Episodes
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.
Published 09/11/09
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.
Published 04/08/09
Yale's Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar is making fundamental discoveries about plants' defenses against pathogens.
Published 01/12/09
Richard O.Prum,Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discusses the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.
Published 01/07/09
Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Stephen Smith discuss the dynamics of plant evolution.
Published 10/03/08
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.
Published 09/22/08
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.
Published 09/04/08
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.
Published 08/01/08
It's Not Easy Being a Frog
Published 08/22/07
Lisa Curran, Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences and Recent MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient delivers a talk on Global change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery.
Published 08/15/07
Richard Prum, the William Robertson Coe Yale Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology speaks about "Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery" at the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch.
Published 08/15/07
Michael Donoghue, Director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, delivers a talk entitled "Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery" at the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch.
Published 08/15/07
Published 08/15/07
Alanna Schepartz, Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, delivers part of the "In the Company of Scholars" lecture series.
Published 08/06/07