From spomer@uiuc.edu Mon, 03 Mar 2003 05:09:24 -0600 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 05:09:24 -0600 From: L. Art Spomer spomer@uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] NRES Thursday Seminar #2 --=====================_1456804==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed NRES Thursday Seminar Series #2, W121 Turner Hall, 4:00 pm, Thursday, 6 February (refreshments at 3:45) Analytical and Structural Approaches to Enhancing Traditional Ecosystem, and Sustainable Resource Management: An Overview of a Research Program. Dr. Gil A. Mendoza, Associate Professor of Forest Resource Management, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, UIUC This presentation provides an historic overview of Dr. Mendozas research program which mirrors the development and evolution of forest management. There are three general forest management eras including traditional, ecosystem, and sustainable forest management. Consistent with the scientific forest management paradigm, Dr. Mendoza has developed and used a number of mathematical optimization models. Later, with the advent of ecosystem management, his modeling philosophy also shifted from that of a 'hard systems modeler' to that of a 'compassionate modeler'. Dr. Mendoza's current research focuses on participatory approaches to sustainable forest resource management. Along with his international colleagues, he have developed and applied a number of methodologies and procedures for the assessment or evaluation of sustainable and community-based resource management. A number of case studies in Indonesia, Philippines, and Zimbabwe will be presented. ---------------------- (Sorry if you receive this message more than once; if you do, you are on multiple mailing lists targeted by this message) --=====================_1456804==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" NRES Thursday Seminar Series #2,

W121 Turner Hall, 4:00 pm, Thursday, 6 February (refreshments at 3:45)

Analytical and Structural Approaches to Enhancing Traditional Ecosystem, and Sustainable Resource Management: An Overview of a Research Program.

Dr. Gil A. Mendoza, Associate Professor of Forest Resource Management, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, UIUC

This presentation provides an historic overview of Dr. Mendozas research program which mirrors the development and evolution of forest management. There are three general forest management eras including traditional, ecosystem, and sustainable forest management. Consistent with the scientific forest management paradigm, Dr. Mendoza has developed and used a number of mathematical optimization models. Later, with the advent of ecosystem management, his modeling philosophy also shifted from that of a 'hard systems modeler' to that of a 'compassionate modeler'.

Dr. Mendoza's current research focuses on participatory approaches to sustainable forest resource management. Along with his international colleagues, he have developed and applied a number of methodologies and procedures for the assessment or evaluation of sustainable and community-based resource management. A number of case studies in Indonesia, Philippines, and Zimbabwe will be presented.

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--=====================_1456804==.ALT-- From annettar@life.uiuc.edu Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:03:03 -0600 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:03:03 -0600 From: Annetta Ashbrook annettar@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] Colin Blakemore--CAS/MillerComm2003 Lecture--Wednesday March 5 --=====================_317048328==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Colin Blakemore, Director, Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University will give a public CAS/MillerComm2003 lecture, "Mice, Monkeys and Man: The Ethical and Practical Problems of Animal Use in Biomedical Research" on Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Smith Recital Hall, 805 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. For further information, please call the Center for Advanced Study Office, 3-6729, or consult http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/casmillercomm. All CAS/MillerComm lectures are free and open to the public. Colin Blakemore will also be a guest on WILL-AM's call-in talk show, FOCUS-580, during the 11:06 a.m. segment on Wednesday, March 5. -- Nancy Sarabi (Staff Secretary) Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois, MC-064 (Urbana, IL 61801) Email: sarabi@staff.uiuc.edu Phone: (217) 333-6729 Fax: (217) 244-3396 --=====================_317048328==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Colin Blakemore, Director, Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University will give a public CAS/MillerComm2003 lecture, "Mice, Monkeys and Man: The Ethical and Practical Problems of Animal Use in Biomedical Research" on Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Smith Recital Hall, 805 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. For further information, please call the Center for Advanced Study Office, 3-6729, or consult http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/casmillercomm.

