List of Seminars at Hopkins:
From Fall 2001 to Present
2/11/2008 [see also Past Memorial Seminars]
| Peter Glynn | University of Miami | Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs: Global Perspective, Disturbances and Recovery Trends | Mar 21, 2008 |
| Nipam Patel | University of California, Berkeley | The Evolution of Animal Body Patterning: Insights from Marine Amphipods and Gastropods | Mar 7, 2008 |
| Michael Skinner | Washington State University | Epigenetic Transgenerational Actions of Endocrine Disruptors on Reproduction, Disease and Evolution: The Ghosts in your Genes | Feb 29, 2008 |
| Jonathan Rast | University of Toronto | Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Immunity | Feb 22, 2008 |
| Kristin Sherrard | University of Washington, Friday Harbor | New Insights from Sea Squirts into the Mechanics of Invagination | Feb 15, 2008 |
| Elissa Epel | University of California, San Francisco | Stress, Eating and Aging | Feb 8, 2008 |
| Mark Martindale | University of Hawaii/Kewalo Marine Laboratory | Egg Organization and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans: The Details Are In The Entrails | Feb 1, 2008 |
| Arend Sidow | Stanford University | Functional architecture of cis elements that drive gene (co)expression | Jan 25, 2008 |
| Gary Litman | University of South Florida | Alternative Mechanisms that Diversify Immune Receptors | Jan 18, 2008 |
| Thomas Whitham | Northern Arizona University | Community and Ecosystem Genetics: The Importance of Quantifying the Heritability of Community and Ecosystem Phenotypes of Foundation Species | Jan 11, 2008 |
| Scott Gilbert | Swarthmore College | Signals from Above: How the Environment Can Instruct Gene Expression | Jan 9, 2008 |
| Chris Lowe | University of Chicago | Insights into early deuterostome evolution and chordate origins from hemichordate developmental biology | Dec 7, 2007 |
| Ray Huey | University of Washington | Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing climates and changing atmospheres: studies with flies, lizards, mountaineers, and Triassic vertebrates | Nov 30, 2007 |
| Daniel Pauly | University of British Columbia | Global Fisheries and their Impact on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security | Nov 16, 2007 |
| Eric Cole | St. Olaf College | Windows Between Cells: Forward and reverse genetic analysis of the cleavage furrow and nuclear exchange junction in the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila. | Nov 6, 2007 |
| Jim Morin | Cornell University | Dazzling luminescent light shows by tiny ostracods in a big, dark ocean: sex, competition, precision and speed | Nov 2, 2007 |
| Jim Childress | University of California, Santa Barbara | Life in the ovine small intestine? Physiological adaptations to midwater oxygen minimum layers | Oct 26, 2007 |
| Roger Croll | Dalhousie University | Form, function and evolution of the larval nervous system in molluscs | Oct 19, 2007 |
| John Largier | University of California, Davis/Bodega Marine Lab | The oceanography of bays in upwelling regions - implications for habitat patterns and larval dispersal | Oct 12, 2007 |
| Andrew Baker | University of Miami/RSMAS | Changing by degrees: Understanding, predicting and accelerating the adaptive response of reef corals to climate change | Oct 5, 2007 |
| Armin Moczek | Indiana University | Conservation, innovation, and the origins of novelty: a case study on horned beetles | Sep 28, 2007 |
| Joseph Eastman | Ohio University | The nature of Antarctic fish diversity: are species flocks a component? | Jun 1, 2007 |
| Donal Manahan | University of Southern California | North Pole to South Pole: how and why we reached the “Last Places on Earth” | May 25, 2007 |
| John Duman | Notre Dame University | Insect antifreeze proteins and related adaptations | May 18, 2007 |
| Ken Smith | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | Free-drifting icebergs as hotspots of chemical and biological enrichment in the Weddell Sea | May 11, 2007 |
