Current Schedule:

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EEB seminar schedule for 2020/2021:

Winter 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
Jan 14th	Blake Jones	Bennington College	Bonier Lab
Jan 21st	Manas Samant	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research	Chippindale Lab
Jan 28th	Kate Laskowski	UC Davis	EEB
Feb 4th	René S. Shahmohamadloo	University of Guelph	Orihel Lab
Feb 11th	Geetha Thimmegowda	National Centre for Biological Sciences and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Aristizabal Lab
Feb 18th	Lindsay Miles	University of Toronto Mississauga	Martin Lab
Feb 25th	Daniel Gillis	University of Toronto	Lougheed Lab
Mar 4th	Emily Choy	McGill University	Friesen Lab
Mar 11th	Christopher Schell	University of Washington Tacoma	Bonier Lab
Mar 18th	Amanda Xuereb	Université Laval	Lougheed Lab
Mar 25th	Zeeshan Syed	Syracuse University	Chippindale Lab
Apr 1st	Amy Forsythe (exit seminar)	Queen’s University	Nelson/Day Labs
Apr 8th	Wenxi Feng (exit seminar)	Queen’s University	Lougheed Lab
Apr 15th	Julie Messier	University of Waterloo	Eckert Lab

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
Sept 10th	Theresa Jones	Queen’s University	Martin Lab	Sociality across multiple foraging contexts in a colonial seabird
Sept 17th	Panel: Jacqueline Scott, Peter Soroye, Jessica Winters	University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, Memorial University	EEB	How to make ecology less white
Sept 24th	Leslie Holmes	Queen’s University	Nelson Lab	Direct and indirect effects of host food quality on host life
Oct 1st	Olivier Cotto	Queen’s University	Day Lab	Models of adaptation to climate change with complex life histories
Oct 8th	Steve Phelps	University of Texas at Austin	Bonier Lab	Singing mice as integrative models for adaptive display
Oct 15th	Chris Boccia	Queen’s Univerity	Friesen Lab	Testing for convergent evolution in semi-aquatic Anolis lizards
Oct 22nd	Emma Lachance Linklater	Queen’s Univerity	Friesen Lab	Population genomic structure of Glaucous Gull in the Canadian Arctic
Oct 29th	Mike Dungey	Queen’s University	Eckert Lab	A broad-scale test of dispersal constraints on the northern range limit of a Pacific coastal dune plant
Nov 5th	Lauren Carley	University of Minnesota	Eckert Lab	Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature
Nov 12th	Robin Kimmerer	SUNY ESF	QUBS	What does the Earth ask of us?
Nov 19th	Maria Aristizabal	Queen’s University	EEB	Deciphering mechanisms of transcription regulation and their role in the biological embedding of experience
Nov 26th	Ina Anreiter	University of Toronto	Aristizabal Lab	Deciphering pleiotropy: how complex genes are regulated to affect behaviour
Dec 3rd	Peter Soroye	University of Ottawa	Eckert Lab	Climate change and land use change impacts on pollinators
Dec 10th	Cathy Rushworth	University of Minnesota and UC Davis	Friedman Lab	Ecology and evolution of mate choice in wild plant populations