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PREVIOUS SEMINARS
Biodiversity
Research Seminars
Spring 2011
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title
of Talk |
Host
Lab |
|
Jan. 12 |
Warren Allmon Cornell U |
Can
paleontologists study speciation? |
Leander |
|
Jan. 19 |
Hopi
Hoekstra Harvard U |
Digging
for genes underlying behavior in natural populations of mice |
Schluter |
|
Jan. 26 |
Emmett
Duffy |
Biodiversity
effects on ecosystem functioning: Are they important in the real world? |
O'Connor |
|
Feb. 2 |
Evolution
Lecture: Maria Servedio U North
Carolina |
|
Grad students |
|
Feb. 9 |
Forest Rohwer San Diego
State U |
Coral reef
biodiversity: You
haven't seen anything yet |
Keeling |
|
Feb. 16 |
-- |
Mid-term
Break |
-- |
|
Feb. 23 |
Graciela Valladares U Nacional Cordoba, Argentina |
Habitat
fragmentation leads to insect-plant food web contraction in a native forest
from Central Argentina |
Srivastava |
|
Mar. 2 |
Aneil Agrawal U Toronto |
Testing
theory for the evolution of sex: It's more fun in practice |
Whitlock |
|
Mar. 8 |
Kent Holsinger U
Connecticut |
But was it
adaptive? Drift and adaptation in the radiation of white proteas |
Whitton & |
|
Mar. 16 |
Julian
Olden U Washington |
Freshwater
protected areas and the defining of a conservation blueprint for desert
fishes |
Richardson |
|
Mar. 23 |
Warwick
Vincent U Laval |
Our
blue-green Earth: three billion years of cyanobacterial
dominance |
Suttle |
|
Mar. 30 |
David Jablonski U Chicago |
|
Otto |
|
Apr. 6 |
Johanna
Schmitt Brown
University |
Evolutionary
genomics of response to climate change in Arabidopsis
thaliana |
Rieseberg |
Fall 2010
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host
Lab |
|
Sept.
15 |
Sally Otto UBC |
The
evolutionary enigma of sex |
Otto |
|
Sept.
22 |
Curtis
Suttle UBC |
Viruses:
the largest reservoir of genetic diversity on the planet and drivers of
global processes |
Fast |
|
Sept.
29 |
Bernie Crespi Simon Fraser U |
Evolutionary-genomic
conflicts from genes to networks to brains |
Schluter |
|
Oct. 6 |
Biodiversity
Lecture: Michael
Lynch Indiana U |
Mutation
and evolution |
Grad Students |
|
Oct. 13 |
Rick Michod U Arizona |
A
Darwinian approach to complexity: evolutionary transitions in individuality
in the volvocine algae |
Doebeli |
|
Oct. 20 |
John
Reynolds Simon Fraser U |
Salmon-fuelled
ecosystems in the |
Schluter |
|
Oct. 27 |
Tom Sisk Northern Arizona U |
Edges in
dynamic landscapes: integrated models for understanding animal responses to gradients in habitat quality |
Otto |
|
Nov. 3 |
Steve
Perlman U Victoria |
Ecology
and evolution of a novel defensive symbiont of Drosophila |
Fast |
|
Nov. 10 |
Tadashi
Fukami Stanford U |
Historical
contingency in community assembly |
Kraft |
|
Nov. 17 |
John Fryxell U of Guelph |
Social
predator-prey dynamics |
Goheen |
|
Nov. 24 |
Yan
Boucher U of Alberta |
Marine
mobile gene pools: the key to microbial evolution in the ocean |
Keeling |
|
Dec. 1 |
Amy Angert U Colorado |
Functional
traits, population dynamics, and species coexistence in desert annual plants |
Vellend |
|
Dec. 8 |
Chitty
Lecture: Steve Palumbi Stanford U |
Hot and
sour soup: adaptation of marine life in the face of climate change |
Grad
Students |
Spring
2010
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title
of Talk |
Host
Lab |
|
Jan.
