Carbon Cycle Projections Depend on How We Think About Life After Death. EEB Grad. Student, Chelsea Vario, will host Mark Bradford, PhD, Yale University School of Forestry.

The Role of an Individual Species in Shaping Traits, Community Structure and Ecosystem Function. Asst. Prof. Brad Taylor, Biological Sciences Dept. will give a special seminar.

The Role of an Individual Species in Shaping Traits, Community Structure and Ecosystem Function. Asst. Prof. Brad Taylor, Biological Sciences Dept. will give a special seminar.

Functional Adaptations to Climate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Prof. Mark McPeek will host Stephen Tonsor, PhD, University of Pittsburgh.

On Biological Computation: Sensors and Actuators Controlling Cell Cycle and Mid-blastula Transitions. Prof. Amy Gladfelter will host Jan Skotheim, PhD, Stanford University.

The Tree of Life is Dead; Long Live the Tree of Life. Prof. Scott Williams will host Robert DeSalle, PhD, American Museum of Natural History.

Archana Murali will present her PhD thesis: Characterization of an Inducible Model of Prion Disease in Drosophila melanogaster.

The Ups and Downs of Environmental Fluctuations for Population Performance and Persistence. EEB Grad. Student, Sam Fey, will host David Vasseur, PhD, Yale University.

Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Organization: The Teneurins and Beyond. Timothy Mosca PhD, Stanford University, candidate for a faculty position in the Biological Sciences Dept.

Origins of Inhibitory Specificity in an Olfactory Circuit. Elizabeth Hong PhD, Harvard Medical School, candidate for a faculty position in the Biological Sciences Dept.