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Departmental Seminar Series

The Biological Sciences Departmental Seminar Series meets in the Education Building, Room 109 from 1:30-2:45 PM.  Special times/locations are in red text.  We meet on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Graduate Student Symposium: The Department requires that each graduate student propose their research plans to gain feedback on experimental design and practice dissemination of science.  These talks are typically on Wednesdays and are 25-30 minutes long with plenty of time for audience questions and input.  Graduate Student Symposium talks are listed in blue.

Calendar

Jan 23: Rob Spaul
Title: Effects of recreational activities on the breeding ecology of a shrubbe-steppe raptor
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Feb 6:Title:Host: Feb 8: Dr. Michael Perring
Title: Intervening to restore function in novel ecosystems: The Ridgefield Multiple Ecosystem Services Experiment.
Host: Dr. Jen Forbey
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Feb 20: FACULTY MEETING Feb 22: Rob Miller, Thesis Defense
Title: Northern Goshawk breeding and productivity relative to prey abundance within the Sawtooth National Forest
Host: Dr. Marc Bechard
Feb 27: Job Candidate Talk
Host: Dr. Pete Koetsier		 March 1:Title: Host:
March 6: Job Candidate talk
Host: Dr. Pete Koetsier		 March 8: Dr. John Marzluff (website)
Title: Neuroecology of crows: a look at the corvid brain in action
Host: Dr. Julie Heath
March 13: Job Candidate Talk
Host: Dr. Pete Koetsier		 March 14:Eric Tretter
Title:Examining the evolution of the early-diverging fungi; an 8-gene phylogeny of the Kickxellomycotina, including the newly tested genes MCM7 and TSR1
Time: 10:30 am – 11:45 am
Location: MP 108
Host: Merlin White
March 18: FACULTY MEETINGMarch 18: John O’Keeffe
Title: Species predicts oxidative stress in five migratory North American raptors
Time: 10:30 am – 11:45 am
Location: Education 110
Host: Julie Heath		 March 19:  Neil Paprocki
Title: Warming Winters and Changing Habitats: Interactive Effects on Animal Populations and Implications for Conservation
Time: 8:45 am – 10:15 am
Location: Business 101
Host: Dr. Julie Heath
March 20: Janina Dierks
Title: The Impact of a Shifting Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community on Native Plant Performance and Carbon Cycling
Host: Dr. Marie-Anne deGraaff
March 20: Emma Wilson
Title: Evaluating the Effects of Fungicides and Other Pesticides on Non-target Gut Fungi and their Aquatic Insect Hosts
Time: 9:30 am – 10:45 am
Location: SMTC 118
Host: Merlin White		 March 21: Allison Korte
Title: Apparent Movements of Birds Within an Urban Riparian Corridor During the Breeding Season
Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: SUB Bergquist Lounge
Host: Jesse Barber
March 22: Job Candidate Talk
Host: Dr. Pete Koetsier		 April 3: Job Candidate Talk
Host: Dr. Pete Koetsier
April 4: Dr. Mitzi Glover
Title: Effects of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors on Endothelial Function
Time: 3 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: ILC 203
Host: Dr. Denise Wingett		 April 5: Job Candidate Talk
Host: Dr. Pete Koetsier
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Host:		 April 12: Nicole Reynolds
Title: Investigating the evolutionary relationships within the protist trichomycetes
Host: Merlin White
April 17: Terra Gleeson
Title: Relationships between reproduction and food: how long-term and seasonal patterns in prey availability affect kestrel reproduction
Host: Dr. Julie Heath		 April 19:Host:Title:
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 April 26: Dr. Natasha Wiggins
Title: The ecological implications of herbivore responses to a chemically defended diet
Host: Dr. Jen Forbey
May 1: Shane Skaar
Title: Informing Management Through a Better Understand of the Invasion Process: Geographic Origins for the Introduction of Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) in the Western United States
Host: Dr. Steve Novak
May 1: Tiffany Farrell
Title: What contributes to greenhouse gas production in the hyporheic zone?
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: MEC 106
Host: Geosciences & Biology Dept Dr. Kevin Feris
 May 3: Martha Brabec
Title: Big Sagebrush establishment in a shifting climate context
Host: Dr. Matt Germino
May 8: Neda Shefa
Title: A role for Parathyroid Hormone-related Peptide (PTHrP) in Bone Development
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: Education 109
Host: Dr. Julie Oxford
May 8:Alex Urquhart
Title: Life history and environmental tolerance of the invasive oriental weatherfish (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) in Idaho, USA
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Location: Business 105
Host: Dr. Peter Koetsier		 CANCELLED SEMINAR TOM DIXON
May 9: Thomas Dixon
Title: The Genetic Mating System of Burrowing Owls
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: SMTC 118
Host: Jim BelthoffMay 9: Miguel Ferrer
Title: Reintroduction and Management of the Endangered Spanish Imperial Eagle
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Location: SMTC 118
Host: Marc Bechard
May 10: Hallie Lingo
Title: Beaver reintroduction correlates with spotted frog population restoration and terrestrial movement patterns of newly matomorphosed Columbia spotted frogs in the Owyhee uplands of Southwestern Idaho 
Host: Dr. Jim Munger
May 10: Patrick Kolar
Title: Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Breeding Buteo Hawks in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Location: SUB Simplot A Ballroom
Host: Dr. Marc Bechard

 Fall 2013 Seminar Calendar

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Title: Scaling up plant-herbivore interactions from lab to landscape
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