13 |
Dave Hik U
of Alberta |
Alpine
herbivores in a warming climate |
Turkington |
|
Jan.
20 |
|
Postponed
until April 27 |
|
|
Jan.
27 |
John Taylor UC
Berkeley |
Comparative
genomics and natural history of a human pathogenic fungus |
Keeling |
|
Feb.
3 |
|
Postponed
until March 17 |
|
|
Feb.
10 |
Mary Power UC
Berkeley |
Species
interactions down drainage networks and river-watershed-ocean
connections: towards predictive mapping |
Richardson |
|
Feb.
17 |
|
Mid-term
Break (Olympics) |
|
|
Feb.
24 |
|
Mid-term
Break (Olympics) |
|
|
Mar.
3 |
T. Ryan Gregory U
of Guelph |
Animal Genomes Large and Small |
Biodiversity Lecture |
|
Mar.
10 |
Kate Smith Brown
U |
Global
environmental change, http://katesmithlab.googlepages.com/ |
Chitty
Lecture |
|
Mar.
17 |
Jon Chase Washington
U |
Community
Assembly in Space and Time |
Srivastava |
|
Mar.
24 |
Mark McPeek Dartmouth
College |
Climate
change and how we got the fauna we have today |
Vellend |
|
Mar.
31 |
John Stinchcombe U
of Toronto |
Ecological
genetics of life history and mutualisms |
Rieseberg |
|
Apr.
7 |
Ford Doolittle |
Irremediable
complexity |
Keeling |
|
Apr.
14 |
Rebecca Safran U
of Colorado at Boulder |
The role
of sexual selection in maintaining phenotypic differences in the rapidly
formed barn swallow species complex |
Irwin |
|
Apr.
21 Regular
BRS lecture |
Patricia Gowaty U
of California Los Angeles |
Neutral
models of sex roles or there's nothing so like a male as a female and vice
versa |
Arcese |
|
Apr.
21 4:30
|
Stephen Hubbell U
of California Los Angeles |
Tropical
rain forests and the twin riddles of rarity and diversity |
Arcese |
|
Apr.
27 (Tuesday)
|
Jerry Coyne U
of Chicago |
Two flies
on an island: speciation in Drosophila |
Schluter |
Fall 2009
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title
of Talk |
Host
Lab |
|
Sept.
16 |
Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Girones Estación
Experimental de Zonas Áridas,
CSIC |
Evolution
in pollination networks |
Avilés |
|
Sept.
23 |
Jonathan Losos Harvard
U |
Lizards
in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles |
Evolution
Lecture |
|
Sept.
30 |
Arne Mooers Simon
Fraser U |
Is Phylogenetics Relevant to Conservation? |
Schluter |
|
Oct.
7 |
Tim Chumley Central
Washington U |
Exploring
Gnetalean affinities in the seed plants with an 81
gene plastid data set |
Graham |
|
Oct.
14 |
Susan McCouch Cornell
U |
The
history of rice domestication: Genetic isolation punctuated by genetic
exchange |
Rieseberg |
|
Oct.
21 |
Jon Shurin UBC |
Variable
environments and diversity in lakes |
Goheen |
|
Oct.
28 |
Paul Hebert U
of Guelph |
A
Census for All Life http://www.uoguelph.ca/~phebert/ |
Biodiversity Lecture |
|
Nov.
4 |
Rosemary Gillespie UC
Berkely |
Community assembly through
adaptive radiation: Spiders on islands |
Avilés |
|
Nov.
11 |
|
Remembrance Day (University
Closed) |
|
|
Nov.
18 |
Brian Husband U
of Guelph |
Polyploidy and the Ecological Amplitude
of Plant Species |
Whitton |
|
Nov.
25 |
Patrick Keeling UBC |
Comparative microbial genomics |
Schluter |
|
Dec.
2 |
Wendy Palen Simon
Fraser U |
The challenge of putting
ecological stressors in context; three stories from the conservation of freshwaters |
Harley |
|
Dec.
