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FHL Seminar Schedule

2009 Seminars


Thursday, June 25, 2009

Dr. Steve Stricker
University of New Mexico

Red wine, tofu, green tea and spices -- plant compounds that activate AMP kinase and block seawater-induced egg maturation in a marine worm.

  Dr. Justin Schuetz
Whiteley Scholar
On the surface of things.

 

2008 Seminars

FHL Seminars are held in the Commons starting at 7:00 p.m.


Thursday, June 19, 2008

Dr. Mark Denny
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University

On the prediction of ecological catastrophes.

  Dr. John Gosline
University of British Columbia
20 minutes with slime.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Dr. Lara A. Ferry-Graham
Moss Landing Marine Labs, California State Universities

Swims with scissors:  Piscivory in a small poecillid, Belonesox belizanus.

 

Dr. Tom Mumford
Washington Department of Natural Resources

Status and trends in eelgrass (Zostera marina) and floating kelp (Nereocystis and Macrocystis) in Washington:  Changes and possible causes.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Dr. Jim Carlton
Illg Distinguished Lecturer

Extinctions in the Sea: The Deletion of Species from the World's Oceans
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Dr. Jim Carlton
Illg Distinguished Lecturer
Invasions in the Sea: The History, Science and Policy of Adding Species to Marine Communities

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Dr. Allison Marie Welch
Department of Biology, College of Charleston

Good genes and sexy sons: Mate choice in gray tree frogs. 
 

Dr. Raymon  Glantz
Rice University

Polarized light vision in decapod Crustacea.


Thursday, July 17, 2008

Dawn Vaughn
University of Washington

Sand Dolly: Predator-induced cloning and size reduction in Dendraster excentricus plutei.

 

Dr. Galina Pavlova
Moscow State University

Electrophysiological responses of peripheral nerves to changes in direction of earth
strength magnetic fields in the nudibranch mollusc Tritonia diomedea.


Thursday, July 24, 2008

Zach  Hughes
Arizona State University

Science in sustainability or ecological economics.

 

Dr. Erika Iyengar
Muhlenberg College

He is heavy and he ain't my brother: Crepidula adunca catching a ride.


Thursday, July 31, 2008
Dr. Ken Halanych
Auburn University
Larval dispersal, endemism, and phylogeographic patterns in Antarctica
 

Dr. Lisbeth Francis
Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University

Sex and violence on the waterfront.


2007 Seminars

Thursday, June 21, 2007 Dr. Emily Carrington, University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories When mussels put their foot down against challenging flow.
Thursday, June 21, 2007 Dr. Hannah Stewart, University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories Kelp makes its bed and lies in it: Growth and physiological response of kelp to engineering by the bed.
Thursday, June 28 Dr. Misha Matz, University of Texas Retracing the evolution of coral reef colorfulness.
Thursday, June 28 Alex Hart, Department of Biology, University of Washington and FHL Do waterborne cues from a littorine snail induce morphological or chemical responses in Fucus distichus?
Tuesday,
July 3
Dr. Xavier Turon, University of Barcelona Illg Distinguished Lecture (scientific talk)
Thursday, July 5 Dr. Xavier Turon, University of Barcelona Illg Distinguished Lecture (public talk)
Thursday, July 12 Dr. Laura Rogers-Bennett, California Fish & Game - UC Davis Northern abalone and engineering species in the San Juan Islands: A case for ecosystem management.
Thursday, July 12 Dr. Tony Pires, Dickinson College Oxidative signaling in gastropod metamorphosis.
Thursday, July 26 Dr. Sophie George, Georgia Southern University Are all diets equal? Ingestion rates and growth of echinoderm larvae on natural and artificial particles.
Thursday, July 26 Dr. Sarah Gilman, University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories Climate change and species interactions: predicting indirect effects.
Tuesday,
July 31
Dr. Charles O'Kelly, University of Hawaii-Manoa (DINING HALL, 7:30 p.m.) Blue-green algae and neurodegenerative disease.

Thursday,
August 2

Janine Russell, Victoria University (New Zealand)

Dr. Pedro Verdugo, University of Washington Dept. Bioengineering

Sunsmart or sunburnt molluscs: The effects of ultraviolet radiation and desiccation on the development of mollusc embryos.

Sociology of marine biomolecules: Changing the paradigm of carbon cycling in the ocean.

Thursday,
August 9

Dr. Joel Kingsolver, NESCent Assistant Director

Dr. Katie McDonald, University of Washington - Friday Harbor Laboratories

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).

Passive stability, upward mobility, and the ecology of early-stage planktonic embryos.

Monday,
August 13

Dr. Paul W. Gabrielson, University of North Carolina

 

Forensic seaweed analysis: When 18th century and 19th century naturalist collections and 21st century molecular sequencing meet.

Thursday,
August 16

Michael Lakeman. University of Washington, Department of Biology

Dr. Neo Martinez, PEaCE Lab, Berkeley

The consequences of spontaneous mutations in phytoplankton blooms.

Interaction strength experiments in the computer: What have we learned?

Thursday,
October 4, 2007
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Dr. Richard Strathmann
UW-Friday Harbor Laboratories

How planktonic larvae concentrate small particles with cilia (or ways to grow in a very dilute soup).

Thursday,
October 11
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Dr. Ryan Littlefield
FHL Center for Cell Dynamics

Length regulation and dynamics of muscle actin filaments.

Thursday,
October 18
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Dr. Kenneth P. Sebens
UW-Friday Harbor Laboratories

Community shifts in the Gulf of Maine rocky subtidal zone (1978-2007): Do fish matter?

Thursday,
October 25
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Dr. Cheryl Ann Zimmer
UCLA

Dr. Richard Zimmer
UCLA

Larval settlement in the ephemeral mobile surface layer.

Sex, flow, and chemical cues: How sperm find eggs.

Thursday, November 1
4:00 p.m. LH

Dr. Cliff Cunningham
Duke University
Two natural experiments: North Atlantic community assembly and the evolution of senescence.

Thursday,
November 8
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Dr. Billie Swalla
UW Friday Harbor Laboratories

Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny to contemplate chordate origins.

Tuesday,
November 13
4:00 p.m. LH
Dr. Jeff Levinton
State University of New York, Stony Brook
On the one hand its food, on the other its sex: Phylogeny, sexual selection and claw function in the fiddler crabs.

Thursday,
November 15
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Dr. Gisele Muller-Parker
Western Washington University

Multiple partners: Lessons from temperate anemone symbioses.

Monday,
November 19
4:00 p.m. L.H.

Gerick Bergsma
UC Santa Barbara
(former FHL research apprentice!)

Community Cascades: A case study in how direct and indirect effects propagate through a system.

Thursday,
November 29
4:00 p.m. L.H.
Dr. Amanda Bates
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Commons

Research apprentices' talks

10:00 to 12:00 Pelagic Ecosystem Function.

1:30 to 3:30 Marine Subtidal Ecology.

 

 

 

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