Seminar Series (through Spring 2013) | Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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Spring 2013
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
01/16/13	Thomas Near, Yale University Evolutionary diversification in the superradiation of spiny-finned fishes	Thomas Near
01/23/13	Judith Mank, University College London The genomic basis of sexual selection	Suzanne Alonzo
01/30/13	Michael Blum, Tulane University Island biogeography, connectivity, and conservation of Hawaiian freshwater fauna	Gisella Caccone
02/13/13	Forrest Crawford, Yale University Birth, death, mutation, and diffusion: Theory and methods for evolutionary inference	Jeffrey Townsend
02/20/13	Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University Harnessing genomics for evolutionary insights	Nancy Moran
02/27/13	Emily & Alan Lemmon, Florida State University Anchored phylogenomics: Accelerating the resolution of Life	Richard Prum
03/06/13	Fred Nijhout, Duke University The developmental physiology of body size in insects	Antónia Monteiro
03/27/13	David Vasseur, Yale University The ups and downs of environmental fluctuations for population persistence	David Vasseur
04/03/13	CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED Michael Lynch, Indiana University Mutation, drift, and the origin of subcellular features	EEB Graduate Students
04/10/13	Michael Nachman, University of Arizona The genetic basis of speciation in house mice	Howard Ochman
04/17/13	Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis Multiple stable states and regime shifts in ecological systems	David Vasseur
04/24/13	CANCELLED
05/03/13	Please Note: This is a Friday seminar; the time will be 4:00-5:00 pm, and the location will be OML 201. Bob Holt, University of Florida Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century	EEB Graduate Students

Special Seminars - Fall 2012
Date	Speaker and Title
Monday 10/15/12 OML551 1:30-2:30pm	Daniel Fels, University of Basel Electromagnetic regulation of cell density in Paramecium caudatum Note different day, location, and time.
Fall 2012
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
09/05/12	Andrea L. Graham, Princeton University To fight, or not to fight? Explaining heterogeneity in the mode and strength of immune defense by the Soay sheep of St. Kilda	Stephen Stearns
09/12/12	Todd Schlenke, Emory University The evolutionary genetics of Drosophila-parasitoid wasp interactions	Jeffrey Powell
09/19/12	David Post, Yale University The long and short of food chain length	David Post
09/26/12	Frank Burbrink, The City University of New York, Staten Island Are processes of species diversification deterministic given ecological opportunity?	Thomas Near
10/03/12	David Smith, Johns Hopkins University Bioeconomics of malaria elimination.	David Vasseur
10/10/12	Paul Fine, University of California, Berkeley Natural enemies, chemical defenses, and the diversification of Amazonian trees	Walter Jetz
10/17/12	Christopher Kenaley, Harvard University Fifty shades of dragonfishes: Scandalous adaptive evolution in the deep sea	Thomas Near
10/31/12	Elizabeth Wolkovich, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Ecological and evolutionary drivers of community assembly and disassembly under global change
11/12/12	Carla Staver, Columbia University Determinants and dynamics of the global distribution of savanna and forest
11/26/12	Liza Comita, Ohio State University Regeneration dynamics in tropical forests: Implications for species coexistence in diverse communities
12/05/12	Carlo Maley, University of California, San Francisco Controlling evolution to prevent cancer: From yeast, to humans, to elephants	Stephen Stearns
12/12/12	Manu Prakash, Stanford University Hydraulic constraints of life: Feeding, flight, and other amusements in science	Leo Buss

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	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	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

Spring 2011
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
01/12/11 POSTPONED	Eric Haag, University of Maryland Germline sex determination and the evolution of nematode reproductive strategies	Antónia Monteiro
01/19/11	Mihaela Pavličev, University of Oslo, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis Evolving complex organisms: genetic variation in pleiotropy	Günter Wagner
01/26/11	Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin Climatic and herbivory controls on the no-analogue plant communities of eastern North America	Melinda Smith
02/02/11	Mauris Nnamani, Yale University Critical regulatory domain of the Abdominal B (AbdB)-like transcription factor HoxA-11	Günter Wagner
02/09/11	Eric Haag, University of Maryland Germline sex determination and the evolution of nematode reproductive strategies	Antónia Monteiro
02/16/11	Sarah Matthews, Harvard University Seed plant systematics and the origin of angiosperms	Michael Donoghue
02/23/11	Dustin Rubenstein, Columbia University Spatiotemporal environmental variation and the evolution of sociality	Rick Prum
