Dr. Richard P. Elinson
Department of Biological Sciences
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA

"EvoDevo of direct development, an alternative frog life history"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Valeria A. Conforti
Center for Conservation and
Research of Endangered Wildlife
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
Cincinnati, OH

"Reproductive biotechnologies for conservation of endangered cats"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. George Langford
Dean of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

"Actin Cytoskeleton in Axonal Transport and Cell Migration: Live Cell Imaging"

Host lab: Kaneshiro

Dr. Brian L. Storz
Department of Biology
Centre College
Danville, KY

"The ultimate and proximate regulation of cannibalistic tadpole development in spadefoot toads"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Robert A. Skipper, Jr
Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

"Coyne vs. Wade on Wright's Shifting Balance: Localizing Influence in Scientific Controversies"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Trevor D. Price
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

"Ecological influences on bird speciation"

Host lab: Petren

Dr. John D. Harder
Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

"Neuroendocrinology of estrus and ovulation in opossums: the role of male stimuli"

Host lab: Buchholz

Darwin Sesquicentennial Celebration Symposium: "The Vision and Legacy of Charles Darwin"

Speakers include Kenneth Petren (University of Cincinnati), Arnold Miller (University of Cincinnati), C. Owen Lovejoy (Kent State University), Mohamed Noor (Duke University, awarded the 2008 Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London), and David Quammen (Montana State University)

For symposium details please see http://www.uc.edu/darwin/coming_events/

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Radiation Retraining

Dr. David Weisrock
Department of Biology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

"New perspectives on species delimitation and phylogeny reconstruction: examples from salamanders and lemurs"

Host lab: DeBry

Dr. Christina Grozinger
Department of Entomology
Center for Chemical Ecology
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

"TBA"

Host lab: Rollmann

Dr. Carolyn Price
Department of Cancer and Cell Biology
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

"New telomere proteins that are involved in telomere replication and de novo telomere synthesis"

Host lab: Kaneshiro

Dr. Steven de Belle
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

"TBA"

Host lab: Rollmann

Dr. Ivan Gomez-Mestre
Instituto Cantabrico de Biodiversidad
Universidad de Oviedo
Depto. de Biologia de Organismos y Sistemas
Spain

"TBA"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Robert J. Denver
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

"TBA"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Nusha Keyghobadi
Department of Biology
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

"TBA"

Host lab: Matter

Dr. Rudolf Raff
Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

"TBA"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Amy Henrici
Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh, PA

"Digging through the past: the evolution of burrowing in frogs"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. James Tiedje
University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology
Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Microbial Ecology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

"TBA"

Host lab: Kaneshiro

Dr. Karin Pfennig
Department of Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

"The evolutionary and ecological implications of fitness trade-offs in mate recognition"

Host lab: Buchholz

Dr. Anand Ray
Department of Entomology
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA

"TBA"

Host lab: Rollmann

Dr. David Pfennig
Department of Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

"Polyphenism and the origins of diversity"

Host lab: Buchholz