|
1996-1997
|
| Date
|
Speaker
|
Seminar
Title |
|
Jan 27 |
Jan Kozlowski
Jagiellonian University |
The
effect of seasonality on optimal resource allocation:
why heavily exploited fish population must dwarf? |
| Feb
3 |
Susan
Kalisz
University of Pittsburgh |
The evolution of bet hedging
traits in unpredictable environments? |
|
Feb 4 |
Sasha Gimelfarb
University of Oregon |
How
much genetic variation can be maintained under stabilizing
selection? |
| Feb
10 |
Bernard
Crespi
Simon Fraser University |
The evolution of ecological
interactions and sociality in Australian gall thrips
on Acacia |
|
Feb 24 |
Russell Lande
University of Oregon |
Anthropogenic,
ecological and genetic factors in extinction |
| March
3 |
Brian
Charlesworth
University of Chicago |
The evolution of sex chromosomes |
|
March 3 |
Deborah Charlesworth
University of Chicago |
The
effects of breddign system on genetic diversity in populations
of the plant genus Leavenworthia |
| March
10 |
Janette
Wenrick Boughman |
Social communication in
bats: how selection has shaped call structure, detection,
and learning |
|
March 17 |
Marc Hauser
Harvard University |
The
evolutioon of primate communication: neurobiologica
and functional design features |
| March
31 |
Peter
Tyack
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
Vocal learning in the
signature whistles of bottlenose dolphins |
|
April 2 |
Wen-Hsiung Li
University of Texas--Houston |
Molecular
evolutionary genetics of primate color vision |
| April
7 |
Elizabeth
Zimmer
Smithsonian Institution |
Ribosomal gene tracers
of plant molecular evolution |
|
April 8 |
Susan Harrison
UC Davis |
How
natural habitat patchiness affects the distribution
of diversity in serpentine outcrops in California |
| April
14 |
William
Rice
UC Santa Cruz |
Male-female antagonistic
coevolution: implications for speciation and the evolution
of the Y sex chromosome |
|
April 15 |
Christian Schloetterer
Veterinary University of Vienna |
Using
microsatellites to infer selection in natural populations |
| April
21 |
Charles
Delwiche
University of Maryland |
Untangling the web of
plastid phylogeny |
|
April 28 |
Richard Kesseli
University of Massachusetts--Boston |
Precise
gene flow and breeding system extimates based on microsatellite
genetic markers |
| May
5 |
Walter
Eanes
SUNY-Stony Brook |
Partitioning metabolic
flux and selection on genes in the glycolytic pathway
of Drosophila |
|
May 12 |
Mercedes Pascual
Center for Marine Biotechnology |
From
individuals to population densities: consequences if
nonlinear ecological interactions and demographic noise |
| May
19 |
Richard
McCourt
Academy of Natural Sciences |
Phylogeny of green algal
relatives of land plants based on multiple plastid genes |
|
1997-1998
|
|
Sept 8 |
Gerald Wilkinson
University of Maryland |
Evolution
of sexual dimorphism in stalk-eyed flies: female exploitation
of selfish genes |
| Sept
15 |
Kathy
Wynne-Edwards
Queen's University |
Conflict between fundamental
assumptions of behavioral ecology and fundamental assumptions
of reproductive... |
|
Sept 18 |
Trevor Price
UC San Diego |
Adaptive
radiations of warblers on two continents |
| Sept
22 |
Ken
Petren
Princeton University |
Molecules and muddy
boots: tools for understanding ecological diversity |
|
Oct 8 |
Peter Narins
UCLA |
Adaptations
for sound communication by African amphibians: lessons
from the forest |
| Oct
13 |
Joel
Brown
University of Illinois--Chicago |
Fit of form and function:
the diversity of life and the procession of life as
an evolutionary game |
|
Oct 20 |
Doug Emlen
University of Montana |
Does
beetle development bias male horn evolution? |
| Oct
27 |
Eva
Kisdi
Eotvos University |
Genetic polymorphism and
speciation in a heterogeneous environment |
|
Oct 30 |
Marlene Zuk
UC Riverside |
Sexual
selection and immunity in red jungle fowl |
| Nov
3 |
Richard
Frankham
Macquarie University |
Genetics and conservation |
|
Nov 10 |
Penny Kukuk
National Science Foundation |
The
evolution of social cooperation among nonkin, Lasioglossum
(Chilalictus) hemichalceum as a model... |
| Nov
17 |
Nancy
Huntley
Idaho State University |
Understanding species
diversity in a variable and multi- faceted world: models,
methods, and data from aridlands... |
|
Nov 24 |
Alison Power
Cornell University |
Ecological
interactions among plants, viruses, and insect vectors |
| Dec
1 |
Bernie
Lohr
University of Maryland |
Songs of the Paridae:
a parody of song |
|
Dec 8 |
Len Nunney
UC Riverside |
Effective
population size and conservation |
| Dec
15 |
Fred
Dyer
Michigan State University |
Spatial cognition and
navigation in insects |
|
Feb 2 |
Alexander Wait
University of Maryland-College Park |
The
role of nitrogen and leaf development in plant-insect
interactions |
| Feb
9 |
Robert
Marquis
University of Missouri--St. Louis |
Birds-caterpilars-oaks,
tritrophic interactions from the plant's perspective |
|
Feb 16 |
Scott Johnson
Towson University |
Effect
of blood-sucking blow fly maggots on nelting wrens:
