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EEB Noon Seminar Schedule: Spring 2007

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

Please contact John Pepper to sign up for a slot, or to make changes to the schedule. Phone: 626-0440
Email: jpepper1@email.arizona.edu
Date Speaker Title
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: "Postcopulatory Sexual Selection In Drosophila"
Feb. 6 Hanna Kokko Kokko: "Love and hatred in a world of feedback"
Feb. 13 Matthew Sullivan Sullivan: "To lead or follow? The delicate evolutionary dance of oceanic cyanobacteria and their viruses"
Feb. 20 Tovah Salcedo Salcedo: "Evolutionary genetics of innate immunity in house mice"
Feb. 27 Emily Jones (25 min)
Jason Harmon (25 min)
Jones: "Evolutionary dynamics of a mutualism: the consequences of exploitation"
Harmon: "Understanding species specific predator-prey-habitat interactions: Not all ladybugs are created equal"
Mar. 6 Alex Lancaster (25 min)
Kevin Vogel (25 min) 		Lancaster: "Detecting selection and functional associations in human MHC protein sequences"
Vogel: "Impact of symbiont mutation on host ecology"
Mar. 13 Spring Break  
Mar. 20 Scott Saleska (25 min)
Christine Lamanna (25 min) 		Saleska: "Does plant community composition affect carbon-cycle responses to climate change? Real-world drought puts predictions from experimental manipulations to the test"
Lamanna: "The role of temperature in subalpine ecosystem response to climate change"
Mar. 27 Gabriella Wlasiuk (25 min)
Latifa Borgelin (25 min)
Wlasiuk: "Molecular evolution of the Toll-like receptor 5 in humans and chimpanzees"
Borgelin: "Identifying Candidates for Malaria Driven Selection on Human Genes"
Apr. 3 Ipek Kulahci (25 min)
Gaelen Burke (25 min) 		Kulahci: "Complex signals and the speed-accuracy trade-off in decision making"
Burke: "Exploration of the mechanisms of Serratia symbiotica mediated heat-shock resistance in aphids"
Apr. 10 Nate Swenson (25 min)
Kathy Gerst (25 min) 		Swenson: "A phylogenetic and functional assessment of plant communities across broad gradients"
Gerst: "Reproductive consequences of sex ratio variation in Bursera microphylla"
Apr. 17 Rebecca Young (25 min)
Fernando Mendez (25 min) 		Young: "Performance and integration in the shrew foraging apparatus"
Mendez: "Assessment of long-term breeding ratio using DNA polymorphism"
Apr. 24 Jeff Fletcher Fletcher: "Advances in social evolution theory: Is genetic similarity the key?"

May 1

Joel Wertheim (25 min)
Lisa Kent (25 min) 		Wertheim: "The Evolution of a Virulence Factor in RNA Viruses"
Kent: "Natural selection and DNA sequence variation at an esterase locus in house mice"
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