BSC 6938 Syllabus

Readings for Fall UCF Seminar Series

Held Monday's at 3:00pm in Room 209 Biology

Paper discussions will start at 2:30

Seminar Critique form

 

Here are two papers on how to read a scientific paper. Please Read. 1) 2)

Date
Title
Speaker
PAPERS to READ For Seminar
HOST
LAB

August 25, 2008

 

 

Hoffman and Parkinson

 

 

September 1, 2008

Labor day No Seminar

 

 

 

 

 
September 08, 2008
Lessons from the infraworld: the dual effect of disturbance and the importance of spatial pattern

  Pedro F Quintana-Ascencio
(UCF)


Hinkle
September 15, 2008
Marine Conservation Biology: Coral Reefs, Oyster Reefs and Invasive Species

Linda Walters
(UCF)


Hinkle
September 22, 2008

 

Spatial patterns in some infectious disease models


Andrew Nevai,
(UCF Dept. Math)

 

Quintana-Ascencio

September 29, 2008


Wnt signaling and the evolution of gastrulation

Athula Wikramanayake, (Miami Univ.)


Calestani

October 06, 2008

The complex ejaculate: Male accessoy gland products modulate female remating behaviour

 

Preethi Radhakrishnan (UCF)


Fedorka
October 13, 2008
Two flies on an island: Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea Jerry Coyne,
(Univ. Chicago )

Hoffman

October 13, 2008

Rm 125 HEC building


Feeding and gloating for more: intelligent design versus evolution

This talk will take place at 7:30pm in Rm 125 HEC


Jerry Coyne,
(Univ. Chicago )

 

 


Hoffman
October 20, 2008
Food webs, Climate Change and New Paradigms in Marine Ecology

Brian Silliman
(UofF)


Hoffman
October 27, 2008

Evolution of dynamic signaling in electric fish

 

Philip Stoddard
(FIU)

 


Crampton
November 03, 2008


Genie's Top 10 Ways to Teach Evolution Better

 

Eugenie Scott
(NCSE)


Hinkle
November 03, 2008


Florida's Academic Freedom Bills: Creationism du jour?


This talk will take place at 7:30pm in Rm 101 College of Sciences Building

Eugenie Scott
(NCSE)
   
November 10, 2008

Extinct Neotropical mammals and the Great American Interchange

Bruce MacFadden
(UofF)


Parkinson
November 17, 2008

Using male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefishes to understand Bateman's principles and the intensity of sexual selection

Adam Jones
(Texas A&M)


Hoffman
November 24, 2008

 

How rapidly evolving heterochromatin causes hybrid  lethality in Drosophila

 

Dan Barbash
(Cornell)


Von Kalm
December 01, 2008

Life history influences on immune activity in birds and mammals

 

Marty Martin
(USF)


Fedorka