calendar of energy and environmentally-related events
- School of Forest Resources Seminar
Stephanie Perles, NPS Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network, "Knowing is Half the Battle: Protecting Forests in National Parks with Data"
11:00 a.m.; 105 Forest Resources Building - Entomology Seminar
John Tooker and Dave Mortenson, "Seeds of a Collaboration: Plant-Insect Interactions at a Landscape Scale"
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.; 107 Forest Resources Building - Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Seminar
Janie Chermak, University of New Mexico, "My Neighbor's Cattle: Strategic Behavior in a Spatial-Dynamic Model with an Invasive Weed"
3:00 p.m.; 215 Armsby Building - Geography Coffee Hour
Matt Thomas, "Evaluating the influence of temperature variation on transmission of vector-borne diseases"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building - Center for Infectious Disease and Dynamics Seminar
Ginny Pitzer, "Modeling the impact of vaccination on the dynamics of rotavirus epidemics in the United States"
4:00 p.m.; 310 Mueller Laboratory
- School of Forest Resources Seminar
Jason Rohr, University of South Florida, "Parasites, Pollution and Climate Change: A Dangerous Brew for Amphibians and Aquatic Communities"
Noon; 108 Wartik Laboratory - Plant Bioloogy Seminar
Tom Slewinski, "Tie-dyes, psychedelics and sucrose transporters: Insights into the genetic control of carboyhdrate partitioning from maize leaves"
12:10 p.m.; 108 Wartik Laboratory - Ecology Seminar
Jennifer Dean, "Soil factors influence sugar maple herbivory and defense signaling"
1:00 p.m.; 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Plant Pathology Seminar
Zhenyu Liu, "Characterization of RB and identification of additional genes involved in RB-mediated potato blight resistance"
3:30 p.m.; 112 Buckhout Laboratory - Earth Talks: Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future
Sandra L. Olsen, Carnegie Musuem of Natural History,"Human Subsistence Adaption to the Eurasian Steppe and Inception of Horse Domestication"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- David Quammen, "On and On...The Origin of Species: 150 Years Old and Still Dangerous, Still Great"
4:00 p.m.; 100 Life Sciences
- Fall 2009 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Ray Najjar, "How well do global models simulate regional climate? Case study for the Mid-Atlantic Region"
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.; 529 Walker Building - Bortree Lecture Series
Sanjeer Narayanan, Kansas State University, "Role of the Host in Gastrointestinal Bacterial Evolution"
4:00 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Hankin Distinguished Lecture
Ron Jones, "Green with an Attitude!"
4:00 p.m.; Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom
- Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
Zakya Kafafi, NSF-DMR, "Title TBA"
10:10 a.m.; 26 Hosler Building - Energy and Mineral Engineering Seminar
Zhen Lei, "Innovation and Intellectual Property: Applications to Patent Review, Biofuels and University Technology Transfer"
1:00 p.m.; 157 Hosler Building
- School of Forest Resources Seminar
Chris Urban, PA Fish and Boat, "Timber Rattlesnack Ecology and Management in Pennsylvania"
11:00 a.m.; 105 Forest Resources Building - Entomology Seminar
Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota, "Benefits fo Propolis to Honey Bees"
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m; 107 Forest Resources Building - Crop and Soil Sciences Seminar
Carla Rosenfeld, M.S. Candidate in Soil Science, "Biogeochemistry of heavy metals: Cd cycling in anthropogenically contaminated soils"
12:20 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
- Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Seminar
Tim Kelsey, Jim Ladlee, Jonathan Laughner, and Joann Kowalski, "Title TBA"
3:00 p.m.; 215 Armsby Building - Geography Coffee Hour
Duarte Morrais, "Subjective well-being and self-determination among indigenous people involved in community-based wildlife tourism in Namibia's Kunene region"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Infectious Disease Cluster Hire Candidate Talk
Michael Ferdig, University of Notre Dame, "Systems genetics of complex malaria parasite traits"
Noon; 108 Wartik Laboratory - Plant Bioloogy Seminar
Kimberly Phillips, "Vanishing tassel2 encodes an auxin biosynthesis gene functioning in vegetative and inflorescence development in maize "
12:10 p.m.; 108 Wartik Laboratory - Ecology Seminar
Kusum Naithani, "Interactive effects of climate and stand age on carbon and water fluxes in a semi-arid sagebrush ecosystem"
1:00 p.m.; 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Plant Pathology Seminar
Roger Koide, "Community biology of mycorrhizal fungi"
3:30 p.m.; 112 Buckhout Laboratory - Earth Talks: Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future
Eric Post, "The Vanishing Arctic"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- David Sattelle, University of Oxford, "Functional Genomics: Applications in Human Health, Animal Health and Crop Production"
4:00 p.m.; 100 Life Sciences Building
- Horticulture Seminar
Richard Hoover, Ph.D. candidate, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 111 Tyson Building
- Bortree Lecture Series
Tony Maurelli, Herbert School of Medicine, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series - Stone Lecture
Arturo Zychlinsky, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, "NETs - A Novel Antimicrobial Mechanism"
4:00 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
- Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
Peter Cummings, Vanderbuild University and ORNL, "Title TBA"
