Inaugural Post!

This is exciting, though I know no one will be reading this for a while. Thought I might just put up this week's funky OEB-related events for reference:

Mon 10 Dec

• 7:30 pm
  Edward Wilson
  Professor emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
  and T. Berry Brazelton
  Professor emeritus, Harvard University
  Title: Raising Tomorrow's Naturalists: Film Screening and Conversation with E.O.
  Wilson and T. Berry Brazelton
  Location: Science Center,
  Series: HMNH events
  Be there or be square!
  

Tue 11 Dec

• 12 nn - 1 pm
  Melvin Oliver
  Agricultural Research Service/USDA
  Title: An evolutionary perspective on desiccation tolerance mechanisms in plants
  Location: Herbaria Seminar Room
  Series: HUH Seminars
  
• 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
  Lisa Stowers
  Scripps Research Institute
  Title: Scents that govern behavior: the molecular biology of pheromones
  Location: Goldenson 122, Harvard Medical School
  
• 3 pm
  ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
  Location: Room 418, Geological Museum, 26 Oxford St.
  Series: Harvard University Center for the Environment
  http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars.
  
• 7:30 pm
  Evan Preisser
  University of Rhode Island
  Title: Interactions Between Invasive Species: Woolly Adelgid, Elongate Scale,
  and the Fate of New England's Hemlock Forests
  Location: Museum of Comparative Zoology 101, 26 Oxford St.
  Series: Cambridge Entomological Club
  entclub@entclub.org, http://entclub.org.
  

Wed 12 Dec

• 4 pm
  Mitchell Sogin
  Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Brown University
  Title: Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: An Underexplored
  'Rare Biosphere.'
  Location: Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave.
  Series: Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
  Free and open to the public.
  

Thu 13 Dec

• 12 nn - 1 pm
  Ben Kerr
  University of Washington, Seattle
  Title: Exploring a 'tragedy of the commons' in a host-pathogen metapopulation
  Location: Sherman Fairchild 102, 7 Divinity Ave
  Category: Center for Systems Bio (CSB)
  
• 4 pm
  Three representatives from GridPoint technologies.
  HUCE Green Conversations Series
  Location: Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford St.
  Series: HUCE
  
• 4 pm - 5 pm
  John Lang
  Vassar College
  Title: Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments To
  Test Adaptation Hypotheses
  Location: Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave.
  Series: OEB Weekly Seminar
  

Fri 15 Dec

• 3:00 PM
  OEB Special Seminar
  Speaker: James Edwards, Executive Director, EOL, Smithsonian Institution; and
  Jesse Ausubel, Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair, EOL Steering Committee
  Title: Building the Encyclopedia of Life at Harvard
  Location: Biolabs Main Auditorium