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Seminar programs

Wednesdays - Semester two 2008

1.00 pm Wednesday in S11

Date Speaker Title

16th July

Dr. Jeff Craig and Dr. Richard Saffery, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital

The importance of epigenetic programming in utero in modulating human disease risk

23rd July

Dr. Mariella Hereberstein, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

Are Australians more deceptive than Europeans? Deceptive signals in spiders.

30th July

Dr. Heather Young, School of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne

Control of neural crest cell migration in the developing intestine

6th August

Dr. Xenia Kostoulias, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

Towards renal regeneration - Identification and characterization of novel genes in kidney development

13th August

Dr. Ian Smyth, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University

The skin you're in: using mouse genetics to understand epidermal development

20th August

Dr. Devi Stuart-Fox, Department of Zoology, Melbourne University

Camouflage, communication and colour change in chameleons.

27th August

Dr. Luke Hunter. Great Cats Program - Wildlife Conservation Society.

The cheetahs of Iran: Behaviour, ecology and conservation of Asia's last cheetahs.

3rd September

TBA

TBA

10th September

Assoc. Prof. Martin Burd, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

Bet-hedging on offspring number: parallels among angiosperms, birds and mammals.

17th September

Dr. David Chapple, Museum Victoria

Resolving a genetic paradox in an invasive Australian lizard

24th September Dr. James Bourne, Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Monash University

TBA

1st October

Semester Break

No seminar

8th October

Birgita Hansen, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

Population genetic structure of Leadbeater's possum and its implications for species conservation


All visitors welcome

Seminar convenors:

Dr Rich Burke Ph: 9905 9531, Rm 439, Biology Building (Bld 17)
Dr Bob Wong Ph: 9905 5652, Rm G24, Biology Building (Bld 18)