Departmental Seminars
Semester 1, 2013
When: Friday, 12:00 midday Venue: Benham Seminar Room, Department of Zoology
22 February Title: “Molecular basis underlying behavioural changes during phase transition in the desert locust”
(Special seminar) Speaker: Dr Heleen Verlinden, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium
1 March Title: “Through the looking glass: host-parasite coevolution and sex”
Speaker: Distinguished Professor Curt Lively (Hon, FRSNZ) Indiana University
8 March Title: “The PKU paradox: How a rare disorder changed medicine and public health”
Speaker: Professor Emerita Diane Paul, University of Massachusetts Boston and Harvard University
15 March Title: “Thinking through evolution”
Speaker: Lee Traynor, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
22 March Title: “Crustacean foreplays and the link between mating preferences and mating patterns”
Speaker: Dr Matthias Galipaud, Laboratoire Biogéosciences, Université de Bourgogne
29 March No seminar – Good Friday
5 April No seminar – mid-semester break
12 April Title: “Egg quality in hapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios)”
Speaker: Yair Kohn, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
19 April Title: “Te Waewae Bay Hector's Dolphins...what do we know now that we didn't know before?”
Speaker: Judy Rodda, Departments of Zoology & Surveying, University of Otago
26 April Title: “Tagged marine megafauna as oceanographers”
Speaker: Dr Liegh Torres, NIWA, Wellington
3 May Title: “Dude looks like a lady: environmental sex reversal in fish and fish populations”
Speaker: Alistair Senior, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
10 May Title: “Sociality in parasite colonies: A division of labour in the treamtode Philophthalmus sp.”
Speaker: Melanie Lloyd, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
17 May Title: “Size and experience matter: foraging behaviour of juvenile New Zealand sealions”
Speaker: Elaine Leung, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
24 May Title: “Physiological, population and evolutionary ecology in California
lizards”
Speaker: Professor Steve Adolph, Harvey Mudd College, California
31 May Title: “The role of epigenetics in regeneration”
Speaker: Amy Taylor, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
Contacts: Ronda Peacock (7976) or Shinichi Nakagawa (shinichi.nakagawa@otago.ac.nz)
Please note the Benham Seminar Room is limited to 50 people; thus, early arrival is recommended.