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EEB Noon Seminar Schedule: Fall 2006

Tuesdays 12:30-1:45 pm in BioSciences West (building location map) Room 208.

Please contact Dan Papaj to sign up for a slot, or to make changes to the schedule. Phone: 621-8988
Email: papaj@email.arizona.edu
Date Speaker Title
Aug. 29 Open  
Sept. 5 Armando Geraldes (25 min)
Peter Reinthal (25 min) 		Geraldes: "Speciation and molecular evolution in the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)"

Reinthal: "Isotopic investigations of heavy metal contamination in Aravaipa Creek fishes and California Condors"
Sept. 12 Tuan Cao (25 min)
Nancy Moran (25 min) 		Cao: "The influence of vibration signals on workers in newly founded and established honey bee colonies"

Moran: Effects of symbiont mutations on the ecological range of hosts
Sept. 19 Joanna Monti-Masel (50 min) Monti-Masel: "The loss of adaptive plasticity during long periods of environmental stasis"
Sept. 26 John Pepper (50 min) Pepper: "Inclusive fitness vs. kin selection: Hamilton was right after all!"
Oct. 3 Katy Prudic (25 min)
(2nd slot open) 		Prudic: "The signal environment and the evolution of aposematic coloration"
Oct. 10 Matt Herron
(2nd slot open) 		Herron: "Evolution of soma in volvocine algae"


Oct. 17 Matt Dean (25 min)
Jeremy Davis (25 min)		 Dean: "Molecular approaches to sexual selection in mice"

Davis: "Testing alternative models of the adaptive effects of natal experience on habitat selection"
Oct. 24 Jason Pither (25 min)
Luciano Matzkin (25 min)
Pither: "Ecological guilds challenge conventional interpretations of beta diversity-environment relationships within metacommunities"

Matzkin: "The molecular basis of host adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila: Molecular evolution of Glutathione-s-transferase (Gst) genes in Drosophila mojavensis"
Oct. 31 Emilie Snell-Rood (25 min)

Kristen Hultgren (25 min)

Snell-Rood: "The use of novel resources: the role of development and plasticity"

Hultgren: "Ecology and evolution of camouflage behavior in the decorator crabs (Majoidea)"
Nov. 7 no seminar no seminar
Nov. 14 Jeff Good (25 min)
Amelie Schmolke (25 min) 		Good: "The genetic basis of hybrid male sterility between two incipient species of house mice"

Schmolke: "Individual strategies and colony success: an individual-based model of foraging in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus"

Nov. 21 Maren Friesen (25 min)
Andreas Mathias (25 min) 		Friesen: "Testing for Fitness Conflicts Between Rhizobia and Legumes"

Mathias: "Trade-offs Repel Temptation: Evolutionary Dynamics of Exploitation in the Rhizobia-Legume Mutualism"
Nov. 28 Anne Estes (25 min)
Rick Michod (25 min)

Estes: "Life in a fly: endosymbiont responses to a variable environment."

Michod: "Evolution of multicellularity"
Dec. 5 Internship Talks  
  2007  
Jan. 16 Jeremy Bono Bono: "Evolution of cooperative colony founding in Australian Acacia thrips"
Jan. 23 Alexey Desnitskiy Desnitskiy: "Evolutionary Reorganizations Of Ontogeny In Related Species (Exemplified By Coenobial Volvocine Algae)"
Jan. 30 Adam Bjork Bjork: TBA
Feb. 6 Hanna Kokko Kokko: "Love and hatred in a world of feedback"
Feb. 13 Matthew Sullivan Sullivan: TBA
Feb. 20 Tovah Salcedo Salcedo: "Evolutionary genetics of innate immunity in house mice"
Feb. 27    
Mar. 6    
Mar. 13 Spring Break  
Mar. 20    
Mar. 27 Gabriella Wlasiuk (25 min) Wlasiuk: TBA
Apr. 3 Ipek Kulahci Kulahci: "Speed-accuracy tradeoff in foraging decisions"
Apr. 10 Nate Swenson (25 min)
Kathy Gerst (25 min) 		Swenson: TBA
Gerst: "Reproductive ecology of selfing and outcrossing desert annual plants"
Apr. 17 Rebecca Young (25 min)
Fernando Mendez (25 min) 		Young: "Performance and integration in the shrew foraging apparatus"
Mendez: TBA
Apr. 24 Brad Christoffersen Christoffersen: TBA

May 1

Joel Wertheim Wertheim: TBA
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