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 |
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