Life Sciences Seminar Series
February 2009 Institute of Arctic Biology
Feb. 6
Department of Biology and Wildlife
Heterogeneity and Change in the Arctic Landscape
Feb. 13
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What, Why, When, Where, and How of Stable C, N, and H isotopes in Amino Acids in Ecological Studies
Gus Shaver Senior Scientist The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Feb. 20
Understanding Acid-Base: The Strong Ion Difference
Feb. 27
Marilyn Fogel Senior Scientist Carnegie Institution Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution of Washington
Patterns of Cryptic Speciation in Madagascar’s Mouse Lemurs: Just Because We Can’t See Them Doesn’t mean They Aren’t There
Robert Furilla Interim Associate Director University of Alaska Anchorage WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho - collaborative medical school).
Anne Yoder Professor Departments of Biology and BAA Duke University, Durham NC
Seminars are held most Fridays during the semester from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Students, faculty members, staff, and the public are welcome. Please check www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php for seminar details. Seating is limited. UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.
Marie Gilbert/IAB
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March 2009 Institute of Arctic Biology
Department of Biology and Wildlife
March 6
Declines in Canadian Caribou Herds: Natural Cycles or a Warming Climate? Anne Gunn Retired Caribou Biologist Government of the Northwest Territories
March 20
TAPS Revisited: Lessons of Potential Value for Alaska’s Next Large-diameter Pipeline System.
March 27
D. Gustine/IAB
Novel Determinants of Francisella tularensis Virulence Identified by Transcriptional Profiling Jean Celli Investigator, Tularemia Pathogenesis Section Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites NIAID National Institutes of Health Rocky Mountain Laboratories Hamilton, Montana
Erich Follmann Professor of Zoology Institute of Arctic Biology Department of Biology and Wildlife University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Seminars are held most Fridays during the semester from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Students, faculty members, staff, and the public are welcome. Please check www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php for seminar details. Seating is limited. UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.
Erich Follmann/IAB
Life Sciences Seminar Series
May 1
. p.m 0 3 4: 30- rium : 3 to ys da Audi i r F ey Elv
MAY 2009 Institute of Arctic Biology
Department of Biology and Wildlife
Ravens at the Feast Bernd Heinrich Professor Emeritus University of Vermont Department of Biology Marsh Life Science Building
In Ravens inWinter, Heinrich studied the social organization of ravens with a view to understanding how and why unrelated individuals share and/or defend intermittently plentiful food sources. More recently, in Mind of the Raven, he concentrated on exploring cognition in ravens, including the possibility that some of their behavior is derived from conscious choice. In Mind of the Raven, Heinrich details his observations of raven behavior, which includes such complex activities as strong pair-bonding, use of tools, elaborate vocal communication, and play. In one test that he devised, Heinrich discovered that different ravens came up with different solutions to retrieve meat that was tied to a string. The book won the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing.
Seminars are held most Fridays during the semester from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Students, faculty members, staff, and the public are welcome. Please check www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php for seminar details. Seating is limited. UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.
Life Sciences Seminar Series
May 1
. p.m 0 3 4: 30- rium : 3 to ys da Audi i r F ey Elv
MAY 2009 Institute of Arctic Biology
Department of Biology and Wildlife
Ravens at the Feast Bernd Heinrich Professor Emeritus University of Vermont Department of Biology Marsh Life Science Building
In Ravens inWinter, Heinrich studied the social organization of ravens with a view to understanding how and why unrelated individuals share and/or defend intermittently plentiful food sources. More recently, in Mind of the Raven, he concentrated on exploring cognition in ravens, including the possibility that some of their behavior is derived from conscious choice. In Mind of the Raven, Heinrich details his observations of raven behavior, which includes such complex activities as strong pair-bonding, use of tools, elaborate vocal communication, and play. In one test that he devised, Heinrich discovered that different ravens came up with different solutions to retrieve meat that was tied to a string. The book won the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing.
Seminars are held most Fridays during the semester from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Students, faculty members, staff, and the public are welcome. Please check www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php for seminar details. Seating is limited. UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.
Institute of Arctic Biology Sept. 3
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Mammalian Torpor: Turning Down the Fire of Life 2009 Irving-Scholander Memorial Lecture UA Museum Arnold Espe Auditorium
Gerhard Walter Heldmaier
Seasonal Acclimation of Small Mammals Gerhard Walter Heldmaier Professor of Animal Physiology Vice President Philipps-Universit채t Margurg, Germany
Writing About Northern Science: Theses, Journals, Books, and Nonfiction Bill Streever Author/Biologist Freelance/British Petroleum
Global Dimethyl Sulfide Model: Toward a Virtual DMS Observatory Falk Huettmann, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology Institute of Arctic Biology/UAF
Sept. 25
Grant Humphries, graduate student Department of Biology and Wildlife
TBA Carol J. Cardona DVM, PhD, ACPV UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
September 2009 Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Fridays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Sept. 18
Sept. 11
Sept. 4
Professor of Animal Physiology Vice President Philipps-Universit채t Margurg, Germany
Institute of Arctic Biology Rethinking Zoonotic Disease at the Intersection of Disease Ecology, Virology, and Genetics Jonathan Runstadler Assistant Professor of Biology & Wildlife Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF
Population Structure and Management Units in Large Mammals Kris Hundertmark Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF
Individual Heterogeneity and Harvest Dynamics: A New Paradigm for Adaptive Management? Mark Lindberg Associate Professor of Biology Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF
Novel determinants of Francisella tularensis virulence identified by transcriptional profiling Jean Celli Investigator, Tularemia Pathogenesis Section Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites NIAID, National Institutes of Health Rocky Mountain Laboratories
october 2009 Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Fridays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Oct. 23
Oct. 16
Oct. 9
Oct. 2
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Institute of Arctic Biology
Nov. 6
Oct. 30
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Mitochondria in Cold-Bodied Fishes: Maintaining Energy Production When the Temperature is Turned Down Kristin O’Brien
Assistant Professor of Biology & Wildlife Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife
The Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas: A Web-Based Plant-to-Planet Approach for Vegetation Change Analysis Donald “Skip” Walker Professor of Biology, Alaska Geobotany Center director
Ecology, Evolution and Pathogenesis of Avian Influenza Viruses Vincent Munster
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center of Excellence in Influenza Research and Pathogenesis NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Rabies in Alaska: A 37-Year Record of Animal Cases and Human Exposures Don Ritter Manager, Alaska State Virology Laboratory (retired)
october-November 2009 Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Fridays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Nov. 20
Nov. 13
Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife
Institute of Arctic Biology Life Sciences Seminar Series
Please Note our New Seminar Day Wednesdays
Feb. 24
Feb. 10
The molecular machinery of ischemic tolerance
Roger P. Simon, MD Robert S. Dow Chair and Director of Neurobiology R.S. Dow Neurobiology Laboratories, Portland
Bending behavior of arctic shrub stems under snow and other loads, including a novel, counter-intuitive, freeze-bending response (cryocampsis) Peter Ray Research Scientist, Institute of Arctic Biology Emeritus Professor, Stanford University
February 2010 Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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How can quantitative trait locus mapping address questions about the evolutionary potential of natural populations? A case study with Yellow Monkeyflower John Kelly Associate Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas
Arctic contaminants: the old, the new and the unknown Derek Charles G. Muir
Senior Research Scientist Aquatic Ecosystems Protection Research Branch National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada
Tracking ecological change from the earliest human arrival in Alaska to the present: Quartz Lake-Shaw Creek Flats multidisciplinary project David R. Klein Professor Emeritus Institute of Arctic Biology, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Alaska Fairbanks
March 2010 Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Institute of Arctic Biology Apr. 21
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Synanthropy and Disease Risk in Asia: Malaria, Tuberculosis, Enteroviruses, and Simian Retroviruses Lisa Jones-Engel
Senior Research Scientist University of Washington National Primate Research Center Seattle, Washington
Life Sciences Seminars are now on
Apr. 28
Wednesdays
Phenotypic Responses to Environmental Change in a Seabird Community A. W. “Tony� Diamond
University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, Canada
April 2010 Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Life Sciences Seminar Series Neurological, Behavioral, Immune, Endocrine, and Developmental Impacts of Common Pesticide Mixtures Professor, Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin-Madison Porter will present “Modeling Animal Landscapes: From Mosquitoes to Mammals” 5:30 p.m. Sept. 2, UAF Wood Center Ballrooms C-D Warren Porter
Alaska Arthropod Biodiversity: Documenting the State’s Least Well-Known and Most Species-Rich Animals Curator of Insects, Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of Alaska Museum, Department of Biology and Wildlife
Sept. 8
Sept. 1
2010 Irving-Scholander Memorial Lecturer
Derek S. Sikes
Sept. 15
Graduate Student Orientation: Introduction to the Institute of Arctic Biology Director IAB, Professor of Zoophysiology Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks Brian M. Barnes