9 |
John Willis Duke
U |
Genetic analysis of adaptation
and speciation in Mimulus |
Whitlock |
Evolution,
Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Spring 2009
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Jan. 7 |
Rebecca J. Rundel UBC |
Diversification
of the rock and leaf litter-dwelling land snails of Belau (Republic of Palau,
Oceania) |
Leander |
|
Jan. 14 |
Trent Hoover UBC |
Physical
controls on ecological processes: Tales from a mountain stream system |
Richardson |
|
Jan. 21 |
Simon Conway Morris U
Cambridge |
The
Cambrian explosion: A reality check for evolution? |
Whitlock |
|
Jan. 28 |
Thomas Quinn U.
Washington |
Predation
by bears on salmon: ecology, behavior and evolution |
E.
Taylor |
|
Feb. 4 |
Ruth Stockey U
Alberta |
Distinguishing
angiophytes from the earliest angiosperms: new
evidence from the fossil record |
Berbee |
|
Feb. 11 |
Ivana Gudelj Imperial College |
Quantifying fitness in a public goods game |
Doebeli |
|
Feb. 18 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
|
|
Feb. 25 |
Diane Srivastava UBC |
Diversity
in two dimensions and the dynamics of bromeliad food webs |
Srivastava |
|
March 4 |
Karl Cottenie U
Guelph |
Species
richness - convenience versus confusion |
Shurin |
|
March 11 |
Anurag Agrawal Cornell
U |
Comparative
tests of plant defense theory |
Chitty
Lecture |
|
March 18 |
Dan Bolnick U
Texas, Austin |
Yes, we
are all individuals!: The evolutionary and ecological consequences of niche
variation |
Schluter |
|
March 25 |
Anne Salomon UC
Santa Barbara |
Human
Alteration of Coastal Food Webs: Navigating Towards Social-Ecological
Resilience |
Harley |
|
April 1 |
Kris Metzger UBC |
Use
of long term data for conservation planning |
Sinclair |
|
April 8 |
Rachael Y. Dudaniec UBC |
Impact
and ecological genetics of an invasive parasitic fly of Darwin's finches |
Richardson |
|
April 15 |
John Wakeley Harvard |
tba |
Otto |
Fall 2008
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Sept. 10 |
Josh Korman UBC |
Early
life history dynamics of rainbow trout in a large regulated river |
Walters |
|
Sept. 17 |
John Kominoski UBC |
Linking
resource and consumer diversity to ecosystem function in detritus-based
watersheds |
Richardson |
|
Sept. 24 |
Charles Krebs UBC |
Climate
Change and Vertebrate Population Dynamics in the Boreal Forests and Tundra of
Northern Canada |
Krebs |
|
Oct. 1 |
Antoine Leduc UBC |
Effects
of weak acidity on behavioural risk
assessment by juvenile salmonids |
Rosenfeld |
|
Oct. 8 |
Rob Heinsohn Australian
Nat. U |
Transvestites
of the tree-tops: extreme reversed sexual dichromatism
in Eclectus parrots |
Arcese |
|
Oct. 15 |
Monika Winder UC
Davis |
Climate
forcing at the base of the aquatic food web: subtle causes and big effects |
Shurin |
|
Oct. 22 |
Jim Bever Indiana
U |
Ecological
dynamics and evolutionary maintenance of the plant-mycorrhizal
fungal mutualism |
Turkington |
|
Oct. 29 |
Trevor Price U Chicago |
Speciation into and out of the Himalayas |
Evolution Lecture |
|
Nov. 5 |
Sean Rice Texas
Tech U |
Towards
an axiomatic theory of evolution |
Aviles |
|
Nov. 12 |
Rebecca Goldman Martone UBC |
Rights-based
fisheries in Baja California: A management success story? |
Chan |
|
Nov. 19 |
Morgan Ernest Utah
State U |
Zero-sum
dynamics, the niche, and metacommunities: a desert
rodent |
Goheen |
|
Nov. 26 |
Janna Rist UBC |
The
use of hunters, baselines and cameras in monitoring |
