SEMINAR: MBF FACULTY SEMINAR **FRI 10/19 @ 12N** Dr. Stan Hillyard- UNLV

[Pam Harris <pharris@rsmas.miami.edu>]

 

 MBF Faculty Seminar Series

 

Stanley Hillyard

 

Professor of Biomedical Sciences

University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

 

 

 

“The Devils Hole Pupfish, a devil of a dilemma. Conservation, energetics and metabolism”

The seminar will cover proposed scenarios for the current distribution of pupfish in the Death Valley System and Devils Hole in particular. The current decline in population size will be discussed in terms of energy limitations and thermal stress, based on studies with refuge fish whose lineage is controversial. Metabolic studies on these fish suggest they are living on the edge of survival and are using anaerobic metabolism even when oxygen is available a process we have termed "paradoxical anaerobism" that generates ethanol as a metabolite.

 

Friday, October 19, 2012

12noon

 

 

RSMAS campus, S/A 103

 

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Pamela Harris

Marine Biology and Fisheries

Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

University of Miami

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway/SLAB-118

Miami, FL 33149

(305) 421-4176

fax - (305) 421-4600

pharris@rsmas.miami.edu  

 

http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/academics/divisions/marine-biology-fisheries/