who pays the costs of parasites |
| Feb
23 |
Kathryn
Hanley
University of Maryland |
Sex on the beach: the
evolutionary maintenance of sex in Pacific island geckos |
|
March 2 |
Donat Agosti
American Museum of Natural History |
Measuring and
monitoring biodiversity: Matat Atlantica ants and remote
sensing |
| March
9 |
Bob
Gardner
Appalachian Environmental Lab |
The role of spatial pattern,
competition, and disturbance in the invasibility of
established plant communities |
|
March 16 |
John Pandolfi
National Museum of National History |
Ecosystem
response to environmental change in modern coral reefs:
clues from the Pleistocene fossil record |
| March
30 |
Timothy
Mousseau
National Science Foundation |
Adaptive maternal effects:
moms do more than make babies |
|
April 6 |
Stephen Prince
University of Maryland |
Ecology
writ large: tools and results at the regional-global
scales |
| April
13 |
Erik
Nilsen
National Science Foundation |
Water flow dynamics in
Rhododendron species: constraints by freeze that and
drought |
|
April 20 |
Lisa Donovan
University of Georgia |
Ecology
and ecophysiology of saline desert shrubs, Mono Lake,
California |
| April
30 |
Simon
Levin
Princeton University |
Biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning: a problem in scaling |
|
May 4 |
Steve Insely
National Zoological Park |
Recognition behavior
in fur seals |
| May
11 |
Tom
Frost
National Science Foundation |
Lessons from zooplankton
community responses to, and recovery from, the experimental
acidification of Little... |
|
1998-1999
|
|
Sept 14 |
Lin Chao
University of Maryland |
How
to study evolution with a virus |
| Sept
21 |
A.
Gimelfarb
University of Maryland |
Traveling on adaptive
landscapes |
|
Sept 28 |
Michael Moore
Arizona State University |
Hormonal
control and evolution of alternative male phenotypes |
| Oct
5 |
Nancy
Huntley
Idaho State University |
The role of environmental
variability and temporal niches in ecological diversity |
|
Oct 12 |
H. Kern Reeve
Cornell University |
Toward
a unified theory of social evolution: reproductive skew
in social wasps |
| Oct
19 |
Brenda
Casper
University of Pennsylvania |
Exploring plant populations
below ground |
|
Oct 26 |
Lynda Delph
Indiana University |
Sexual
dimorphism in a dioecious plant: sexual selection, enigmas,
and artificial selection |
| Nov
2 |
Kerry Shaw
Harvard University |
Behavioral evolution and
speciation in Hawaiian crickets |
|
Nov 9 |
William Wilson
Duke University |
Consuming
a structured resource and the implications for competitive
coexistence |
| Nov
16 |
Andrew
Baldwin
University of Maryland |
Response of mangrove plant
communities to catastrophic hurricane disturbance: an
example from south Florida |
|
Nov 23 |
Jack Dumbacher
Smithsonian Institution |
Evolution
and ecology of the poisonous pitohui birds from New
Guinea |
| Nov
30 |
Ulrich
Mueller
University of Maryland |
The evolution of agriculture
in ants |
|
Dec 7 |
Lou Pitelka
University of Maryland--Frostburg |
Potential
effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems
of the US |
| Jan
27 |
Abraham
Korol
University of Haifa |
How to increase the efficiency
of QTL mapping |
|
Feb 1 |
Doug Erwin
NMNH |
The
search for the Protosome/Deuterostome ancestor: evolving
views from the fossils and developmental biology |
| Feb
8 |
Samuel
Scheiner
Arizona State University West |
The evolution of phenotypic
plasticity |
|
Feb 10 |
Mike Ryan
University of Texas--Austin |
Historical effect
on the evolution of female reproductive preferences
in tungara frogs |
| Feb
22 |
Peter
Hamback
Yale University |
Winter herbivory by voles:
spatial and temporal aspects |
|
March 1 |
Suzanne Rutherford
|
Heat
shock protein 90 as a capacitor for variation affecting
development |
| March
8 |
James
Mallet
|
Genetics of mimicry and
speciation in Heliconius butterflies |
|
March 15 |
Malcolm Schug
|
|
| March
29 |
Rachel
Waugh O'Neill
Rutgers University |
Genome defense, hybridization,
and speciation |
|
April 5 |
Rick Kittles
Howard University Cancer Center |
The
Finnish population bottleneck: exploiting the evolutionary
history of genes for population and genetic... |
| April
12 |
Daniel
Cristol
The College of William and Mary |
A tough nut to crack:
prey dropping by gulls and crows |
|
April 19 |
Denise Breitburg
Academy of Natural Science |
From
ecology to economics: incorporating complexity in understanding
effects of anthropogenic stress, in coastal... |
| April
26 |
Lou
Kaplan
Stroud Water Research Center |
Impact of temporal and
spatial variability in dissolved organic carbon concentrations
on energy flow in a... |
|
May 3 |
Peter Abrams
University of Maryland |
The
adaptive dynamics of consumer choice |
| May
10 |
Scott
Pitnick
Syracuse University |
Rapid sperm evolution: implications for
speciation
|
|
1999-2000
|
|
Sept 13 |
Irwin Forseth
University of Maryland |
Plant
responses to temporal and spatial heterogeneity: a case
study with the desert perennial, Cryptantha flava |
| Sept
20 |
Deborah
Letourneau
