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Fall 2017 Schedule

August 31

Icy Invertebrates: A biodiversity tour of the Southern Ocean

Megan Schwartz, PhD

University of Washington, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

4 pm, Thompson 175

September 7

Fall Student Research Symposium

All summer science research students will present posters of their research

4 pm to 6 pm, Harned Colonnade

September 14

The dog aging project: Can old dogs teach us new tricks?

Daniel Promislow
 

University of Washington Department of Pathology

4 pm, Thompson 175

September 21

Genomic exploration of the plant domestication process through 18th century floral crops

Aureliano Bombarely

Virginia Tech, Department of Horticulture

4 pm, Thompson 175

September 28

Mt. St. Helens and our dangerous Pacific Northwest

Steve Olson
 

Author of Eruption: The Untold Story of Mt. St. Helens

4 pm, Thompson 175

October 5

Studying coevolution of viruses and antibody responses in HIV-infected mothers and infants

Laura Noges
 

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

4 pm, Thompson 175

October 12

Epigenetic bookmarking from exposure to hydrogen sulfide in C. elegans

Dana Miller

University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Biophysics

4 pm, Thompson 175

October 19

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of auditory wiring

Thomas M. Coate, Ph.D.

Georgetown University, Department of Biology

4 pm, Thompson 175

October 26

Unlocking the genomes of museum specimens to address longstanding questions in avian biology

Dave Slager

University of Washington

4 pm, Thompson 175

November 2

LIGO and the era of gravitational wave astronomy

Joey Shapiro Key

University of Washington Bothell, Department of Physics

4 pm, Thompson 175

November 9 Petrology and chemistry of meteorites from the moon and Mars: Windows into extraterrestrial geology

 

Anthony J. Irving
 

University of Washington, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

4 pm, Thompson 175

November 16 The Unalaska Sea Ice Project and its unlikely connection to the Slater Museum

 

Mike Etnier
 

Western Washington University Research Associate in Zooarcheology

4 pm, Thompson 175

November 23 Thanksgiving
November 30

The biomechanics of gait

Michael Pohl

University of Puget Sound, Department of Exercise Science

4 pm, Thompson 175

Spring 2018 Schedule

January 18

Understanding the Decline of The Western Alaskan Steller Sea Lion:

Assessing the Evidence Concerning Multiple Hypothesis

Marc Mangel, Distinguished Research Professor

University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics

January 25

Biochemical analysis of a Plasmodium α/β-hydrolase that modulates parasite invasive-stage morphogenesis

Dr. Anna Groat-Carmona, Instructor

Western Washington University, College of Science & Engineering

February 1

Examining cell signaling in complex environments with microscale systems

Ashleigh Theberge, Assistant Professor

University of Washington, Department of Chemistry

February 8

Toxic highways: Evaluating contaminants in Puget Sound stormwater

Katherine Peter, Research Scientist

University of Washington Tacoma, Center for Urban Waters

February 15

Disseminating Technical Information to the Public in a Palatable Format: Diary of a Port Biologist

Jenn Stebbings, Environmental Project Manager I, Biologist

Port of Tacoma

February 22

The role of sunlight in the degradation of aquatic pollutants

Doug Latch, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Seattle University, Department of Chemistry

March 1

Impacts Past and Future: A Short History of the Risk of Cosmic Impacts

Erik Conway, Historian

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

March 8

The trickle-down effects of losing a top carnivore in a rural community

Catherine Cardelús, Associate Professor

Colgate College, Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies

March 15 Spring Break
March 22

Blood coagulation, antibody inhibitors and hemophilia: can structural biology help in developing

better therapeutics?

P. Clint Spiegel, Professor of Biochemistry

Western Washington University, Department of Chemistry

March 29

Stories of fungal engineering: hyphal highways, evaporative anemometry and mushroom winds

Marcus Roper, Professor of Mathematics

University of California Los Angeles, Department of Mathematics

April 5

Exploring the effects of drugs of abuse on memory, motivation, and reward

Dr. Sierra Stringfield, Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry

Host: Visible Spectrum

*Special Seminar*

Empowering Global Scientific Engagement

Geri Richmond, 2018 Winner of the Priestly Medal, American Chemical Society

University of Oregon

7 pm, Kilworth Chapel

April 12

Evolution on the bright side of life: Experimental coevolution of a microbial mutualism

Kristina Hillesland, Associate Professor of Biology

University of Washington Bothell

April 19

Drilling for earthquakes at the Japan Trench: insights into the 2011 M9 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Jamie Kirkpatrick

McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

April 26 Distilling Taxa from Complex Microbial Communities Using MinHash Sketches

 

Phillip Brooks, Postdoctoral Research Scientist

University of California Davis