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