Department of Zoology
Seminar Series
First Semester 2007  (March to June)

 

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First Semester 2005                          Second Semester 2005 
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Seminars will be held in the Department of Zoology, Seminar Room (Room 350, Biol Sci 1, 3rd Floor) on Wednesdays from 12.05-1 pm unless otherwise stated.

Feel free to bring along your lunch for the lunchtime seminars.  Light snacks and beverages will be provided after the afternoon seminars.

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

 

 

6 March

 

Honours Students - preliminary talks

12.00   Jonas Haag (Intra-individual variability in physiological variables)



12.20  Noni Larkins (Studies of E-C coupling in muscle)
 
7 March

Ms Melanie Lancaster

Final PhD presentation

Menage a trois at Macquarie Island: a longitudinal investigation of hybridisation among three species of fur seal.
 

14 March

 

Honours Students - preliminary talks

12.00   Heather Maginn (Burrowing and feeding ecology of the burrowing mud-shrimp Laomedia healyi (Decapoda: Laomediidae))


12.20  Meagan Relf (Investigation of the habitat characteristics and invertebrates associated with Hesperilla flavescens flavescens, the Altona Skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) for conservation management)
 
 

11 April

 

Honours Student - final talk

William Ritchie
 
 

18 April

 

PhD Students - preliminary talks

12.00   Sarah Butler (Using ghost shrimp to rapidly assess ‘ecological condition’ of soft-sediment environments of Western Port)   synopsis


12.30  Rick Taylor
 

2 May

 

PhD Students - preliminary talks

12.00   Sarah Ferguson


12.30  Lisa Spence-Bailey
 

30 May

 

Mr Joshua Edwards

PhD presentation

The effects of temperature-induced Reactive Oxygen Species on isolated mammalian skeletal muscle.
 

Tuesday 10 July

3.30pm

IAS seminar (held at IAS)

 

Dr Lewis Halsey

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The quest to measure field energetics; penguins, potoroos and people