| Ron Vale | University of California, San Francisco | Revisiting Mazia's mitotic spindle: discovering new molecules for spindle assembly by whole genome RNAi and high throughput microscopy | May 7, 2007 |
| James Kennett | University of California, Santa Barbara | Cenozoic evolution of the Antarctic environmental system and biota | May 4, 2007 |
| Terrie Williams | University of California, Santa Cruz | Energetic demands in large, polar predators: the balance between easy food and easy air | Apr 27, 2007 |
| Nicholas Spitzer | University of California, San Diego | Making the match: calcium signaling regulates neurortransmitter specification and receptor selection | Apr 20, 2007 |
| William Fraser | Polar Oceans Research Group | The ecology of geology: clues to understanding climate change-effects on Adelie penguins in the western Antarctic peninsula | Apr 20, 2007 |
| Gretchen Hofmann | University of California, Santa Barbara | Antarctica: it’s a harsh continent, at least for proteins | Apr 13, 2007 |
| David Lindberg | University of California, Berkeley | What more do we need to know? | Apr 10, 2007 |
| Kevin Arrigo | Stanford University | Interannual changes in the southern ocean carbon cycle | Apr 6, 2007 |
| John Bush | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Surface tension in biology | Mar 9, 2007 |
| Giacomo Bernardi | University of California, Santa Cruz | The phylogeography and speciation of California fishes | Mar 2, 2007 |
| John Gosline | University of British Columbia | Bio-inspired materials design oozes out of hagfish slime | Feb 23, 2007 |
| Roman Stocker | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Microbes, patches and plumes: investigating microbial ecology with microfluidics | Feb 16, 2007 |
| Francisco Chavez | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | Biological consequences of climate change | Feb 9, 2007 |
| Emily Carrington | University of Washington | Living in a material world: the ecomechanics of mussels on wave-swept shores | Feb 2, 2007 |
| Cynthia Hays | Bodega Marine Laboratory | Ecological effects of dispersal and gene flow in an intertidal alga | Jan 26, 2007 |
| Robert Dudley | University of California, Berkeley | From gliding ants to Andean hummingbirds: the evolution of animal flight performance | Jan 19, 2007 |
| Danielle Zacherl | California State University at Fullerton | Destination unknown: explorations of larval dispersal | Jan 12, 2007 |
| Dietmar Kueltz | University of California, Davis | Unraveling environmental stress response networks via functional genomics and proteomics | Dec 8, 2006 |
| Geoff Trussell | Northeastern University | Predation risk and the nature and strength of indirect effects on rocky shores | Dec 1, 2006 |
| Bob Paine | University of Washington | The allocation of space on rocky shores: Insights from manipulations of mussels and crustose coralline algae. | Nov 17, 2006 |
| Steven Hubbell | University of Georgia | Is nature neutral-symmetric? No, but it is a good first approximation in a neotropical tree community. | Nov 7, 2006 |
| Vera Agostini | Pew Institute for Ocean Science | Climate-ocean variability and hake in the California Current: Habitat distribution, dynamics, and implications for management | Nov 3, 2006 |
| Sergio Flores Ramirez | Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur | The Delphi Oracle: Evolutionary patterns of cetacean Mhc sequences | Oct 27, 2006 |
| Greg Cailliet | Moss Landing Marine Laboratories | The Importance of Age Validation in Understanding the Life Histories of Sharks, Rays, Deep-sea Fishes & Corals | Oct 20, 2006 |
| Rachel Finley | Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries | Emerging threats to fish populations? Examining the demographic effects of parasites on reef fish and pollution to juvenile flatfish | Oct 13, 2006 |
| Jennifer Dunne | Sante Fe Institute | Shallow and deep-time perspectives on marine food-web robustness | Oct 6, 2006 |
| Willie Swanson | University of Washington | Adaptive evolution and co-evolution of sperm - egg recognition molecules: Insights into speciation | Sep 29, 2006 |
