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Date
Time |
Speaker, affiliation, topic |
Host |
Seminar location |
Thursday
September 11
4:10 - 5 p.m.
|
Dr. Stephen Wright
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Polymorphism and divergence in Arabidopsis and Capsella: Does inbreeding matter?
|
Dr. Noah Rosenberg, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Human Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics Program, Life Sciences Institute |
Natural Sciences auditorium, 2nd floor |
|
September 18
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Matt Friedman
Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago
Salmon, lungfishes and cows: assembling modern vertebrate biodiversity
|
Dr. Jerry Smith, professor emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Geological Sciences,
Museum of Zoology,
Museum of Paleontology |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
September 25
4:10 - 5:10 p.m. |
Dr. Yin-Long Qiu
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Associate Curator, U-M Museum of Zoology
A mixed mode of conservative and dynamic evolution of mitochondrial genomes in early land plants |
|
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
October 2
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Jim Fry
Associate Professor, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, New York
The evolution of ethanol resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
|
Dr. Patricia Wittkopp, U-M, Department 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 |
Nat Sci auditorium |
October 9
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Sabrina Russo
Assistant Professor
The School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Trade-offs in function and demography among tree species |
Dr. Chris Dick, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Herbarium |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
October 16
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Mario Recker
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Emerging Infections, University of Oxford
Immune selection in multi-variant pathogen systems |
Dr. Mercedes Pascual, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for the Study of Complex Systems |
Nat Sci auditorium |
October 23
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Robin Bush
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine
Immune escape by influenza: From protein structure to epidemics |
Dr. Jianzhi Zhang, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Statistical Genetics, Bioinformatics Program |
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
October 30
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Jacinta Beehner
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Anthropology; Co-Director, University of Michigan Gelada Research Project; Director, Core Assay Facility
The “bleeding-heart baboon”: A sexually-selected signal of quality in geladas?
|
Dr. Catherine Badgley, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Residential College,
Museum of Paleontology,
Department of Geological Sciences
|
Nat Sci auditorium |
|
November 6
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
Dr. Ben Fitzpatrick
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
The ecology of genes: Invasion, coexistence, and diversity in salamander populations
|
Dr. L. Lacey Knowles, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Zoology |
Nat Sci auditorium |
Wednesday, November 12
1:10 p.m.* |
Special seminar
Dr. Markus Egli, Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Alpine soils in a changing climate |
Dr. Joel Blum, U-M,
John D MacArthur Professor of Geological Sciences,
Professor of Ecology,
Director, Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station
|
2520 C.C. Little* |
November 13
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
No seminar
|
|
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November 20
4:10 - 5 p.m. |
No seminar
|
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November 27
|
Thanksgiving
No seminar |
|
|
December 4
12:10 - 1 p.m.* |
Dr. Stuart Jones
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Michigan State University
EEB microbial ecology candidate
Testing ecological theory in a microbial world
|
Dr. George Kling, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
1640 Chemistry |
December 4
4:10 - 5 p.m.
|
Dr. John Thompson
Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz
Cryptic speciation and the geographic mosaic of coevolution
|
Dr. Tom Duda, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Zoology |
Nat Sci auditorium |
December 8
11:10 a.m. - 12 p.m.* |
Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California
EEB microbial ecology candidate
Scaling up: ecological links between cells, microbial communities and ecosystem function |
Dr. Don Zak, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
2114 Modern Languages Building |
December 10
12:10 - 1 p.m.*
|
Dr. Elizabeth Dinsdale
Postdoctoral Researcher, Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University
EEB microbial ecology candidate
Functional metagenomics of microbial communities and ecosystem health of coral reefs |
Dr. Paul Dunlap, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
1640 Chemistry |
December 11
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.* |
Dr. Steve Hubbell
Distinguished Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Neutrality, niches, and the dynamics of a neotropical tree community
|
Dr. Chris Dick, U-M, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Herbarium |
1040 Dana Building* |
