| Date | Time | Speaker's Name | Seminar Topic | Host(s) |
| 09/23/11 | 4PM | Seth Davis, Max Planck Inst., Cologne, Germany | Two Elves Hold Up a Clock: Effector Binding to a Co-repressor Complex in the Plant Circadian Oscillator | Rob McClung |
| 09/30/11 | 4PM | Peter Vitousek, Stanford University | Hawaii as a Model System for Understanding Soils, Ecosystems and Human-Environment Interaction | Sam Fey/IGERT Program |
| 10/07/11 | 4PM | Michael Sears, Bryn Mawr College | The Promise and Perils of Predicting Species Ranges in a Changing World | Michael Logan |
| 10/14/11 | 4PM | Ragan Callaway, University of Montana | Positive Interactions and Interdependence in Plant Communities | Simone Whitecloud/IGERT Program |
| CANCELLED: 10/19/11* Special Seminar | 4PM | Ray Huey, University of Washington | Why Mountain Passes are Still Higher in the Tropics: Variations on a Theme of Dan Janzen | Michael Logan |
| 10/21/11 | 4PM | Adam Jones, Texas A&M | The Evolutionary Implications of Male Pregnancy and the Brood Pouch in Pipefishes and Seahorses | Ryan Calsbeek |
| 10/28/11 | 4PM | Claudia Mieko Mizutani, Case Western Reserve University | Scaling of Embryonic Germ Layers During the Evolution of Drosophila Species | Albert Erives |
| 11/04/11*Oopik Auditorium,Rm.100 | 4PM | Celia Chen '78, Dartmouth College |
Fate of Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems |
Tom Jack |
| 11/11/11 | 4PM | Amy Gladfelter, Dartmouth College | Nuclear Anarchy and Cortical Order in Fungal Cells | Tom Jack |
| 11/18/11 | 4PM | Ned Friedman, Harvard University | The Early Evolution of Flowering Plants: An Examination of Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" | Tom Jack |
| 11/22/11*Special Seminar | *1PM | Jacquelyne Luce, Zeppelin University | My Biology: Mediating and Producing Knowledge about Rare Diseases | Tom Jack |
| 12/2/11*Special Seminar | 4PM | Gevorg Grigoryan, Dartmouth College | Learning Structure-based Principles of Protein Function | Tom Jack |
