Department of Zoology
Seminar Series
First Semester 2005    (March to June)

Second Semester 2005    (July to November)                                     

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Seminars are held in the Department of Zoology, Seminar Room (Room 350, Biol Sci 1, 3rd Floor) on Tuesdays from 12.05-1 pm (unless otherwise stated).

Feel free to bring along your lunch.

Enquiries: Dr Robyn Murphy (9479 2302, r.murphy@latrobe.edu.au)

10 March  nb. Thursday

Dr Will Macdonald

Post doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

 High frequency fatigue in skeletal muscle

14-18 March

Honours Students talks

Preliminary and Final presentations

see link for details

22 March

Ms Erica Chao

PhD student: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Deakin University

 “Yabby yabby quite contrary, how does your slow muscle grow"

12 April

Ms Jillian Garvey

Final PhD presentation

An Early Carboniferous fossil assemblage from Fish Hill, Mansfield Basin, Victoria

4–15 April

Honours student talks

Preliminary and Final presentations

 Details of dates and presenters will be posted at a later time

19 April

Postponed to 16 August (2nd semester series)

Dr Jane Melville

Curator of Herpetology, Museum Victoria

 Australian agamid lizards: an insight into the molecular systematics and ecological diversification

26 April

Mr Chris van der Poel

Final PhD presentation

 Temperature effects on muscle contraction

14 June

Postponed to 19 July (2nd semester series)

Mr Tim Clark

Final PhD presentation

 The effect of temperature on circulatory oxygen transport of vertebrate ectotherms during increased oxygen demand