Science Buzz Lunch in Building 2, Room 107, 8-27-2012
Topics discussed included:
1) Newspaper reports of invertebrates and seaweed carried from Japan to the west coast of North America by "rafting" on debris after the massive earthquake and tidal wave in Japan last year
2) Research done on chimpanzees at the Hayashibara Great Ape Center in Okayama, especially live imaging of fetuses in unanesthetized mothers
3) Sunbathing by Boxelder bugs increases the insects' fitness by inducing them to produce terpenes that trap and destroy a harmful fungus
Topics discussed included:
1) Newspaper reports of invertebrates and seaweed carried from Japan to the west coast of North America by "rafting" on debris after the massive earthquake and tidal wave in Japan last year
2) Research done on chimpanzees at the Hayashibara Great Ape Center in Okayama, especially live imaging of fetuses in unanesthetized mothers
3) Sunbathing by Boxelder bugs increases the insects' fitness by inducing them to produce terpenes that trap and destroy a harmful fungus
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