Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Sigma Xi / ELC Lecture: Dr. Frederik Nijhout

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society and the UNCW Evolution Learning Community present:

“The Origin and Development of Polyphenisms in Precis octavia” by Dr. Frederik Nijhout

Where: Dobo Hall 134, UNCW
When: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:00 pm. Reception and poster session begins at 6:00 pm in Dobo Hall Foyer

Fred Nijhout a Professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University. He is broadly interested in developmental physiology and in the interactions between development and evolution. He has several lines of research ongoing in his laboratory that on the surface may look independent from one another, but all share a conceptual interest in understanding how complex traits arise through, and are affected by, the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. (
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