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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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)"
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"
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
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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."
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"
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"
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"
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"