UC Santa Cruz |
Top-down and bottom-up
effects in a tropical rainforest community |
|
Sept 27 |
Preston Aldrich
Smithsonian Institution |
Pleistocene
and contemporary forest fragmentation and the genetic
composition of neotropical plant populations |
| Oct
4 |
Matthew
Leibold
University of Chicago |
How does regional biodiversity
regulate trophic structure? |
|
Oct 11 |
Dina Fonesca
Walter Reed Army Institute |
Avian
malaria vectors in Hawaii: population genetics of an
introduced pest |
| Oct
18 |
Alexey
Kondrashov
NCBI, NIH |
Comparative genomics and
evolution |
|
Oct 25 |
Timothy Wright
University of Maryland |
Vocal
dialects in the yellow-naped amazon; do genes and culture
covary? |
| Nov
1 |
Mary
Price
UC Riverside |
Competition and coexistence:
why are there so many desert rats? |
|
Nov 8 |
Chistine Boake
University of Tennessee |
Flying
apart: sexual selection and speciation in Hawaiian Drosophila |
| Nov
22 |
Wayne
Coats
SERC |
Parasitism of bloom-forming
dinoflagellates: a case of inside-out control |
|
Nov 29 |
Robert Denno
University of Maryland |
Top-down
versus bottom-up control of insect populations: spatial
and temporal variation |
| Dec
6 |
John
Byers
National Science Foundation |
Dickensian pronghorn |
|
Feb 7 |
Lucy Roberts
National Institute of Child Health |
The
proximate cause for cooperative breeding in common marmosets
(Callithrix jacchus) |
| Feb
14 |
Judith
Bronstein
University of Arizona |
Towards a unified view
of mutualism |
|
Feb 21 |
Janet Mann
Georgetown University |
Reproductive
strategies in wild bottlenose dolphins |
| Feb
28 |
Warren
Johnson
National Cancer Institute |
Molecular genetic insights
into neotropical field evolution and conservation |
|
Mar 6 |
Mary Christman
University of Maryland |
Modeling
biodiversity in obligate subterranean cave species in
the US |
| Mar
13 |
Marta
Manser
University of Pennsylvania |
Suricate alarm calls |
|
April 3 |
H. Allen Orr
University of Rochester |
Problems
in the genetics of adaptation |
| April
10 |
William
Michener
National Science Foundation |
Natural disturbance dynamics
in a highly fragmented longleaf pine ecosystem |
|
April 17 |
Rick Karban
UC Davis |
Communication
between plants, induced resistance, and information
about risk herbivory |
| April
24 |
Rudolf
Raff
Indiana University |
The evolution of development
and body plan origins |
|
May 1 |
David Parichy
University of Texas--Austin |
Evolutionary genetics
of pigment pattern development in Danio fishes |
|
2000-2001
|
| Sept
11 |
Bernard
Wood
George Washington University |
Reconstructing human
phylogeny: a lost cause? |
|
Sept 18 |
Sue Carter
University of Maryland |
An integrative
look at mammalian monogamy |
| Sept
25 |
Jeff
Jensen
University of Maryland |
Ecomorphology of fishes:
combining phylogeny, ecology, and functional morphology |
|
Oct 2 |
Sabra Klein
Johns Hopkins University |
Proximate causes
and ultimate function of sex difference in immunity
and infection |
| Oct
10 |
Richard
Ostfeld
Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
Biodiversity and disease
risk |
|
Oct 16 |
Cliff Cunningham
Duke University |
Comparing
population histories of north Atlantic marine invertebrates:
a search for generalities in biogeography |
| Oct
23 |
Chi-hua
Chiu
Yale University |
Molecular evolution of
clustered globin genes in primates: duplications, conversions,
and shifts |
|
Oct 30 |
Arlin Stoltzfus
CARB |
The
population genetics of orthogenesis: mutational and
developmental biases in variation as orientation factors |
| Nov
6 |
John
Gittleman
University of Virginia |
Phylogenetic approaches
to mammal extinctions |
|
Nov 13 |
John Phillips
Virginia Tech |
Multiple
roles and multiple receptors for geomagnetic information
in the navigational systems of vertebrates |
| Nov
20 |
Stephen
Vessey
National Science Foundation |
Population and behavioral
ecology of the white-footed mouse |
|
Nov 28 |
Don Forester
Towson University |
Alternating
mating tactics in Bufo americanus: why toads sit on
roads |
| Dec
4 |
Kevin
Omland
UMBC |
Using molecular phylogenies
to study plumage evolution and speciation in birds |
|
Dec 11 |
Patrick Danley
University of New Hampshire |
The
ecological, behavioral, and genetic factors influencing
the rapid divergence of Lake Malawi cichlids |
| March
12 |
Jay
Evans
USDA |
|
|
March 26 |
David Westneat
University of Kentucky |
Is sexy
healthy? Diet immunity, and sexual advertisement in
house sparrows |
| April
2 |
Peter
Marra
SERC |
|
|
April 16 |
Mark Kirkpatrick
University of Texas--Austin |
Speciation
by reinforcement |
| April
23 |
Charles
Henry
University of Connecticut |
Discovering the "true"
Chrysoperla carnea of Stephens (1835): systematic
sleuthing using substrate songs in a... |
|
April 30 |
Chip Taylor
University of Kansas |
Monarch
butterflies: orientation, navigation, and a new theory
of migration |
| May
7 |
Mark
Chappell
UC Riverside |
|
|
2001-2002
|
|
Nov 19 |
Lu Zhi
Yale University |
The
giant panda: from biology to conservation |
| Feb
11 |
Sharon
Struass
National Science Foundation |
Direct and indirect pathways
influencing plant tolerance to herbivory |
|
Feb 18 |
Francoise Seiller-Moiseiwitsch
|
|
| Feb
25 |
Steve
Nowicki
Duke University |
Developmental stress,
song learning, and mate choice in birds |
|
April 1 |
Werner Callebaut
University of Vienna, Austria |
Eco-devo:
a Viennese perspective |
| April
8 |
Scott
Armbuster
Norwegian University of Technology |
Island endemism: relict
lineages, adaptive radiation, and ongoing extinction
in Madagascar |
|
April 8 |
Matt Hamilton
Georgetown University |
The
populations-genetic impacts of tropical forest fragmentation:
evidence from Corythorphora alta |
| April
15 |
Joel
Kingsolver
UNC Chapel Hill |
Selection and evolution
of functional traits: thermal sensitivity of caterpillars |
|
April 22 |
John Jaenike
University of Rochester |
Male-killing
Wolbachia in Drosophila innubila |
| April
29 |
Lucinda
McDade
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences |
"Pure" and "applied" phylogenetics
of the highly diverse pantropical family Acanthaceae |
|
May 6 |
Laura Galloway
University of Virginia |
Non-Mendelian
trait transmission: how a mother influences the life
history of her offspring |
| May
13 |
John
Kress
Smithsonian Institution |
The evolutionary history
of the Ziniberales: ecology, phylogeny, and classification |
|
2002-2003
|
|
Sept 9 |
Robert Ragusso
University of South Carolina |
The
perfume connection: hawkmoths, night blooming flowers,
and phylogeny |
| Sept
16 |
Shozo
Yokoyama
Syracuse University |
Molecular evolutionary
genetics of visual protein genes |
|
Sept 23 |
Roldan Munoz
University of Maryland |
Alternative
reproductive behavior in the bucktooth parrrotfish:
extraordinary life history differences and a... |
| Sept
30 |
Joel
Trexler
Florida International University |
Metacommunity dynamics
of fishes in the Florida Everglades |
|
Oct 7 |
Juan Bouzat
Bowling Green State University |
Genetic
diversity: what good is it for? |
| Oct
14 |
Willie
Swanson
University of Washington |
Life in the fast lane:
functional inferences from rapidly evolving reproductive
proteins |
|
Oct 21 |
Eduardo Eizirik
University of Maryland |
Molecular
evolution of melanism in the cat family |
| Oct
28 |
Paulette
Bloomer
University of Pretoria |
Phylogeographic patterns
from the southern tip of Africa |
|
Nov 4 |
Martha Weiss
Georgetown University |
Silver-spotted
skippers: amazing architects and fabulous frass-flingers |
| Nov
11 |
John
Warren
University of Rochester |
How evolution makes things
bigger (and smaller): the evolution of wing size in
Nasonia and other stories |
|
Nov 18 |
Glenn Morris
University of Toronto at Mississauga |
What
Katy did and said: adaptive pitch in the calls of some
acoustic insects |
| Nov
25 |
Emma
Teeling
National Cancer Institute |
Yinptreochiroptera revisited:
an independent molecular investigation into the evolution
of echolocation in bats |
|
Dec 2 |
Betsy VonHolle
Harvard University |
Ranking
the componenets of ecological resistance to biological
invaders: an experimantal manipulation in a... |
| Dec
9 |
Rebecca
Simmons
USDA |
What kind of signals do
tiger moths send? The evolution of wasp mimicry
n Arctiidae (Lepidoptera) |
|
Feb 3 |
Brian Husband
University of Guelph |
Evolutionary
dynamics of a diploid/polyploid contact zone: implications
for plant diversification |
| Feb
10 |
Dannie
Durrand
Carnegie Mellon University |
Gene clusters in comparative
genomics: accident or design? |
|
March 3 |
Patrick Megonigal
SERC |
Micorbial
iron cycling in the Rhizosphere |
| March
10 |
Carol
Goodwillie
World Wildlife Fund |
Mating systems in transition:
transient self-incompatability and the evolution of
mating systems in Leptosiphon ... |
|
March 17 |
Taylor Ricketts
World Wildlife Fund |
The
matrix in fragmented landscapes: ecological importance
and conservation opportunities |
| March
31 |
Carl
Schlichting
University of Connecticut |
The origins of differentiation
and the early evolution of development |
|
April 7 |
Charles Epifanio
University of Delaware |
Transport
of blue crab larvae in the coastal ocean: a windy tale |
| April
14 |
Michael
Purugganan
Duke University |
Molecular evolution of
plant development |
|
April 21 |
Andy Clark
Cornell University |
Comparative
genomics of coding regions of human, chimpanzee, and
mouse |
| April
28 |
Michael
Dietrich
Dartmouth College |
Keeping time: probability,
mechanisms, and the molecular clock |
|
May 5 |
Gil Rosenthal
Boston University |
Integrative
biology of visual communication in tropical reef fishes |
| May
12 |
Jody
Hey
Rutgers University |
Genealogical studies of
speciation in Drosophila |
|
2003-2004
|
|
Sept 8 |
John Wiens
The Nature Conservancy |
Can
landscape ecology brdige the gap beween science and
conservation? |
| Sept
15 |
Mohammed
Noor
Louisiana State University |
Speciation and species
persistence: a genetic approach |
|
Sept 22 |
Greg Gibson
North Carolina State University |
Quantitative
