Date

Title

Presenter

January 13

Active exploration of natural history patterns with online data and tools

Tanya  Dewey, Research Program Officer, Animal Diversity Web, U-M Museum of Zoology

January 20

Resolving the lek paradox: which is more important, genes or ecology?

Anne Danielson-Francois, Assistant Professor of Biology, Natural Sciences Department, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

January 27

Queen and worker influence on  sex allocation patterns in the honeybee

Katie Wharton, Lecturer, EEB

February 3

Ecology of the gut microbiota: dynamics and disease

Vincent B. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
U-M, Division of Infectious Diseases

February 10

Parasitism, paraphyly and Paraharveya: Towards a phylogeny of the tropical broomrapes (Orobanchaceae)

Jeff Morawetz, EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

February 17

Evidence for adaptive elevation of gene expression noise in yeast

Zhihua Zhang, EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

February 24

spring break

March 3

Genes added, genes lost, genomes rearranged: the evolutionary route from a reconstructed ancestor to the modern Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome

Kenneth H. Wolfe,
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
University of Dublin, Trinity College

March 10

Host-parasite interactions in wildlife: genetic diversity, honest signals and mate choice in an imperfect world

Johannes Foufopoulos, Assistant Professor, EEB, SNRE

March 17

Ecological genomics of nematode responses to different bacterial environments

Joe Coolon, EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

March 24

The 50-ha forest dynamics plot of Cameroon

David Kenfack, EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

March 31

Future of CTFS plot in Vietnam

Hoa Tran, Postdoctoral Fellow

April 7

Investigating the properties of regulatory mutation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jonathan Gruber, EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

April 14

Enhancers on the move: genomic location of regulatory sequences in Drosophila

Gizem Kalay, Graduate Student Research Assistant, Biology