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2008 - 2009 Seminars

Monthly seminars and colloquia are presented by the
Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation and the
Interdisciplinary Committee on Evolutionary Processes

Calendar for the seminars in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and
Cell Biology

Calendar for seminars in Neurobiology and Physiology

Date Speaker Title
October 7, 7:00 PM
Ryan Family Auditorium
Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus

Sean Carroll, PhD
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Wisconsin
(One Book One Northwestern Lecture Series)

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
October 16, 4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Krissa Skogen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology and Conservation
Northwestern University
(PBC Lecture Series)
Declining Desmodium: Multiple approaches to a unique conservation problem

October 20, 7:00 PM
Fisk Hall Room 217
1845 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus

Janet Browne, PhD
Aramont Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University
(One Book One Northwestern Lecture Series)
The Ascent of Darwin: Commemorating the Origin of Species
October 30, 7:00 PM
Ryan Family Auditorium
Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
Daniel Dennett, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy
Tufts University
(One Book One Northwestern Lecture Series)
Darwin and the Evolution of Reasons
November 6, 4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
(PBC Lecture Series)
TBA
November 11, 7:00 PM
Fisk Hall Room 217
1845 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
Francisco J. Ayala, PhD
University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
(One Book One Northwestern Lecture Series)
Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion

January 22, 4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus

Susan A. Dudley, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (PBC Lecture Series)

Kin recognition in four annual plants

February 5, 7:00 PM
Ryan Family Auditorium
Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
David Quammen
Stegner Chair, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
Author, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
(One Book One Northwestern Lecture Series)

Darwin Against Himself: Caution Versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary
February 26, 4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Jessica Hellman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
(PBC Lecture Series)
TBA

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For more information please contact Susan Black at seb451@northwestern.edu.

 
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