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(all seminars are Thursdays at 12:30 pm in the Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall unless otherwise noted)
Jan. 29 Harry Greene (Cornell University) – Host: Hoy
Natural history, aesthetics and conservation
Feb. 5 Daniel Mennill (University of Windsor) – Host: Vehrencamp
Duels and duets: New perspectives on vocal communication in temperate and tropical birds
Feb. 10 (Tues) Mike Ryan (University of Texas, Austin) – Host: Bass
Cognitive aspects of mate choice in Túngara frogs
Feb. 12 Michael Webster (Washington State University) – Host: Shaw
Birds not of a feather? Exploring variation in sexual signals at multiple levels
Feb. 19 Matthew Belmonte (Cornell University) – Host: Fetcho
What science can tell us about Autism and what Autism can tell us about science
Feb. 24 (Tues) Marty Leonard (Dalhousie University) – Host: Dickinson
Nestling begging and animal communication: Using little birds to tackle big questions
Feb. 26 Jordan Price (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) – Host: Cramer
A history of blackbirds: Reconstructing the evolution of song and color patterns in the orioles, caciques and oropendolas
Mar. 5 Ken Catania (Vanderbilt University) – Host: Raguso
The neurobiology and behavior of shrews and moles
Mar. 12 Ned Place (Cornell University) – Host: Fetcho
Age, season, and residual reproductive value: Choosing the best life history strategy
Mar. 19 Spring Break
NO SEMINAR
Mar. 26 Charlie Walcott (Cornell University) – Host: Emlen
Looney tunes and fatal fighting: The breeding ecology of the common loon
Apr. 2 Dymitri Chklovskii (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) – Host: Fetcho
From neuronal circuit reconstructions to principles of brain design
Apr. 9 Anjali Rajadhyaksha (Weill Medical College) – Host: Bass
Dysregulation of BKca-Cav Ca2+ Signaling in Brain Developmental Disorders
Apr. 16 Deda Gillespie (McMaster University) – Host: Hoy
Building the auditory brain
Apr. 23 William Conner (Wake Forest University) – Host: Eisner
Sound Strategies: Acoustic Aposematism, Mimicry, and Sonar Jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race
Apr. 29 (Wed) Joaquin Goyret (Cornell University) – Host: Raguso
Defense Seminar
Apr. 30 Ron Calabrese (Emory University) – Host: Olthoff
Constancy and variability in synaptic strength in a central pattern generator network
May 5 (Tues) Honors Poster Session – Host: Linster
Seminar series • Fall 2008
Aug. 28 Carol Colby (University of Pittsburgh) – Host: Linster
Active vision in parietal and extra-striate cortex
Sept. 4 Mark Tanouye (University of California-Berkeley) – Host: Deitcher
Abnormal seizure-like behavior in mutant Drosophila
Sept. 11 Tim Cope (Wright State University) – Host: Fetcho
Organizing spinal motor neurons during movement
Sept. 18 Andrew Sih (University of California-Davis) – Host: Kirkland Wray
Behavioral syndromes: Evolutionary and ecological issues and implications
Sept. 25 Mya Thompson (Cornell University) – Host: Clark
The value of eavesdropping: Information content in Africian forest elephant vocal communication
Oct. 2 Joan Silk (University of California-Los Angeles) – Host: Barclay
Social Security: The meaning of social bonds for female baboons
Oct. 9 Maria Geffen (Rockefeller University) – Host: Hopkins
Encoding of complex stimuli by early sensory systems
Oct. 16 David Pfennig (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) – Host: Reeve
Polyphenism and the origins of diversity
Oct. 23 Anne Gaskett (Cornell University) – Host: Raguso
Pollinator behavior, signals and sexual deception by Tongue Orchids
Oct. 30 Paul Ewald (University of Louisville)– Host: Sherman
Genes, germs and severe mental illnesses: Or, why cats are more scary than tomatoes
Nov. 6 Mary Hayhoe (University of Texas-Austin) – Host: Cleland
Adaptive control of gaze and attention in natural environments
Nov. 13 Paul Gray (Washington University-St. Louis) – Host: Harris-Warrick
Development and evolution of breathing
Nov. 20 Eileen Hebets (University of Nebraska) - Host: Raguso
Complex courtship signaling and variable female mate choice in spiders
Nov. 27 Thanksgiving
NO SEMINAR
Dec. 4 Tamara Mendelson (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) - Host: Shaw
Mate choice and speciation in darters
Jan. 24 Tom Eisner (Cornell University) Special Presentation – Host: Fetcho
Adventures of a Visual Enthusiast (Readings from a book in the making by Tom Eisner)
Jan. 31 Jean Hardwick (Ithaca College) – Host: Johnson
Regulation of autonomic intracardiac neurons by inflammatory mediators
Feb. 7 Thom Cleland (Cornell University) – Host: Dietcher
The construction of olfactory representations
Feb. 14 Gail Patricelli (UC Davis) – Host: Bradbury
Tradeoffs among multiple sexually-selected display traits in greater sage-grouse: an experimental study using a robotic female
Feb. 21 Walter Koenig (UC Berkeley) – Host: Seeley
Acorns and the behavioral ecology of cooperative breeding in the Acorn Woodpecker
Feb. 28 Ken Lohmann (University of North Carolina) – Host: Walcott
Beyond the five senses: The maps, compasses, and sensory biology of Sea Turtle
Mar. 6 Christian Voigt (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research) – Host: Bradbury
Sex-specific reproductive tactics in a polygynous mammal: Two sides of the same coin
Mar. 13 Bob Baker (NYU Medical Center) – Host: Bass
Gene Regulation and the Evolution of Motor Behavior
Mar. 27 Heather Mattila (Cornell University) – Host: Seeley
Do polyandrous honey bee queens produce busier bees?
Apr. 3 Teresa Nicolson (Oregon Health Sciences Center/Vollum Insitute)– Host: Nowak
The genetics of synaptic transmission in zebrafish hair cells
Apr. 10 Indira Raman (Northwestern University) – Host: Howland
Synaptic signaling in cerebellar circuits
Apr. 17 CJ Heckman (Northwestern University) – Host: Harris-Warrick
Control of active properties of motoneuron dendrites: diffuse descending neuromodulation, focused local inhibition
Apr. 22 Richard Wrangham (Harvard University) - Host: Sherman
The evolutionary ecology of cooking
May 1 Honors Student Poster Session
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