genomics on the fly: association with SNPs, traits,
and transcripts |
| Sept
29 |
T'ai
Roulston
University of Virginia |
Causes and consequences
of body sizze variation within and among bee species |
|
Oct 6 |
Howard Cornell
University of Delaware |
Testing
phytochemical coevolution theory with bioassay data |
| Oct
20 |
Brian
Verelli
University of Maryland |
|
|
Oct 27 |
Donna Holmes (Parks)
University of Idaho |
Which
ages first--the bird or the egg? A test of the oocyte
depletion model in long- and short-lived birds |
| Nov
3 |
David
Skelly
Yale University |
Dynamic amphibians in
changing landscapes |
|
Nov 10 |
Elena Silva-Casey
Georgetown University |
Are
there shared mechanisms of neural induction in frogs
and ascidians? |
| Nov
17 |
David
Stern
Princeton University |
The developmental genetics
of microevolution |
|
Nov 24 |
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
University of Maryland |
Using
cavefish to explore micro- and macroevolution and development |
| Dec
1 |
Dan
Howard
New Mexico State University |
Reproductive isolation
in Allonemobius : lessons learned from hybrid
zones and molecules |
|
Dec 8 |
James Schulte
Smithsonian Institution |
Integration
of phylogenetics, biodiversity, and natural history
in evolutionary studies |
| Jan
26 |
Anne
Burke
Wesleyan University |
Development and evolution
of the vertebrate body plan |
|
Feb 2 |
Scott Sakaluk
Illinois State University |
Sexual
conflict in goft-giving insects: chasing the 'chase-away' |
|
Feb 9 |
Jane Brockman
National Science Foundation |
Alternative
mating tactics in horseshoe crabs |
|
Feb 13 |
Diane Srivastava
University of British Colombia |
Diversity
and function in a miniature food web: aquatic fauna
in tropical bromeliads |
| Feb
23 |
Britta
Bierwagen
EPA |
Predicting butterfly dispersal
distance using evolutionary and ecological correlates |
|
March 1 |
Alexey Kondrashov
NIH |
Evolutionary
approaches to comprehending genomic data |
| March
8 |
Elizabeth
Elle
Simon Fraser University |
Mating system evolution:
biotic and abiotic selection |
|
March 15 |
Eli Meir
MIT |
Robustness
and variability in developmental genetic networks |
| March
29 |
Charles
Hawkins
Utah State University |
Restoring the biological
health of the nations's waters: the reality, political
will, and institutional bureaucracy |
|
April 5 |
Joshua Ginsberg
Wildlife Conservation Society |
King
of beasts? Top-down structuring of large mammalian carnivore
guilds |
| April
12 |
David
Culver
American University |
The Struggle to Measure
Subterranean Biodiversity |
|
April 19 |
Steve Gaines
UC Santa Barbara |
Seeing
the Big Picture:
Large Scale Issues in Ecology |
| April
26 |
Peter
Beerli
Florida State University |
Population Genetic Parameters
and their confidence intervals |
|
May 3 |
Trudy MacKay
North Carolina State University |
|
| May
10 |
Hallie
Sims
National Museum of Natural History |
Species diversification
rate variation in the evolution of angiosperms: where,
when, and why |
|
2004-2005
|
|
Sept 13 |
Miguel Altieri
University of California--Berkeley |
Agroecology:
forging a biodiverse and sustainable agriculture |
| Sept
20 |
Leslie
Ries
University of Maryland |
Placing edge effects into
a predictive framework |
|
Sept 27 |
Karin Pfennig
UNC Chapel Hill |
Evolution
of mate recognition: from individual decisions to macroevolutionary
consequences |
| Oct
4 |
Sarah
Tishkoff
University of Maryland |
Genetic history of human
populations in Africa |
|
Oct 11 |
Katriona Shea
Penn State University |
Theoretical
and empirical approaches to understanding invasion by
Carduus thistles |
| Oct
18 |
Andrew
Peters
University of Wisonsin |
The bad, the worse, and
the context dependent: mutations and fitness in C.
elegans |
|
Oct 25 |
Patrick Herendeen
George Washington University |
Evolutionary
history of flowering plants |
| Nov
5 |
Tom
Kocher
University of New Hampshire |
Genomic approaches to
studying the diversification of Lake Malawi cichlids |
|
Nov 8 |
Jeff Karron
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee |
Matchmaking
in the meadow: how pollinators influence patterns of
paternity |
| Nov
15 |
Molly
Przeworski
Brown University |
Insights from chimpanzee
genetic variation data |
|
Nov 22 |
Kaci Thompson
University of Maryland |
Behavioral
development strategies in ungulates |
| Nov
29 |
Eric
Hoberg
USDA |
Exploring Beringia and
the northern fauna: phylogeny, biogeography and coevolution
among hosts and parasites |
|
Dec 6 |
Neil Williams
Bryn Mawr |
Pollination
service and native pollinator persistence in agri-natural
landscapes |
| Dec
13 |
Carlos
Bustamante
Cornell University |
Comparative population
genetics of humans and chimpanzees |
|
Jan. 31 |
Cynthia Parr
University of Maryland
|
Information Visualization in Biodiversity Information
systems |
| Feb. 7 |
Saran
Twombly
National Science Foundation |
A model
selection approach to copepod population dynamics
|
|
Feb. 14 |
Seth
Britch
USDA-ARS
|
Climate
change and speciation in a cricket hybrid zone |
| Feb.
