2014 Seminar Schedule
October
Pollination biology and breeding systems of NZ alpine plants
Dr Janice Lord
Department of Botany, University of Otago
8th October
September
4th Year Student Talks
Tom Gillespie, Dylan Jones, Andy Nielsen, Tosca Mannall
3rd September
4th Year Student Talks
Jacob Manning, Sasha Rozhkova, Roland Taylor
10th September
The ecology of the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida: functioning at an ecosystem level
Rocio Suarez Jimenez
Department of Botany, University of Otago
17th September
Arctic biodiversity in space and time: Who is who, who is where and why?
Dr Pernille Bronken Eidesen
UNIS Svalbard
24th September
August
Mechanisms governing degradation of phytoplankton pigments in fjords
Susanne Schueller
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Otago
6th August
Assisting your postgraduate students to write
Dr Clinton Golding
HEDC, University of Otago
13th August
Where does all the nitrogen go? Understanding nitrogen cycling from source to sink
Dr Sergio Morales
Department of Microbiology, University of Otago
20th August
July
Payments for Ecosystem Services - A Marriage of Ecology and Economics
Sean Weaver
Carbon Partnership, Nelson
16th July
Photosynthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 under low-oxygen conditions
Tim Crawford
Departments of Biochemistry and Botany, University of Otago
30th July
May
'Virgin birth' in plants: A transcriptomics approach to study apomixis in Hieracium
Azieb Woldetinsae
Department of Botany, University of Otago
7th May
Using vegetation as a natural passive sampler for organic contaminants in air
Dr Kim Hagemann
Department of Chemistry, University of Otago
14th May
Non-convergence and non-determinism in global patterns of vegetation structure and biome distribution
Glenn Moncrieff
Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
21st May
28th May – last week of semester no seminar
April
Title to be announced
Professor Jason Tylianakis
Department of Biological Science, University of Canterbury
2nd April
Title to be announced
Dr Katja Schweikert
Department of Botany, University of Otago
9th April
Title to be announced
Associate Professor Russell Poulter
Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago
16th April
23rd April – mid semester break no seminar
Title to be announced
Jay Iwasaki and Max Buxton
Department of Botany, University of Otago
30th April
March
Bull-kelp: a model system for marine connectivity?
Professor Jon Waters
Department of Zoology, University of Otago
5th March
12th March TBA
Leaf phenology: from global patterns to leaf-level processes
Robert Buitenwerf
19th March
A brief history of photosynthesis research
Professor Julian Eaton-Rye
Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago
26th March
February
IPCC and the 5th assessment report
Professor Ulf Molau
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
26th February