Professors from universities across Canada and northeastern U.S.A. will visit Brock as part of the Winter Seminar Series hosted by the Department of Biological Sciences.<\/p>\n
Thirteen seminars are scheduled between now and April, and include academics from Cornell University, Northeastern University and the University of Saskatchewan. The series co-ordinator is Vincenzo De Luca, professor of Biological Sciences.<\/p>\n
All seminars are on Fridays at 2:15 p.m. in MC H313. Scheduled seminars are as follows:<\/p>\n
Friday, Jan. 15<\/strong> Thursday, Jan. 21<\/strong> Friday, Jan. 22<\/strong> Friday, Jan. 29<\/strong> Friday, Feb. 5<\/strong> Friday, Feb. 12<\/strong> Friday, Feb. 19<\/strong> Friday, Feb. 26<\/strong> – READING WEEK – NO SEMINAR<\/p>\n Friday, March 5<\/strong> Friday, March 19<\/strong> Friday, March 26<\/strong> Friday, April 9<\/strong> Friday, April 16<\/strong> Friday, April 23<\/strong> Thermoregulation, climate change in vineyards and winter wheat are among the topics of the Biological Sciences Winter Seminar Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[49,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64449,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/64449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGlenn Tattersall
\nBiological Sciences, Brock University
\n\u201cThe ups and downs of thermoregulation\u201d
\nHost: Vincenzo De Luca<\/p>\n
\nRavi Chibbar
\nPlant Sciences, University of Saskatchwan
\n\u201cGenomic strategies to understand and improve low-temperature tolerance in winter wheat\u201d
\nHost: Vincenzo De Luca
\nNote: This seminar is at noon in AS 201.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAlan Lakso
\nDepartment of Horticulture Sciences, Cornell University \u2013 New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
\n\u201cHow climate change may affect our climate and vineyards in New York and the Northeast\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWendy McFadden-Smith
\nOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Vineland Station
\n\u201cDirty rotten scoundrels: Sour rot in grapes”
\nHost: Debbie Inglis<\/p>\n
\nA. Joffre Mercier
\nDepartment of Biological Sciences, Brock University
\n\u201cSex, violence and hormones: A sabbatical report\u201d
\nHost: Vincenzo De Luca<\/p>\n
\nMichael Brownbridge
\nVineland Research and Innovation Centre, Vineland Station
\n\u201cTales from a Travelling Insect Pathologist\u201d
\nHost: Michael Bidochka<\/p>\n
\nJeannine Delwiche
\nSensory Science and Psychophysics, Firmenich Inc., Princeton, N.J.
\n\u201cIndividual differences in taste perception\u201d
\nHost: Gary Pickering<\/p>\n
\nDarrell Desveaux
\nDepartment of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
\n\u201cThe Needle and The Damage Done: Type III Effectors & The Plant Immune Response\u201d
\nHost: Charles Despr\u00e9s<\/p>\n
\nBarry Shelp
\nDepartment of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph
\n\u201cTwo decades of GABA research on plants\u201d
\nHost: Vincenzo De Luca<\/p>\n
\nRobert Paxton
\nDepartment of Entomology, Cornell University
\n\u201cSocial evolution: Insights from the sweat bees\u201d
\nHost: Miriam Richards<\/p>\n
\nMark Fast
\nDepartment of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of PEI
\n\u201cFish hosts and parasites:\u00a0 immunological and physiological processes\u201d
\nHost:\u00a0 Brent Wiens, grad rep<\/p>\n
\nCarolyn Lee Parsons
\nChemical Engineering Dept., Northeastern University
\n\u201cInvestigating Bottlenecks to Production of Medicinal Compounds from Plant Cell Cultures\u201d
\nHost: Vincenzo De Luca<\/p>\n
\nAntonet Svircev
\nAgriculture and Agrifood Canada, Southern Crop Protection & Food Research Centre, Vineland
\n\u201cBiopesticides in agriculture: Present and future considerations\u201d
\nHost: Alan Castle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"