Sept. 22
Linking Ecosystems, Food Webs, and Fish Production: Subsidies in Salmonid Watersheds Associate Professor and Assistant Unit Leader Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife Mark Wipfli
Sept. 29
Institute of Arctic Biology
September 2010
Digging Deeper: Using Molecular Phylogenetics, Genomics, Morphology, and the Fossil Record to Untangle Large-Scale Biotic Divergences in Plants Herbarium Curator Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Museum Department of Biology and Wildlife
Stefanie Ickert-Bond
Visit www.iab.uaf.edu/events for seminar details. Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
Institute of Arctic Biology Life Sciences Seminar Series
Oct. 6
Alexander “Sasha� Kitaysky
TBA Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology, Institute of Arctic Biology, Dept. of Biology and Wildlife
Oct. 13
Barbara Taylor
Development and Plasticity of the Breathing Control Network Assistant Professor of Biology in Neuroscience, Institute of Arctic Biology, Dept. of Biology and Wildlife
Oct. 20
Knut Kielland
Responses of Interior Alaskan Forests to ClimateInduced Changes in Nitrogen Biogeochemistry Associate Professor of Ecology, Institute of Arctic Biology, Dept. of Biology and Wildlife
Oct. 27
Jeremy Jones
Climate Change and Permafrost Thaw Impacts on Stream Hydrology and Elemental Fluxes Associate Professor of Biology, Institute of Arctic Biology, Dept. of Biology and Wildlife
October 2010 Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Institute of Arctic Biology
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Nov. 3
Mary Beth Leigh
Into the Black Box: Carbon and Contaminant Cycling in Alaskan Ecosystems Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Institute of Arctic Biology, Dept. of Biology and Wildlife, UAF
Nov. 10
Steve Ebbert
Invasive species impacts on natural biodiversity of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Invasive Species Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
Nov. 17
Michael Sheriff
Yes, You Can Blame it all on Mom: Stress, Maternal Programming, and Population Dynamics Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF
Nov. 24
Ing-Lill Persson
Moose as Driver of Ecosystem Change Through Cascading Effects: An Experimental Approach Researcher, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Science, Umea, Sweden
November 2010 Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Institute of Arctic Biology Life Sciences Seminar Series
Dec. 1
Sam Nicols
Adapting optimization techniques for improved conservation management in large state spaces Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF
Dec. 8
Keith Cunningham
LiDAR for biomass estimation Ph.D., Alaska Satellite Facility, UAF
Dec. 15
Rod Boertje
Increasing Fortymile Herd numbers, expanding range size, and fluctuating nutritional status: When do we stablize herd size? Research biologist, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
December 2010 Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Institute of Arctic Biology Life Sciences Seminar Series
Feb. 2
Lori Quakenbush
Satellite Tracking of Bowhead Whales ‘06‘10: What We Have Learned Arctic Marine Mammal Program Leader, Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game.
Feb. 9
John Pearce
Avian Influenza in Alaskan Birds: A Summary of Research Findings from 2006 to 2010 Research wildlife biologist, USGS, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage.
Feb. 23
Jeannette Beasley
February 2011
Evidence for Establishing Optimum Protein Intake in Older Women Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Institute of Arctic Biology Mar. 2
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Jay Rotella Weddell Seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica: Can Stability Exist in a Variable Environment?
Mar. 23
Professor, Ecology Department, Montana State University.
Kevin Winker 20
Professor and Curator of Birds, University of Alaska Museum, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF.
March 2011 Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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Institute of Arctic Biology Life Sciences Seminar Series Apr. 6
Caroline Van Hemert Avian Beak and Keratin Disorder: An Emerging Disease in Wild Birds Ph.D. Candidate, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Wildlife Biologist, USGS Alaska Science Center
Apr. 13
Andres Lopez One Fish, Two Fish, Blackfish, Whitefish
Assistant Professor, School of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences; Curator of Fishes, University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Apr. 20
Julie Hagelin Scents and Sensibilities: Olfaction and Chemical Signals in Birds Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
Apr. 27
Gene Watson Prenatal Exposure to Dental Amalgam: Reassuring Evidence
Associate Professor, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, Dept. of Environmental Medicine, and Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester
April 2011 Everyone Welcome
Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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May 18 Roy Weber
May 11 Keith Cunningham
May 4 Jordan Lewis
Impact of Community on Healthy Aging Research Associate (Academic), Institute of Arctic Biology, Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Synthetic Aperture Radar for Terrestrial Ecologists
Senior Data Quality Engineer, Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hemoglobin’s Adaptations to Oxygen Availability and Temperature in Extant Regionally Heterothermic Vertebrates and the Woolly Mammoth Professor Emeritus, Zoophysiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark
May 2011
Everyone Welcome Seminars held most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Elvey Auditorium. Seating is limited.
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