colloquium Series
All Seminars will take place at 4pm in room Room
204 in Mary Gladwin Hall
24-Jan-08
Dr. William Chilian
Chairman of
Department of Integrative Medical Sciences
http://www.neoucom.edu/audience/about/departments/ims/faculty/wchilian
Dr. Chilian Studies
Cardiovascular Physiology
Title: “Understanding How Blood Vessels Grow in
the Heart: Can we grow our own coronary bypasses?”
31-Jan-08
Williams Lecture
Series
NOTE:
This lecture will be held in room 312 of the Student Union
Dr. Thomas Whitham
Northern Arizona University
http://www6.nau.edu/biology/People/Faculty/Whitham/Whitham.htm
“My research is focused on cottonwood riparian
communities and pinyon-juniper woodlands. These studies emphasize
plant-herbivore interactions and a community-level understanding of the
consequences of plant genetics and environmental stress on keystone species..”
Title: “The Genetic Components of Community
Structure and Ecosystem Processes, and Their Conservation Implications.”
7-Feb-07
Dr. John Albert C. Uy
Syracuse University
http://biology.syr.edu/uy/index.html
“The
primary focus of research in the Uy Lab is understanding the causes and
consequences of adaptive mate choice and signal evolution.”
Title : “Speciation in Tropical Birds”
14-Feb-07
Dr. Jacqueline Novak
Walsh University
http://www.walsh.edu/jnovak.htm
“
Physiology.”
Title: “TBA”
21-Feb-07
Dr. John Cheeseman
Dept of Plant
Biology University of Illinois
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/People/Faculty/Cheeseman.htm
“Our
central question is, "how does a plant get the resources it needs in the
right amounts and at the right times in order to become established, to grow
vegetatively, and to reproduce in a manner of a balanced, integrated organism?”
Title: The Organismal and
Integrative Biology of Red Mangroves(Rhizophora mangle).”
28-Feb-07
Dr. Mohammed Khalifa
Akron Children’s
Hospital
file:///nullhttps/%2F%2Fwww.akronchildrens.org%2Fcms%2Fdoctors%2Ff06e68fd5f634ad4%2Findex.html
Title: “TBA”
6-March-07
Dr. Dexter Lee
Howard University
College of Medicine
http://www.aguedasimo.net/graf/howard/Physiobio.htm?02_faculty.htm
“Current
emphases are on the renal mechanisms for chronic blood pressure control during
hypertension.”
Title: “The Effects of Interleukin-6 During Acute Stress and Chronic
Hypertension”
13-March-07
Dr. Ingi Agnarsson
The University of
Akron
http://theridiidae.com/Ingi
Agnarsson.html
“My
current research interests span a range of topics, from shore ecology, to
morphology, taxonomy, biodiversity estimation, sociality, inbreeding, and
phylogenetic theory.”
Title: “Sociality in spiders - the good, the bad, and the ugly”
20-March-07
Spring Break
27-March-07
Dr. Heather Caldwell
Kent State University
http://biology.kent.edu/FacultyandStaff/caldwell.html
“Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology, Models of Neuropsychiatric Disease & Neural Regulation
of Social Behavior.”
Title: “The role of the vasopressin 1b receptor in the regulation of
behavior”
3-April-07
Dr. Greg Velicer
Indiana University
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Velicer.html
“We pursue a wide range of questions about the ecology
and evolution of social behavior in the Myxobacteria, which exhibit some of the
most sophisticated cooperative behaviors in the bacterial kingdom..”
Title: “Good Citizens, Cheats and Usurpers in Bacterial High
Society.”
10-April-07
Jennifer Purrenhage
Dept. of Zoology,
Miami University
http://www.users.muohio.edu/boonemd/jen.htm
“My research is focused on examining the importance of
habitat variation for amphibian conservation.”
Title: “Influence of Habitat Structure and Environmental Stressors on Pond-Breeding Amphibians”
24-April-07
Sheppe Lecture Series
Dr. Mark Lomolino
SUNY Department of
Environmental and Forest Biology
http://www.esf.edu/EFB/faculty/lomolino.htm
“My research focuses on large-scale ecology,
biogeography and conservation of montane, insular and fragmented ecosystems..”
Title: “TBA”