All CAS/MillerComm lectures are free and open to the public.
Colin Blakemore will also be a guest on WILL-AM's call-in talk show, FOCUS-580, during the 11:06 a.m. segment on Wednesday, March 5.
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Nancy Sarabi (Staff Secretary)
Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois, MC-064 (Urbana, IL 61801)
Email: sarabi@staff.uiuc.edu Phone: (217) 333-6729 Fax: (217) 244-3396
--=====================_317048328==_.ALT-- From jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:39:47 -0600 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:39:47 -0600 From: Jana Waite jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] SIB Seminars, Week of March 10, 2003

School of Integrative Biology Seminars
WEEK OF MARCH 10, 2003

MONDAY, MARCH 10

ECOLUNCH
1:00 PM
176 Burrill, 407 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Rachel Gallery, UIUC.

Department of ENTOMOLOGY
4:00 PM
B102 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
John Ewer, Cornell Univ.: "Genetic analysis of ecdysis behavior in Drosophila."

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

Program in ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
4:00 PM
B102 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Valerie Elviner, Institute of Ecosystem Studies: "The ecosystem effects of ecological interactions."

GENETIC ENGINEERING SEMINAR/PHYSIOLOGICAL & MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY (PLBIO 413 & CPSCI 400)
12:00 noon
W-109 Turner, 1102 S. Goodwin Ave., U.

Hank Bass, Florida State Univ.: "3D analysis of meiotic telomere functions in maize."

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

Department of ANIMAL BIOLOGY
4:00 PM
176 Burrill, 407 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Heather Vance-Chalcraft, UIUC: "The effects of multiple predator species on the prey's risk of predation." (exit seminar)

Please send seminar announcements, changes, or corrections to jwaite@life.uiuc.edu

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Jana Waite

Assistant to the Director

School of Integrative Biology

University of Illinois

286 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217/ 333-3488

fax: 217/ 244-1224 From jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:07:18 -0600 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:07:18 -0600 From: Jana Waite jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] Correction to SIB Seminars, Week of March 10 Please note: Heather Vance-Chalcraft's exit seminar is April 10 (not this March 13). Sorry for any inconvenience. Jana

School of Integrative Biology Seminars
WEEK OF MARCH 10, 2003
CORRECTED

Hank Bass, Florida State Univ.: "3D analysis of meiotic telomere functions in maize."

Please send seminar announcements, changes, or corrections to jwaite@life.uiuc.edu

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Jana Waite

Assistant to the Director

School of Integrative Biology

University of Illinois

286 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217/ 333-3488

fax: 217/ 244-1224 From spomer@uiuc.edu Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:14:33 -0600 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:14:33 -0600 From: L. Art Spomer spomer@uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] 4th Thursday Seminar --=====================_139841681==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed NRES Thursday Seminar Series #4 W121 Turner Hall 4:00 pm, Thursday 13 March 2003 Integrated Pest Management of Interior Plantscapes: Where Are Fungus Gnats, Bradysia spp., Coming From? Dr. Raymond A. Cloyd, Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist in Ornamental Entomology/Integrated Pest Management at the University of Illinois The green industry, which involves greenhouses, landscapes, nurseries, turfgrass, conservatories, and interiorscapes, is the fastest growing sector of Illinois agriculture. Dr. Cloyd has state-wide responsibilities for management of arthropod pests in all areas of the green industry. He will provide an overview of the major research projects being conducted at the University of Illinois in managing several important interior plantscape arthropod pests including thrips, mealybugs, and fungus gnats. His presentation will focus on the extended research conducted on fungus gnats, Bradysia spp., a pest in greenhouse production systems, primarily discussing their contamination of commercially available bagged growing medium and the significance of his research on fungus gnats to the green industry from an applied standpoint. Refreshments will be served --=====================_139841681==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" NRES Thursday Seminar Series #4
W121 Turner Hall
4:00 pm, Thursday 13 March 2003

Integrated Pest Management of Interior Plantscapes: Where Are Fungus Gnats,
Bradysia spp., Coming From?

Dr. Raymond A. Cloyd, Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist in Ornamental Entomology/Integrated Pest Management at the University of Illinois

The green industry, which involves greenhouses, landscapes, nurseries, turfgrass, conservatories, and interiorscapes, is the fastest growing sector of Illinois agriculture. Dr. Cloyd has state-wide responsibilities for management of arthropod pests in all areas of the green industry. He will provide an overview of the major research projects being conducted at the University of Illinois in managing several important interior plantscape arthropod pests including thrips, mealybugs, and fungus gnats. His presentation will focus on the extended research conducted on fungus gnats, Bradysia spp., a pest in greenhouse production systems, primarily discussing their contamination of commercially available bagged growing medium and the significance of his research on fungus gnats to the green industry from an applied standpoint.

