Winter 2006
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Title |
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12 Jan
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Lindsay Farrell
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Lakehead
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Friesen
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Last call of the raincrow: geographic variation and subspecies status of the yellow-billed cuckoo. |
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19 Jan
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Lonnie Aarssen
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Queen’s
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Grogan
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Why are there so many small plants? or Why is plant competition like baseball? |
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26 Jan
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Bob Montgomerie & |
Queen’s
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Grogan
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Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them. |
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2 Feb
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Chris Eckert & Paul Grogan
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Queen’s
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Grogan
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Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them. |
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9 Feb
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Damien Picard
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TBA
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Friesen
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Population genetics and phylogeography of the potato cyst nematode (Globodera pallida) in Peru. |
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16 Feb
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Kary Segraves
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TBA
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Eckert
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The evolution of cheating mutualisms. |
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23 Feb
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NO EEB – READING WEEK
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2 Mar
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Cecilia Doebel
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Queen’s
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Hodson
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Caged minnows as sentinels for gold mining wastes in environmental effects monitoring. |
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9 Mar
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Neal Scott
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Queen’s
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Grogan
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Forest management and the carbon cycle in northern forests: can we manage carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems? |
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16 Mar
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Adrienne Fowlie
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Queen’s
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Hodson
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The Cornwall affair: unravelling the secrets of fish mercury contamination at teh Cornwall Area of Concern. |
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23 Mar
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Sonia Nobrega
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Queen’s
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Grogan
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TBA |
| 28 Mar |
SPECIAL EEB – Steve Lougheed
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Queen’s
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Grogan
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A layperson’s guide to habitat and landform diversity in southern South America OR How I spent 4 months of my sabbatical. |
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30 Mar
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Jennifer Waugh
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Queen’s
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Aarssen
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TBA |
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6 Apr
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Monica Gerber
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Cornell
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Eckert
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Magnitude and variation in natural selection in plant populations. |
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13 Apr
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Shelley Arnott & Vicki Friesen
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Queen’s
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Grogan
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Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them. |
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20 Apr
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Maren Oelbermann
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Waterloo
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Grogan
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Global change: carbon dynamics and stable isotopes in terrestrial ecosystem research. |
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27 Apr
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Elena Gómez-Díaz
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University of Barcelona
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Friesen
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Phylogeography of the Calonectris shearwaters using molecular and morphometric data. |
Autumn 2005
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Title |
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15 Sep
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Boris Fumanal
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UMR BGA, Dijon, France
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Aarssen
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Life history traits and adaptive strategy of the invasive European plant: Ambrosia artemisifolia. |
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22 Sep
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Scott Hodges
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UC Santa Barbara
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Eckert
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Genomics of Aquilegia: A new model for the study of floral evolution & ecology. |
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29 Sep
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Jessica Forrest
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Queen’s
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Arnott
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Immigration and the effects of disturbance on a zooplankton community. |
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6 Oct
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Louis Bernatchez
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Laval
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Friesen
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Evolution and conservation in salmonids: A functional genomics perspective. |
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13 Oct
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Lonnie Aarssen & Bob Montgomerie |
Queen’s
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Montgomerie
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Half-baked ideas. |
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20 Oct
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Travis Clark
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Toronto
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Eckert
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The evolutionary genetics of dikaryosis, a novel ploidy. |
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27 Oct
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Karen Choo
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Queen’s
|
Day
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Lysogenic conversion and the evolution of bacterial pathogenesis. |
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3 Nov Joint EEB/Departmental |
Chris Eckert | Queen’s | Montgomerie | Intelligent design vs. evolution. |
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15 Nov
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Alison Pischedda
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Queen’s
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Chippindale
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Hope for the shallow end of the gene pool: sexual conflict disrupts sexual selection. |
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15 Nov
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Javier Salgado
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Queen’s
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Robertson
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Tweety vs. Sylvester: examining avian nest depredation patterns in a tropical forest using real and artificial nests. |
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24 Nov
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Mike Kasumovic
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Toronto
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Aarssen
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Is bigger better? Explaining the maintenance of phenotypic variation in males. |
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1 Dec
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Mary Timonin
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Queen’s
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Wynne-Edwards
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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. |
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8 Dec
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N.G. Prasad
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Queen’s
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Chippindale
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TBA |
| 15 Dec | Pedro Peres-Neto | Regina | Arnott |
Modeling metacommunities: approaches, patterns and challenges.
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