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The Department of Biological Sciences Research Seminar Series presents Dr. Thomas Turner on “Stable Isotope Analysis of Museum Specimens Reveals Ecosystem-Wide Effects of River Regulation over the Last Century” on Monday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. in Irvine 159. Turner is Professor and Curator of the Division of Fishes at […]

The Bioinformatics Journal Club presents the movie Gattaca on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 4:35 p.m. in the Academic and Research Center (ARC)  321. The discussion leader is David Parisi. “Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares […]

Dr. Nancy J. Stevens presents a Research Seminar on “Cenozoic faunal dynamics on Afro-Arabia: Patterns of immigration, diversification, and extinction” on Monday, Nov. 18, at noon in Grosvenor 128. Stevens is Associate Professor of Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Department of Biomedical Sciences […]

The Research Seminar Series presents Dr. Xinbin Chen of the University of California-Davis on Monday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. in Irvine 159. Chen will discuss “The p53-Rbm38 Loop in Cancer and Aging.” He is a professor in the Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences in the UC-Davis School of […]

The Bioinformatics Journal Club presents What is a support vector machine? on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 4:35 p.m. in the Academic and Research Center (ARC)  321. The discussion leader is Al-Ouran Rami. “Support vector machines (SVMs) are becoming popular in a wide variety of biological applications. But, what exactly are […]

The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Colloquium presents Jacob McCartney, student in the Ohio University Biological Sciences program, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 11:50 a.m. in Irvine 159. He will discuss “The Vertebral Column of Snakes from an Ecological and Paleontological Perspective.” Upcoming Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Colloquia: Dec. 4—Jasmine Croghan, […]

Science Café presents “Pulling, Pushing and Squeezing: Physics and Adhesion Biology” with Dr. David Tees on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. “In everyday life, ‘pulling, pushing and squeezing’ is just something we humans deal with on a regular basis,” said Tees, Associate Professor of […]