Biology

Yale School of Forestry

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This collection features Yale faculty and distinguished guests speaking about topics within the study of biology: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry.

11/09/2009

Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity

Michael Donoghue delivers the keynote address, “Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity,” for the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates Lecture. His focus is on Darwin's ideas of how all living things are related to one another.

4 s
08/04/2009

Found: Missing link in Origin of Scorpion Claws

Derek Briggs, Director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, talks about a unique fossil find — a missing link in understanding the evolution of arthropod claws.

10 min
12/01/2009

Stemming the Onslaught

Yale's Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar is making fundamental discoveries about plants' defenses against pathogens.

11 min
07/01/2009

Birds as Living Dinosaurs

Richard O.Prum,Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discusses the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.

1 s
03/10/2008

Plants That Reproduce Rapidly Evolve Rapidly

Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Stephen Smith discuss the dynamics of plant evolution.

17 min
22/09/2008

Extinct May Not Be Forever For Galapagos Tortoises

Gisella Caccone and Jeffrey Powell, faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discuss finding genetic traces of giant Galapagos tortoise species, thought to be extinct more than 150 years ago, living in the wild.

9 min
04/09/2008

Catching Cells in the Act

Tom Pollard has spent a lifetime understanding how cells move and divide. Pollard talks about how new tools are enabling biologists to get a deeper understanding of fundamental biological functions.

1 s
01/08/2008

It's a Unisex Brain with Specific Signals that Trigger Male Behavior

Dylan Clyne, a postdoctoral fellow who conducted research in the Department of Cell Biology discusses functional mapping of brain circuits that control sexual behavior in fruit flies.

5 min

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This collection features Yale faculty and distinguished guests speaking about topics within the study of biology: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry.