VISITING SPEAKER:
  WHAT A PLANT KNOWS
  - PLEASE NOTE DATE & VENUE CHANGE !!!!!
		
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:00 - G.35 Seminar Room, Bayliss Bldg., UWA
		
Dr Monica Gagliano
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? How do  flowers know
when to show their pretty colours? Can plants actually hear the chatter
of the neighbourhood? This seminar is a window open onto the realm of
plants, one hour detour into the history of how we perceive them, what
we know about them but most importantly, how plants  themselves perceive
and sense their world. Dr Gagliano completed a PhD in marine ecology at
James Cook  University in 2007 and was then awarded a postdoctoral
research fellowship at Australian Institute of Marine Science, where she
studied the physiological effects of climate change on coral reef
fishes. In November 2009, she joined the Centre for Evolutionary Biology
(CEB) at  The University of Western Australia, where she is currently a
postdoctoral research fellow. While continuing her work on marine life.
She has since stretched the boundary of her scientific thought and
ecological research into new directions, including the behavioural
ecology of plants.
		
For more information:
  Jennifer Gillett
  jennifer.gillett@uwa.edu.au
  Previously 20 Sep in G.33, now 19 Sep in G.35 Bayliss

Starts       : Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:00
Ends         : Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:45
		
Last Updated : Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:54