2019/20

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
Sep 5th	Luke Mahler	University of Toronto	Martin Lab	Anthropocene determinants of diversity in island anole lizards
Sep 12th	Carly Rozins	UC Berkeley	Day Lab	The birds and the bees: The industrialization of agriculture and its impact on diseases in poultry and apiculture
Sep 19th	Ying Chen	Queen’s University	Lougheed Lab	Understanding variation in male advertisement calls in spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer)
Sep 26th #1	Matthew Macpherson	Queen’s University	Lougheed Lab	Exclusion potential and behavioural response of gray ratsnakes (Pantherophis spiloides) to barrier fencing
Sep 26th #2	Regan Cross	Queen’s University	Eckert Lab	Long-term persistence of a species beyond its natural range
Oct 10th	Kelly Estrada Piedrahita	Queen’s University	Lefebvre/ Wang Lab	Wild animal rehabilitation in the Amazon
Oct 17th	Alyson Van Natto	Queen’s University	Eckert Lab	Effects of peripherality and hybridization on range-wide genetic structure of the endangered coastal dune plant Abronia umbellata (Nyctaginaceae)
Oct 24th	Alex McClymont	Queen’s University	Arnott Lab	Effects of road salt and climate change on lake communities
Oct 31st	Michael Hochberg	CNRS Montpellier	Day Lab	Evolution and Environment Shape Cancer Across Species
Nov 7th	Gemma Clucas	Cornell University	Friesen Lab	Marine conservation genomics: exploring the past, present, and future of oceanic ecosystems
Nov 14th	Rosalind Murray	University of Toronto	Friedman Lab	Selection for elaborate female traits: sex-biased resource allocation in insects
Nov 21st	Andrew Wright	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Friesen Lab	RoboScientist: Whale research in collaboration with machines
Nov 28th	Wendy Van Drunen	Queen’s University	Friedman Lab	The immediate phenotypic effects of whole-genome duplication on asexual reproduction through clonality
Dec 5th	Carly Ziter	Concordia University	Eckert Lab	Thinking outside the park: a landscape ecology approach to urban ecosystem services
Dec 12th	Bob Montgomerie	Queen’s University	Montgomerie Lab	DAZED AND CONFUSED: a naturalist in the 20th century

Winter 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
Jan 9th	Corrina Thomsen	University of British Colombia	Eckert Lab	Province-wide patterns, and between-layer associations, of mycorrhizal host type within British Columbia forests
Jan 16th	Joe Schwarcz	University of McGill	Departmental	Hey! There are Cockroaches in my Chocolate Ice Cream!
Jan 23rd	John McKay	Colorado State University	Departmental	Commercializing Genetic Discoveries for the Sustainable Production of Cannabis and Maize
Jan 30th	Elizabeth Gow	University of Guelph	School of Environmental Studies/EEB Combined Seminar	Tracking birds and their predators throughout the annual cycle to understand population declines
Feb 6th	Calder Schweitzer	Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust	Wang/Lefebvre Lab	Boots on the Ground: Direct-Action Conservation Through Land Trusts
Feb 13th	Bob Montgomerie	Queen’s University	Montgomerie Lab	True Facts about Scientific Misconduct
Mar 5th	Aaron Shafer	Trent University	Lougheed Lab	Can We Use Genomes To Help Conserve Biodiversity?
Mar 12th	Leslie Campbell	Ryerson University	Yakimowski Lab	Gene Flow and its Role in Evolution: Applied Evolutionary Ecology of Weed(s)
Mar 26th	Jenna Finley	Queen’s University	Aarssen Lab	Do species with strong apical dominance incur a cost in terms of suppressed potential fecundity or biomass?
Apr 9th	Richie Honor	Queen’s University	Colautti Lab	Allelopathy, Evolution and Plasticity in Garlic Mustard