Research Seminars and Workshops 2005
Seminars are from 6-7pm unless otherwise stated, and take place in the Gump Station conference room. Presentations can be 15-45 minutes followed by discussion until 7pm. Talks are in English unless otherwise noted.
- Tuesday 12 April – Jennifer Paduan (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Biogeography of the hydrothermal vents in the vicinity of the Easter Microplate: highlights of the recent DSV Alvin expedition
- Wednesday 27 April – 10h00 at Institut Louis Malardé,
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- Scott O'Neill (University of Queensland): Wolbachia, mosquito age and dengue transmission - Wolbachia, vieillissements des moustiques et la transmission de la dengue
- Nina Wedell (University of Exeter in Cornwall): Sperm competition in insects - Competition spermatique chez les insectes
- Greg Hurst (University College London): Male-killing: incidence and consequences in insects - Bactérie male-tueuses: incidence et conséquences chez les insectes
- Thursday & Friday 5-6 May – Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Round Table
- Tuesday 24 May – James Bowen (Southern Cross University) The Great Barrier Reef: Science in an Age of Management
- Thursday 26 May – Gump-Institut Louis Malardé Public Health Research Round Table
- Saturday 4 June – 11h at the French Polynesia Assembly Building, Papeete, Julie Grandgirard and Jerome Petit (UCB Gump Station) La lutte contre les insectes envahissants : le cas de la cicadelle pisseuse en Polynésie Control of invasive insects: the Glassy Winged Sharp Shooter Case Study
- Tuesday 7 June – Jonathan Geller (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories) DNA barcodes and application of identification of bivalve larvae
- Tuesday 14 June – Melinda Modrell (UC Berkeley) Embryonic body patterning and segmentation of the amphipod crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis
- Tuesday 28 June – Timothy Duane (UC Berkeley) Conference on Terrestrial and Marine Interactions: Landuse Planning to Promote Marine Conservation
- Tuesday 19 July – Jon Beadell (Smithsonian Institution) Avian disease in the Pacific: Hawaii's present, French Polynesia's future?
- Tuesday 2 August – Hunter Lenihan (Bren School, UC Santa Barbara) Coral population ecology: what processes influence reef resilience?
- Tuesday 16 August – Hervé Jourdan (Institut de recherche pour le développement, IRD New Caledonia) Wasmannia auropunctata, the little fire ant, a major invasive threat to Pacific islands: Current evidence and research in New Caledonia
- Tuesday 23 August – Eric Dewailly (Laval University and Institut Louis Malardé) Ocean and human health: A public health perspective La santé humaine et les océans : Une perspective de santé publique
- Tuesday 6 September – Joseph Chipperfield (University of York, UK) The impact of sex-ratio distortion on male mating investment and mating capacity in the Wolbachia-infected butterfly Hypolimnas bolina
