2016/17

EEB seminar schedule for 2016/17

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
15 Sept	Dr. T. Alexander Dececchi	Queen’s University	Boag Lab	Up, Up and Away: How birds gained flight and took over the world
22 Sept	Dr. Colautti Dr. Eckert	Queen’s University		Invasions and extinctions ‘through the looking-glass’ of evolutionary ecology. Strong genetic differentiation but not local adaptation towards a geographical  range limit
29 Sept	Andrew MacDougall	University of Guelph	Aarssen Lab	Diversity-function relationships in the anthropocene
6 Oct	Fran Bonier	Queen’s University	EEB	Correlates, causes, and consequences of individual variation in glucocorticoids
13 Oct	Jannice Friedman	Syracuse University	Dr. Eckert	Evolutionary Transitions in Plant Reproductive Strategies
20 Oct	CANCELLED Maggie Boothroyd	Trent	Tufts lab
27 Oct	Karen Samis	University of PEI	Aarssen Lab	Expansion and introduction beyond geographic range limits
3 Nov	Adam Jeziorski	Queen’s University	Queen’s University	From “Aquatic Osteoporosis” to the “Jellification of Lakes”: Ecological impacts of lakewater calcium decline on softwater boreal ecosystems
8 Nov	Dustin Marshall	Monash University	Day & ChippendaleLabs	Variation in selection as a limit to adaptation
10 Nov	Tim Johnson	OMNRF	Arnott Lab	Dynamics and Dilemmas within the Lake Ontario Salmonid Community
17 Nov	Virginia K. Walker	Queen’s University		Impermafrost; a mini-sabbatical in Alaska
24 Nov	Melania Cristescu	McGill University		From barcoding single individuals to metabarcoding biological communities: Towards understanding and managing invasive species
1 Dec	Amanda Tracey	Queen’s University		Plant body size: when does it matter?
8 Dec	No Speaker

Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
12 Jan	Juliet Lamb	Clemson University	Dr. Friesen	Evaluating year-round seabird habitat needs in the Gulf of Mexico to improve oil pollution risk assessment and mitigation
19 Jan	Anne Charmantier	University of Montpellier	Dr. Friesen	Testing for local adaptation in wild passerines: from phenotypic to genomic approaches
26 Jan	Jim Quinn	MacMaster University	EEB	Cooperation and conflict within groups of joint-nesting cooperative birds
2 Feb	Rute Clemente-Carvalho	Queen’s		What are the implications of miniaturization in amphibian body size – a remarkable example in the genus Brachycephalus
9 Feb	CANCELLED Ivana Schoepf	Queen’s		When to live alone and when to live in groups? A field experiment of the habitat saturation hypothesis
16 Feb	John Serafini / TBD	Queen’s		Effects of resource manipulation on temperate grassland vegetation under a changing climate
23 Feb	No Speaker	Reading Week	NA	NA
2 Mar	Maggie Boothroyd	Trent University		Assessment of demographic and genetics juvenile lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) following an adult reintroduction (translocation) effort in a fragmented river system
9 Mar	Bob Cox	University of Virginia	Dr. Bonier	Two phenotypes, one genome: Integrating endocrine, transcriptomic, and quantitative genetic perspectives on sexual dimorphism
16 Mar	Dave Ensing	Queen’s		Research and management in an invasive plant species complex
23 Mar	Dylan Sora / Harley English-Dixon	Queen’s		Natural selection on phenology across the elevational range of an annual plant, Rhinanthus minor Personality and social dominance in the male zebra finch
30 Mar	Emily Darling / Kate Neville	U of T	Dr. Eckert
6 Apr	Ivana Schoepf	Queen’s	Dr. Bonier	When to live alone and when to live in groups? A field experiment of the habitat saturation hypothesis
18 Apr	Steven Short		Departmental Seminar

*Split Session with two speakers