10:10 a.m.; 26 Hosler Building - Chemical Engineering Seminar
Ali Demirci, "Microbiological Engineering"
10-11:00 a.m.; 102 Chemistry Building - Entomology Seminar
Heather Hines, NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow, "The Genetics and Evolution of Complex Adaptive Traits: Mimetic Patterning in Bumble Bees and Butterflies"
10 - 11:00 a.m.; 119 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Buiding - Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Curt Lively, Indiana University, "Through the looking glass: host-parasite coevolution and sex"
4:00 p.m.; 510 Mueller Laboratory
- Entomology Seminar
Andy Deans, North Carolina State University, "Leveraging Ontologies to Transform Insect Taxonomy nad Pylogenetics"
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.; 107 Forest Resources Building - Crop and Soil Sciences Seminar
Lixue Zhu, Ph.D. Candidate in Agronomy, "Studying the herbivore defense genes in different growth stages of maize"
12:20 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Geography Coffee Hour
Justing Blanford, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Plant Bioloogy Seminar
Xiaoying Meng, "Functional studies of S-RNAase-based self-incompatibility"
12:10 p.m.; 101 Osmond Laboratory - Plant Pathology Seminar
Paul Backman, "Interfacing microbial ecology with development needs in Latin America"
3:30 p.m.; 112 Buckhout Laboratory - Earth Talks: Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future
Russell Graham,"Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Geosciences Colloquium
Jeffry Park, Yale University, "Perche Apennino? Seismic Anisotropy, Subduction, Mantle Flow and Uplift in Central Italy"
4:00 p.m.; 22 Deike Building - Distinguished Lectures in Life Science
Gail Wertz, University of Virginia, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 100 Life Sciences Building (Berg Auditorium) - Genetics Seminar
Russ Graham, "Mammal response to global warming at the end of the Pleistocene: Implications for conservation biology"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Fall 2009 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Jeffry Park, Yale University, "Smoking Guns and Dogs that Didn't Bark: Coherence and Correlation in Historical Climate Time Series"
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.; 529 Walker Building - Bortree Lecture Series
Pinku Mukherjee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Horticulture Seminar
Chien-Chih Chen, Ph.D. candidate, "Douglas fir micropropogation"
4:00 p.m.; 111 Tyson Building
- Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
Mike Janik, "Title TBA"
10:10 a.m.; 26 Hosler Building - Chemical Engineering Seminar
Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, "Production of a Blockbuster Drug Using Biocatalysis"
10-11:00 a.m.; 102 Chemistry Building - Entomology Seminar
Laurant Keller, University of Lausaunne, "Ant Behavior is Modulated by Complex Interactions Between Genes and Social Environment"
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.; 107 Forest Resources Building - Genetics Seminar
Elizabeth Hadly, "Genetic response of small mammals to late Quaternary climatic change: the role of life history"
4:00 p.m.; 100 Life Sciences Building
- Crop and Soil Sciences Seminar
Amrita Bhattacharyya, M.S. Candidate in Soil Science, "Iron chemistry and spectroscopy in the Shale Hills Watershed"
12:20 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Seminar
Donald Brown, "Title TBA"
3:00 p.m.; 215 Armsby Building - Geography Coffee Hour
Deryck Holdsworth, "Signature Geographies: Strangers, Guests, Travellers, and Tourists"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Plant Bioloogy Seminar
Philip Bevilacqua, "RNA folding as a mediatior of stress response in plants"
12:10 p.m.; 108 Wartik Laboratory - Ecology Seminar
Paul Bartell, "The role of biological clocks in avian reproduction"
1:00 p.m.; 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Plant Pathology Seminar
Matt Kasson, "Verticillium Wilt of Ailanthus: Host specificity and passive dissemination of Verticillium albo-atrum isolate PSU140""
3:30 p.m.; 112 Buckhout Laboratory - Earth Talks: Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future
Christopher J. Williams, Franklin and Marshall College,"Variation in Polar Forest Ecosystems from the Early to Late Cenozoic"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Bortree Lecture Series
Chris Sullivan, University of Texas, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
- Dairy and Animal Science Seminar
Ross Pifer, "The Increasing Federal and State Regulation of Air Quality at Livestock Facilities"
11:00 a.m. - noon; 324 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Entomology Seminar
Miles Guralnick, ALK Source Materials Laboratories, "From 'Bugs' to Drugs"
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.; 107 Forest Resources Building - Crop and Soil Sciences Seminar
Ryan Bates, M.S. Candidate in Agronomy, "Integrated Weed Management in High Residue Cropping Systems"
12:20 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Geography Coffee Hour
Karl Zimmerer, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building
- Ecology Seminar
Tyler Wagner, "Linking lakes and landscapes: applying priciples of landscape limnology to the management of inland lakes"
1:00 p.m.; 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
- WUN Horizons in Earth Systems Virtual Seminar Series
Blair Hedges, "Molecular clocks and timetree of life"
Noon; 541 Deike Building
- Distinguished Lectures in Life Science
Mark Handcock, University of Washington, "Title TBA"
4:00 p.m.; 100 Life Sciences Building (Berg Auditorium)