| NIMBioS Event Calendar Archive 2012 | |
|---|---|
| January 2012 | |
| Jan 12-14 | Curriculum Development Faculty Workshop |
| Jan 17 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
Andrew Kanarek, NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Topic: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of Allee effects in small founder populations of invasive species |
| Jan 31 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
Maud Lélu, NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Topic: Interactions between the transmission modes of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii |
| February 2012 | |
| Feb 6-8 |
NIMBioS Investigative Workshop:
Modeling Social Complexity
Descriptive Flyer. |
| Feb 8 2-4 pm |
A Public Debate: Was Warfare a Creative Force in Early Social Evolution?
Darwin Day event Shiloh Room, University Center Descriptive Flyer. |
| Feb 9 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
Rosemary Gillespie, Environmental Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Darwin Day event Topic: Community assembly across an island chronology |
| Feb 13-15 | NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Disturbance Regimes and Climate-Carbon Feedback |
| Feb 21 | STEM Lecture/Workshop Series - Barry Golden (UTK, Theory and Practice in Teacher Education), Workshop: Instructional Strategies to Teach Global Climate Change |
| Feb 23-24 |
NSF Centers Education & Outreach Coordinators meeting
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| Feb 28 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
**Russell Lande, Natural Sciences, Imperial College London Topic: Adaptation to an extraordinary environment by evolution of phenotypic plasticity and genetic assimilation |
| March 2012 | |
| Mar 12-14 | NIMBioS Working Group: Multiscale Modeling of the Life Cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, 2nd meeting |
| Mar 13-15 | NIMBioS Working Group: ‘Pretty Darn Good’ Control: extensions of optimal control for ecological systems, 2nd meeting |
| Mar 27 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
Judy Day, Dept. of Mathematics and Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Tennessee Topic: Complex immune responses: modeling and control |
| Mar 27 | STEM Lecture/Workshop Series - Katherine Evans (ORNL, Computational Earth Sciences), Lecture: Using Computational Science to Understand Earth's Climate |
| Mar 29 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
Michael DeGiorgio, Dept. of Integrative Biology,
Univ. of California, Berkeley Topic: Genetic variation and modern human origins |
| April 2012 | |
| Apr 4 1 p.m. |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
**Andrew Pomiankowski, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoPLEX), Univ. College London Topic: Do sexual ornaments signal fertility |
| Apr 10 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
James Degnan, Math and Statistics, Univ. of Canterbury; NIMBioS Sabbatical Visitor
Topic: Modeling hybridization: Gene trees in species networks |
| Apr 11-13 | NIMBioS Working Group: Ocean Viral Dynamics, 1st meeting |
| Apr 24 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
**Joshua Plotkin, Mathematical Biology, Univ. of Penn
Topic: On the role of neutral mutations in adaptation |
| Apr 24 7:30 p.m. |
NIMBioS Songwriter-in-Residence Baba Brinkman: a free, excerpted performance of his critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show, The Rap Guide to Evolution, with music provided by DJ Jamie Simmonds. UC Auditorium. Descriptive flyer |
| Apr 30 |
*NIMBioS Seminar:
Rob de Boer, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University
Topic: Analysing immune cell migration |
* After April 13, 2012, NIMBioS Seminars and Teatime Talks were held in Rm. 206 at NIMBioS' new location in Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Light refreshments are served starting 30 min. before seminars.
**NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor
