EEB Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule
Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
ESC 110
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| Special Seminar 2012 |
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
| 07/17/12 |
A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, The University of Arizona
Fungal endophytes from the tropics to the tundra: Clues to the evolution
of plant-fungal symbioses
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Scott Strobel |
| 07/25/12 |
Dr. Renee Firman, The University of Western Australia
Mouse tales of sex, sperm, and evolution |
Dan Edwards |
| 08/29/12 |
Dr. Luke Holman, Australian National University
Queen pheromones and the interplay between costs and constraints in honest signalling |
Suzanne Alonzo |
| Spring 2012 |
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
| 01/18/12 |
Erika Edwards, Brown University
A clade's eye view of plant ecological adaptation
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Michael Donoghue |
| 01/25/12 |
Troy Day, Queens University
Theoretical insights for preventing the evolution of drug resistance |
Paul Turner |
| 02/01/12 |
Felicity Jones, Stanford University
The genomic basis of parallel evolution and reproductive isolation in
threespine sticklebacks |
Thomas Near |
| 02/15/12 |
Jo Handelsman, Yale University
Metagenomic analysis of antibiotic resistance in the environment
PLEASE NOTE TIME & VENUE CHANGE: This seminar will take place in
Luce Auditorium,
34 Hillhouse Avenue, from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Paul Turner |
| 02/22/12 |
Priyanga Amarasekare, UCLA
Diversity maintenance in variable environments: Effects of temperature
variation on population and community dynamics |
David Vasseur |
| 02/29/12 |
John Thompson, UC Santa Cruz
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Distinguished Speaker
The assembly of webs of coevolving species |
Jason Shapiro
(Grad Students) |
| 03/21/12 |
Andrew Read, Penn State
Evolution in a vaccinated world |
Paul Turner |
| 03/28/12 |
Lin Jiang, GA Institute of Technology
The value of considering species phylogeny in community ecology:
Experimental evidence from laboratory microcosms |
David Vasseur |
| 04/04/12 |
Kathryn Hanley, New Mexico State
When mosquitoes monkey around: Prospects for emergence of
sylvatic
dengue virus |
Paul Turner |
| 04/11/12 |
Sara Lewis, Tufts University
Bright lights and bling: An integrative view of sexual selection in fireflies |
Antónia Monteiro |
| 04/18/12 |
Kelly Stiver, Yale University
Cooperation between competitors: Mechanisms and potential fitness consequences |
Suzanne Alonzo |
| 04/25/12 |
Mary Power, UC Berkeley
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Distinguished Speaker
Floods, droughts, and river food webs: Algal-mediated connections of rivers,
oceans, and uplands |
Amanda Subalusky
(Grad Students) |
| Fall 2011 |
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
| 09/07/11 |
Suzanne Alonzo, Yale University
Coevolutionary and social dynamics of reproduction
|
Suzanne Alonzo |
| 09/14/11 |
Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylania
African genomic variation: Implications for human origins and disease |
Stephen Stearns |
| 09/21/11 |
Dan Edwards, University of Michigan
Using integrative data to resolve issues in comparative phylogeography
and species delimitation |
Gisella Caccone |
| 09/28/11 |
Stephen Baines, State University of New York
Linking organism traits and ecosystem function in aquatic environments: a trilogy |
David Post |
| 10/05/11 |
Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University
From MIce to molecules: the genetic basis of evolutionary change |
Jeffrey Powell |
| 10/12/11 |
Robert Wayne, UCLA
Evolutionary genomics of wild and domestic canids |
Gisella Caccone |
| 10/19/11 |
Peter Buston, Boston University
Anemonefishes as model systems for marine evolutionary ecology |
Suzanne Alonzo |
| 10/26/11 |
Edward Holmes, Pennsylvania State University
Life on the edge: The evolutionary biology of RNA viruses |
Paul Turner |
| 11/02/11 |
Dan Rubenstein, Princeton University
Social networks: Linking form with function in animal societies |
Suzanne Alonzo |
| 11/09/11 |
Beckie Symula, Yale University
Insights into tsetse symbiont evolution uncovered using population genetics |
Gisella Caccone |
| 11/16/11 |
Allison Snow, The Ohio State University
Genetic engineering of nature: Fitness effects of crop transgenes that disperse
to wild relatives |
Michael Donoghue |
| 11/30/11 |
Ilya Ruvinsky, University of Chicago
Conservation, divergence, and epistasis in evolution of gene regulation |
Günter Wagner |
| 12/14/11 |
Ana Carolina Carnaval, City University of New York
From paleo distribution models to DNA, fossil pollen, and physiology: Integrative
biology improves biodiversity prediction in Brazil |
Gisella Caccone |
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