| Date |
Speaker |
From |
Title |
Host |
| 4/30/2012 |
Manuel Lerdau |
University of Virginia |
Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects of Plant Impacts on Air Quality |
Huxman |
| 4/23/2012 |
Sean McMahon |
Smithsonian Institution |
Nowcasting forests in a changing world |
Enquist/Evans |
| 4/16/2012 |
Brian Enquist |
UA |
Towards a Trait-Based View of the Study of Biological Diversity: New Insights to Deciphering Diversity Gradients and 'Scaling Up' to Ecosystem-Level Processes |
|
| 4/9/2012 |
Kailen Mooney |
UC-Irvine |
Plant Genetic Effects on Interactions among Arthropods: Linking Evolutionary and Community Ecology |
Whiteman |
| 4/2/2012 |
Eric Lyons |
UA |
Making Sense of Genome Structure, Evolution and Dynamics as Quickly as Possible |
Barker |
| 3/26/2012 |
Deborah Goldberg |
University of Michigan |
Linking Traits to Community Dynamics |
Bronstein |
| 3/19/2012 |
Matt Hahn |
Indiana University |
Gene Gain, Gene Loss, and Gene Movement in Evolution |
Barker |
| 3/12/2012 |
Spring Break |
No Seminar |
Spring Break - No Seminar |
|
| 3/5/2012 |
Ken Whitney |
Rice University |
Evolutionary and Genetic Factors Influencing Species Invasions |
Dlugosch |
| 2/27/2012 |
Scott Nuismer |
University of Idaho |
Species Interactions and the Establishment and Diversification of Polyploid Lineages |
Barker |
| 2/20/2012 |
Fyodor Kondrashov |
CRG (Centre for Genomic Regulation), Barcelona |
Room change, MARLEY 230 - Quantifying the Role of Epistasis in Protein Evolution |
Badyaev |
| 2/13/2012 |
Boris Worm |
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia |
Ocean Planet: Patterns of Marine Biodiversity, and Their Conservation |
Sullivan |
| 2/6/2012 |
Cynthia Riginos |
University of Queensland, Australia |
Reproductive Strategies of Reef Fishes Predict both Within-Species Genetic Differentiation and Within-Family Species Richness |
Nachman |
| 1/30/2012 |
Dave Baltrus |
UA |
So, Horizontal Gene Transfer is an Important Evolutionary Process In Microbes....Now What Do We Do? |
Whiteman |
| 1/23/2012 |
Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos |
University of Queensland, Australia |
Disentangling an Entanglement of Daisies: How Natural Selection Drives Speciation in *Senecio pinnatifolius.* |
Barker |
| 12/5/2011 |
Kirsten Bomblies |
Harvard |
Genomics of Adaptation in Autotetraploid Arabidopsis Arenosa |
Whiteman |
| 11/28/2011 |
Dan Blumstein |
UCLA |
The Sound of Fear |
Enquist |
| 11/21/2011 |
Mohamed Noor |
Duke University |
Recombination, Speciation, and Nucleotide Diversity in the Drosophila Pseudoobscura Species Group
|
Whiteman |
| 11/14/2011 |
Brendan Bohannan |
University of Oregon |
Response of Microbial Biodiversity to Land Use Change in the Amazon Rainforest |
Saleska |
| 11/7/2011 |
John Willis |
Duke University |
Genetic Analysis of Adaptation and Speciation in Mimulus |
Nachman |
| 10/31/2011 |
Alexandros Stamatakis |
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies |
Disentangling Evolution on Supercomputers |
Sanderson |
| 10/24/2011 |
Mark Vellend |
Université de Sherbrooke |
Integrating Ecology and Genetics: Patterns, Experiments, and Ideas |
Enquist |
| 10/17/2011 |
Bruce Baldwin |
UC Berkeley |
Cryptic Diversity in the California Flora: Challenges for Systematics and Conservation |
Sanderson |
| 10/10/2011 |
Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz |
ASU |
Methanogens in Northern Peatlands: Ecology and Community Patterns |
Saleska |
| 10/3/2011 |
Molly Hunter |
UA |
Dynamics of Bacterial Symbionts Influencing Reproduction and Life History of Whiteflies and their Parasitoids |
|
| 9/26/2011 |
Massimo Pigliucci |
City University of New York |
Toward an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis? |