Refreshments will be served --=====================_139841681==.ALT-- From annettar@life.uiuc.edu Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:38:03 -0600 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:38:03 -0600 From: Annetta Ashbrook annettar@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] Friday, March 14 -- C. L. Prosser Lecture --=====================_63547625==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed C. L. Prosser Lecture Dr. Bruce D. Sidell Professor of Marine Sciences University of Maine "Variable Expression of Cardiac Myoglobin in Antarctic Icefishes: Now you see it..., now you don't..." The 16 members of the Family Channichthyidae (Antarctic icefishes) are unique among adult vertebrate animals in lacking the O2-binding protein, hemoglobin (Hb). Until relatively recently they also were thought to be devoid of the intracellular O2-binding protein, myoglobin (Mb). We have found that 10 icefish species express Mb in heart [Mb(+)], while 6 others do not [Mb(-)]. Mapping the trait of Mb expression on the consensus phylogeny of this family reveals that loss of Mb expression has occurred by at least 4 independent events during the evolution of the family. Loss of Mb expression also has resulted from at least 3 discretely different mutational mechanisms in Mb(-) species. Superficially, these observations suggest that Mb is not of physiological importance at the severely cold body temperatures of these species. A combination of isolated, perfused heart studies and O2-binding kinetics of icefish Mb, however, clearly establishes that icefish Mb is functional at cold temperature and helps support enhanced mechanical performance of hearts, when present. Ventricular muscle from Mb(-) species shows features of both tissue and subcellular structure that are putatively adaptive in compensating for loss of Mb function and which closely resemble features in viable Mb-knockout mammalian models. Why such apparently deleterious traits as loss of Hb and Mb expression have persisted in icefish species is not resolved, but may ultimately be attributed to the unique environmental and ecological characteristics of the Southern Ocean. Friday, March 14, 2003 4:00-5:00pm B102 CLSL Auditorium Host: Mark Nelson --=====================_63547625==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

C. L. Prosser Lecture

Dr. Bruce D. Sidell
Professor of Marine Sciences
University of Maine

"Variable Expression of Cardiac Myoglobin in Antarctic Icefishes: Now you see it..., now you don't..."

The 16 members of the Family Channichthyidae (Antarctic icefishes) are unique among adult vertebrate animals in lacking the O2-binding protein, hemoglobin (Hb). Until relatively recently they also were thought to be devoid of the intracellular O2-binding protein, myoglobin (Mb). We have found that 10 icefish species express Mb in heart [Mb(+)], while 6 others do not [Mb(-)].

Mapping the trait of Mb expression on the consensus phylogeny of this family reveals that loss of Mb expression has occurred by at least 4 independent events during the evolution of the family. Loss of Mb expression also has resulted from at least 3 discretely different mutational mechanisms in Mb(-) species. Superficially, these observations suggest that Mb is not of physiological importance at the severely cold body temperatures of these species.

A combination of isolated, perfused heart studies and O2-binding kinetics of icefish Mb, however, clearly establishes that icefish Mb is functional at cold temperature and helps support enhanced mechanical performance of hearts, when present. Ventricular muscle from Mb(-) species shows features of both tissue and subcellular structure that are putatively adaptive in compensating for loss of Mb function and which closely resemble features in viable Mb-knockout mammalian models. Why such apparently deleterious traits as loss of Hb and Mb expression have persisted in icefish species is not resolved, but may ultimately be attributed to the unique environmental and ecological characteristics of the Southern Ocean.

Friday, March 14, 2003
4:00-5:00pm
B102 CLSL Auditorium
Host: Mark Nelson

--=====================_63547625==_.ALT-- From annettar@life.uiuc.edu Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:44:56 -0600 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:44:56 -0600 From: Annetta Ashbrook annettar@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] Addendum to Prosser Lecture Announcement --=====================_74739593==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed *** Addendum to Prosser Lecture Announcement: *** There will be a CATERED RECEPTION for Dr. Bruce Sidell *** Friday MARCH 14, 5-7 PM, CLSL Atrium *** (immediately following the Prosser lecture) --=====================_74739593==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" *** Addendum to Prosser Lecture Announcement:

*** There will be a CATERED RECEPTION for Dr. Bruce Sidell
*** Friday MARCH 14, 5-7 PM, CLSL Atrium
*** (immediately following the Prosser lecture)
--=====================_74739593==_.ALT-- From jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:03:59 -0600 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:03:59 -0600 From: Jana Waite jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] SIB Seminars, Week of March 17

School of Integrative Biology Seminars
WEEK OF MARCH 17, 2003

MONDAY, MARCH 17

ECOLUNCH
1:00 PM
176 Burrill, 407 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
        Karen Cavey, UIUC.

