| Date |
Speaker |
From |
Title |
Host |
| 2/7/2012 |
Angelina Martinez Yrizar |
Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico |
The Long-Term Ecological Research in the Chamela Tropical Dry Forest, NW Mexico |
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| 1/31/2012 |
Deborah Shelton |
Michod Lab |
How do Volvocine Algae Balance Growth and Division at the Interface of Two Levels of Organization? |
|
| 1/31/2012 |
Loren Albert |
Huxman Lab |
An Exploration of the Photosystem II Thermotolerance of Amazonian Trees |
|
| 1/24/2012 |
Ramona Walls |
New York Botanical Garden |
Form, Function, and Phylogeny: Angiosperm Leaf Trait Evolution |
|
| 1/17/2012 |
Bill Schaffer and Tatiana Bronnikova |
|
Peroxidase-ROS Interactions: Implications for Neurologic Disease |
|
| 12/6/2011 |
EEB |
|
2011 Hoshaw Award Announcement |
|
| 12/6/2011 |
Julie Messier |
Enquist Lab |
How do Traits Vary Across Ecological Scales? |
|
| 11/29/2011 |
Students |
ECOL 610 |
ECOL 610 Student Presentations |
|
| 11/22/2011 |
Lisa Wang |
Papaj Lab |
Color Preference in the Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor |
|
| 11/22/2011 |
Brigitte Marazzi |
Sanderson and Bronstein Labs |
Diversity and Evolution of Extrafloral Nectaries In Legumes |
|
| 11/15/2011 |
Nils Arrigo |
Barker Lab |
Evolutionary Genomics of Selaginella |
|
| 11/15/2011 |
Benjamin Blonder |
Enquist Lab |
Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Leaf Venation Networks? |
|
| 11/8/2011 |
Nicole Rafferty |
Bronstein Lab |
Phenological Shifts and Plant-Pollinator Interactions |
|
| 11/8/2011 |
Barbara Dobrin |
Sanderson Lab |
Mining Plant Specimen Records for Growth Form Descriptions: Results from the Tropicos Database |
|
| 11/1/2011 |
Simon Stump |
Chesson Lab |
Ants, Plants, and Coexistence: More on Optimal Foraging Theory |
|
| 11/1/2011 |
William Driscoll |
Hackett Lab |
The Tragedy of the Commons in the Toxic Unicellular Alga Prymnesium parvum |
|
| 10/25/2011 |
Tao Shi |
Barker Lab |
Paleopolyploidy and Diversification of Actinidiaceae and Related Ericales |
|
| 10/18/2011 |
Ty Taylor |
Saleska Lab |
The Biosphere 2 Tropical Forest Acclimates to Climate Warming via Community Shifts |
|
| 10/18/2011 |
Polly Campbell |
Nachman Lab |
Reproductive Isolation and Mis-Expression of the X Chromosome During Spermatogenesis in House Mice |
|
| 10/11/2011 |
Students |
ECOL 610 |
ECOL 610 Student presentations |
|
| 10/4/2011 |
Naim Matasci |
UA BIO5/iPlant Collaborative |
The iPlant Collaborative: A Cyberinfrastructure for the Life Sciences |
|
| 9/27/2011 |
Jennifer Gremer; Dawn Higginson |
Venable Lab; Badyaev Lab |
Variation in Photosynthetic Response to Temperature in a Guild of Winter Annuals; The Evolution of Complex Sperm Morphology |
|
| 9/20/2011 |
Jennifer Koop; Rick Lapoint |
Whiteman Lab |
Impact of an Introduced Parasitic Nest Fly on Darwin's Finches; Diversification in the Hawaiian Drosophila radiation |
|
| 9/13/2011 |
Virginia Rich |
Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences |
A Systems Approach to Microbial Ecology, From Tropical Oceans to Thawing Permafrost |
|
| 8/30/2011 |
Vanina Galzenati |
Michod Lab |
Relative abundance of Volvocalean species and Phenotypic plasticity of Gonium pectorale |
|
| 5/3/2011 |
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| 5/3/2011 |
Steve Foldi |
Becerra Lab |
Spatial Patterns of Mesquite Seed Predator Species Assemblages |
|
| 4/26/2011 |
Taichi Suzuki |
Nachman Lab |
Masters Defense: "Speciation and Hybrid Female Fertility in House Mice" |
|
| 4/19/2011 |
Ellen Suurmeyer |
Arnold Lab |
The Fungal Communities of Ficus Flowers |
|
| 4/19/2011 |
Jana U'Ren |
Arnold Lab |
Diversity and Biogeography of Endophytic and Endolichenic Fungal Communities |
|
| 4/12/2011 |
Fernando Mendez |
Hammer Lab |
|
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| 4/12/2011 |
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| 4/5/2011 |
Pacifica Sommers |
Chesson Lab |
Predator Avoidance Behavior Increases Apparent Competition |
|
| 4/5/2011 |
Christine Lamanna |
Enquist Lab |
Abiotic Controls on Subalpine Carbon Flux |
|
| 3/29/2011 |
Chi Yuan |
Chesson Lab |
Coexistence of perennial plant species in variable environments |
|
| 3/29/2011 |
Melissa Duhaime |
Sullivan Postdoc |
|
|
| 3/22/2011 |
Yue (Max) Li |
Chesson Lab |
Crossing Space and Time: applying ecology theory to the management of Sahara Mustard invasion |
|
| 3/22/2011 |
Matthew Kaplan |
Walsh Lab |
Why did the Lizard Cross the Road: The Phylogeography of the Arizona Populations of Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) |
|