| Vinod Khosla | Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers | Alternative Energy: Is Ethanol a Viable Solution? | Jun 2, 2006 |
| David Epel | Hopkins Marine Station | Global Pollution: Late Lessons From Early Warnings -- Can We Learn and Can We Act? | May 26, 2006 |
| Doug Eernisse | California State University Fullerton | Why Are There So Many West Coast Species of Chitons, Limpets, and Seastars? | May 22, 2006 |
| Sharon Long | Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences | Modern Molecular Studies of an Ancient Symbiosis | May 19, 2006 |
| Jim McVey & Mike Sutton |
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service & Monterey Bay Aquarium Center for the Future of the Oceans | The Role of Aquaculture in Ecosystem Based Management | May 19, 2006 |
| Enric Sala | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Degradation and Recovery of Coral Reefs Across a Gradient of Human Disturbance | May 12, 2006 |
| Bob Steneck | University of Maine | Turbulent Seas in the Wake of Overfishing: The Loss of Resilience and Accelerating Booms and Busts in the World's Coastal Ecosystems | May 5, 2006 |
| Mary Ruckelshaus | NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service | Scientific Analyses in Support of Ecosytem-Scale Management of Puget Sound | Apr 27, 2006 |
| Ken Caldeira | Carnegie Institute Department of Global Ecology | Ocean Chemical Consequences of Carbon Dioxide Releases to the Atmosphere | Apr 21, 2006 |
| Steve Giovannoni | Oregon State University, Dept. of Microbiology | Genome Streamlining in Cosmopolitan Marine Bacteria | Apr 17, 2006 |
| Barbara Block | Hopkins Marine Station | Ocean Zoning: Mapping Habitats of Pelagic Fish Across the Blue Planet | Apr 14, 2006 |
| Carl Safina | Blue Ocean Institute | Voyage of the Turtle | Apr 7, 2006 |
| Jonathan Sweedler | University of Illinois | Techniques for Studying the Brain's Chemistry Neuron by Neuron | Mar 24, 2006 |
| Sir John Gurdon | Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | Nuclear reprogramming as a possible route to cell replacement | Mar 17, 2006 |
| Richard Grosberg | Department of Ecology and Evolution, UC Davis | All in the family: the ecology and genetics of multiway conflicts of interest in a marine snail | Mar 3, 2006 |
| Joan Roughgraden | Department of Biological Science, Stanford University | Ecology of the rock intertidal zone, a final project report | Feb 24, 2006 |
| Charles Hanifin | Hopkins Marine Station | Tetrodotoxin in the newt Taricha, ramifications for coevolution with a resistant snake predator | Feb 17, 2006 |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | Department of Biological Science Stanford University |
Cascading effects of mammalian loss from tropical forests | Feb 10, 2006 |
| William Gilly | Hopkins Marine Station | Jumbo Squid Security Alert -- What will stop them? | Jan 27, 2006 |
| Anthony De Tomaso | Hopkins Marine Station | The Botryllus schlosseri tadpole: an innocent larvae, or a FuHC-homing stem cell kamikaze? | Jan 20, 2006 |
| Bernie Degnan | University of Queensland | Sponge genes, development and insights into the first multicellular animals |
Jan 13, 2006 |
| Roger Hanlon | Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood Hole | Mechanisms and principles of animal camouflage, exemplified by rapid adaptive coloration of cephalopods | Dec 9, 2005 |
| Craig Moritz | University of California, Berkeley | Evolution and conservation of a rainforest fauna | Dec 2, 2005 |
| Rob Fleischer | National Zoological Park, Smithsonian | Trouble in paradise: interactions of invasive diseases and vectors with the native Hawaiian avifauna | Nov 18, 2005 |
| Doug Crawford | University of Miami | Evolutionary Functional Genomics: Variations in Gene Expression & Cardiac Physiology | Nov 11, 2005 |
| Andy Sih | University of California, Davis | Behavioral syndromes: an evolutionary ecological overview | Nov 4, 2005 |
| Ginger Armbrust | University of Washington | Whole genome analyses of diatoms: insights into their ecology and evolution | Oct 28, 2005 |
| Farooq Azam | University of California, San Diego | Mechanisms in microbial structuring of marine ecosystems | Oct 21, 2005 |
| Nicole King | University of California, Berkeley | Choanoflagellates and the origin of animal multicellularity | Oct 14, 2005 |
| Jim Brown | University of New Mexico | The scale of life: from microbes to monsters, milliseconds to millennia, molecules to ecosystems | Oct 7, 2005 |
| Christina Cheng | University of Illinois | Going against conventional paradigms - new twists in teleost freeze-avoidance and molecular evolution of antifreeze proteins |
Sep 30, 2005 |
| John Pearse | University of California at Santa Cruz | Reproduction in Antarctic invertebrates: Paradigm shifts in the 20th century. |
May 27, 2005 |
| John Priscu | Montana State University | Earth’s Icy Biosphere | May 20, 2005 |
| Andrew Clarke | British Antarctic Survey | Antarctic Biodiversity: Climate, Evolution and Extinction | May 13, 2005 |
| Donal Manahan | University of Southern California | Exploration, history and science of the "last place on earth" | May 6, 2005 |
| Warwick Vincent | Laval University | Polar Ecosystems as Sentinels of Global Change | Apr 29, 2005 |
| Jack Duman | Notre Dame University | Insect Antifreeze Proteins and Related Overwintering Adaptations | Apr 22, 2005 |
| Rob Dunbar | Stanford University | Antarctica and Climate Change | Apr 15, 2005 |
| George Somero | Stanford University | The World’s Coolest Fish | Apr 8, 2005 |
| Serge Planes | Université de Perpignan | Estimating dispersal of marine fish from paternity analysis | Feb 25, 2005 |
| Patricia Conrad | University of California, Davis | What's killing southern sea otters? | Feb 18, 2005 |
| Alan Hastings | University of California, Davis | New approaches to design of marine reserves | Feb 11, 2005 |
| Rudolf Jaenisch | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Nuclear cloning, embryonic stem cells and the promise for therapy | Feb 4, 2005 |
| Mark Bertness | Brown University | Title TBA | Jan 28, 2005 |
| Steven Beissinger | University of California, Berkeley | Marbled Murrelets in the Monterey Bay Ecosystem: Reproductive Failure, Fisheries Collapse, and Historic Diet Change | Jan 21, 2005 |
| Mark Hay | Georgia Institute of Technology | Why small herbivores prefer toxic plants | Jan 14, 2005 |
| Brendan Bohannan | Stanford University | Spatial scaling of microbial biodiversity | Jan 7, 2005 |
| Nathan Scholtz | NMFS's Environmental Conservation Division Seattle , Washington | Endangered species and conservation medicine: case studies from the Pacific Northwest | Dec 10 , 2004 |
| Forest Rohwer | San Diego State University , San Diego , California | Marine microbial and viral diversity and the health of coral reefs | Dec 3, 2004 |
| Amanda Vincent | University of British Columbia | Reconciling fisheries with conservation: The case of coral reefs |
Nov 29, 2004 |
| Craig Young | Oregon Institute of Marine Biology | Adrift in the dark: movements and migrations of deep-sea larvae | Nov 19, 2004 |
| Katherine Peichel | University of Washington & the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ; Seattle , Washington | Fishing for the secrets of speciation: genetic analysis of reproductive isolation in sticklebacks | Nov 12, 2004 |
| Peter J. Mumby | University of Exeter , Devon , UK | The resilience of coral reefs: insights from the scale of habitats to seascapes | Nov 10, 2004 |
| Tony DeTomaso | Stanford University ’s Hopkins Marine Station | Transplantation, Regeneration and Parasitic Stem Cells: the Strange Life of a Colonial Tunicate | Nov 5, 2004 |
| Mikhail Matz | University of Florida 's Whitney Laboratory | Convergent evolution of molecular complexity in coral fluorescent proteins | Oct 29, 2004 |
| Kathy Ann Miller | University Herbarium, UC Berkeley | California's seaweeds and seagrasses: who is native and who is not? | Oct 22, 2004 |