Vincent |
Spring 2008
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Jan. 9 |
David Reznick UC
Riverside |
The
evolution of placentas in the |
Evolution
Lecture |
|
Jan. 16 |
Steven DeClerck UBC |
Aquatic
biodiversity and its relation with resource limitation, structural diversity
and among-patch connectivity |
Shurin |
|
Jan. 23 |
John Richardson UBC |
Donor-controlled
ecosystem subsidies and facilitation are important processes in freshwater foodwebs |
Richardson |
|
Jan. 30 |
Marlene Zuk, UC
Riverside |
Rapid
evolution in silence: the causes and consequences of signal variation |
Chitty
Lecture |
|
Feb. 6 |
Todd Palmer U
Florida |
Ants,
plants and elephants: long-term dynamics of a multi-species ant-Acacia
protection symbiosis |
Goheen |
|
Feb. 13 |
J.C. Cahill U Alberta |
Main
effects are dead: Interactions among interactions likely drive
community structure in a grassland |
Turkington |
|
Feb. 20 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
|
|
Feb. 27 |
Antoine Lecerf UBC |
Linking
ecosystem structure and ecological functions in human-dominated environments |
Richardson |
|
March 5 |
Laurent Lehmann Stanford |
The co-evolution between culturally-inherited helping behaviors and cultural transmission |
Whitlock |
|
March 12 |
Susannah Porter UC
Santa Barbara |
The
evolution of mineralized skeletons |
Leander |
|
March 19 |
Sabrina Taylor UBC |
Ancestral
genetic variation in New Zealand saddlebacks and its consequences for recent
serial translocations |
Arcese |
|
March 26 |
Brad Davis UBC |
Extinction
& Compensatory Mutation |
Whitlock |
|
April 2 |
Troy Day Queens |
Modeling
the evolutionary biology of coral bleaching |
Doebeli |
|
April 9 |
Rene Beyers UBC |
Natural
and Anthropogenic Influences on Elephants and other Ungulates in the Congo
Forest |
Sinclair |
|
April 16 |
Julia Sigwart University
College Dublin, & National Museum of Ireland |
Deep
sea chitons: Life on sunken wood |
Harley |
|
|
|
|
|
Fall 2007
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Sept. 5 * |
Anthony
Waldron UBC |
Geographic
Range Size: Speciation, extinction and the stuff that happens in between |
Schluter |
|
Sept. 12 |
Adam Chippindale Queens
U |
Gender
load: Sexual conflict over gene expression reduces the fitness of sexual
populations |
Otto |
|
Sept. 19 |
Michael Nachman U
Arizona |
The
genetic basis of reproductive |
Rieseberg |
|
Sept. 26 |
Peter & Rosemary Grant U
Princeton |
How
and Why Species Multiply: the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches |
Schluter |
|
Oct. 3 |
Mark Blows U
Queensland |
Genetic
limits to evolutionary change |
Schluter |
|
Oct. 10 |
KEEP
OPEN |
KEEP
OPEN |
|
|
Oct. 17 |
Andrew Dobson U
Princeton |
Metalife! The ubiquity of
parasitism and the dynamics of pathogens with multiple hosts |
Sinclair |
|
Oct. 24 |
Will Cornwell UBC |
Plant
functional diversity: ecological causes and ecosystem effects |
Sinclair |
|
Oct. 31 |
Dilara Ally UBC |
The Cost of Longevity: loss of sexual function in clones of P.tremuloides |
Otto |
|
Nov. 7 |
Michael Russello UBC-O |
Revealing
cryptic diversity in |
Schluter |
|
Nov. 14 |
Jabus Tyerman UBC |
Phenotypic
divergence in the lab: What can E. coli tell us about "the |
Doebeli |
|
Nov. 21 |
Hiroshi Tomimatsu UBC |
Plant
responses to forest fragmentation in northern Japan |
Vellend |
|
Nov. 28 |
Rolf Vinebrook U
Alberta |
Non-additive
