2010/11

Winter 2011

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TITLE
6 Jan	–	–	–	–
13 Jan	Lesley Campbell	Ryerson	Eckert	Hybridization & its role in evolution: Implications for invasive species, agriculture and plant conservation.
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
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.

 

Fall 2010

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TITLE
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