| Doug Nowacek | Florida State University | Behavior, bioacoustics and locomotion of cetaceans: details from a multi-sensor tag and controlled exposure experiments | Oct 15, 2004 |
| Jennifer Ruesink | University of Washington | Why do invaders succeed or fail? Ecological and evolutionary insights from biological invasions | Oct 8, 2004 |
| Frank Grasso | CUNY, Brooklyn | BioMimetic Robots as Tools for Understanding Marine Animal Behavior | Oct 1, 2004 |
| Kathy Foltz | UC Santa Barbara | Signaling at Egg Activation | Sep 24, 2004 |
| Beth Okamura | Reader in Aquatic Biology School of Animal and Microbial Sciences University of Reading, UK |
Going against the flow: the importance of studying obscure organisms | July 9, 2004 |
| Alison Rieser | School of Law, University of Maine, Portland | Prescriptions for Marine Fisheries Reform: Is Rights-Based Management Compatible with an Ecosystems Approach? | Jun 4, 2004 |
| Stephen H. Schneider | Department of Biologicical Sciences, Stanford University | The Global Warming Debate: Is the Science Too Uncertain for Policy? | May 28, 2004 |
| Lou Gillette | Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainsville | Environmental Contaminants and Wildlife: from Populations to Genes | May 21, 2004 |
| Joanie Kleypas | Environmental and Societal Impacts Group National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder |
Coral Reefs and Climate Change | May 14, 2004 |
| Richard W. Tsien | Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology Stanford University Medical School |
The Power and Adaptability of Tiny CNS Nerve Terminals | May 13, 2004 |
| Judith T. Kildow | Division of Science and Environmental Policy California State University at Monterey Bay |
Socio-Economic Indicators of Change Along the US Coast: Understanding the Coastal and Ocean Economies. |
May 7, 2004 |
| Fiorenza Micheli | Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University | Population and Community Recovery in Marine Protected Areas | Apr 30, 2004 |
| Ford Doolittle | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | Tree of Life - Web of Life | Apr 23, 2004 |
| Enric Sala | Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla |
Global Decline of Coral Reefs: A Community Perspective | Apr 22, 2004 |
| Alan Friedlander | NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and The Oceanic Institute, Hawaii |
Marine Protected Areas and Community-based Fisheries Management in the Hawaiian Archipelago | Apr 16, 2004 |
| Barbara Block | Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University | Tagging of Pacific Pelagics: Examining the North Pacific Ecosystem with a Top Down Approach | Apr 9, 2004 |
| Ram Myers | Dalhousie University,Halifax, Nova Scotia | Decline of Top Predators in the Seas | Apr 2, 2004 |
| Mike Levine | UC Berkeley | Decoding Mesoderm Differentiation in the Drosophila Embryo and Ciona Tadpole | Mar 12, 2004 |
| Robert Warner | UC Santa Barbara | Recruitment, retention, and connections among coastal marine populations | Mar 5, 2004 |
| Greg Wray | Duke University | Evolution of the Embryonic Gene Network of Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus | Feb 27, 2004 |
| Mark Carr | UC Santa Cruz | Revealing relationships between a fish and its ecosystem: new applications, new approaches | Feb 20, 2004 |
| James Maller | Univ. Colorado Medical School, Denver | The Control of Metaphase II Arrest by Cytostatic Factor in Unfertilized Xenopus Eggs | Feb 13, 2004 |
| Robert Sapolsky | Stanford University | Sushi and Middle Age | Feb 6, 2004 |
| David Miller | NIEHS, Research Triangle, NC | Regulation of Xenobiotic Export Pumps in Killifish Renal Tubules: Endothelin Signaling and Molecular Hijacking by Nephrotoxicants | Jan 30, 2004 |
| Richard McIntosh | Univ Colorado, Boulder | Probing the Interactions Between Chromosomes and Spindle Fibers | Jan 23, 2004 |
| Robert Warner | UC Santa Barbara | Recruitment, retention, and connections among coastal marine populations | Mar 5, 2004 |
