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EEB Seminar: January 15th

  Thursday, January 15th, will be our first EEB seminar of the winter term. Dr. Megan Frederickson will talk to us about The ecology and evolution of mutualism at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) The seminar is hosted by Dr. Shelley Arnott Research in the Frederickson lab focuses on the ecology and evolutionContinue reading “EEB Seminar: January 15th”

EEB seminar: November 27th

  This Thursday, Dr. William R. Glass will talk about the Northern range edge populations of Spotted Gar: local adaptation and implications for conservation at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) The seminar is hosted by your EEB committee   Populations at the edge of a species’ range are often small, isolated, and exposedContinue reading “EEB seminar: November 27th”

EEB Seminar: November 20th

  This Thursday, PhD students Haley Kenyon and Mike Lavender will talk about Genes vs culture: song variation across an avian hybrid zone and The role of competition in community assembly respectively, in a special grad student shared EEB seminar at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) The seminar is hosted by Dr. PaulContinue reading “EEB Seminar: November 20th”

EEB Seminar: November 13th

  On Thursday, Dr. Jessica Forrest will talk about Solitary bees in a warming world at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) The seminar is hosted by Shelley Arnott   Ectotherms in temperate regions stand to benefit from globally rising temperatures, which ought to increase development rates and foraging opportunities. However, climate change canContinue reading “EEB Seminar: November 13th”

EEB Seminar: November 6th

This Thursday, Dr. Scott Colbourne will talk on Sympatric speciation: Foraging ecology and sexual selection in pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) The seminar is hosted by Fran Bonier   Sympatric speciation is typically thought to require both disruptive natural selection and a mechanism of reproductive isolation that resultsContinue reading “EEB Seminar: November 6th”

EEB Seminar: October 30th

This upcoming Thursday, Kiyoko Gotanda will talk on Adaptation as a spatio-temporal mosaic of selection at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) The seminar is hosted by Fran Bonier Adaptive divergence due to variation in selective pressures is believed to have generated much of the biodiversity observed today. Despite this, it is commonly assumedContinue reading “EEB Seminar: October 30th”

EEB Seminar: October 23rd

  This upcoming Thursday, University of Waterloo’s Dr. Josh Neufeld will talk on how   A perfect storm of scientific serendipity implicates Thaumarchaeota in global vitamin B12 production   at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338)   Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a complex metabolite and essential cofactor across many branches of life, including mostContinue reading “EEB Seminar: October 23rd”

EEB Seminar: October 16th

This upcoming Thursday, our very own Dr. Virginia Walker will talk on   There may be more to nanoparticles than meets the eye   at 12:30 in the EEB lounge (BioSciences 4338) There is no doubt that engineered nanoparticles (NPs) found in a variety of consumer goods are technologically valuable. However, we need to understandContinue reading “EEB Seminar: October 16th”