Enquist |
| 9/19/2011 |
Goggy Davidowitz |
UA |
Physiological Synergism and Antagonism in the Evolution of Life Histories |
|
| 9/12/2011 |
Neo Martinez |
Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab |
Ecosystem Function, Evolution and Economics of Ecological Networks |
Enquist |
| 9/5/2011 |
Labor Day Holiday |
|
Seminar will not occur on this date |
|
| 8/29/2011 |
Cristian Solari & Vanina Galzenati |
UA |
Volvocales as a Model System for the Evolution of Multicellularity and Testing Ecological Theories |
Michod |
| 5/2/2011 |
Rob Robichaux |
University of Arizona |
Silverswords and Lobeliads: Restoring Hawaii's Marvels of Evolution |
|
| 4/25/2011 |
Alison Bell |
University of Illinois, Urbana |
Consistent Individual Differences in Behavior in Threespined Sticklebacks |
Papaj |
| 4/18/2011 |
John Sperry |
University of Utah |
Moving Water Well: the Hydraulic Biology of Plants |
Enquist |
| 4/11/2011 |
Martin Lechowicz |
McGill University |
Predicting Dominance and Diversity in Plant Communities along Environmental Gradients |
Enquist Lab |
| 4/4/2011 |
Ryan Gutenkunst |
U of A |
Natural Selection: Biochemical Network Dynamics and Demographic History |
|
| 3/28/2011 |
Doug Futuyma |
Stony Brook |
Macroevolution and the Evolutionary Synthesis |
Whiteman |
| 3/21/2011 |
Jonathan Levine |
UC Santa Barbara |
The Importance of Niches for the Maintenance of Species Diversity |
EEB Graduate Students |
| 3/14/2011 |
|
|
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK |
|
| 3/7/2011 |
Julio Bentancourt |
University of Arizona |
How do plant migrations actually happen? Lessons past and recent invasions in the American West |
Huxman/Enquist |
| 2/28/2011 |
Dmitri Petrov |
Stanford University |
Adaptation in Drosophila |
Masel |
| 2/21/2011 |
Bill Birky |
U of A |
DNA Barcoding the Right Way: A Theory-based Method for Species Detection and Identification |
|
| 2/14/2011 |
Angela Hancock, Faculty Candidate |
University of Chicago |
Population Genomics of Adaptations to the Environment |
|
| 2/7/2011 |
David Lowry, Faculty Candidate |
University of Texas, Austin |
The landscape evolutionary genomics of adaptation and speciation |
|
| 1/31/2011 |
Mike Lynch, Faculty Candidate |
Indiana University |
Mutation and Evolution |
|
| 1/24/2011 |
Lindy McBride, Faculty Candidate |
The Rockefeller University |
The Genomics of Insect Host Adaptation to rotting fruit, wildflowers, and human blood |
|
| 12/6/2010 |
Woodward Fischer |
CalTech |
Life before the rise of oxygen |
Saleska |
| 11/29/2010 |
Dale Clayton |
University of Utah |
Co-evolutionary ecology of birds and ectoparasite communities |
Whiteman |
| 11/22/2010 |
Leonie Moyle |
Indiana University |
The origin of Solanum species: from genes to GIS |
Nachman |
| 11/15/2010 |
John Wiens |
Stony Brook University |
Reconstructing and using the Tree of Life: Lessons from reptiles and amphibians |
Sanderson |
| 11/8/2010 |
Nick Woolf |
UA-Astronomy |
What is life, and how did it start? |
Michod |
| 11/1/2010 |
Mya Breitbart |
U South Florida |
Viral Discovery in the Age of Metagenomics: Exploring Infections, Environmental Reservoirs, and Transmission Mechanisms |
Sullivan |
| 10/25/2010 |
Steven Hallam |
U British Columbia |
From Fjords to open seas: Ecological genomics of expanding oxygen minimum zones |
Sullivan |
| 10/18/2010 |
Michael Nachman |
EEB |
The genetic basis of speciation in house mice |
Sullivan |
| 10/11/2010 |
Maggie So |
UA Immunobiology |
Commensal Neisseria Genomes: Clues to Pathogen Behavior |
Michod |
| 10/4/2010 |
SEMINAR CANCELED |
|
|
|
| 9/27/2010 |
Michael Worobey |
UA - EEB |
Emerging Pathogens: the evolutionary genetics of RNA viruses |
P&T |
| 9/20/2010 |
Scott Saleska |
UA - EEB |