21 |
Stephen
Hubbell
University of Georgia |
Is
Nature Symmetric? New Results on the Neutral
Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography |
|
Feb. 28 |
Claus Wedekind
University of Bern |
Promoting
heritable viability versus preserving genetic variation
in animal conservation |
| Mar.
7 |
David
Mark Welch
Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab |
Evolutionary Success
Without Sex |
|
Mar. 14 |
George Amato
Wildlife Conservation Society
|
Conservation
genetics as a key strategy for linking in situ and ex
situ conservation efforts |
| Mar.
28 |
Nick Haddad
North Carolina State University
|
Impacts
of corridors on populations and communities |
|
Apr. 4 |
James Elser
Arizona State University |
Ecological Stoichiometry: From Genes to Ecosystems |
|
Apr. 11 |
Brandon
Southall
NOAA |
Acoustic
communication in seals and sea lions: vocalizations,
hearing, and the effects of noise |
|
Apr. 18 |
Greg
Wray
Duke University
|
Rewiring
gene networks: evolutionary mechanisms that operate
on transcriptional regulation |
| Apr.
25 |
Chris
Simon
University of Connecticut |
The
evolution of 17-year cicadas with 13-year life cycles:
life history evolution, allochronic speciation...
|
|
May 2 |
Darryl
Gwynne
University of Toronto |
Understanding
Sexual Differences: Tests with Insects |
|
2005-2006
|
|
Sept. 12 |
Kirsten
Bohn
University of Maryland |
Parent-offspring recognition and alloparental
care in greater
spear-nosed bats |
|
Sept 19 |
Chris Lee
UCLA |
How alternative splicing helped build the genome: exon
creation, locally accelerated sequence evolution,
and the production of new
tissue-specific functions. |
Sept.
26 |
Scott
Wing
NMNH |
Sudden global warming 55 million
years ago: Biological effects, and
implications for the future |
Oct. 3 |
Matthew Persons
Susquehanna University |
Reading Between the (Drag) Lines:
Chemically-mediated Predator-prey
interactions among Wolf Spiders |
Oct.
10 |
James
Dietz
University of Maryland |
Demographic, social and genetic effects
of group selection in golden lion
tamarins |
|
Oct. 17 |
Allen Collins
NMNH/NOAA
|
Contemporary understanding of
Cnidarian evolution and the challenge
of integrating paleontological and
neontological data |
|
Oct. 24 |
Johannes Schul
University of Missouri, Columbia |
Acoustic communication in katydids:
mechanisms, evolution and evolutionary mechanisms |
Oct. 31 |
Robert Boyd
Auburn University |
Metal hyperaccumulation by plants:
A
plant defense tactic with ecosystem
consequences? |
Nov.
7 |
Doug Gill
University of Maryland |
Restoration of native grasslands
in
Maryland: A field of dreams |
Nov. 14 |
Joseph Neigel
University of Louisiana
|
Molecular ecology of planktonic
larval dispersal |
Nov.
21 |
Fred Gould
North Carolina State University |
The paradox of evolutionary
diversification in moth sexual
communication systems |
Nov. 28 |
Sean Mullen
University of Maryland |
Hybridization, mimicry, and the
evolution of wing pattern diversity
among North American Admiral
butterflies (Nymphalidae:Limenitis) |
Dec.
5 |
Ted Schultz
NMNH |
Ants as the Smithsonian: Phylogenetic
and Biodiversity Research on the Family Formicidae |
Feb. 13
|
Dr. Matthias Ruth
University of Maryland |
Integrative environmental research: Reaching across
disciplines and institutions |
Feb. 20
|
Dr. Michael Lynch
Indiana University |
The origins of eukaryotic gene structure |
Feb. 27
|
Dr. Andrew Liebhold
USDA Northeastern Science Center
|
Spatial dynamics of forest insect outbreaks
|
Mar. 6
|
Dr. Chris Lowe
University of Chicago |
Chordate origins, and the evolution
of nervous systems: Insights from hemichordates |
Mar. 13
|
Dr. Scott Hodges
University of California, Santa Barbara
|
The genetics of reproductive
isolation in Aquilegia |
Mar. 27
|
Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers
University of Texas, Austin
|
Using networks to forecast the evolutionary
and epidemiological dynamics of infectious diseases |
Apr. 3
|
Dr. Tamaki Yuri
Smithsonian Institution |
Different genetic markers reveal
different levels of introgression in an avian hybrid
zone |
Apr. 10
|
Jason South
University of Maryland
|
Social monogamy, extra-pair paternity,
and dispersal in the large treeshrew (Tupaia tana) |
Apr. 17
|
Dr. Michael Nachman
University of Arizona |
Speciation and the genetic basis
of reproductive isolation in house mice |
Apr. 24
|
Dr. Lacey Knowles
University of Michigan
|
The when, where, and how of speciation |
May 1
|
Dr. James Mallet
University College London
|
Butterfly species evolution in the Andes and Amazon |
May 8
|
Dr. Craig Moritz
University of California, Berkeley
|
1st Annual
ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY DAY
Evolutionary biogeography and responses
to climate change of a rainforest fauna |
| 2006-2007 |
Sep
18 |
Ben
Rosenthal
USDA |
Do
domesticated animals transmit domesticated parasites?
