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中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心演講

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中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心演講公告Biodiversity Research Center, Academia SinicaSeminar Announcement
時間 Time ：2009. 10. 08 Thu. 16：00
地 點：本中心 1 樓演講廳(原動物所大樓) Venue：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Biodiversity Research Center (FormerInstitute of Zoology)
演 講 者Speaker：沈聖峰博士 Dr. Sheng-Feng ShenPostdoctoral Research Abroad Fellow, Department of Zoology, Universityof Cambridge,U.K.
講題 Title：Group Benefits, Insider-outsider Conflict and the Evolutionof Cooperative Social Groups
主持人 Host：劉小如研究員 Dr. Lucia Liu Severinghaus

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時間 Time ：2009. 10. 15 Thu. 15：00
地 點：本中心 1 樓演講廳(原動物所大樓) Venue：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Biodiversity Research Center (FormerInstitute of Zoology)
演 講 者Speaker： Dr. Eileen Anne LaceyAssociate Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley
講題 Title：Making Something out of Nothing: Genetic Structure inColonial Tuco-tucos, a South American Social Rodent
主持人 Host：方淑博士 Dr. Shu Fang

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時間 Time ：2009. 10. 22 Thu. 15：00
地 點：本中心 1 樓演講廳(原動物所大樓)Venue：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Biodiversity Research Center (FormerInstitute of Zoology)
演 講 者Speaker：郭志鴻博士 Dr. Chih-Horng KuoPostdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Ecology andEvolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
講題 Title：The Evolution of Bacterial Genome Complexity
主持人 Host：李文雄主任 Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li

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時間 Time ：2009. 10. 28 Wed. 15：00
地 點：本中心 1 樓演講廳(原動物所大樓)Venue：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Biodiversity Research Center (FormerInstitute of Zoology)Seminar 1
演 講 者Speaker：Dr. Joan E. StrassmannProfessor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University,USA
講題 Title：Dictyostelium in the Environment: Symbiosis and SocialInteractions of a Soil Dwelling Amoeba
Seminar 2
演 講 者Speaker：Dr. David QuellerProfessor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, USA
講題 Title：Genes for Social Evolution
主持人 Host：李文雄主任 Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li

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時間 Time ：2009. 10. 29 Thu. 15：00
地 點：本中心 1 樓演講廳(原動物所大樓)Venue：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Biodiversity Research Center (FormerInstitute of Zoology)
演 講 者Speaker：Dr. Kabir G. PeayPostdoctoral Research Scientist Plant & Microbial Biology Universityof California, Berkeley
講題 Title：Blowing in the Wind: Spore Dispersal and the Assembly ofEctomycorrhizal Fungal Communities
主持人 Host：湯森林助研究員 Dr. Sen-Lin Tang