Carbon cycle feedbacks to climate from the Amazon to the Arctic: does ecology matter? |
P&T |
| 9/13/2010 |
Matt Sullivan |
EEB Faculty |
Occen Viruses: Tiny entities with global impacts |
P&T |
| 9/6/2010 |
|
|
No Seminar - LABOR DAY |
|
| 8/30/2010 |
|
|
No Seminar |
|
| 5/10/2010 |
Seirian Sumner |
Institute of Zoology, London |
BSW219, 2:15pm - Evolution of sociality in insects |
PERT – Vanessa Corby-Harris |
| 5/10/2010 |
Dr. Jeremiah Hackett |
UA-EEB |
GS906, 4PM - Gene transfer and endosymbiosis in the evolution of microbial eukaryotes |
|
| 5/3/2010 |
Linda Rayor |
Cornell |
Living with cannibals: Costs and benefits of group-living in social and solitary Australian huntsman spiders |
Anna Dornhaus |
| 4/26/2010 |
|
|
RESCHEDULED to 5/10 |
|
| 4/19/2010 |
Jon Wilkins |
Santa Fe Institute |
Genomic imprinting and the evolutionary origins of maladaptive
behavior
Genomic imprinting and the evolutionary origins of maladaptive
behavior
|
Joanna Masel |
| 4/12/2010 |
Mike Sanderson |
UA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
Building the tree of life one (small) tree at a time |
|
| 4/5/2010 |
Scott Hodges |
UCSB |
Aquilegia: a genomic model system for the study of ecology, evolution and development |
Judie Bronstein |
| 3/29/2010 |
Ragan Callaway |
University of Montana |
Novel biochemistry and exotic plant invasions |
Graduate students – Christine Lamanna |
| 3/22/2010 |
Kostas Konstantinidis |
GA Tech |
A metagenomic view of bacterial species and speciation |
Matt Sullivan |
| 3/8/2010 |
Daven Presgraves |
U Rochester |
The evolution and genetics of hybrid incompatibilities in Drosophila |
Michael Nachman |
| 3/1/2010 |
Michael Worobey |
UA - EEB |
The emergence of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and a biogeographical perspective on the age of simian immunodeficiency virus |
|
| 2/22/2010 |
Louis Bernatchez |
Laval U |
On the origins of species: Insights from the ecological genomics of whitefish |
Michael Nachman |
| 2/15/2010 |
Cameron Currie |
U of Wisconsin |
Symbiosis as evolutionary innovation: use of antibiotic-producing bacteria by fungus cultivating insects |
PERT – Zakee Sabree |
| 2/8/2010 |
Michael Ruse |
Florida State U |
Does biology have a paradigm and if so what is it? |
Joanna Masel |
| 2/1/2010 |
Rafe Sagarin |
UA Institute of the Environment |
A Return to Observational Ecology |
Travis Huxman |
| 1/25/2010 |
Gabrielle Rocap |
U Washington |
BSW219 TODAY ONLY - Ecology and evolution of marine cyanobacteria - insights from comparative genomics |
Matt Sullivan |
| 12/7/2009 |
Dr. Mark Young |
Montana State University |
Archaeal viruses in the wild |
Matt Sullivan |
| 11/30/2009 |
Dr. Vanja Klepac-Ceraj |
Harvard Medical |
Ecology of Cystic Fibrosis respiratory tract microbial communities |
Matt Sullivan |
| 11/23/2009 |
Dr. Dave Stephens |
University of Minnesota |
Evolutionary economics of information use: from simple signals to learning |
Dan Papaj |
| 11/16/2009 |
Dr. Jesse Bloom |
CalTech |
Molecular constraints on protein adaptation: from biomolecular engineering to predictive evolutionary biology of influenza virus
|
Joanna Masel |
| 11/9/2009 |
Dr. James Thomson |
University of Toronto |
Explaining evolutionary shifts between bee and hummingbird pollination:
convergence, divergence, and directionality |
Anna Dornhaus |
| 11/2/2009 |
Dr. Shana Goffredi |
Occidental College |
Beneficial symbiotic interactions between bacteria and deep-sea marine invertebrates |
Matt Sullivan |
| 10/26/2009 |
Dr. Paul Rainey |
New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study |
Bacteria as parasites, hosts, cooperators, cheats, replicators, cells |
Matt Herron |
| 10/19/2009 |
Dr. Nick Waser |
UC Riverside |
The Ecology of Place, and New Perspectives in Pollination Biology |