Inferring the origins and epidemiology of parasites
from their interrelationships and genetic variability |
Sep 25 |
Michael
D. Beecher
University of Washington |
Social factors in bird song learning |
Oct
2 |
Bill
DiMichele
Smithsonian Institution |
Reconstructing Permo-Carboniferous
tropical plants and vegetation: What
do we know, what can we know, why should we care? |
Oct 9 |
Deane
Bowers
University of Colorado |
Causes of plant chemical variation and the consequences for tritrophic interactions |
Oct
16 |
Matthew
Hare
University of Maryland |
The genetic risks
of supportive
breeding to restore oyster populations
in Chesapeake Bay |
Oct 23 |
Patrick
Phillips
University of Oregon
|
Meek and malicious males: sexual conflict and the evolution of nematode mating systems |
Oct
30 |
John
Sauer
USGS
|
Aggregating Information
Over Space and Time to Estimate Population Change in
North American Birds |
| Nov 6 |
Pamela K. Diggle
University of Colorado
|
"Great and curious blunder in
dame nature" (C. Darwin 1860): An evo-devo
analysis of the origin and diversification of andromonoecy |
Nov
13 |
Ethan
Temeles
Amherst College
|
Sexual dimorphism and floral polymorphism across an island archipelago: hummingbirds and heliconias of the Lesser Antilles |
Nov 20 |
Katy Gonder
University of Maryland |
Genetic insights into the evolution of humans and chimpanzees |
Nov 27 |
Jens Herberholz
University of Maryland
|
Behavioral choice
and decision making in crayfish |
Dec 15 |
Holly Menninger's
Dissertation Defense |
Terrestrial-aquatic
linkages in human-altered landscapes |
Feb 5
|
Stanford Zent and Eglee Zent
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
|
The Concept of BioCultural Diversity: Research Applications and Policy Implications in Venezuela and Beyond |
| Feb 12 |
Bill
Conner
Wake Forest University
|
Sound Strategies: Acoustic Interactions of Bats and Moths
Co-sponsored by Entomology |
| Feb 19 |
Jacqueline F.Webb
University of Rhode Island |
The Laterophysic Connection of Chaetodonid Butterflyfishes: A New Way to Hear on Coral Reefs? |
| Feb 26 |
Veronique Delasalle
Gettysburg College |
The evolution of mating system and the genetic covariance between male and female function in Clarkia (Onagraceae): selfing opposes the evolution of trade offs |
| Mar 5 |
Eileen Hebets
University of Nebraska |
Complex signaling and variable female mate choice in spider courtship behavior |
| Mar 12 |
Antónia Monteiro
Yale University |
Evo-devo of butterfly and moth
wing patterns |
| Mar 26 |
Joe Hereford
University of Maryland |
Conventional wisdom bows to results: A meta-analysis of the local adaptation literature |
| Apr 2 |
Lisa Levin
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Connectivity of mytilid mussel populations in southern California: Integrating fingerprinting and physics |
| Apr 9 |
Craig W. Hawryshyn
Queen's University |
Functional properties of ultraviolet-sensitive cones that govern information processing and visual behaviour |
| Apr 16 |
Douglas Futuyma
SUNY Stony Brook |
2nd Annual
ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY DAY
Microevolution and macroevolution of insect-plant associations |
| Apr 23 |
Gene Hunt
Smithsonian Institution |
Climate change and body size evolution in deep-sea ostracodes |
| Apr 26 |
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Indian Institute of Science
& Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |
The functional organization of a tropical insect society
Co-sponosred with the NACS program |
| Apr 30 |
John Bishop
Washington State University |
Spatial patterns of herbivory at Mount St. Helens - why they occur and how they control succession |
| 2007-2008 |
Date |
Speaker |
Seminar title |
Sep
17 |
Mark Blows
University of Queensland |
Genetic limits to evolutionary change |
Sep 24 |
Lesley Campbell
University of Maryland |
Does invasiveness evolve after hybridization? Answers from meta-analytic and experimental studies |
Oct
1 |
David Houle
Florida State University |
Mutation, Variation and Divergence |
Oct 8 |
Todd Lookingbill
University of Maryland |
Identifying key habitat patches and
corridors for the recovery of the
Delmarva fox squirrel |
Oct
15 |
Mike Cummings
University of Maryland |
The Molecular Basis for Cold-Adaptation, and the Evolution of Polar Protist Floras |
Oct 22 |
Bill Fagan
University of Maryland |
From Allee to Zero:
Quantifying the Growth and Decline
of Small Populations |
Oct
29 |
Spencer Barrett
University of Toronto |
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Sex Ratios |
Nov 5 |
Natasha Mehdiabadi
Smithsonian Institution |
Cooperation and Conflict in Social Amoebae |
Nov 19 |
Chris Hofmann
University of Maryland |
Adding Color to the Past:
Reconstructing Evolutionary
Color
Changes in New World Orioles |
Nov 26 |
Johannes Foufopoulos
University of Michigan |
Wildlife diseases: Subtlety and diversity in host-parasite interactions |
| Dec 3 |
George Weiblen
University of Minnesota |
Why are there so many species of herbivorous insects in tropical rainforests? |
| Dec 10 |
