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Fall 2009 EEB SEMINAR SCHEDULE

  Department Seminar | Graduate Student Seminar

 


Department Seminar Series

Wednesdays 12:30-1:40

NatSci Annex 101

 

 

Wednesday, September 30

Michael Sorenson

"Speciation and host-specific adaptation in obligate brood parasites"

Host: Bruce Lyon

Wednesday, October 7

Raoul Mulder

"Evolution of male color polymorphism in Madagascar paradise flycatchers"

Host: Bruce Lyon

Wednesday, October 14

Douglas Emlen    ***SEMINAR CANCELLED***

"The origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns"

Host: Bruce Lyon

Wednesday, October 21

Tadashi Fukami

"Historical contingency in community assembly"

Host: Samantha Forde

Wednesday, October 28

Emily Limm

"Summer drought relief from wet leaves: foliar water uptake of fog by redwood forest plants"

Host: Jarmila Pittermann

Wednesday, November 4

Norma Fowler

"Untangling community dynamics in a changing landscape"

Host: Laurel Fox

Wednesday, November 11

No Seminar, Public Holiday (Veteran's Day)

Wednesday, November 18

Scott Nichols

"Sponges, choanoflagellates and the origin of animals"

Host: Kord Kober

Wednesday, November 25
No Seminar scheduled (day before Thanksgiving)
Wednesday, December 2

Laurie Godfrey

"The Hadropithecus conundrum revisited: reevaluating the trophic adaptations of an extinct lemur"

Host: Brooke Crowley

Wednesday, December 9

Bruce Baldwin

"Revisiting diversification, chromosome evolution, and reproductive shifts in a long-studied lineage of Californian annual plants (Collinsia; Plantaginaceae s.l.)"

Host: Jarmila Pittermann

 


Graduate Student Seminar Series

Monday 3:30-4:30

EMS A340

Friday 4:30-5:30

COH Conference Room/La Feliz Room

Friday, September 18

Jennifer O'Leary-Defense Seminar

Effects of fishing and trophic interactions on tropical reef builders:

coralline algaeand corals

La Feliz Room, Seymour Center 4:30-5:30

Tuesday, September 22

Jan Freiwald-Defense Seminar

"Causes and Consequences of the Movement of Temperate Reef Fishes"

COH, Room 118 4:00-5:00

Friday, October 2

Birgitte McDonald-Defense Seminar

The reproductive energetics of Antarctic fur seals: Influence of maternal traits and foraging behavior on maternal investment

COH. Room 118 4:30-5:30

Monday, October 26

Melissa Foley-Defense Seminar

Investigating the contributions from open ocean and

terrestrial habitats to near shore marine communities in Big Sur, California

La Feliz Room, Seymour Center 4:30-5:30

Tuesday, November 10

Susanne Altermann - Defense Seminar

"Geographic structure of a symbiotic mutualism"

EMS, A340 3:30-4:30

Monday, November 30

Dai Shizuka - Defense Seminar

"Parental strategies and family life in American coots: Brood parasiteism, sibling rivalry, and life history"

La Feliz Room, Seymour Center 4:30-5:30

Friday, December 4

Tish Conway-Cranos - Defense Seminar

 

La Feliz Room, Seymour Center 4:30-5:30

Monday, December 7

Brooke Crowley - Defense Seminar

The stable isotope ecology of Madagascar’s lemurs

EMS, A340 3:30-4:30

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