EEB Lunch

Fall 2007 EEB lunch seminars

Seminars are held from 12:10 - 1 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room 2009 Ruthven Museums
Bring your lunch and join us for great information and conversation


Date

Title

Presenter

September 4

No EEB Lunch

September 11

Using an mtDNA clock to date ancient introgressive events in fishes

Dr. Gerald Smith, emeritus,
U-M, EEB

September 18

Systematics of the green algal family Hydrodictyaceae (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae), with special reference to the genus Pediastrum

Dr. Hilary McManus, U-M, EEB

September 25

Undergraduate Research Open House

Dr. Rebecca Benard, U-M, EEB

October 2

Ecological theory, political reality and a new conservation paradigm

Dr. John H. Vandermeer, U-M, EEB

October 9

Neutral theory: a historical perspective

Dr. Egbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution

October 16

No EEB Lunch - Fall Break


October 23

Selection pressures of social life: Individual recognition in Polistes fuscatus

Mike Sheehan, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB

October 30

Relative impacts of plant genotype, mycorrhizal fungi, and elevated carbon dioxide on the defensive phenotype of Asclepias syriaca

Rachel Vannette, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB

November 6

Cancelled

 

November 13

Evolutionary dynamics of nematode operons: Easy come, slow go

Wenfeng Qian, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB

November 20

Resilience to climatic variability effects in malaria of Vanuatu mediated by insecticide treated nets

Luis Fernando Chavez, Ph.D. student, U-M EEB

November 27

Phylogeny, development, and diversity: A natural history of life cycles in land plants

Dr. Yin-Long Qiu, U-M, EEB

December 4

No EEB Lunch

 

December 11

Cancelled

 


Please contact Joseph Brown, Ph.D. student, if you would like to reserve a spot, or have any comments or questions.

Winter 2007 lunch seminar archive

Fall 2007 EEB Ph.D. student evaluation seminars

Seminars are held from 12:10 - 1 p.m. in Room 2009 Ruthven Museums except as noted in bold

Date

Title

Presenter

Location

Monday, October 22

Investigation of size and differential expression of conotoxin gene families of predatory marine snails conus

Dan Chang

Room 2009 Museums

Tuesday, October 23

 

Selection pressures of social life: Individual recognition in Polistes fuscatus

Michael Sheehan

Room 2009 Museums

Thursday, October 25

Historical ecology of the neuston

Celia Christianson

Room 1640 Chemistry

Monday, October 29

An investigation of the community implications of carnivory in the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) tadpole Leah Boris Room 2009 Museums
Tuesday, October 30

Relative impacts of plant genotype, mycorrhizal fungi, and elevated carbon dioxide on the defensive phenotype of Asclepias syriaca Rachel Vannette Room 2009 Museums

Friday, November 2

Phylogenetic investigation of a potentially obligate luminous symbiont

Tory Hendry

Room 2009 Museums

Monday, November 5

Growth form evolution in Euphorbia subgenus Esula (Euphorbiaceae)

Brian Dorsey

Room 2009 Museums

Tuesday, November 6

Cancelled

 

Room 2009 Museums

Wednesday, November 7

Systematics of Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis: Implications for future studies of speciation in African rift lakes

Jeremy Wright

Room 2009 Museums

Thursday, November 8

Temperature gradient and the effectiveness of topographic barriers: A case study in Andean mice

Diego Alvarado-Serrano

Room 1640 Chemistry

Friday, November 9

The evolution of species interactions: the importance of spatial heterogeneity

Susanna Messinger

Room 2009 Museums

Monday, November 12

Comparative phylogeography of Neotropical figs and fig-wasps

Roosevelt García-Villacorta

Room 2009 Museums

Tuesday, November 13

Evolutionary dynamics of nematode operons: Easy come, slow go

Wenfeng Qian

Room 2009 Museums

Wednesday, November 14 Infrageneric phylogenetic relationships within Phacelia (Boraginaceae) Chris Lane Room 2009 Museums

Fall 2006 EEB Ph.D. student evaluation seminars archive

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