Judie Bronstein |
| 10/12/2009 |
Dr. Peter Chesson |
UA-EEB |
The emerging multitrophic diversity maintenance theory |
|
| 10/5/2009 |
Dr. Alex Badyaev |
UA-EEB |
The origin of the fittest: Investigating the link between adaptation and evolutionary change |
|
| 9/28/2009 |
Dr. Travis Huxman |
UA-EEB |
Water, carbon and climate change in our North American deserts. |
|
| 9/21/2009 |
Dr. Nancy Huntly |
Idaho State University |
Putting people in the web of Nature: the long-term roles of the Aleut in the North Pacific |
Peter Chesson |
| 9/14/2009 |
Dr. Joanna Masel |
UA-EEB |
Evolutionary capacitors and evolvability |
|
| 9/7/2009 |
Labor Day |
|
No Seminar will occur this week. |
|
| 8/31/2009 |
Dr. Anna Dornhaus |
UA-EEB |
Evolution of collective behaviors in social insects - seeking ultimate answers |
|
| 5/4/2009 |
Andrew Martin |
University of Colorado |
Inferences from Surveys of Microbial Communities: Talus Slopes and Flea Guts
|
Bill Birky |
| 4/27/2009 |
David Sloan Wilson |
SUNY Binghamton |
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection |
John Pepper |
| 4/20/2009 |
Mark Siegal |
New York University |
Phenotypic robustness and network centrality in yeast |
Joanna Masel |
| 4/13/2009 |
John Tyler Bonner |
Princeton University |
Size, Complexity and Natural Selection |
Matt Herron & Rick Michod
|
| 4/6/2009 |
Donald Strong |
University of California, Davis |
Ecological and Evolutionary Misadventures of Introduced Spartina |
Peter Chesson |
| 3/30/2009 |
Doug Emlen |
University of Montana |
On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns |
Goggy Davidowitz |
| 3/23/2009 |
Andrew Clark |
Cornell University |
Variation in the gene regulatory network for Drosophila innate immunity |
PERT,
Nancy Moran |
| 3/16/2009 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
|
|
| 3/9/2009 |
Noah Whiteman |
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University |
Mining host and parasite genomes: insights into coevolution |
Michael Nachman
|
| 3/2/2009 |
Katrina Dlugosch |
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of British Columbia |
Adaptation and the evolutionary ecology of colonization: lessons from introduced species |
Michael Nachman
|
| 2/23/2009 |
Jared Leadbetter |
California Institute of Technology |
Phylogenetic analysis of CO2-reductive acetogenesis in termite and roach gut microbial communities |
Zakee Sabree (Moran Lab) |
| 2/16/2009 |
Daniel Dennett |
Tufts University |
The Evolution of Reasons |
Rick Michod |
| 2/9/2009 |
Nadia Singh |
Postdoctoral Associate,
Cornell University |
The importance of scale in Drosophila evolutionary genomics |
Michael Nachman |
| 2/2/2009 |
Briana Gross |
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University
in St. Louis. |
Origin and evolution of weedy and domesticated rice |
Michael Nachman |
| 1/26/2009 |
Yoav Gilad |
University of Chicago,
Dept. of Human Genetics |
Gene regulation in primates evolves under tissue-specific selection pressures |
Michael Nachman |
| 1/19/2009 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY |
|
|
|
| 12/8/2008 |
Willie Swanson |
University of Washington |
Adaptive Evolution and Coevolution of Sperm - Egg Recognition Molecules |
Erin Kelleher
|
| 12/1/2008 |
Javier Espeleta |
Biosphere II |
|
Travis Huxman |
| 11/24/2008 |
Tandy Warnow |
University of Texas, Austin |
New Methods for simultaneous estimation of alignments and trees |
Nancy Moran |
| 11/17/2008 |
Ted Fleming |
University of Miami & EEB |
The Evolution of Tropical Vertebrate Pollination Systems in Time and Space
Settling Down: Can Microscopic Larvae Of Bottom-Dwelling Marine -Animals Use Odors To Help Them Land In The Right Place In Turbulent Environments?