ecological surprises by global stressors |
Shurin |
Spring 2007
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Jan. 10 |
A.R.E. Sinclair UBC |
Longterm dynamics in the Serengeti
ecosystem: Lessons for conservation and society |
Sinclair |
|
Jan. 17 |
Ben Kerr UW |
The
evolution and resolution of a 'tragedy of the commons' in a host-pathogen metapopulation |
Doebeli |
|
Jan. 24 |
Brent Gurd UBC |
Functional
ecomorphology, resource partitioning and the
organization of |
Sinclair |
|
Jan. 31 |
Brian Leander UBC |
Convergent
evolution in predatory cells |
Leander |
|
Feb. 7 |
Hopi Hoekstra UC
San Diego |
The
genetic basis of adaptive change: from mice to molecules |
Schluter |
|
Feb. 14 |
Mark Drever UBC |
Of beetles and birds: resource availability, guild structure, and avian richness in the Cariboo-Chilcotin |
Martin |
|
Feb. 21 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
|
|
Feb. 28 |
Bob Holt UF
Gainesville |
Niche
conservatism, evolution, and applied ecology: Challenges and opportunities |
Chitty
Lecture |
|
March 7 |
Stuart West U
of Edinburgh |
tba |
Evolution
Lecture |
|
March 14 |
Jason Hoeksema National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center Durham, NC |
Incorporating
stoichiometry and economic principles into models
of species interactions |
Turkington |
|
March 21 |
Janneke Hille
Ris Lambers UW |
Exotic
annual invaders in California: the role of resource competition and grazing |
Vellend |
|
March 28 * |
Ray Hilborn UW |
Learning
from fisheries successes: managing fish is managing people |
Larkin
Lecture |
|
April 4 |
Laurie Marczak UBC |
Trophic flows across ecosystem
boundaries - when do they matter? |
Richardson |
|
April 11 |
Marc W Cadotte UCSB |
Species
diversity: understanding by linking local and larger scales |
Srivastava |
|
April 18 |
Jason Weir UBC |
Climatic
fluctuations and the origin of the Latitudinal diversity gradient |
Schluter |
|
April 25 |
Ricardo Holdo UF
Gainsville |
Effects
of herbivory, fire, and frost on woodland structure
and composition in Kalahari savannas |
Sinclair |
Fall 2006
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Sept. 13 |
Ian Walker UBC-O |
The
world according to midges |
Myers |
|
Sept. 20 |
Jane Reid U.
Aberdeen |
Evolutionary
ecology of inbreeding and sexual selection in song sparrows |
Arcese |
|
Sept. 27 |
Lasse Fast Jensen Danish
Institute for Fisheries Research |
Natural
selection in wild populations: a study of MHC variation in Danish brown trout
(Salmo trutta L.)
populations. |
E.
Taylor |
|
Oct. 4 |
Arianne Albert UBC |
Sex
and the stickleback |
Schluter |
|
Oct. 11 |
Michelle Tseng UBC |
Linking
ecological variation to evolutionary change using host-parasite systems |
Myers |
|
Oct. 18 |
Blake Matthews UBC |
Food
web ecology of lake zooplankton communities |
Shurin |
|
Oct. 25 |
Doug Armstrong Massey
U. NZ |
The role
of population ecology in improving our management of reintroduced populations |
Arcese |
|
Nov. 1 |
Laura Prugh UBC |
Island biogeography revisited: testing the importance of patch area and isolation with a global cross-taxonomic meta-analysis |
Sinclair |
|
Nov. 8 |
Matt Arnegard UBC |
Candidate
gene for electric signal diversification among Africa's |
Schluter |
|
Nov. 15 |
Bradley Fedy UBC |
Combining
molecular and ecological research to understand the metapopulation
dynamics of an alpine obligate grouse species. |
Martin |
|
Nov. 22 |
John Fryxell U.