03/02/11	Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania On the role of neutral mutations in adaptation	Paul Turner
03/23/11	Brenda Bradley, Yale University An evolutionary look at primate pigmentation	Antónia Monteiro
03/30/11	Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University Sex à la carte: Ecological and evolutionary genomics of sex determination and sex chromosomes	Antónia Monteiro
04/06/11	Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute An overview of the tropical forests over geological time	Michael Donoghue
04/13/11	Robert Whitlatch, University of Connecticut Latitudinal variation in marine fouling assemblages	EEB Graduate Students
04/20/11	Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University Approaches to understanding the evolution of novelty in germ line specification EEB gratefully acknowledges funding provided by the HARVARD LECTURESHIP	Antónia Monteiro
04/27/11	Jonathan Belmaker, Yale University Global scaling of terrestrial vertebrate diversity	Thomas Near
05/05/11 12 to 1 PM	SPECIAL SEMINAR – PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY SEMINAR, & WILL BE CONDUCTED FROM 12 TO 1 PM. Martin Schaefer, University of Freiburg Plant-animal communication	Richard Prum

Fall 2010
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
09/08/10	Mike Hickerson, Queens College – City University of New York Using multi-taxa phylogeographic models to test community assembly hypotheses	Gisella Caccone
09/15/10	Angela McLean, University of Oxford Evolution inside hosts and transmission between hosts - how can we understand both at once?	Stephen Stearns
09/22/10	Paul Turner, Associate Professor, Yale University Evolution of RNA viruses in changing environments
09/29/10	Marc Lipsitch, Harvard University Maintenance of antigenic diversity in streptococcus pneumoniae populations: natural immunity and disruption by vaccines EEB gratefully acknowledges funding provided by THE TRAPHAGEN ALUMNI SPEAKERS SERIES	Paul Turner
10/06/10	Charlie Brayer, Yale University How transcription factors evolve: novel functional and physical interactions
10/13/10	Arkhat Abzhanov, Harvard University Pecking at the Origin of Morphological Variation: Insights from Darwin’s Finches and Other Birds EEB gratefully acknowledges funding provided by the HARVARD LECTURESHIP	Rick Prum
10/20/10	Kathy Cottingham, Dartmouth College Opening Pandora’s box with a biotic key: Can cyanobacterial blooms in nutrient-poor lakes accelerate eutrophication?	David Vasseur
10/27/10	Thomas Near, Yale University PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: Professor Near’s seminar will be held in the Peabody Museum Auditorium (3rd floor) Patterns of diversification in continental distributed freshwater fishes
11/03/10	Mark Ritchie, Syracuse University Thermodynamic constraints on biological rates and states: unifying energy and elements as ecological and evolutionary currencies	Kimberly LaPierre
11/10/10	Walter Jetz, Yale University PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SEMINAR START TIME: Professor Jetz’s seminar will begin at 2:30 p.m. in ESC 110. Integrating and conserving the dimensions of global vertebrate diversity
11/17/10	Peter and Rosemary Grant, Professors Emeriti, Princeton University PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: Professors’ Grant seminar will be held in BASS 305 Speciation in Darwin’s Finches	Gisella Caccone
12/01/10	Robert Paine, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Food webs: misleading cartoons or useful guides to complex ecological interactions?	Grad Students
12/08/10	James Noonan, Yale University Using functional genomics to study human evolution	Günter Wagner

Spring 2010
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
	CLASSES BEGIN JAN. 11
01/13/10	Cedric Feschotte, University of Texas Arlington	Günter Wagner
01/20/10	Antónia Monteiro, Yale The evolution and development of novel complex traits
01/27/10	Peter Crane, Yale University The Origin and Early Evolution of Flowering Plants: New Pieces of the Puzzle and a Few New Answers
02/03/10	Marc Feldman, Stanford University Evolution of Stochastic and Deterministic Switching	Steve Stearns
02/10/10	David Haig, Harvard University Prader-Willi syndrome and the evolution of human childhood	Steve Stearns
02/17/20	Susan Foster, Clark University Ancestral Plasticity and Evolutionary Diversification: The Stickleback Adaptive Radiation	Suzanne Alonzo
02/24/10	Kevin Foster, Harvard University Social evolution in microbes	Paul Turner
03/03/10	Michael Singer, Wesleyan University Evolutionary ecology of self-medication behavior	Katy Prudic
03/10/10	NO SEMINAR SPRING RECESS
03/17/10	NO SEMINAR SPRING RECESS
03/24/10	Molly Cummings, University of Texas Austin Predicting Diversity in Animal Communication: Insights from Mechanistic Studies	Talbot Waterman and Suzanne Alonzo
03/31/10	Ezra Susser Prenatal starvation and schizophrenia: evolutionary perspectives.	Steve Stearns
04/07/10	Dov Sax, Brown University Species invasions, climate change & species extinctions: the prospects for biodiversity at the end of the century	Melinda Smith
04/14/10	Stephen Hubbell, Univ. of California Niches, Neutrality, and the Dynamics of a Neotropical Forest Please note change of location: This seminar is being held in BASS 305	EEB Graduate Students
04/21/10	Jeremy Fox, University of Calgary The Price (Equation) of Biodiversity Loss	David Vasseur
FALL 2009
09/02/09	CLASSES START, NO SPEAKER
09/09/09	Bob Reed, University of Calif., Irvine Developmental genetics of butterfly wing pattern mimicry	Antonia Monteiro
09/16/09	David Post, Yale Eco-evolutionary Interactions in Community and Ecosystem Ecology
09/23/09	Keith Thomson The Young Charles Darwin and the origin of “The Origin of Species”	Jeff Powell
09/30/09	Ron Amundson, University of Hawaii Our Two Theories of Evolution and Where They Came From	Rick Prum
10/07/09	Tod Reeder, San Diego State Multi-locus Phylogenetics of Iguanian Lizards: Revealing the Squamate Tree of Life	Tom Near
10/13/09	Santiago Elena, Universidad de Politécnica, Valencia Evolutionary Genetics and Systems Biology of RNA Virus Emergence	Paul Turner
10/21/09	Vincent Lynch, Yale Transposon-mediated Gene Regulatory Network Innovation During the Evolution of Pregnancy (or Where Do Novelties Come From?)
10/28/09	Suzanne Alonzo, Yale The Coevolutionary Dynamics Of Mating and Parental Effort: Beyond Boy Meets Girl
11/04/09	Rebecca Young-Brim, Yale The Evolution of Character Identities: Changes in Gene Regulation Underlie Digit Identity Transformations in the Bird Wing
11/11/09	Junhyong Kim, U Penn Single Cell Genomics of Mammalian Neurons over Waddington’s Landscape	Jeff Townsend
11/18/09	Mark Bradford, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Acclimation and Adaptation in Soil Microbial Communities: Implications for Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics	David Vasseur
11/25/09	FALL RECESS NO SEMINAR
12/02/09	Larry Samuelson, Yale Department of Economics Crossing Fitness Valleys via Sexual Drift	Steve Stearns

SPRING 2009
01/14/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Karen Sears, Assistant Professor, School of Integrative Biology, Faculty Member of the Institute for Genomic Biology at University of Illinois. Bridging the Gaps: Uniting Genetics, Development, and Paleontology to Study Mammalian Limb Evolution Hosted by Rick Prum
01/21/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Susan Renn, Professor, Department of Biology, Reed College
01/28/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Kevin Foster, Harvard
02/04/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Jason Fridley, Syracuse
02/11/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	No Seminar
02/18/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Casey Dunn, Brown
02/25/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	David Maddison, U of Arizona
03/04/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Dan Papaj, U of Arizona
03/11/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	No Seminar
03/18/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	No Seminar
03/25/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Ben Kerr, University of Washington
04/01/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	David S. Guttman, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
04/09/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Unscheduled
04/15/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Daniel Simberloff, Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Ecology, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Knoxville
04/22/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Tom Cronin, U of Maryland Baltimore
04/29/2009	3:30 pm - ESC 110	Hans Dam, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut
Fall 2008
09/10/2008	12:30 pm – OML 202	Paul Brakefield, Professor, Instituut Biologie, Universiteit Leiden Evo-Devo and exploring evolution in morphospace for mycalesine butterflies
09/17/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Masaki Miya, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba Japan Patterns of Diversifications in Modern Ray-Finned Fishes: An Overview Based on 327 Whole Mitogenome Sequences
09/24/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Boris Igic, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History Loss of Self-incompatibility is an Evolutionary Decadence
10/01/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Peter & Rosemary Grant, Professors of Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Evolution of Darwin’s Finches
10/08/2008	1:30 pm - OML 202	Matt Friedman
10/15/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Stephan Munch, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
10/22/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Charles Marshall, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Professor of Biology and Geology, Harvard University
10/29/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Winsor Lowe, Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
11/05/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Steven Reppert, M.D., Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
11/12/08	12:30 pm - OML 202	Michael Turelli, Professor of Genetics Evolution and Ecology, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Cytoplasmic incompatibility and the rapid spread and evolution of Wolbachia infections: data, theory and a possible application
11/19/2008	12:30 pm – OML 202	Open Seminar
11/26/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Thanksgiving Recess
12/03/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Andrew Kern, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College
12/10/2008	12:30 pm – OML 202	Open Seminar
12/17/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Open Seminar

2007-2008
09/12/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Eileen Hebets, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska Complex courtship signaling and variable female mating preferences in spiders
09/19/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Holly Rushmeier, Computer Science, Yale University Computer Graphics Techniques for Capturing and Using Shape and Appearance Data
09/26/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Maria Diuk-Wasser, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, Environmental drivers in vector-borne disease epidemiology
10/03/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	TBA
10/05/2007	1:30 pm - OML 201	Sharon A. Jansa. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan Rats, Rates, and Radiations: Understanding Diversification of Madagascar’s Native Rodents
10/10/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Shannon La Deau, Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation at Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and Ohio State University, The ecology of West Nile virus emergence in North America
10/17/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	David Vasseur NSERC and Alberta Ingenuity Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary The ‘balance of nature’ in variable environments
10/24/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	CANCELLED
10/31/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Walter Jetz, Assistant Professor, University of California at San Diego Terrestrial vertebrates in a changing world – from global biota to local communities
11/02/07	12:30 pm - KBT 102	Marc Cadotte, Postdoctoral Associate, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara The competition-colonization tradeoff and scale dependent coexistence mechanisms
11/05/07	12:30 pm - 305 Bass	Andrew Suarez, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois The ecology of ant invasions
11/07/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Mark Siegal, Department of Biology, New York University A Systems-Level View of Evolutionary Robustness
11/14/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Jonathan Arnold, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia Systems biology of the biological clock
11/21/2007		Fall recess-No Seminar
11/28/2007	12:40 pm - KBT102	Lauren Ancel Meyers, Integrative Biology, University of Texas-Austin Using networks to forecast evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics
12/05/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Hiroshi Akashi, Department of Biology, Penn State University Genome evolution among closely related Drosophila species: Lineage effects and the time-scale of parameter fluctuations.
12/12/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	Greg Gibson, Genetics Department, North Carolina State University Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Gene Expression Variation in Flies and Humans
12/19/2007	12:30 pm - KBT102	CANCELLED
01/14/2007	12:00 pm	Classes begin
01/16/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Patricia Brennan, Ph.D., NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University The Biology of Avian Genitalia: A Proximate and an Ultimate approach
01/23/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Michel Milinkovitch, Ph.D., Full Professor in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Integrated analysis of multiple metazoan full gnomes and functional data in a phylogenetic framework
01/30/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	François Lutzoni, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University Developing a lichen model system and a new scheme to assemble the tree of life
02/06/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Ignazio Carbone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University Gene clustering, aflatoxin biosynthesis and speciation in Aspergillus: a population genetics perspective
02/13/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Michael Purugganan, Ph.D., Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics, in the Department of Biology at New York University The evolutionary and ecological genomics of plant adaptations
02/20/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Alex Badyaev, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona The Origin of the Fittest: Investigating the link between adaptation and evolutionary change.
02/27/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Ben Sheldon, Luc Professor of Field Ornithology Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology University of Oxford Phenodynamics: evolution and ecology of change in a wild bird population
03/02/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Derek Wildman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Perinatology Research Branch NICHD?NIH/DHHS Evolution and selection during the emergence of placentation in mammals
03/05/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	CANCELLED
03/12/2008		spring recess
03/10/2008		spring recess
03/26/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Kevin Verstrepen, Ph.D., Harvard Bauer Fellow and MCB Lecturer, FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University Tandem repeats - junk DNA confers evolvability to genes and promoters
04/02/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Derek Wildman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Perinatology Research Branch NICHD?NIH/DHHS Evolution and selection during the emergence of placentation in mammals
04/10/2008	10:00 pm - OML 400	Bernard Degnan, Ph.D., Professor, Integrative Biology School, at The University of Queensland, Australia Building and patterning a sea shell with conserved and novel genes
04/09/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Joe Thornton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon Evolution of molecular complexity: protein structure/function evolution in the steroid hormone receptors
04/16/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Professor Bernard Crespi, Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, Canada Evolutionary-genomic architecture of the social brain: insights from psychotic and autistic spectrum conditions
04/23/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Alexander Vargas, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, in Wagner’s Lab, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University The developmental evolution of the bird wing
04/29/2008	11:00 am - OML 202	Susanna Remold, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in the Department of Biology, at the University of Louisville Microbial niche-adaptation and human disease: three study systems in early development
04/30/2008	12:30 pm - KBT 102	Brad Shaffer, Ph.D., Section of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology at the University of California, Davis Landscape genetics, landscape ecology, and conservation: Keeping tiger salamanders alive and well in California
05/07/2008	12:30 pm - OML 202	Nora J. Besansky, Ph.D., Professor, at the Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Recombination, adaptation and speciation in Anopheles gambiae

2006-2007
Date:	Time:	Speaker / Host:
9/13/2006	12:30 pm	Annual aneuploids and polyploid perennials: phylogeny and diversification of the paintbrushes and relatives (Castillejinae, Orobanchaceae).
9/20/2006	12:30 pm	Kenneth Kidd, Professor Genetics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Psychiatry. Yale
9/27/2006	12:30 pm	Andrew Stoehr (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University) “Phenotypic plasticity of melanism in the cabbage white butterfly” (host Monteiro)
10/4/2006	12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Scott Holley, PH.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. How a Molecular Clock Creates a Spatial Pattern: Lessons from Zebrafish Segmentation
10/11/2006	12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Rees Kassen, Dept Biology, U of Ottawa. The genetics of adaptation and the ecology of adapative radiation. (Turner host)
10/18/2006	12:30 pm	Ricardo Azevedo (Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston) “Complexity and robustness in artificial cell lineages” (host Monteiro)
10/25/2006	12:30 pm	Carl Bergstrom. “Antibiotic cycling and the ecology of hospital-acquired infection” (host Steve Stearns).
10/30/2006	10:10 am	Doekele G. Stavenga, Department of Neurobiophysics University of Groningen, the Netherlands TOPIC: Evolution of color and vision in butterflies. Click Here to View Seminar document (PDF)
11/1/2006	12:30 pm	Steve Poe, Dept. Biology, U. New Mexico. “Adaptation, exaptation, ecological release, and ecological filtering in solitary island lizards” (host Townsend)
11/8/2006	12:30 pm	Aleksandar Popadic (Dept. Biological Sciences, Wayne State University) “Pulling an insect’s legs and wings – selected evo-devo stories” (host Monteiro)
11/15/2006	12:30 pm	Cancelled Patricia Brennen (host Prum)
11/18/2006	All Day	Fall recess
11/29/2006	12:30 pm	open seminar
12/6/2006	12:30 pm	Brian Silliman
12/8/2006	5:30 pm	Classes end
1/16/2007	12:00 pm	Classes begin
1/17/2007	12:30 pm	Marc Johnson. The community genetics of plant-arthropod interactions: the importance of genetic variation and evolution in Oenothera biennis (Onagraceae) for its arthropod community
1/22/2007	12:30 pm	Andrew Hendry. The microevolution of biological diversity: inferences from lake-stream stickleback
1/24/2007	12:30 pm	Mercedes Pascual. Shifting patterns: infectious disease dynamics in a changing world
1/31/2007	12:30 pm	William Fagan. Looking beyond the Allee effect: Ecological perspectives on low density populations
2/7/2007	12:30 pm	Robert R. Warner (host: Suzanne Alonzo). Dispersal scales and connectivity among marine populations
2/14/2007	12:30 pm	Gregory Velicer (Host: Paul Turner). All’s fair in microbial love and war
2/21/2007	12:30 pm	Richard Glor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester.
2/28/2007	12:30 pm	Michael Benard-U of Michigan (host Near)
3/7/2007	12:00 pm	No Title
3/7/2007	12:30 pm	Massimo Pigliucci
3/10/2007	All Day	Spring recess
3/28/2007	12:30 pm	CANCELLED
4/4/2007	12:30 pm	Carole Ober (host Steve Stearns)
4/11/2007	12:30 pm	Peter Wainwright-UC Davis (host Near)
4/18/2007	12:30 pm	open seminar
4/25/2007	12:30 pm	Michael Cummings - Center for Bioinformatics & Comp Biol, UMD (Turner host)