Fall Biology seminars continue Oct. 29

All seminars are held in room 237 of the Lasry Center for Bioscience.

  • Oct. 29; 4 p.m.

Robert Bertin,College of the Holy Cross

“Land use, climate, alien species, and the changing flora of Worcester County”

 

  • Nov. 5; 4 p.m.              

Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University

“Eggs, chickens and baskets: the evolution of reproductive capacity”

 

  • Nov. 19; 4 p.m. 

Dimitrios Floudas, Clark University

“It’s all about rot: evolution of wood decay mechanisms in Agaricomycetes and systematics of Phanerochaete”

 

  • Dec. 3; 4 p.m.

Rob Gegear, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

“Pollinator psychology and the evolution of floral signal complexity”