Events

Jan 20 2015

Scent-mediated evolution – Is floral scent at the center of interactions among plants, pollinators, and parasites?

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 3 2015

Connecting two worlds: Ecological interactions between above- and belowground organisms through shared host plants

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 10 2015

"Heartbreak, transgenic mouse modeling"

Tuesday, 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Feb 10 2015

Impacts of Fine-roots on Terrestrial Net Primary Productivity and Soil Nutrient Cycling (Dissertation seminar)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Feb 12 2015

Linking AMPA and NMDA receptor distributions and dynamics to scaffold protein conformation and orientation

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Feb 17 2015

Spatial and temporal variation in mast seeding patterns

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 19 2015

Attention and the Representation of Visual Stimuli by Neuronal Populations

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Feb 26 2015

The contribution of the chloride channel ClC-3 to the regulation of synaptic efficacy in the hippocampus

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Mar 3 2015

Which species live in the tropical forests we’re destroying (or protecting)?: Case studies in Neotropical biogeography from continental to hilltop scales

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 10 2015

Hadley Award Talks

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Mar 12 2015

Exploring the brain’s navigation system with high-resolution imaging and virtual reality

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Mar 17 2015

Hadley Award talks

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 31 2015

Atmospheric Exchanges at the Earth Surface

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 2 2015

Nanoparticle delivery systems to repair brain pathology

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Apr 16 2015

Spring Symposium in Neuroscience: Neuroscience of Alcohol Use

Thursday, 3:30 pm–5:30 pm
Apr 21 2015

“Function and Evolution of Venoms in Parasitoid Insects”

Tuesday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Apr 21 2015

Local carbon and nitrogen isoscape determined by invertebrate diets (Master's thesis seminar)

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Apr 30 2015

A nano-scale resolution view on synaptic vesicle recycling

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Jun 1 2015

"From flies to humans: Stochastic specification"

Monday, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
Jul 29 2015

"Post-transcriptional gene regulation: from RNA to ribonome"

Wednesday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Aug 17 2015

BIOS Faculty Meeting to discuss bylaws

Monday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
4289 SEL
Aug 28 2015

BIOS Picnic

Friday, 3:00 pm–6:00 pm
Greenhouse
Sep 3 2015

P&T Seminar: Mechanisms of sensory diversity: left-right neuronal asymmetry and alternative neuronal fate switch

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 8 2015

MCDB Seminar

Tuesday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Sep 8 2015

Plant-microbial interactions in secondary succession and their application to ecological restoration

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 10 2015

P&T Seminar: Understanding timing mechanisms for orderly neuronal connectivity in development and regeneration decline in aging

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 15 2015

P&T Seminar: Unweaving the History of the Wheat Tribe: Phylogenetic Analyses of the Triticeae

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 22 2015

Seeing the forest below the leaves: Mycorrhizal associations as trait integrators of biogeochemical processes in forests

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 29 2015

Natural Products: Addressing the Supply Problem and Engineering Structural Diversity

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Oct 1 2015

Neurocognitive investigations of adult second language acquisition: The role of cognitive factors in context

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Oct 6 2015

Genomic mutualisms and tree diversification

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 15 2015

Ca2+-dependent modulation of neurotransmitter release at a retinal ribbon synapse

Thursday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Oct 15 2015

How to Activate Endocytosis

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Oct 20 2015

Phylogenomics of milkweeds and the evolution of plant defenses

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 22 2015

Annual Christopher Comer Undergraduate Neuroscience Seminar: Shining light on the neural circuitry of hunger and fullness

Thursday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
605 Student Center East, 750 South Halsted
Oct 23 2015

An appetite suppression center in the brainstem parabrachial nucleus

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Oct 27 2015

Interatomics: Computational Analysis of Novel Drug Opportunities

Tuesday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Nov 3 2015

From the human microbiome to Lake Michigan: Exploring Milwaukee's microbial metropolis

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Nov 12 2015

Some recent advances in understanding intracranial measurements of the neurotransmitter dopamine

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Nov 17 2015

Soil fertility as a driver of compositional variation in tropical forest

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Dec 1 2015

Honoring complexity in the ecosystem

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Dec 2 2015

A Consumer-Resource Framework for Evaluating Anthropogenic Effects on Wildlife and Habitat (Dissertation Seminar)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Dec 3 2015

Using systems biology to develop new treatments for epilepsy

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Jan 19 2016

Pheromones and other signals that control behavior, physiology, and aging in C. elegans

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Jan 21 2016

A Protein Biomarker Study in Niemann-Pick Disease, type C1

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Jan 26 2016

Cattle, Fire and Pesticides: how land management affects bee diversity in natural landscapes

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Feb 9 2016

Hadley Talks

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Feb 22 2016

An evolutionary and ecological investigation of cancer (Dissertation Seminar)

Monday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Feb 23 2016

Plant diversification and assembly of a temperate biodiversity hotspot

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Feb 25 2016

Beyond Trophism: Information Processing Emerging from Astrocyte-Synapse Coupling

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Feb 26 2016

Regulation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ACR-16 in C. elegans (PhD Dissertation Seminar)

Friday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Mar 8 2016

San Diego Biodiversity

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Mar 11 2016

Beyond the binary web: Using real-time PCR to quantify the structure of a spider-dominated food web

Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Mar 29 2016

Hadley Talks

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Apr 5 2016

Seabird island restoration and recovery following rodent removal

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Apr 14 2016

Spring Symposium in Neuroscience

Thursday, 10:30 am–1:30 pm
605 Student Center East, 750 South Halsted
Apr 14 2016

Clostridium difficile infection: it's not ALL about the toxins

Thursday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
Apr 19 2016

Insect carcasses link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: lessons from the subarctic

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
May 6 2016

Insects in the city: Evaluating pollination services and biological control in urban neighborhoods (Dissertation Seminar)

Friday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
May 11 2016

Thalamocortical gating of stomatosensory synaptic plasticity through synergistic excitatory and disinhibitiory circuits (Please note room change to SEL 4273)

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4273 SEL, 840 West Taylor
May 24 2016

Clues from the squid illuminate mechanisms mediating axonal pathology in Huntington's disease

Tuesday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
May 24 2016

Evolution of the Isognomonidae Woodring, 1925: Phylogenetic and Morphometric Analyses (Dissertation Seminar) Please note room change to SEL 4273

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4273 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Jun 3 2016

Animal welfare assessment through foraging: Understanding the animals' points of view (Dissertation Seminar) Please note room change to SEL 4273

Friday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Aug 15 2016

New BIOS graduate student orientation

Monday 15th, 9:00 am–Friday 19th, 5:00 pm
Aug 17 2016

BIOS Beginning of Year Picnic

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–4:00 pm
Greenhouse (Halsted and Taylor)
Aug 30 2016

Is the global snow leopard population endangered?

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Sep 8 2016

Neurons floating upside down

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Sep 13 2016

Repurposing ribosomes for synthetic biology

Tuesday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
Sep 13 2016

The occult water cycle: ethereal precipitation and the surface water budget

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Sep 22 2016

Origins and Earliest Evolution of Mammals (cosponsored by EaES - note time/location)

Thursday, 3:30 pm–4:30 pm
130 SES, 845 West Taylor
Sep 27 2016

Nitrogen deposition impacts on current and future forests: the role of mycorrhizal association

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Sep 29 2016

Investigating novel signaling pathways in the brain that contribute to binge drinking

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Oct 10 2016

Hunger, Hiding, and Habitat: Observations and Game Theoretical Explorations of Foraging and Burrowing (PhD Dissertation Seminar)

Monday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Oct 11 2016

Is single species management an effective strategy for wildlife conservation?

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Oct 18 2016

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Oct 20 2016

Molecular principles of motor neuron diversity

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Oct 25 2016

Optimizing study design and sampling strategies for conservation

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Oct 27 2016

The impact of obesity on stem cell proliferation

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Nov 4 2016

Evaluating the impacts of invasive plants on the forest-floor food web (PhD Dissertation Seminar)

Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Nov 9 2016

Annual Christopher Comer Undergraduate Neuroscience Seminar: Lessons from the Lamprey on Spinal Cord Regeneration NOTE time and location: 1 pm in Lecture Center F3

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Lecture Center F03
Nov 10 2016

John Lussenhop Memorial Lecture: From Soil to Cell and Cell to Soil: A Journey from Canada’s Forests to the Paddy Fields of Asia

Thursday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Nov 10 2016

The Molecular Basis of Successful Spinal Cord Regeneration in Lampreys

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Nov 15 2016

The oncogenic role of TBX2 in rhabdomyosarcoma.

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Nov 28 2016

BIOS Service Recognition Breakfast

Monday, 8:00 am–9:00 am
SEL Oasis
Nov 29 2016

Morphological Integration and Evolution of the Mammalian Skull

Tuesday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Nov 29 2016

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4300 MBRB, 900 South Ashland
Dec 1 2016

Neural circuits underlying hunger-dependent bias towards food cues

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 950 South Halsted
Jan 17 2017

Hidden gems in transcriptional maps: examples from the streptococci

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Jan 31 2017

Molecular dissection of natural transformation and exploiting it as a genetic tool to study Vibrio cholerae

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Jan 31 2017

Biological studies on the ocean floor

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Feb 3 2017

Urban Wildlife Through Space and Time (PhD Dissertation Seminar)

Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Feb 9 2017

Translating New Therapies for ALS

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Feb 16 2017

Building a brain one stem cell at a time

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Feb 27 2017

Tails from the Serengeti: The ecology of free-roaming domestic dogs in rural villages near Serengeti National Park in Tanzania (PhD Dissertation Seminar)

Monday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Feb 28 2017

Arctic regions and climate change effects

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Mar 7 2017

Hadley Talks Part 1

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Mar 14 2017

Characterizing Species Interactions: The Community Matrix and Beyond

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St
Mar 15 2017

Alternative Careers in Neuroscience Seminar: The Diary of a Neuroscientist: Career Options for a Neuroscientist in Industry

Wednesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Cardinal Room, Student Center East, 750 South Halsted
Mar 30 2017

Advancing Neuroscience Research via Development and Application of a Multi-faceted Mass Spectrometry (MS)-based Analytical Platform

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL, 950 South Halsted
Apr 4 2017

Hadley Talks Part 2

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St