2005/06

Winter 2006

Date	Name	Institution	Host	Title
12 Jan	Lindsay Farrell	Lakehead	Friesen	Last call of the raincrow: geographic variation and subspecies status of the yellow-billed cuckoo.
19 Jan	Lonnie Aarssen	Queen’s	Grogan	Why are there so many small plants? or Why is plant competition like baseball?
26 Jan	Bob Montgomerie & Raliegh Robertson	Queen’s	Grogan	Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them.
2 Feb	Chris Eckert & Paul Grogan	Queen’s	Grogan	Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them.
9 Feb	Damien Picard	TBA	Friesen	Population genetics and phylogeography of the potato cyst nematode (Globodera pallida) in Peru.
16 Feb	Kary Segraves	TBA	Eckert	The evolution of cheating mutualisms.
23 Feb	NO EEB – READING WEEK
2 Mar	Cecilia Doebel	Queen’s	Hodson	Caged minnows as sentinels for gold mining wastes in environmental effects monitoring.
9 Mar	Neal Scott	Queen’s	Grogan	Forest management and the carbon cycle in northern forests: can we manage carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems?
16 Mar	Adrienne Fowlie	Queen’s	Hodson	The Cornwall affair: unravelling the secrets of fish mercury contamination at teh Cornwall Area of Concern.
23 Mar	Sonia Nobrega	Queen’s	Grogan	TBA
28 Mar	SPECIAL EEB – Steve Lougheed	Queen’s	Grogan	A layperson’s guide to habitat and landform diversity in southern South America OR How I spent 4 months of my sabbatical.
30 Mar	Jennifer Waugh	Queen’s	Aarssen	TBA
6 Apr	Monica Gerber	Cornell	Eckert	Magnitude and variation in natural selection in plant populations.
13 Apr	Shelley Arnott & Vicki Friesen	Queen’s	Grogan	Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them.
20 Apr	Maren Oelbermann	Waterloo	Grogan	Global change: carbon dynamics and stable isotopes in terrestrial ecosystem research.
27 Apr	Elena Gómez-Díaz	University of Barcelona	Friesen	Phylogeography of the Calonectris shearwaters using molecular and morphometric data.

 

Autumn 2005

Date	Name	Institution	Host	Title
15 Sep	Boris Fumanal	UMR BGA, Dijon, France	Aarssen	Life history traits and adaptive strategy of the invasive European plant: Ambrosia artemisifolia.
22 Sep	Scott Hodges	UC Santa Barbara	Eckert	Genomics of Aquilegia: A new model for the study of floral evolution & ecology.
29 Sep	Jessica Forrest	Queen’s	Arnott	Immigration and the effects of disturbance on a zooplankton community.
6 Oct	Louis Bernatchez	Laval	Friesen	Evolution and conservation in salmonids: A functional genomics perspective.
13 Oct	Lonnie Aarssen & Bob Montgomerie	Queen’s	Montgomerie	Half-baked ideas.
20 Oct	Travis Clark	Toronto	Eckert	The evolutionary genetics of dikaryosis, a novel ploidy.
27 Oct	Karen Choo	Queen’s	Day	Lysogenic conversion and the evolution of bacterial pathogenesis.
3 Nov Joint EEB/Departmental	Chris Eckert	Queen’s	Montgomerie	Intelligent design vs. evolution.
15 Nov	Alison Pischedda	Queen’s	Chippindale	Hope for the shallow end of the gene pool: sexual conflict disrupts sexual selection.
15 Nov	Javier Salgado	Queen’s	Robertson	Tweety vs. Sylvester: examining avian nest depredation patterns in a tropical forest using real and artificial nests.
24 Nov	Mike Kasumovic	Toronto	Aarssen	Is bigger better? Explaining the maintenance of phenotypic variation in males.
1 Dec	Mary Timonin	Queen’s	Wynne-Edwards	Extending the known effects of photoperiod in the dwarf hamster (Phodopus): reproductive responses to short days in social P. campbelli and social responses to short days in photoperiodic P. sungorus.
8 Dec	N.G. Prasad	Queen’s	Chippindale	TBA
15 Dec	Pedro Peres-Neto	Regina	Arnott	Modeling metacommunities: approaches, patterns and challenges.