Department of Zoology
Seminar Series
First Semester 2008  (March to June)

 

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First Semester 2005                          Second Semester 2005 
First Semester 2006                          Second Semester 2006 
First Semester 2007                          Second Semester 2007 

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)
 

 

 

5 March

 

Dr Nicola King                                                                                        Flyer

Institute of Medicine, University of Brunei Darussalam

The role of amino acids in myocardial protection against oxidative stress: a radical story

Hosted by Prof George Stephenson
 

7 March

12.05 pm

(nb Friday)

Honours Students - preliminary talk

12.05-12.25   Dane Williams     (Skeletal muscle E-C coupling)

12.25-12.45  Bonnie Ashley     (Physiological variability in heart rate: effect of temperature)
 
 

14 March

11.30 am

(nb Friday morning)

Honours Students - Final talks

11.30 - 12.00    Laura Kingwell        (The influence of land uses on species composition, burrow density and activity on Engaeus (Decapoda: Parastacidae) in Gippland, Victoria)                                               synopsis

12.00 - 12.30    Amanda Schaarschmidt        (Ecosystem engineers of muddy shores)                        synopsis

12.30 - 1.00      Lindsey Heffernen     (Microhabit selection by mallee lizards)       synopsis
 
 

2 April

 

Professor Paul Fisher                                                                              Flyer

Chair in Microbiology, La Trobe University

Where there is smoke there is burnt toast: mitochondrial disease and a cellular alarm system

Hosted by Dr Robyn Murphy
 

11 April

1:00 pm

(nb. Friday)

 

Honours Student - preliminary talk

Melissa Mathieson     (Mimicry in the superb Lyrebird – model selection)
 
 

23 April

 

Dr Kevin Cummings                                                                                Flyer

Research Fellow, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA

Effects of  temperature on CO2 sensitivity

Hosted by Mr Josh Edwards
 

14 May

 

Dr Martin Steinbauer                                                                              Flyer

Post doctoral Fellow, Dept of Zoology, La Trobe University (previously, Plague Locust Commission)

Causes and consequences of host expansion by the autumn gum moth

Hosted by Assoc Prof Mike Clarke
 

4 June

 

Honours Student - final talk

Jonas Haag                                                                                          synopsis

An ecophysiological approach of interindividual variability in Daphnia carinata
 

11 June

Prof Gordon Sanson                                                                                   Flyer

Head, Department of Biological Sciences, Monash University

On horses and pandas:  cheating the paradigm?

Hosted by Assoc Prof Anne Warren