Macalester
The Biology Department has a new weekly seminar on Thursdays between noon and 1:00 in Olin Rice 350 (unless otherwise announced). Light refreshments will be available. Below is a calendar of what is planned so far:
Sept 20 Bio Dept Picnic/Food Truck (tickets will be available from Patty in the department office beginning 9/17)
Sept 27 Alexander Wild “How ants run the planet” jointly sponsored with ES (Olin Rice 250)
Oct 4 Study Abroad Panel – students and reps from Study Away
Oct 11 Dorothy Roberts International Round Table Plenary Session (John B Davis Lecture Hall)
Oct 18 Randy Daughters “Are you determined or just specified: cellular identity in regenerative medicine”
Oct 25 FALL BREAK – NO SEMINAR
Nov 1 Career Panel (co-organized with OlRi Hub)
Nov 8 Mary Heskel “Will plants save us from climate change?”
Nov 15 Devavani Chatterjea – jointly sponsored with ES
Nov 22 THANKSGIVING – NO SEMINAR
Nov 29
Dec 6 Robin Shields-Cutler “Computational hammers for really small, kind of squishy, nails: Microbiology for the serial hobbyist.”
The Biology Department weekly seminar, held on Thursdays between noon and 1:00 in Olin Rice 350 (unless otherwise announced). Light refreshments will be available. Below is a calendar of what is planned:
Feb 26 and 28 Senior Presentations – JBD Lecture Hall, Campus Center
Mar 7 Alumni Career Panel: Mary Dybvic ’14. McKenna Bernard ’14, Mito Imagawa ’16, Kate (Hamilton) Jamison ’13, Jamie Hasama ’13
Mar 14 Rika Anderson, PhD, Carleton College (sea-floor microbes & genomics)
Mar 21 Spring Break – No Seminar
Mar 28 Laalitha Surapaneni (U MN): health impacts of climate change (Co-sponsor with EnviroThursday: OlRi 250)
Apr 4 Dr. Alex Hastings – Curator of Paleontology at Science Museum of Minnesota -Horse-Eating Crocodiles, Colossal Snakes and More: Reptilian Predators of the Post-Dinosaur World
Apr 11 Caitlin Baker, ’12 PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Around the world in 200 million years: what soil invertebrates can tell us about the history of Earth
Apr 18
Apr 25 Michelle (Shellie) Kieke, genetic counselor, “Just Spit in a Tube: At-Home DNA Testing for Ancestry, Forensics and Disease.”
May 2 Martha Streng, PhD, University of Minnesota “Closing the Loop: On-demand Modulation of the Cerebellum for Seizure Control in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy”