Seminar Series (through Spring 2013)

Link to current seminar series

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)