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Date
Time |
Speaker, affiliation, topic |
Host |
Seminar location |
Thursday, September 17, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m.
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Christine L. Goodale, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Nitrogen deposition effects on forest carbon storage: a review and new estimates |
Knute Nadelhoffer, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the U-M Biological Station
|
1210 Chemistry |
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Thursday, September 24, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Anurag Agrawal, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Phylogenetic tests of plant defense theory
|
Ya Yang, Ph.D. student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
1210 Chemistry |
| Thursday, October 1, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
**CANCELLED**
Jennifer Rudgers, Godwin Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University
Small fungi with big impacts: ecology and evolution of fungal endophytes in grasses |
Jeri Parrent, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
|
1210 Chemistry |
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Thursday, October 8, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Warren Herb Wagner Guest Lecture in Plant Evolution
Jeffrey Palmer
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
Horizontal gene transfer gone wild in mitochondrial genomes: whole-genome transfer, chimeric genes, and compartment-specific mechanism
A special reception follows the lecture in the Chemistry atrium.
|
Yin-Long Qiu,
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Curator,
University of Michigan Herbarium |
1210 Chemistry |
Thursday, October 15, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Mary Poss, Professor in Biology and Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Penn State University
Tracking virus-host interactions: an evolutionary genetics approach to viral pathogenesis and population dynamics
|
Aaron King, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Department of Mathematics; Center for the Study of Complex Systems |
1210 Chemistry |
|
Thursday, October 22, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
**CANCELLED**
Alex Buerkle, Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming
Speciation genetics as recorded in the genome composition of hybrids
|
Priscilla Tucker, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Curator, Museum of Zoology |
1210 Chemistry |
| Thursday, October 29, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Gonzalo Giribet, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator of Invertebrates, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
An integrative approach to the study of metazoan systematics: assembling the tree |
Diarmaid Ó Foighil, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Curator, Museum of Zoology
|
1210 Chemistry |
| Thursday, November 5, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Daniel Mennill, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor
Vocal duetting in neotropical wrens: acoustic communication in the animal kingdom's most coordinated singers |
Joseph Brown, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. student |
1210 Chemistry |
| Thursday, November 12, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Jonathan Bossenbroek, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo
The bioeconomics of invasive species: examples from the emerald ash borer and zebra mussel invasions |
Deborah Goldberg, Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor and Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
1210 Chemistry |
| **Monday, November 16, 4:10 p.m.** |
Elizabeth Waters, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University
Genomic and evolutionary studies of thermotolerance
|
Deborah Goldberg, Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor and Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
3437 Mason Hall |
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Thursday, November 19, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Greg Gibson, Professor and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, Georgia Tech University
Geographical genomics of human gene expression variation |
Patricia Wittkopp, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology,
Program in Biomedical Sciences, Center for Statistical Genetics, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology
|
1210 Chemistry |
| Thursday, December 3, 12:10 - 1:10 p.m. |
David Walsh, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
Metagenomic time-series study of a seasonally anoxic marine ecosystem
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Don Zak, Burton V. Barnes Collegiate Professor,
School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
|
1210 Chemistry |
| Thursday, December 10, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. |
Elizabeth Ottesen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microbial ecology from single cells to the ocean transcriptome |
Paul Dunlap, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
|
1210 Chemistry |