| Nancy Knowlton | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Marine Biodiversity: From Corals to Microbes | Jan 9, 2004 |
| Karl O. Stetter | University of Regensburg | Hyperthermophilic life on Earth -- and Mars? | May 30, 2003 |
| Donal Manahan | University of Southern California | Growing up in the cold biosphere: Larval biology in deep-sea and polar environments | May 23, 2003 |
| Robert Vrijenhoek | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute- MBARI | Global phylogeography of hydrothermal vent organisms | May 16, 2003 |
| Russel Andrews | Institute of Marine Science-University of Alaska | Remotely monitoring the behavior and physiology of air-breathing deep-sea divers | May 9, 2003 |
| Doug Bartlett | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Pondering piezophiles: Contemplations concerning the genetic adaptations of deep-sea microbes | May 2, 2003 |
| Greg Cailliet | Moss Landing Marine Laboratory | Life histories of deep-sea animals: life in the slow lane? | Apr 25, 2003 |
| Lionel Jaffe | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA | Fucoid Eggs as Intertidal Sensors | Apr 21, 2003 |
| James Barry | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute-MBARI | Burial of CO2 in the deep sea: Consequences for deep-sea life | Apr 18, 2003 |
| Shozo Yokoyama | Syracuse University | An overview of adaptations of deep-sea organisms: 'Fine-tuning' physiology for life at depth | Apr 4, 2003 |
| George Somero | Hopkins Marine Station | An overview of adaptations of deep-sea organisms: 'Fine-tuning' physiology for life at depth | Apr 4, 2003 |
| Ellis Loew | Cornell University | TBA | Mar 14, 2003 |
| Curtis Lively | Indiana University | Predator-induced defense in an intertidal barnacle | Mar 7, 2003 |
| Fred Nijhout | Duke University | The control of polyphenic development in insects | Feb 28, 2003 |
| David Crews | University of Texas, Austin | The development of phenotypic plasticity | Feb 21, 2003 |
| Molly Cummings | University of Texas at Austin | Fish vision and visual communication in the kelp forest | Feb 14, 2003 |
| David Epel | Hopkins Marine Station | Saving the children: cellular mechanisms of embryo protection | Feb 7, 2003 |
| Tyrone Hayes | UC Berkeley | From silent spring to silent night: what are the effects of pesticides on amphibians telling us? | Jan 31, 2003 |
| Jerry Schatten | University of Pittsburgh | Centrosome Biology, Embryonic Stem Cells, Cloning and Human Reproduction: Daniel Mazia's Legacy | Jan 23, 2003 |
| Jason Podrabsky | Hopkins Marine Station | Developmental ecology of annual killifish: modulation of development and diapause by environmental cues | Jan 17, 2003 |
| Richard W. Aldrich | Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University |
Understanding Ion Channels: the Molecular Components of Biological Electricity | Jun 7, 2002 |
| Ferdinando Boero | University of Lecce, Italy | Community Ecology: a life cycle perspective | Jun 6, 2002 |
| Michael Orbach | Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Duke University |
Our Emerging Ocean Ethos | May 31, 2002 |
| Josh Eagle & Rosamond Naylor | Fisheries Project and Institute for International Studies Stanford University |
How do aquaculture and capture fisheries interact? | May 24, 2002 |
| Enric Sala | Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Science-based design of a network of marine reserves in the Gulf of California | May 17, 2002 |
| Dee Boersma | Department of Zoology University of Washington |
The message Penguins send about global change | May 10, 2002 |
| JoAnn Burkholder | Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology North Carolina State University |
The role of the toxic dinoflagellate, Pfiesteria piscicida In marine ecosystems | May 3, 2002 |
| Theo Colborn | World Wildlife Foundation Senior Scientist |
Marine Endocrine Disrupters | Apr 26, 2002 |
| James Spotila | Drexel University School of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Policy |
The Physiological and Population Ecology of the Pacific Leatherback, an extinct turtle if we don't get our act together | Apr 19, 2002 |
