Department of Zoology
Seminar Series
 Second Semester 2005  (July to November)

First Semester 2005    (March to June)

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Seminars are held 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)
19 July

 

Mr Tim Clark

Final PhD presentation

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

16 August

Dr Jane Melville

Curator of Herpetology, Museum Victoria

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

20 September

5 (Wed) and 11 October

Honours student talks

Final presentations

Preliminary presentations

4 October

Ms Tami Hasse

Final PhD presentation

Weaning in New Zealand fur seals and Steller sea lions

13 October

(Thursday-30 min)

Initial PhD presentation

Ms Amanda Dare

What makes a site attractive for colonisation by Bell Miners?

18 October

Dr Glenn Wadley

Post doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne

The role of nitric oxide on mitochondrial biogenesis

25 October

Prof Tim New

 Department of Zoology, La Trobe University

 Developing and implementing Australia's national Butterfly Action Plan

7 November

(nb. Monday)

Dr Paul McDonald

Visiting Fellow, Department of Zoology, La Trobe University

Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative breeder: Are helpers-at-the-nest ‘showing off’?

15 November

(30 min)

Initial PhD presentation

Mr Geoff Heard

Conservation biology of the endangered Growling Grass Frog (Litoria raniformis) in an urban-fringe landscape