Events Archives

August 2011

Date:  Monday August 15, 2011
Time:  4:00-5:00 pm
Location:   MEB 315
Type:   JABSOM Seminar
Speaker:  Dr. Randy Johnson, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Title:   "Genetic analysis of Hippo signaling in mammalian organ size regulation and cancer"

Date:  Wednesday August 17, 2011
Time:  12:00-1:00 pm
Location:   Kewalo Marine Laboratory Library
Type:   Kewalo Marine Laboratory Seminar
Speaker:  Dr. Danielle de Jong, Victor Change Cardiac Research Instittute
Title:   "A systems biology approach to understanding heart development"

June 2011

Date:  Friday June 3, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   MSB 114
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:  Jonathan Dale, PhD candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "Life History, Foraging Ecology and Bioenergetics of the Brown Stingray, Dasyatis lata"

May 2011

Date:  Friday May 6, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:  Joan Roughgarden, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Title:   "Evolution of social behavior: Not the 1970's anymore"

Date:  Monday May 9, 2011
Time:  3:30-5:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:  Aude Pacini, PhD candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "TBA"

April 2011

Date:  Friday April 1, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:  T. Erin Cox, PhD candidate, Department of Botany
Title:   "Aspects of ecology and algal physiology in Hawaii's rocky intertidal zone"

Date:  Friday April 8, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:  Kerry Shaw, Department of Neurobiology, Cornell University
Title:   "Genetics and evolution of sexual isolation in Hawaiian crickets"

Date:  Friday April 15, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:  Shelley James, Hawaii Biological Survey, Bishop Museum
Title:   "Discovery and documentation of biodiversity in Papua New Guinea"

Date:  Wednesday April 27, 2011
Time:  10:00-11:00 am
Location:   Biomed T-211
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:  Ying Huang, PhD candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "An analysis of genes in the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea underlying its capacity to induce larval settlement in the polychaete Hydroides elegans"

Date:  Friday April 29, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:  Matt Hare, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Title:   "Mechanisms maintaining sharp genetic clines in marine species with long lived larvae"

March 2011

Date:  Friday March 4, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:  Joanne Birch, PhD candidate, Department of Botany
Title:   "The systematics and historical biogeography of the flowering plant genus Astelia s.l. (Asteliaceae)"

Date:  Friday March 11, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:  Kira Krend, PhD candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "Avian malaria on Oahu: disease ecology and the evolution of resistance on Oahu amakihi"

Date:  Wednesday March 16 - Friday March 18, 2011
Time:  8:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Keoni Auditorium, East West Center
Type:   36th Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium

February 2011

Date:  Friday February 4, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Kyle Van Houtan, Marine Turtle Assessment Program, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
Title:   "Land use, macroalgae, and turtle tumors in Hawaii"

Date:  Friday February 11, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Sterling Keeley, Botany Department, Unversity of Hawaii at Manoa
Title:   "The biogeography of the "Evil Tribe": the Vernonieae (Compositae) in the Old and New Worlds"

Date:  Thursday February 18, 2011
Time:  1:00-2:00 pm
Location:   Kewalo Marine Lab Library
Type:   Botany Department PhD defense
Speaker:   Mr. Luc Rougee, PhD Candidate Kewalo Marine Lab
Title:   "Expression and Activity of Xenobiotic Metabolizing Enzymes in the Reef Coral Pocillopora damicornis"

Date:  Friday February 18, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Marc Lammers, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Unversity of Hawaii at Manoa
Title:   "EARS in the sea: Ecology, behavior adn physiology revealed through acoustics"

Date:  Friday February 25, 2011
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Camille Parmesan, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas
Title:   "Responses of wildlife to anthropogenic climate change and their conservation implications"

December 2010

Date:  Tuesday December 14, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Kewalo Marine Lab Library
Type:   Visiting Scientist Seminar
Speaker:   Dr. Jonathan Henry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology
Title:   "Cell lineage and specification of the organizer in the slippersnail Crepidula fornicata"

November 2010

Date:  Friday November 19, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Rose Andrew, University of British Columbia, Botany Department
Title:   "Divergence with gene flow in sunflowers: insights from ecology and genomics"

Date:  Friday November 12, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Ken Keefover-Ring, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
Title:   "The role of polination in thyme essential oil polymorphism"

Date:  Friday November 5, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Chris Lepczyk, Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department, UH Mānoa
Title:   "New Perspectives and insights on wildlife in Hawaiʻi"

October 2010

Date:  Friday October 29, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department MS Defense
Speaker:   Mr. Derek Smith, MS Candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "The Science of Shipwrecks: The past, present and future of Maritime Heritage in the Hawaiian Islands"

Date:  Friday October 22, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:   Mr. Kevin Pang, PhD Candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "Understanding early animal evolution: genes and development of ctenophores"

Date:  Thursday October 21, 2010
Time:  1:30-2:30 pm
Location:   Kuykendall Auditorium
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:   Mr. Brian Nedved, PhD Candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "Neuromuscular development and metamorphosis in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans."

Date:  Friday October 15, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department PhD Defense
Speaker:   Mr. Aaron Shiels, PhD Candidate, Department of Zoology
Title:   "Ecology and impacts of introduced rats (Rattus spp.) on the Hawaiian Islands"

Date:  Friday October 08, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Yvonne Chan, Postdoctoral fellow, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Title:   "Does space equal time? Using ancient DNA to make historical comparisons of the Main to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands"

Date:  Friday October 01, 2010
Time:  3:30-4:30 pm
Location:   Biomed B-103
Type:   Zoology Department Seminar Series
Speaker:   Dr. Dave Carlon, Department of Zoology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Title:   "Is speciation ecological? A life table response experiment"