Date
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Speaker
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Topic
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August 26
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Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Rules of engagement: molecular arms races between host and viral genomes (watch)
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August 31
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Ann Tate, Vanderbilt University
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Immune system optimization in a variable world
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September 9
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Blaine Schubert, East Tennessee State University
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The extraordinary Gray Fossil Site of Northeastern Tennessee (watch)
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September 16
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Ann Reid, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
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Changing Minds about Evolution and Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond (watch)
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September 23
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Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis
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Why are symbioses so common: the amoebae – bacteria case (watch)
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September 30
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Chemosensory regulation of collective behavior in eusocial ants (watch)
When two become one: the hybrid origin of clinical fungal isolates (watch)
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October 7
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Evolution of the oldest macroscopic eukaryotes: perspective from fluid mechanics
The last of ice age giants: climate change as an unlikely driver of Late Pleistocene proboscidean extinctions and extirpations
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October 14
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Falling Up: Evolution’s Complexity Ratchet (watch)
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October 28
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Zombies, Chest-bursters, and ghosts in the darkness: evolution’s spooky science stories (watch)
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November 4
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Judith Mank, University of British Columbia
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Repeated divergence and remarkable diversity of the guppy sex chromosomes
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November 11
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A universal power law for the growth and form of teeth, horns, shells and thorns
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November 18
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Karen Sears, University of California-Los Angeles
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Developmental origins and evolution of bats
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