Fall 2008 Seminar Series: Department of Biology

October 10: No Seminar

October 17: Dr. Chris Barnhart, Missouri State University, Wonders down

under: adaptations to larval parasitism in the freshwater pearly mussels." (Host: Dr. James Alexander).

October 23 (Thursday: 4pm): Dr. Hopi Hoesktra, Harvard University. "From

Darwin to DNA." Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Series (Host: Dr. Lee Dugatkin)

October 24: Dr. Hopi Hoesktra, Harvard University, "Genetics of adaptation

in mice." Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Series (Host: Dr. Lee Dugatkin)

October 31: Dr. Michael Whitt, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TBA.

(Host: Dr. Susi Remold)

November 7: Dr. Paul Bates, University of Louisville, Title TBA. (Host: Dr. Cynthia Corbitt)

November 14: Dr. Shira Rabin, University of Louisville School of Dentistry. "Life and death in the oral cavity: Targeting the host immune response as a strategy for pathogen colonization and persistence." (Host: Dr. Ronald Fell)

November 20: (Thursday: 4pm) Dr. Debashish Bhattacharya, University of

Iowa “On the evolutionary origin of photosynthesis." Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Series (Host: Dr. Martin Klotz)

November 21: Dr. Debashish Bhattacharya, University of Iowa, “The

genomics of extremophiles and Red Tides.” Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Series (Host: Dr. Martin Klotz)

December 4 (Thursday: 4pm): Dr. Eugenie Scott, National Center for

Science Education, Not Over After Dover: What we learned from Kitzmiller v. Dover . Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Series (Host: Dr. Michael Perlin).

December 5: Dr. Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education,

“10 ways to better teach evolution.” Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Series (Host: Dr. Michael Perlin).