Leanna Birge
University of Maryland |
Precopulatory and postcopulatory barriers in the striped ground cricket Allonemobius |
Feb 4
|
Robert Kula
USDA |
Trees, keys, and surveys that include bees: Hymenoptera research at the USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory |
| Feb 11 |
Rufus Chaney
USDA |
Phytoextraction of nickel from contaminated and mineralized soils using hyperaccumulator plants |
| Feb 18 |
Kevin de Queiroz
Smithsonian Institution |
Toward a unified concept of species |
| Feb 25 |
Jim Collins
NSF & Arizona State University |
The science, ethics, and policy implications of a modern extinction event: Global amphibian declines |
| Mar 3 |
Mark Schwartz
University of California - Davis |
The challenge of developing effective plant conservation strategies for a warmer future |
| Mar 10 |
Abe Miller-Rushing
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory |
Phenological responses to climate change: who is responding, who is not, why, and what it all means |
| Mar 24 |
David Lambert
University of Rochester |
From a spiral to a snail: Lineage and patterning in the Ilyanassa embryo |
| Mar 31 |
Chris Amemiya
NSF &
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason |
Evolution of vertebrate
developmental complexity |
| Apr 7 |
Mike Neubert
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Marine Reserves and
Optimal Spatial Harvesting |
Apr 8 |
Andrew Pomiankowski
University College London |
Special Seminar
The evolution of genomic imprinting |
| Apr 14 |
Christopher Hardy
Millersville University |
Notes on the natural history and evolution of the cape flora, South Africa |
| Apr 21 |
Bette Loiselle
NSF & University of Missouri |
Reproductive skew in manakins: Social and spatial factors determining male success |
| Apr 28 |
Jan Komdeur
University of Groningen |
3rd Annual
ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY DAY
The ecology of parentage:
cooperation and conflict |
| 2008-2009 |
Sep
15 |
Frank Siewerdt
University of Maryland |
A new look at selection strategies in the presence of associative genetic effects |
Sep 22 |
Kailen Mooney
U of California - Irvine |
Community and evolutionary
consequences of ant-aphid interactions |
Sep 29 |
Peter Leimgruber
Smithsonian National Zoo |
Asian Elephant Ecology and Conservation |
Oct 6 |
Eric Fortune
Johns Hopkins University |
Species differences in social behavior of sympatric weakly electric fishes in Ecuador: Contributions of social signaling to sensory perception |
Oct
13 |
David Crews
University of Texas |
Evolution of Behavioral
Controlling Mechanisms |
Oct 20 |
Lisa Horth
Old Dominion University |
The beauty and bane of being a rare, melanic morph in a common fish species |
Oct
27 |
Jonathan Sherratt
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh UK |
Multi-annual cycles in field vole populations: Spatial data and spatiotemporal models |
| Nov 3 |
Thomas Holtz
University of Maryland |
New Advances in the Evolutionary Biology and Paleoecology of Tyrant Dinosaurs (Tyrannosauroidea) |
| Nov 11 |
Pam Soltis
University of Florida
and
Rudy Raff
Indiana University |
Special Seminars
Polyploid Evolution in Plants:
Genetic and Genomic Consequences
and
Title T.B.A. |
Nov 17 |
Gary Krupnick
Smithsonian Institution |
The value of herbarium specimens in the conservation of threatened plant species |
Nov 24 |
Ing-Nang Wang
SUNY - Albany |
Evolution of bacteriophage
life history traits |
| Dec 1 |
Charles Fenster
University of Maryland |
Quantifying mutation parameters in the wild: field studies of Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines |
Feb 9
|
Priscila Chaverri
University of Maryland |
Systematics as a tool to identify potential fungi for biological control: The case of Trichoderma |
| Feb 16 |
Robert Fletcher
University of Florida |
Consequences of social information in heterogeneous landscapes |
| Feb 23 |
Hans Sues
Smithsonian Institution |
Age of Transition: The Triassic Origins of Modern Terrestrial Biotas
|
| Mar 2 |
Daniel J. Funk
Vanderbilt University |
Ecological specialization and ecological speciation in the maple- and willow ‘host forms’ of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles |
| Mar 9 |
Daven Presgraves
University of Rochester |
The evolution and genetics of hybrid incompatibilities in Drosophila
|
| Mar 23 |
Judge John Jones |
Our Constitution's Intelligent Design |
| Mar 30 |
Conrad Labandeira
Smithsonian Institution |
The fossil record of plant-insect associations enriches our
understanding of how terrestrial biodiversity is evolutionarily generated |
| Apr 6 |
Jiuzhou Song
University of Maryland |
Epigenetics and Environmental Exposure: Viral-induced Neoplastic Disease in Chickens |
| Apr 13 |
Bill Cresko
University of Oregon |
Population genomics of rapid adaptation in threespine stickleback |
| Apr 23 |
Richard Lenski
Michigan State University |
4th Annual
ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY DAY
Adaptation, chance, and history: Phenotypic and genomic evolution during a long-term experiment with bacteria |
