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Throughout the academic year, the AMNH will present the weekly Museum Seminar Series at which presentations on a variety ofscientific topics will be given by leading scientists, educators and AMNH curators.
During the first year, students will be required to attend each program in the Series and will meet prior to each program for a discussion of the pertinent literature, which they will be expected to have read prior to the lecture, for a total of two hours each week. First year students will earn one credit per semester for a total of two credits. After the first year, students’ participation is not required for credit, but will be strongly encouraged.
Seminars Meet in the Lecture Hall on the following Mondays from 11:00am to noon unless otherwise noted.
Barbara Thorne, University of Maryland
The Evolution of Eusociality in Termites
RGGS Second- Year Student Symposium (afternoon, Linder Theater)
Phil Barden, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Ansel Payne, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Pedro Peloso, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Dawn Roje, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Ward Wheeler and Peter Whiteley, American Museum of Natural History
Computational aspects of the analysis of unaligned sequences: Growth and Spread of the Uto-Aztecan languages
H. Jane Brockmann, University of Florida
Multiple mating in horseshoe crabs
Ronald Clouse, American Museum of Natural History
Case Studies in Terrestrial Invertebrate Biogeography
Antonio Luzcano, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico
The ghosts behind the molecules: prebiotic chemistry, the RNA World, and the origins of life
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Andres Gomez, CBC, American Museum of Natural History
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Dustin Rubenstein, Columbia University
Environmental uncertainty and the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds
Rose L. Carlson, Fordham University
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Julia Clarke, University of Texas
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Paulyn Cartwright, Kansas University
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Barbara Ambrose, New York Botanical Garden
The hidden life of vascular plants - evo-devo in lycophytes and ferns
Brian Sidlauskas, Oregon State University
Phylomorphospace, Facebook and Fantastic Fishes: Synthetic Approaches to the Study of Ichthyological Diversity
Frank Burbrink, City University of New York
Are processes of species diversification deterministic given ecological opportunity?
Kevin Nixon, Cornell Unviersity
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Isabel Sanmanrtin, Real Jardin Botanico, CSIC, Spain
Bayesian biogeography finds its roots: Statistical methods in historical biogeography
Stephane Boissinot, City University of New York, Queens College
Mechanisms of genome size evolution in vertebrates
Erik Dopman, Tufts University
Boring into the Causes of Speciation: Insight from Ostrinia
Gordon Plague, SUNY Potsdam
Parasites in parasites: the evolution of transposable elements in bacterial pathogens
Carl Hopkins, Cornell University
Taxa, Trees, Tones, and Timing: Evolutionary Patterns of Electroreception and Electrogenesis in Fish.
Lorenzo Prendini, American Museum of Natural History
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*Note: Location Kaufmann Theater
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History holds seminars on most Thursdays through the Fall, Winter and Spring. Please refer to the current schedule, and for more details on getting to the seminars, see http://research.amnh.org/eps/seminars.
EPS Seminar Schedule: http://research.amnh.org/eps/seminars/currentschedule
The American Museum of Natural History will host SCCS-NY, the Student Conference on Conservation Science, in New York City on 12-14 October 2011.
Designed for graduate students and recent post-doctoral fellows, the conference specifically targets those pursuing or considering careers in conservation science. Students will interact with established leaders in science, policy, and management during three days of presentations, posters, workshops, and networking events. For more information, please visit http://symposia.cbc.amnh.org/sccsny/.
Those wishing to apply to attend this conference should have completed, or be conducting a research project. Projects from any conservation-related course of study will be considered, including programs in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Selection for participation in the conference will be based on the quality of one’s application as well as its relevance to conservation.
To apply, please go to https://symposia.cbc.amnh.org/sccsny/2011/application.
A list of plenary speakers and workshop topics will be posted in the coming weeks.
For more information, please contact Fiona Brady, Outreach Program Coordinator for the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation American Museum of Natural History at brady@amnh.org or visit http://cbc.amnh.org/.
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