Biology Dept. announces spring quarter seminars

April 6, 2010

Matthew Anderson

University Communications

The Biology Department at Western Washington University has announced its spring quarter seminar schedule. All of these seminars take place at 4 p.m. in Biology Building Room 234. The remaining seminars are listed below.

  • Wednesday, April 7 - Terrie Klinger, an associate professor in the School of Marine Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle and winner of the 2008 Naturalist of the Year award from the Western Society of Naturalists, will present "Limits to resilience in rocky intertidal communities."
  • Wednesday, April 14 - Victoria Foe, research professor, and Garrett Odell, professor and director, both of the Center for Cell Dynamics at Friday Harbor Labs of the University of Washington, will present "How the echinoderm zygote gets its furrow (in the right place)." This seminar will last 1 hour and 20 minutes.
  • Wednesday, April 21  - Richard N. Mack, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University in Pullman, will present "Invasion! Immigration and spread of Bromus tectorum genotypes across North America: genetic and historical evidence."
  • Wednesday, April 28 - Chet T. Moritz, a research assistant professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, will present "Promoting neural plasticity for the treatment of paralysis and other movement disorders."
  • Wednesday, May 5: Richard Palmer, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, will present “Learning, developmental plasticity and the evolution of morphological asymmetry.” Palmer is the graduate students' selected speaker for the quarter.
  • Wednesday, May 12: Loralyn Cozy, a Ph.D. candidate in microbiology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., an alumna of the WWU Biology Department, will present “Using Bacterial Motility to Study Development.”
  • Wednesday, May 19: Chris Stallings, an affiliate scientist at Florida State University's Coastal and Marine Laboratory in St. Teresa, Fla., will present “Indirect effects of fishing on predators and their prey.”
  • Wednesday, May 26: Peter Wimberger, an associate professor in the Biology Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, will present “What Can Ice Worms (Mesenchytraeus solifugus) Tell us About Glacial History of the Pacific Northwest?”
  • Wednesday, June 2: Catherine “CeCe” Crosby, a Ph.D. candidate in soil microbiology in the Department of Crop and Soil Science at Washington State University, an alumna of the WWU Biology Department, will present a lecture to be announced later.