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Date
Time |
Speaker, title, topic |
Host |
Seminar location |
Wednesday
January 9
5 - 6 p.m.* |
Undergraduate honors seminar
Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Where have all the frogs gone? Amphibian diversity and decline
|
Matt Chatfield |
Room 1024 Dana Building* |
|
January 10
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Non-tree like speciation: Examples for California herps
|
Dr. Priscilla Tucker |
Natural Sciences auditorium, 2nd floor |
|
January 17
4:10 - 5:10 p.m. |
No seminar
|
|
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
January 24
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Manfred Binder, Postdoctoral Fellow, Clark University
Diversification, convergence and key innovations in Agaricomycetidae (mushrooms)
Candidate for the faculty position in fungal systematics and evolution
|
Dr. Priscilla Tucker |
Nat Sci auditorium |
Monday,
January 28
4:10 - 5 p.m.* |
Dr. Priscila Chaverri, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Howard University
Current challenges in fungal systematics: Defining natural groups in the Ascomycota
|
Dr. Priscilla Tucker |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
January 31
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Diarmaid Ó Foighil, University of Michigan
Professor and Curator, Museum of Zoology
One, if by land, and two, if by sea
|
|
Nat Sci auditorium |
Monday,
February 4
4:10 - 5 p.m.* |
Dr. Timothy James, Research Associate, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Sex and the single nucleus: evolutionary investigations into how mushroom fungi find their mates and keep them
Candidate for the faculty position in fungal systematics and evolution |
Dr. Priscilla Tucker |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
February 7
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. David Westneat, University of Kentucky
Professor, Department of Biology
Signaling in social groups: Connections between mate choice, immunity, and dominance in sparrows
|
Dr. Elizabeth Tibbetts |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
February 14
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Paul Wolf, Professor, Utah State University
Evolution of fern chloroplast genomes
|
Dr. Yin-Long Qiu |
Nat Sci auditorium |
February 21
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Bryan Grenfell, Professor of Biology, Penn State
Acute infectious disease dynamics in space and time
|
Dr. Aaron King |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
February 28
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
No seminar - Winter Recess
|
|
Nat Sci auditorium |
Monday, March 3
12:10 - 1 p.m.* |
Dr. Jason Stajich, Posdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Candidate for the faculty position in fungal systematics and evolution |
Dr. Chris Dick |
Room 1230 Undergraduate Science Building* |
March 6
4:10 - 5 p.m.
|
Dr. Kay Holekamp, Professor, Michigan State University
Developmental constraints in offspring shape the evolution of mammalian parental behavior
|
Dr. Catherine Badgley |
Nat Sci auditorium |
March 13
12:10 - 1 p.m.* |
Dr. David Collar, Research Fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Candidate for the faculty position in functional organismal biology
Evolution of morphological and functional disparity in fishes
|
Dr. Bill Fink |
1640 Chemistry* |
March 13
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Ines Ibañez, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Multi-scale forecasts of potential distributions of invasive plant species |
|
Nat Sci auditorium |
Monday, March 17
4:10 - 5 p.m.*
|
Dr. Anne Maglia, Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Candidate for the faculty position in functional organismal biology
Paradigm shifts in modern morphology: Addressing today's challenges with computational thinking |
Jessica Middlemis, Ph.D. student |
1300 Chemistry* |
| Wednesday, March 19, 4:10 - 5 p.m.* |
Dr. Jerry Husak, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech University
Candidate for the faculty position in functional organismal biology
Natural and sexual selection on function: An integrative look at phenotypic evolution |
Dr. Paul Webb |
1400 Chemistry* |
March 20
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Doug Yu, Lecturer, University of East Anglia
Asymmetric information and the evolution of mutualism |
Dr. Chris Dick |
Nat Sci auditorium |
Monday, March 24
4:10 - 5 p.m.* |
Dr. Robert Cox, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College
Candidate for the faculty position in functional organismal biology
Linking evolutionary hypotheses and endocrine mechanisms |
Dr. Tom Duda |
1300 Chemistry* |
| Wednesday, March 26, 4:10 - 5 p.m.* |
Dr. Rita Mehta, Postdoctoral Researcher, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Candidate for the faculty position in functional organismal biology
Convergence as a model for studying novelty: Case studies in elongate ectothermic vertebrates |
Dr. Paul Webb |
1210 Chemistry* |
March 27
12:10 - 1 p.m.* |
Dr. Jeri Parrent, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada
Plant-fungal interactions in a changing environment: Linking functional diversity of fungal communities to soil carbon dynamics |
Dr. Deborah Goldberg |
1640 Chemistry* |
|
March 27
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Karen Strier, Hilldale Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin
Behavioral variation in primate populations: Implications for conservation and the comparative method |
Dr. Catherine Badgley, Dr. Liliana Cortes-Ortiz |
Nat Sci auditorium |
April 3
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Allen Orr, University Professor and Shirley Cox Kearns Chair of Biology, University of Rochester
The genetics of speciation in Drosophila
|
Clay Cressler, Ph.D. student |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
April 10
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
No seminar
|
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