|
Judie Bronstein |
| 11/10/2008 |
Dr. Thomas “Zack” Powell |
|
Modeled Regime Shifts in the North Pacific |
|
| 11/10/2008 |
Mimi Koehl |
University of California, Berkeley |
Settling Down: Can Microscopic Larvae Of Bottom-Dwelling Marine -Animals Use Odors To Help Them Land In The Right Place In Turbulent Environments?
|
John Hildebrand |
| 11/3/2008 |
John Harte |
University of California, Berkeley |
Maximum entropy predicts realistic patterns in the distribution and abundance of species |
Richard Michod
|
| 10/20/2008 |
Mark Bush |
Florida Institute of Technology |
Ice-age aridity in Amazonia and the refuge hypothesis for tropical diversity: Can you hear the fat lady singing? |
Therese Markow |
| 10/13/2008 |
David Reznick |
University of California, Riverside |
CANCELLED |
Regis Ferriere
|
| 10/6/2008 |
Rod Wing |
University of Arizona,
Plant Sciences |
The Oryza Map Alignment Project: Genomes in Flux |
Michael Sanderson |
| 9/29/2008 |
Chelsea Specht |
University of California, Berkeley |
How the ginger got its labellum: Evolution of the stamen whorl in Zingiberales |
Howard Ochman
|
| 9/15/2008 |
Randy Nesse |
University of Michigan |
The Great Opportunity: Evolutionary Applications in Medicine |
Judie Bronstein
Judie Bronstein
|
| 9/8/2008 |
Brain Enquist |
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
|
|
| 9/8/2008 |
Neo Martinez |
PECE Lab |
Structure and Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Ecological Networks |
Travis Huxman |
| 8/25/2008 |
Michael Worobey |
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
|
|
| 11/26/2007 |
Paul Moorcroft |
|
How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere? |
|
| 11/19/2007 |
Dr. Aurora Nedelcu
|
|
Genes of algal origin in the closest unicellular relatives of Metazoa: A photosynthetic past for animals? |
|
| 11/5/2007 |
Daniel Barbash |
|
Genetic mechanisms causing hybrid lethality. |
|
| 10/29/2007 |
Bryant McAllister
Bryant McAllister
Bryant McAllister
|
|
Divergence between X and Y chromosomes: evidence of selection in response to sex-linked transmission |
|
| 10/22/2007 |
Renee Duckworth |
|
Adaptive dispersal strategies and the dynamics of a range expansion |
|
| 10/15/2007 |
Melanie Culver |
|
Intraspecific Molecular Taxonomy - Examples from Mammals and Molluscs |
|
| 10/8/2007 |
Jon Sabo |
|
Hydrologic connectivity and biodiversity gradients in desert riparian ecosystems. |
|
| 9/24/2007 |
Anna Dornhaus |
|
Specialization, elitism, or flexibility - The question of optimal division of labor in social insects |
|
| 9/17/2007 |
Scott Saleska |
|
The once (and future?) forest: vegetation carbon balance, ecosystem phenology, and climate change in the Amazon basin |
|
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