Guelph |
Spatial
dynamics and the viability of Serengeti herbivores |
Sinclair |
|
Nov. 29 |
Robert Dudley UC
Berkeley |
Evolutionary
Origins of Human Alcoholism in Primate Frugivory |
Brauner |
Spring 2006
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Jan. 4 |
Kai
Chan |
Conservation
planning for ecosystem services |
Chan |
|
Jan. 11 |
Ray
Callaway |
Que es mas macho, novel weapons or the
evolution of increased competitive ability? |
Turkington |
|
Jan. 18 |
Brad Cardinale |
Biodiversity,
ecosystem functioning, and scale |
Richardson |
|
Jan. 25 |
Kurtis Trczinski |
The
failure of an unfished Atlantic Cod population to
recover: increasing trends in natural mortality and the role of seal
predation |
Srivastava |
|
Feb. 1 |
Makiko
Mimura |
Dynamics
of species' range: adaptation and gene flow in Sitka spruce. |
Aitkin |
|
Feb. 8 |
Sue
Hannon |
Reproductive
source sink dynamics of American Redstarts |
Myers |
|
Feb. 15 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
|
|
Feb. 22 |
Rees Kassen |
The ecology
and genetics of adaptation and diversification |
Otto |
|
March 1 |
Anthony
Ives |
Phylogenetic signal in host-parasitoid
associations and Diversity and biological control of aphids |
Chitty
Lecture |
|
March 8 |
Greg O'Corry-Crowe |
The Molecular
Ecology of Marine Mammals in a Changing Environment: Steller
Sea Lions and Beluga Whales |
Trites |
|
March 15 |
Ingi Agnarsson |
Spider
sociality: repeated origins of an evolutionary dead-end? |
Aviles/Maddison |
|
March 22 |
Sean
Rogers |
The genetic
bases of adaptation and reproductive isolation in the lake whitefish species
complex (Coregonus clupeaformis) |
Schluter |
|
March 29 |
Richard
Svanbäck |
Ecology
and Evolution of Adaptive Morphological Variation |
Schluter |
|
April 5 |
Brian
Starzomski |
The
effects of metacommunity size and indirect
interactions on local species diversity |
Srivastava |
|
April 12 |
Paul Brakefield |
Butterfly
evo-devo and what determines occupancy of morphospace |
Evolution
Lecture |
|
April 19 |
Allan
Baker |
Influence
of large-scale paleoenvironmental changes on the
evolutionary history of birds |
Ritland |
Fall 2005
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Sept. 7 |
Charles
Krebs |
Controlling
rodent pests: on the ecology of house mouse outbreaks in Australia and ricefield rat control in SE Asia |
Krebs |
|
Sept. 14 |
Barry
Hall |
Predicting
the evolution of antibiotic resistance |
Redfield |
|
Sept. 21 |
Tara
Martin |
Predicting
Australian woodland bird response to livestock grazing |
Arcese |
|
Sept. 28 |
Keith
Martin-Smith |
Ecology
& biodiversity of stream fish in Borneo |
Vincent |
|
Oct. 5 |
Helen
Regan |
Dealing
with uncertainty for conservation management |
Gergel |
|
Oct. 12 |
Luke
Harmon |
Repeated
radiations of island lizards |
Schluter |
|
Oct. 19 |
Nathan
Taylor |
The
Hierarchical Ecological Detective |
Walters |
|
Oct. 26 |
David Coltman |
Evolutionary response to human harvesting |
E. Taylor |
|
Nov. 2 |
Kurt Grimm |
A
general theory of living systems |
Grimm |
|
Nov. 9 |
Sandy
Andelman |
Dynamics
of fire, elephants and vegetation in the Kruger |
Arcese |
|
Nov. 16 |
Craig
Benkman |
Specialization
and coevolution in the adaptive radiation of |
Irwin |
|
Nov. 23 |
