Ecology and Evolution Colloquium Schedule

Date :	09/05/07
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Title :	General Introduction
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Date :	09/12/07
Speaker :	Denny, Mark
Email :	mwdenny@stanford.edu
Institution :	Stanford University
Title :	On the prediction of ecological surprises
Host :	Dianna

Date :	09/19/07
Speaker :	Biossinot, Stephane
Email :	Stephane.Boissinot.@qc.cuny.edu
Institution :	Queens College
Title :	The molecular evolution of LINE-1 retrotransposons
Host :	Mike

Date :	09/26/07
Speaker :	Robinson, Beren
Email :	berenrob@uoguelph.ca
Institution :	Guelph, Canada
Title :	Does the evolution of developmental plasticity contribute to the adaptive divergence of fishes colonizing novel environments?
Host :	Massimo & Mike

Date :	10/03/07
Speaker :	Niklas, Karl
Email :	kjn2@cornell.edu
Institution :	Cornell
Title :	The evolution of plant body plans
Host :	Geeta

Date :	10/10/07
Speaker :	Damuth, John
Email :	damuth@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Institution :	UC Santa Barbara
Title :	An evolutionary explanation for population energy-equivalence across body sizes
Host :	Lev

Date :	10/17/07
Speaker :	Sax, Dov
Email :	Dov_Sax@brown.edu
Institution :	Brown
Title :	Species Invasions: The past, present and future of biodiversity on islands
Host :	Jessica

Date :	10/24/07
Speaker :	Near, Thom
Email :	thomas.near@yale.edu
Institution :	Yale
Title :	Patterns of diversification in darters, a continental freshwater fish radiation
Host :	Mike

Date :	10/31/07
Speaker :	Hickerson, Mike
Email :	michael.hickerson@qc.cuny.edu
Institution :	CUNY-Queens
Title :	Testing comparative phylogeography hypotheses with hierarchical approximate Bayesian computation
Host :	Catherine

Date :	11/07/07
Speaker :	Kaplan, Jonathan
Email :	jonathan.kaplan@oregonstate.edu
Institution :	Oregon State
Title :	Patterns and Processes: Explaining Evolutionary Stasis?
Host :	Massimo

Date :	11/14/07
Speaker :	Turner, Paul
Email :	paul.turner@yale.edu
Institution :	Yale
Title :	Adaptive and ecological landscapes in RNA virus evolution
Host :	John T.

Date :	11/21/07
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Title :	no colloquium, TG
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Date :	11/28/07
Speaker :	Arnott, Shelley
Email :	arnotts@biology.queensu.ca
Institution :	Queen's University, Canada
Title :	Acidification and Recovery of Freshwater Lakes: Factors Controlling Zooplankton Responses
Host :	Steve

Date :	12/05/07
Speaker :	Irschick, Duncan
Email :	irschick@bio.umass.edu
Institution :	UMass
Title :	Sexual signals and animal function: New approaches and ideas
Host :	John W.

Date :	12/12/07
Speaker :	Jennifer Verdolin
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Institution :	Thesis Defense
Title :	What Drives Gunnison's Prairie Dog Social Organization: Resources, Mating Opportunities, or Kinship?
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Date :	12/13/07
Speaker :	Kenneth Armitage
Email :	marmots@ku.edu
Institution :	University of Kansas
Title :	The Evolution of Sociality in Marmots: Costs and Benefits of Sociality
Host :	Jennifer Verdolin

Date :	01/30/08
Speaker :	Fenster, Charles
Email :	cfenster@umd.edu
Institution :	U-Maryland
Title :	Quantifying evolutionary process from mutations to selection: Experimental field approaches with Arabidopsis thaliana and native Silene
Host :	Jessica

Date :	02/06/08
Speaker :	Post, David
Email :	david.post@yale.edu
Institution :	Yale
Title :	A tail of two fish: ecological implication of phenotypic variation in alewives
Host :	Steve

Date :	02/13/08
Speaker :	Darwin Day lecture: Wilson, David Sloan
Email :	dwilson@binghamton.edu
Institution :	Binghamton
Title :	If the theorists can't agree: A conversation among theoretical biologists about multilevel selection
Host :	Massimo

Date :	02/20/08
Speaker :	Price, Trevor
Email :	pricet@uchicago.edu
Institution :	U-Chicago
Title :	Geography and ecology of bird speciation
Host :	John W.

Date :	02/27/08
Speaker :	Slobodkin lecture: McPeek, Mark
Email :	Mark.A.McPeek@dartmouth.edu
Institution :	Dartmouth
Title :	15 Million Years of Community Assembly: Damselflies in North America
Host :	grad studs, Norah

Date :	03/05/08
Speaker :	Funk, Vicky
Email :	FUNKV@si.edu
Institution :	Smithsonian
Title :	Evolution on a global scale: The origin and diversification of the Compositae
Host :	Geeta

Date :	03/12/08
Speaker :	Love, Alan
Email :	aclove@ucsc.edu
Institution :	U-Minnesota
Title :	The structure of evolutionary theory and biological knowledge: conceptual elements for a 21st century synthesis
Host :	Massimo

Date :	03/26/08
Speaker :	Brown, Rafe
Email :	rafe@ku.edu
Institution :	U-Kansas
Title :	Ecomorphology, Call Evolution, and Stages of Adaptive/non-adaptive Radiation in Melanesian Forest Frogs
Host :	John W.

Date :	04/02/08
Speaker :	Sokal, Robert
Email :	sokal@life.bio.sunysb.edu
Institution :	Stony Brook University
Title :	THE ACCIDENTAL TAXONOMIST... The early days of numerical methods in systematics
Host :	Jessica

Date :	04/09/08
Speaker :	Williams lecture: Ricklefs, Robert
Email :	ricklefs@umsl.edu
Institution :	U-Missouri, St. Louis
Title :	Life history thinking 40 years after George Williams's seminal insight
Host :	grad studs, Norah

Date :	04/16/08
Speaker :	Shubin, Neil
Email :	nshubin@uchicago.edu
Institution :	U-Chicago
Title :	Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Tetrapods
Host :	Jeff

Date :	04/23/08
Speaker :	Sanderson, Mike
Email :	sanderm@email.arizona.edu
Institution :	U-Arizona
Title :	Constructing the tree of life from sequences: what can a hundred billion nucleotides tell us?
Host :	Geeta, tentative

Date :	04/30/08
Speaker :	Richards, Christina
Email :	clr3@nyu.edu
Institution :	NYU
Title :	Epigenetics for ecologists using model and non-model systems
Host :	Massimo

Date :	05/07/08
Speaker :	Kim, Junhyong
Email :	junhyong@sas.upenn.edu
Institution :	University of Pennsylvania
Title :	Evolution and Dynamics of the transcriptome at multiple scales
Host :	Lev