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Neurobiology and Behavior

Seminar series   •   Fall 2009

(all seminars are Thursdays at 12:30 pm in the Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall unless otherwise noted)

 

Aug. 27           Ronald Harris-Warrick – Host: Sherman

            Identified interneurons in the mouse spinal locomotor network

 

Sept. 3             Sasha Devore – Host: Linster

            Neural correlates and mechanisms of sound localization in everyday reverberant settings

 

Sept. 10           Albert Uy – Host: Winkler / Raguso

            On the origin of species on islands: Signal diversification and speciation in flycatchers

of the Solomon Islands

 

Sept. 11 (Fri.) Jordan Moore – Advisor: DeVoogd (PhD Defense seminar)

            Size Matters:  The evolution of big songbird brains and how they use them

 

Sept. 17           Mark Hauber – Host: Place

            Cuckoos, begging calls, and egg coloration: testing recognition systems theory in a New Zealand

context and beyond

 

Sept. 24           Robert Raguso – Host: Adler

            Signals and noise in the Elysian Fields; eavesdropping on the chemical dialogues

between flowers and pollinators

 

Oct. 1              Steven Austad – Host: Sherman

            Methusaleh's Zoo: The Evolution of Extreme Longevity

 

Oct. 8              Allison Barth – Host: NBB Graduate Students (Riley)

            BK Channels and the Control of Neural Excitabilityt in Seizure Disorders

 

Oct. 22            Ellen Ketterson – Host: Adkins-Regan / Raguso

            Phenotypic integration & independence: hormones, performance, and response to environmental change

 

Oct. 29            Robert Gegear – Host: Hopkins

            To be announced

 

Nov. 5             Richard Vogt – Host: Booker / Raguso

            Independent Evolution of Input and Output Components of Sensory Pathways - Comparisons of

the Pheromone Detection Elements of Moths and Flies

 

Nov. 12           Linda Spear – Host: McCobb

            Adolescence: Neurobehavioral characteristics, differential alcohol sensitivities and intake

 

Nov. 19           Cheryl Frye – Host: McCobb

 Neurosteroids: sex, drugs and rock n' roll

 

Dec. 3             Al Molnar – Host: Johnson

             Reverse-engineering Retinal Robustness

 

Dec. 8             Brandon Loveall – Advisor: Deitcher

To be announced

 

Dec. 10            Robert Frank – Host: Sherman

            Why Charles Darwin, Not Adam Smith, Was the Father of Economics



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