Chris
Lortie |
A
test of the stress gradient hypothesis using meta-analysis |
Turkington |
|
Nov. 30 |
Wayne
Maddison |
Monsters
lurking in the phylogenetic jungles: confounding
asymmetries, skewed error and incomplete lineage sorting |
Maddison |
Spring 2005
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Jan. 5 |
Mark
Lewis |
Mechanistic
home range analysis |
Doebeli |
|
Jan. 12 |
Claire
Horner-Devine |
Big
questions about small worlds: Patterns of bacterial diversity and community
composition |
Shurin |
|
Jan. 19 |
Andrew
MacColl |
Cooperative
parental care in long-tailed tits |
Schluter |
|
Jan. 26 |
Lesley
Evans Ogden |
Impacts
of elevation on avian life history |
Martin |
|
Feb. 2 |
Mark
Collard |
Hominid
Phylogeny Reconstruction: Problems and Prospects |
Maddison |
|
Feb. 9 |
Azim Mallik
|
Destabilizing
black spruce-Kalmia communities of
eastern Canada: Allelopathy, disturbance severity
and seedbed limitation. |
Richardson |
|
Feb. 16 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
|
|
Feb. 23 |
Steve
Perlman |
Evolution
and ecology of a recently discovered symbiont that
manipulates reproduction in insects |
Aviles |
|
March 2 |
David
Schindler |
Climate
Change, Human Use, and Freshwaters of the Western Prairies in the 21st
Century |
Chitty
Lecture |
|
March 9 |
Irby
Lovette |
How
to build a warbler: the |
Schluter |
|
March 16 |
Bob
Denno |
Multi-trophic interactions across variable landscapes:
consequences of predator invasions for insect herbivores |
Srivastava |
|
March 23 |
Brian
Charlesworth |
The
importance of being closely linked |
Evolution
Lecture |
|
March 30 |
Risa Sargent |
Pollinator-mediated
selection and diversity in flowering plants |
Otto |
|
April 6 |
Katie
Peichel |
Genetic
analysis of reproductive isolation in sticklebacks |
Schluter |
|
April 13 |
Peter Keightley |
The degraded hominid genome |
Otto |
Fall 2004
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
|
Sept. 15 |
Dolph
Schluter |
Ecological
Genetics of Adaptation |
Schluter |
|
Sept. 22 |
Alida Janmaat |
Environmental
Stress and Costs of Resistance |
Myers |
|
Sept. 29 |
Roger
Nisbet |
Population
cycles |
Doebeli |
|
Oct. 6 |
Chris
Eckert |
Evolutionary
consequences of biological invasion: interactions between founder effect and
natural selection |
Whitton/Otto |
|
Oct. 13 |
Keith
Adams |
Exploring
the Genomic Mysteries of Polyploidy |
Adams |
|
Oct. 20 |
Jon
Witt |
Accelerated
Molecular Evolution and Microvicariance in a
Crustacean Genus |
E.
Taylor |
|
Oct. 27 |
Ryan Norris |
Geographic connectivity and seasonal interactions in a migratory songbird |
Irwin |
|
Nov. 3 |
David
Green |
Social
evolution and adaptive sex ratio manipulation in birds: an Australian
perspective |
Smith |
|
Nov. 10 |
Greg Sharam |
The
decline and restoration of riparian forest fragments in Serengeti National
Park, Tanzania |
Sinclair |
|
Nov. 17 |
Andrew
MacDougall |
Stability
dynamics in dynamic ecosystems |
Turkington |
|
Nov. 24 |
Laura
Prugh |
Coyote-mediated
community dynamics during a snowshoe hare decline in Alaska |
Krebs |
|
Dec. 1 |
Jim Elser |
Biological
Stoichiometry from Genes to Ecosystems |
Shurin |
|
Dec. 8 |
Cort Griswold |
Theoretical models of the genetics of adaptation |
Whitlock |