Seminar series
First Semester 2009 (March to June)
Seminars were held in the Department of Zoology, Seminar Room (Room 350, Biological Sciences 1, 3rd Floor) on Wednesdays from 12.05-1.00 pm unless otherwise stated.
Enquiries: Dr Martin Steinbauer, Seminar Coordinator(9479 1672, m.steinbauer@latrobe.edu.au)
Seminars
- Preliminary PhD seminar
Ms Noni Larkins
Properties, functions and mechanisms of Heat Shock Protein 25 and Heat Shock Protein 72 in skeletal muscle.
Host: Dr Fiona Bird. - Final PhD seminar
Dr Merilyn Grey
The impact of the Noisy Miner Manorina melancephala on avian diversity and insectinduced dieback in eucalypt remnants.
Host: Dr Michael Clarke, Associate Professor - Honours seminars
Ms Bonnie Peters (preliminary honours seminar)
Resolving a burning issue by uncovering mimic species of hairy stinging caterpillars.
Ms Thea Shell (final honours seminar)
The influence of Yellow-throated miners upon the diversity and abundance of birds present in the fragmented Mallee ecosystem.
Host: Dr Giuseppe Posterino.
- Dr Jillian Garvey (Postdoctoral Fellow, La Trobe University)
Wallabies and Wombats: the Zooarchaeology of Ice Age Tasmania
Host: Emeritus Scholar Dr Anne Warren - Dr Lindy Lumsden, Arthur Rylah Institute
Disaster in Paradise: The rapid decline and imminent extinction of terrestrial fauna on Christmas Island, in particular the Christmas Island Pipistrelle.
Host: Dr Pete Green, Botany - Professor Emeritus Ernest Lundelius Jnr., Department of Geological Science, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Study of vertebrate cave fauna in Australia.
Host: Emeritus Scholar Dr Pat Woolley - Final PhD seminar
Ms Sarah Andrewartha
Body temperature effects on O2 delivery and acid-base balance: ectotherms versus endotherms.
Host: Dr Fiona Bird. - Dr Justin A. Welbergen, Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Cuckoo-host arms races
Host: Dr Michael Clarke, Associate Professor - Dr John Long, Museum Victoria
New discoveries of exceptional Late Devonian fishes from Gogo, Western Australia (c.380 mya), elucidate problems in vertebrate evolution.
Host: Emeritus Scholar Dr Anne Warren - Final Honours seminars
Mr David De Angelis
The influence of fire events on the spatial ecology of the Desert Skink, Egernia inornata.
Mr Jose Ramos
Ecological divergence in two closely related species of dragon lizards: Ctenophorus pictus and Ctenophorus fordi.
Host: Dr Giuseppe Posterino - Preliminary Honours seminar (moved from 29 April)
Ms Julie Bindokas
Factors influencing the fish assemblages in the Lower Darling River. - Final Honours seminar
Ms Felicity Humann
The influence of fire on the foraging behaviour of insectivorous bats in the Mallee.
Host: Dr Giuseppe Posterino - Final Honours seminar
Ms Lauren Fraser
Using photopoint data to predict faunal habitat quality in the Murray Mallee.
Host: Dr Giuseppe Posterino - Dr Michael Braby, Curator of Entomology
Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory.
Cospeciation or colonization in insect-plant interactions? Patterns of host plant affiliation, diversification and adaptive radiation in pierid butterflies.
Host: Dr Martin Steinbauer - Dr Ben Kear, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (La Trobe University) & Research Associate (South Australian Museum/Monash University)
A brief chronicle of kangaroo evolution.
Host: Emeritus Scholar Dr Pat Woolley
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11 March
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Monday 16 March
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18 March
- 25 March
- 1 April
- Thursday 2 April
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8 April 10.00 am
- Thursday 9 April
- 15 April
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22 April seminar postponed - rescheduled on 29 April
29 April
- 6 May
- 13 May
- 20 May
- 3 June