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 |
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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
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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 |
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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