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Paul Burton Seminar Series
Fall 2009
| 28 Aug. | Joseph H. K. Pechmann - Department of Biology, WCU Organizational meeting for students taking seminar for credit |
| 4 Sept. | Andy Coburn - Program for Study of Developed Shorelines, WCU Beaches vs. Buildings: Coastal Management in North Carolina |
| 11 Sept. | Robert J. Warren - School of Forestry and Envir. Science, Yale Univ. and Dept. of Biological Sciences, Wright State Univ. Ant-mediated seed dispersal facilitates spatial distribution, but does it expand niche boundaries? |
| 18 Sept. | Lesly A. Temesvari - Dept of Biological Sciences, Clemson University Amoebic dysentery: insights into virulence |
| 25 Sept. | Nicholas M. Haddad - Department of Zoology, NC State University The conservation value of landscape corridors |
| 2 Oct. | Kevin M. Catley - Department of Biology, WCU The challenges of introducing tree thinking into the college classroom: Textbooks, topologies, and deep time |
| 9 Oct. | Fall break- no seminar |
| 16 Oct. | Jeff Ryan - University of South Florida How a WCU science degree can take one to a) the Ivy League b) more than a few volcanoes and mountain belts, and c) back here (eventually...) |
| 23 Oct. | Richard C. Bruce - Western and East Carolina Universities A major adaptive radiation in our own backyard: the remarkable salamander genus Desmognathus |
| 30 Oct. | Joni Bugden-Storie - Department of Geosciences & Natural Resources Managment, WCU Using international remote sensing projects to improve regional natural resource management |
| 6 Nov. | Max Lanning - Department of Biology, WCU Sepals and stamens: The key to the Southern Appalachian saxifrage species complex AND Carter Dillow - Department of Biology, WCU Fingerprinting Bacterial and Achaeal Genes from the Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Rhizosphere |
| 13 Nov. | Dr. R. Michael Lehman - Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture Evaluating genetically-modified crops for their potential effect on soil microorganisms, their activities, and ecosystem-level functions |
| 20 Nov. | Melissa Hughes - Biology Department, College of Charleston A good male is hard to define: alternative territorial strategies, dialect variation, and cultural evolution of song in song sparrows |
| 27 Nov. | Thanksgiving break- no seminar |
| 4 Dec. | Joshua J. Bronson - USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station Screening for resistance to fusiform rust (Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme) in southern US forest trees |
| 11 Dec. | Deyu Xie - Department of Plant Biology, NC State University Understanding proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in plants |
All Seminars are the Natural Science Auditorium at 12:20 pm Friday on the date indicated.
The Biology Department is grateful to the Paul Burton Fund and the J. Gerald Eller Scholarship and Lectureship Fund for assistance in underwriting the cost of this seminar series.