Winter 2011
DATE
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SPEAKER
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INSTITUTION
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HOST
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TITLE
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6 Jan
|
–
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–
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–
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– |
13 Jan
|
Lesley Campbell
|
Ryerson
|
Eckert
|
Hybridization & its role in evolution: Implications for invasive species, agriculture and plant conservation.
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20 Jan
|
Andy Gonzalez
|
McGill
|
Eckert
|
Rescue, Robots, and Ranges: experimental explorations of the eco-evolutionary response to environmental change.
|
27 Jan
|
James D. Thomson
|
Toronto
|
Eckert
|
Pollen-transfer efficiency and the evolution of pollinator shifts.
|
3 Feb
|
Tom Brooke
|
Queen’s |
Tufts
|
To Fizz or not to fizz (Part 2): New observations complicating a complicated question. |
10 Feb
|
John Stinchcombe
|
Toronto
|
Eckert |
Ecological genomics of invasive Arabidopsis populations.
|
17 Feb
|
Andrew Hendry
|
McGill
|
Ann McKellar |
Ecological speciation (or the lack thereof) in Darwin’s finches, threespine stickleback, and guppies.
|
24 Feb
|
–
|
– |
READING WEEK
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3 Mar
|
Adriana Olijnyk
|
Queen’s
|
Nelson |
Genotypic differences and trade-offs in life history schedules of Daphnia pulicaria under natural food conditions.
|
10 Mar
|
Asher Cutter
|
Toronto
|
Eckert
|
Molecular hyperdiversity, phylogeography, and reproductive isolation in Caenorhabditis nematodes.
|
17 Mar
|
Kate Turner
|
Queen’s
|
Arnott
|
Influence of dispersal and species interactions on zooplankton community structure. |
24 Mar
|
Joanna Freeland
|
Trent
|
Ibarguchi
|
Evolution and ecology in a changing environment: What can we learn from a 150 year-old experiment?
|
31 Mar
|
Darren Irwin
|
UBC
|
Friesen |
What role does hybridization play in avian speciation? A comparative analysis of post-glacial contact zones? Note that this EEB will be in Room 3110 Biosciences
|
7 Apr
|
Natalie Kim
|
TBA
|
Anneli Jokela |
Assessing the interactive effects of Bythotrephes and environmental calcium decline on daphniids in Canadian Shield lakes.
|
14 Apr
|
Michelle DiLeo
|
Queen’s
|
Lougheed
|
The influence of scale and landscape on genetic structure of a threatened snake, the massasauaga rattlesnake.
|
DATE
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SPEAKER
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INSTITUTION
|
HOST
|
TITLE
|
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16 Sept.
|
Cory Toth
|
Queen’s
|
Ratcliffe
|
Transitive inference in black-capped chickadees |
23 Sept.
|
Vanya Rohwer
|
Queen’s
|
Martin
|
Fitness consequences and selective mechanisms favouring local nest morphologies in Yellow Warblers
|
30 Sep
|
Chris Eckert & Shelley Arnott
|
Queen’s
|
Lougheed
|
Why (Or Maybe How) I Became a Biologist. Tales of Punk Rock and Serendipity.
|
7 Oct
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
Queen’s
|
Lougheed
|
Sperm evolution.
|
14 Oct
|
Scott Taylor
|
Queen’s |
Friesen
|
Specialization to cold water upwelling systems influences gene flow and population differentiation in seabirds
|
21 Oct
|
Brock Fenton
|
University of Western Ontario
|
Chris Grooms |
Evolution and adaptive radiation of bats
|
28 Oct
|
Troy Day
|
Queen’s
|
Nelson |
Why evolutionary theory is a waste of time
|
4 Nov
|
Andrew Simons
|
Carleton
|
Lougheed
|
Modes of response to environmental change and the elusive empirical evidence for bet hedging
|
11 Nov
|
Matt Shawkey
|
University of Akron
|
Montgomerie
|
Plumage color in birds and other dinosaurs
|
18 Nov
|
Rute Clemente-Carvalho
|
Queen’s
|
Lougheed
|
Diversidade fenotípica e relações filogenéticas e moleculares em Brachycephalus (Amphibia: Brachycephalidae) or “Phenotypic diversity and phylogenetic relationships among diminutive frogs from Atlantic Rainforests of Brazil”
|
25 Nov
|
Richard Feldman
|
McGill
|
Roz Dakin
|
Toward a theory of abundance at large spatial scales
|
2 Dec
|
Mollie Manier
|
Syracuse University
|
Chippindale
|
Resolving mechanisms of post-copulatory sexual selection in
Drosophila |