2002/03

Winter 2003

Feb 20 is READING WEEK

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
Jan 9	Dr Scott A Tarof	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Size does matter: Male mask size, dominance, and female choice in a secretively breeding warbler
Jan 16	Dr Thierry Boulinier	Université Pierre & Marie Curie	Habitat selection based on conspecific reproductive success: Behavioural evidence and population consequences
Jan 23	Dr Albrecht I Schulte-Hostedde	Montgomerie Lab, Department of Biology, Queen’s University	A tail of two phenotypes: Sperm, spleens and bluegill
Jan 30	NO EEB
Feb 6	Dr John Casselman	Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources	The effects of climate and climate change on fish and fisheries
Feb 13	Dr Tony Gaston	National Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service	Long-term population studies of marine birds
Feb 27	Dr Karen McCoy	Friesen Lab, Department of Biology, Queen’s University	Coevolution in a geographic mosaic: host specialisation of a bipolar parasite
Mar 6Room 1102	Dr Brian AltersRoom 1102	Director, Evolution Education Research Centre, William Dawson Scholar McGill University, and Associate Professor at Harvard University	Teaching and defending evolution: Exploring some problematic aspects with teaching evolution from the pedagogical to the antievolutionist factors
Mar 13	Dr Ivana Stehlik	Department of Botany, University of Toronto	Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the Ice Ages
Mar 20	Dr David M Green	Associate Professor, McGill University & Curator of Vertebrates, Redpath Museum	The ecology of extinction: population fluctuation and decline in amphibians
Mar 27	Matthew Routley	PhD Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Guelph	The adaptive significance of temporal separation of gender in plants
Apr 3	Melinda Collins	MSc Candidate, RJ Robertson Lab, Department of Biology, Queen’s University	Settlement patterns, breeding behaviour and nest-site selection in black-and-white warblers
Apr 10	Dr Howard D Rundle	Simon Fraser University	Divergent natural selection and speciation in sticklebacks
Apr 17	Daria Koscinski	MSc Candidate, Lougheed Lab, Department of Biology, Queen’s University	Assessing the importance of geographic isolation and ecological selection in the diversification of an Andean frog
Apr 24	Dr Neil Gemmel	Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand	The curse of the mummy: some implications of mitochondrial driven infertility

 

Autumn 2002

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept 12
Sept 19	Dr Christoph Richter	Department of Biology, Uinversity of Otago	Blows, clicks, and flukes: assessing the impacts of whale watching on Sperm whales off Kaikoura, New Zealand
Sept 26	Agnes Kilber	Eckert Lab, Dept of Biology, Queen’s University	Colonization effects on genetic diversity of an invasive clonal plant
Oct 3	Dr Miriam Richards	Department of Biology, Brock University	On bee-ing social: intrinsic and extrinsic influences on selfishness and cooperation in social sweat bees
Oct 10	Dr Lennart Hansson	Department Conservation Biology, Swedish Unversity of Agricultural Sciences	Conservation of a successional ecosystem in Sweden
Oct 17	Dr Barbara Mable	Department of Botany, University of Guelph	Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in a model plant “species”: gene families, polyploidy, and genetic diversity
Oct 24	Dr Theresa Burg	Friesen Lab, Department of Biology, Queen’s University	Genetic studies of albatrosses in the Southern Ocean
Oct 31	Dr Liana Zanette	Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario	Interactions between food and predators: implications for songbird conservation
Nov 7	Jean-Guy Godin	Department of Biology, Carleton University	Risky sex in fishes
Nov 14	Dr Bryan Neff	Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario	Dynamics and origins of alternative mating tactics in bluegill sunfish
Nov 21	Amy MacDougall	Montgomerie Lab, Dept of Biology, Queen’s University	Plumage colour and quality in American goldfinches
Nov 28	Dr Bonnie Wolfenden	Department of Biology, York University	Song as a sexual signal in Acadian flycatchers
Dec 5	Dr Keith Hobson	Canadian Wildlife Service, Saskatoon	From the ecosystem to the individual: using stable isotopes to investigate nutrient pathways and allocations