Events

Interested in visiting the Department of Biology's Botany Greenhouse or Medicinal Herb Garden? Please visit the Greenhouse website for more information.

Biology Networking Night is an opportunity for current Biology students to meet Biology alumni and learn about their professions, the path they've taken to get there, and insights they have about succeeding in the professional world with a biology degree. Our next Biology Networking Night will be during Winter quarter. For more information, please visit the Biology Networking Night website.

This winter Biology professor Josh Tewksbury will host the Biology Book Club. We will read Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe’s new book Climate Change: Picturing the Science. Here is one review of the book:

An unprecedented union of scientific analysis and stunning photography illustrating the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem. Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before the ramifications of shifting climate. Photographic spreads show retreating glaciers, sinking villages in Alaska’s tundra, and drying lakes. The text follows adventurous scientists through the ice caps at the poles to the coral reefs of the tropical seas. Marshaling data spanning centuries and continents, the book sparkles with cutting-edge research and visual records, including contributions from experts on atmospheric science, oceanography, paleoclimatology, technology, politics, and the polar regions. As Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in his powerful foreword, “Climate Change is a tour de force of public education.”

The Biology Book Club will meet on the following days during winter quarter: Jan 6th, Jan 20, Feb 3, Feb 17, and Mar 3 at 6:00pm in the Academic Computing Center.

For information or to register to attend, please call (206) 685.2185 or email kbrady@uw.edu. There is no cost to attend, however attendees must provide their own copy of the book. Copies are available for purchase at the University Bookstore. Please note that you are not responsible for reading the entire book before the first meeting, just the introduction and the first 2 chapters.

Prof. Cheryl Hayashi of University of California at Riverside will present this year's Mindlin Lecture on Tuesday, MARCH 9th, 2010 at 4:00 pm in the Physics/Astronomy Auditorium room A102.

Spiders are a mega-diverse group of arthropods. The >39,000 species of spiders are remarkable for their reliance on silk for critical ecological functions, such as reproduction, prey capture, predator avoidance, and dispersal. Some of the most spectacular aspects of spider diversity are the extensive innovations in silk use that have evolved over the past 300 million years. While different spider species use silk for a variety of tasks, there is also diversity in silk use by an individual spider. In this seminar, Prof. Hayashi will trace the spectacular radiation of spider silk.

RSVP to attend by calling (206) 685-2185 or email uwbio@uw.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!