Department of ENTOMOLOGY
4:00 PM
B102 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Thesis defense.
        Mark Carroll, UIUC.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

GENETIC ENGINEERING SEMINAR/PHYSIOLOGICAL & MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY (PLBIO 413 & CPSCI 400)
12:00 noon
W-109 Turner, 1102 S. Goodwin Ave., U.

The role of prenylation in plant development.
Mark Running, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Program in ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
4:00 PM
B102 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography, and beyond.
Steve Hubbell, Univ. of Georgia

Please send seminar announcements, changes, or corrections to jwaite@life.uiuc.edu

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Jana Waite

Assistant to the Director

School of Integrative Biology

University of Illinois

286 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217/ 333-3488

fax: 217/ 244-1224 From jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:52:20 -0600 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:52:20 -0600 From: Jana Waite jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] Seminar Announcement

SEMINAR

ILLINOIS NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Dr. William O. Lamp
Department of Entomology
University of Maryland

"Potato leafhopper and the persistence of forage alfalfa"

Thursday, March 27, 2003
9:00 a.m.
Room 101 Natural Resources Building
(Geological Survey Conference Room)

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Jana Waite

Assistant to the Director

School of Integrative Biology

University of Illinois

286 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217/ 333-3488

fax: 217/ 244-1224 From spomer@uiuc.edu Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:14:35 -0600 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:14:35 -0600 From: L. Art Spomer spomer@uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] Thursday Seminar --=====================_52679559==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Reminder NRES Thursday Seminar Series Thursday, 20 March 2003 4 pm, W121 Turner Hall Growth and Production ofKava (Piper methysticum) Utilizing Plant Tissue Culture Dr. Don Briskin, Professor NRES Department, UIUC --=====================_52679559==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Reminder

NRES Thursday Seminar Series

Thursday, 20 March 2003
4 pm, W121 Turner Hall

Growth and Production ofKava (Piper methysticum) Utilizing Plant Tissue Culture

Dr. Don Briskin, Professor
NRES Department, UIUC --=====================_52679559==.ALT-- From jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:14:20 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:14:20 -0600 From: Jana Waite jwaite@life.uiuc.edu Subject: [Sib_seminars] SIB Seminars, Week of March 31

School of Integrative Biology Seminars
WEEK OF MARCH 31, 2003

MONDAY, MARCH 31

ECOLUNCH
1:00 PM
176 Burrill, 407 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Up close and personal with Yellow 57 and Red 94, two highly specialized bees: Adaptation or mental illness?
        Gene Robinson, Univ. of Illinois.

Department of ENTOMOLOGY
4:00 PM
B102 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Multitrophic interactions in a prairie insect community: Ecology, behavior, and conservation (thesis defense).
        John Tooker, Univ. of Illinois.

Department of ANIMAL BIOLOGY
4:00 PM
176 Burrill, 407 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Using Doppler radar to determine behavior during migratory stopover (exit seminar).
        Robert Diehl, Univ. of Illinois.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

Program in ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY and Department of PLANT BIOLOGY
4:00 PM
B102 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
Spatial and temporal gene flow of Sabatia campestris, a state-endangered plant of the Illinois prairie (exit seminar).
        Sheila Lyons-Sobaski, Univ. of Illinois

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

Department of ANIMAL BIOLOGY
4:00 PM
176 Burrill, 407 S. Goodwin Ave., U.
The effects of avian predators on fish assemblages (exit seminar).
        Jeff Steinmetz, Univ. of Illinois.

Please send seminar announcements, changes, or corrections to jwaite@life.uiuc.edu

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Jana Waite

Assistant to the Director

School of Integrative Biology

University of Illinois

286 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217/ 333-3488

fax: 217/ 244-1224