Date

Title

Presenter

January 8

Fine-scale genetic consequences of contemporary landscape changes in wood frog (Rana sylvatica) populations

Amanda Zellmer, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB

January 15

Clonality in plant communities

Dr. Deborah Goldberg, U-M, EEB

January 22

From the great-chain-of-being to complex genealogies: Linnaeus at 300

Dr. David Mindell, U-M, EEB

January 29

Genetic basis of pigmentation differences within and between Drosophila species

Dr. Trisha Wittkopp, U-M, EEB

February 5

Evolutionary ecology at small and large scale in a Mexican highlands bird

Dr. John McCormack, postdoctoral fellow, U-M, EEB

February 12

Phenotypic selection, adaptation, and population dynamics

Dr. Michael Benard, U-M, EEB

February 19

Phylogeny, fossils, and the evolution of brain and body size in terrestrial caniforms (Carnivora, Mammalia)

Dr. John Finarelli, U-M, Geological Sciences

February 26

No EEB Lunch - Winter Recess

March 4

To be rescheduled -- I'm a model you know what I mean and I do my little turn on parameter space

Joseph Brown, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB

March 11

Plant community interactions, invasion, and nutrient retention in
Michigan coastal marshes:  A new community-ecosystem model

Dr. William Currie, U-M, SNRE

March 18

Plant functional traits and forest community structure

Dr. Jeff Lake, postdoctoral fellow, U-M, EEB

March 25

Rescheduled

April 1

Movement in the matrix: Dispersal processes in a tropical coffee and forest landscape mosaic

Shalene Jha, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB

April 8

Habitat heterogeneity in a coffee agroecosystem: Persistence of a predatory ladybeetle

Heidi Liere, Ph.D. student, U-M, EEB