Department Seminars
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FALL 2020:
Department Seminars held virtually; 12:30PM-1:30PM, unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Speaker |
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| August 27, 2020 | Darcy Kelley, Columbia University; Host: Robert Raguso -"Comparative neuromics; convergence and divergence in neural circuit elements for vocal communication" |
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September 11, 2020 Seminar at 4:00 pm |
Neelima Sinha, UC Davis; Life Sciences Lecture Series; Host: Adrienne Roader and Mariana Wolfner |
| September 24, 2020 | Katherine Tschida, Cornell University; Host: Jesse Goldberg - "Elucidating neural circuits for the context-dependent control of vocal communication" |
| October 1, 2020 | Michael Reiser, Janelia Research Campus; Host: Nilay Yapici - "Vision beyond the visual system (in Drosophila)" |
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October 14, 2020 Seminar at 11:00am |
Jay Falk, PhD Defense; Host: Mike Webster - "Females that look like males: Testing adaptive hypotheses in a hummingbird polymorphism"
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| October 15, 2020 | Corrie Moreau, Cornell University; Host: David Deitcher - "Piecing Together the Puzzle to Understand the Evolution of the Ants: Macroevolution to Microbiomes" |
| October 22, 2020 | Aubrey Kelly, Emory College of Arts and Sciences; Host: Michael Sheehan - "Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanisms of Sociality" |
| October 29, 2020 | Ida Momennejod, Microsoft Research; Host: Jesse Goldberg - "Multiscale predictive cognitive maps." |
| November 5, 2020 | Mark Howe, Boston University; Host: Ian Ellwood - "Functionally Diverse Striatal Neuromodulator Signals for Action and Learning" |
| November 12, 2020 | Ambika Kamath, UC Berkeley; Host: Graduate Students/Bhaavya Srivastava - "A Dialectical Future for Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology" |
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November 18, 2020 Seminar at 4:00 pm |
Li-Huei Tsai, MIT; Life Sciences Lecture Series; Host: Paul Soloway and Chris Hu |
| November 19, 2020 | Callum Kingwell, PhD Defense; Host: Rob Raguso - "The Origin of 'Queen Pheromones': Chemical Communication as a Catalyst for Social Behavior in the Flexibly Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis." |
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November 23, 2020 Seminar at 9:00 am |
Joseph Welklin, PhD Defense; Host: Mike Webster - "The social and environmental causes and reproductive consequences of ornamented plumage in the Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus)" |
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November 26, 2020 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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December 3, 2020 Seminar at 10:00 am |
Yu-Ting Cheng, PhD Defense; Host: Chris Schaffer - "In vivo three-photon functional Imaging of the mouse spinal cord in health and disease." |
| December 10, 2020 | Carrie Adler, Cornell University |