| Barbara Block | Stanford Unviversity, Hopkins Marine Station | One Stock or Two: Electronic Tagging of Atlantic bluefin tuna and tales of tuna migrations |
Apr 12, 2002 |
| Jeremy Jackson | Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego |
Historical Levels of Exploitation in the Oceans | Apr 5, 2002 |
| Marc Kirschner | Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School | Proteolysis and the Cell Cycle | Apr 3, 2002 |
| Virginia Weis | Oregon State University | Symbiosis as marriage: The wedding and divorce of cnidarian/algal mutualisms | Mar 15, 2002 |
| W. Sousa | UC Berkeley | Lightning strikes, gap regeneration, and the structure of Caribbean mangrove forests | Mar 8, 2002 |
| A. Kimberly McAllister | UC Davis | Rapid recruitment of proteins to nascent synapses in the CNS | Mar 4, 2002 |
| Tim Stearns | Stanford University | Centrosome duplication - how one cell becomes two | Feb 22, 2002 |
| Kerstin Wasson | Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve | Conservation and Ecology of Pacific Estuaries: Research Priorities at Elkhorn Slough | Feb 15, 2002 |
| Steve Morgan | UC Davis | Chance and predictability in the survival of marine larvae across species' ranges | Feb 1, 2002 |
| Kevin Arrigo | Stanford University | Phytoplankton in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: A story of ice and iron | Jan 25, 2002 |
| Ed Delong | MBARI | Integrating perspectives on the natural microbial world, from genomes to biomes | Jan 18, 2002 |
| Dave Lindberg | UC Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology | Dangerous Radicals and Unsafe Guides: A Phylogenetic View of Rocky Shore Communities |
Jan 11, 2002 |
| Edward Ruby | University of Hawaii, Pacific Biomedical Research Center | Understanding cooperative bacterial associations: Molecular mechanisms underlying symbiotic adaptations |
Dec 11, 2001 |
| Margaret McFall-Ngai | University of Hawaii, Pacific Biomedical Research Center | The developmental biology of a cooperative animal-bacteria association | Dec 10, 2001 |
| Chris Lowe | University of California, Berkeley, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | Chordate origins revisited: Molecular insights from Hemichordates | Dec 7, 2001 |
| Gary Schoolnik | Stanford University Medical School, Department of Pathology | Microarray expression studies of Vibrio cholerae biofilm development on chitin | Nov 30, 2001 |
| John Montgomery | University of Auckland, New Zealand | In the hydrodynamic- and electro-sensory world of fishes, what are the signals, what is the noise and how do fish tell the difference? |
Nov 27, 2001 |
| John Montgomery | University of Auckland, New Zealand | Sense and settlement | Nov 28, 2001 |
| Steve Palumbi | Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology | Multi-locus genealogies and molecular genetics of species boundaries in the sea | Nov 13, 2001 |
| Steve Palumbi | Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology | The role of genetics in marine conservation research | Nov 14, 2001 |
| Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell | Stanford University, Center for Conservation Biology | The seismic propagation of elephant vocalizations and implications for long distance communication | Nov 9, 2001 |
| Steven Block | Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics | Using optical tweezers to study biological motors | Nov 2, 2001 |
| Steven Block | Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics | Living nightmares: Facing the threat of biological weapons | Nov 2, 2001 |
| Dmitri Petrov | Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics | Slow but steady: mutational biases in genome size evolution | Oct 26, 2001 |
| Rob Dunbar | Stanford University, Department of Earth Sciences | Tropical temperatures and global climate: Clues from corals | Oct 19, 2001 |
| Mark Stromberg | University of California, Berkeley, Hastings Reserve, Carmel Valley | An overview of the Hastings Preserve | Oct 12, 2001 |