| 3/15/2011 |
|
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Spring Break |
|
| 3/8/2011 |
Simon Stump |
Chesson Lab |
The Community Level Effects of Optimal Predators |
|
| 3/8/2011 |
Jin Wu |
Saleska Lab |
Understanding large scale ecological processes via leaf traits and remote sensing techniques |
|
| 3/1/2011 |
Bryan Helm |
Bronstein Lab |
|
|
| 3/1/2011 |
Li Deng |
Sullivan Lab |
Viral Tagging: A High-Throughput Approach to Explore Virus-Host Interactions |
|
| 2/22/2011 |
Vince Martinson |
Moran Lab |
Bacterial Microbiota of the Adult Honey Bee Worker |
|
| 2/22/2011 |
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|
| 2/15/2011 |
Deborah Shelton |
Michod Lab |
Evolution of Colonial Reproduction in Volvocine Algae |
|
| 2/15/2011 |
Kolby Jardine |
|
Within Canopy Antioxidant Properties of Volatile Isoprenoids |
|
| 2/8/2011 |
Andres Lopez-Sepulcre |
Ferriere Lab |
Eco-evolutionary Feedbacks between Guppy Life-histories and Stream Ecosystems: a Long-term Experiment on Trinidadian Guppies |
|
| 2/8/2011 |
Swanne Gordon |
Daphne Fairbairn Lab (UCR) |
Predation-associated Evolution of Color Sex Linkage in Trinidadian Guppies: Comparative and Experimental Evidence |
|
| 2/1/2011 |
Jeremy Jonas |
Nachman Lab |
|
|
| 2/1/2011 |
Parris Humphrey |
Whiteman Lab |
|
|
| 1/25/2011 |
Ben Blonder |
Enquist Lab |
Plumbing for biologists, or, an exploration of leaf venation networks |
|
| 1/25/2011 |
Galen Holt |
Chesson Lab |
Aquatic insect dispersal in the Catalina Mountains |
|
| 1/18/2011 |
Jennifer Hughes Wisecaver |
Hackett Lab |
Transcriptome analysis reveals nuclear-encoded proteins for the maintenance of temporary plastids in the dinoflagellate Dinophysis acuminata |
|
| 1/18/2011 |
Bonnie Hurwitz |
Sullivan Lab |
Dark matter in the protein universe |
|
| 12/7/2010 |
|
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First Year Internships |
|
| 11/30/2010 |
|
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First Year Internships |
|
| 11/23/2010 |
Megan Phifer-Rixey |
Nachman Postdoc |
Patterns of selection in house mice inferred from high density SNP data |
|
| 11/23/2010 |
Polly Campbell |
Nachman Postdoc |
The contribution of sex chromosome genotype to hybrid male sterility in house mice |
|
| 11/16/2010 |
Will Driscoll |
Pepper Lab |
Global regulatory mutants in *Pseudomonas chlororaphis* biofilms: social parasites or mutualists |
|
| 11/16/2010 |
Scott Stark |
Enquist/Saleska Labs |
Shooting the rainforest with lots of lasers ... to measure 3D forest structure and infer forest processes |
|
| 11/9/2010 |
Eugenio Larios |
Venable Lab |
Natural Selection on seed size in Dithyrea californica |
|
| 11/9/2010 |
Rainee Kaczorowski |
Papaj/Dornhaus Postdoc |
Complexity as a possible solution to environmental noise: tests with nectar-foraging bumblebees |
|
| 11/2/2010 |
Cyrille Violle |
Enquist Postdoc |
Trait-based community ecology: the role of interspecific and intraspecific variations |
|
| 11/2/2010 |
Lisa Patrick Bentley |
Enquist Postdoc |
Quantifying the ^memory^ of physiological processes in desert plants |
|
| 10/26/2010 |
Mark Beilstein |
Texas A&M |
Hidden histories in Brassicaceae: phylogeny, molecular clocks, and hybridization |
|
| 10/26/2010 |
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| 10/19/2010 |
Paul Marek |
Papaj\Moore postdoc |
The glow means "No": the evolution of bioluminescence in millipedes |
|
| 10/19/2010 |
Andy Gloss |
Whiteman Lab |
An ecological and evolutionary model system for multitrophic host-parasite interactions |
|
| 10/12/2010 |
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| 10/12/2010 |
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| 10/5/2010 |
Elke Allers |
Sullivan Postdoc |
Bacterial population dynamics in the ocean |
|
| 10/5/2010 |
Jennifer Brum |
Sullivan Postdoc |
Targeted viral metagenomics: From the sub-arctic to Antarctica |
|
| 9/28/2010 |
Ben Blonder |
Enquist Lab |
Ant interaction networks |
|
| 9/28/2010 |
Heidy Contreras |
EEB - Davidowitz postdoc |
The effects of oxygen demand and environmental humidity on insect gas exchange pattern |
|
| 9/21/2010 |
Sevan Suni |
Bronstein/PERT postdoc |
Prospects for persistence of orchid bees in fragmented landscapes |
|
| 9/21/2010 |
Etienne Rajon |
Masel postdoc |
The evolution of clumsy gene expression and its consequences for evolvability |
|
| 9/14/2010 |
Kevin Vogel |
Moran Lab |
Symbiont titre in an obligate nutritional symbiosis |
|
| 9/14/2010 |
Karin Holmfeldt |
Sullivan postdoc |
Developing a virus-bacterium system from the Baltic Sea for ecological and evolutionary studies |
|
| 9/7/2010 |
Dan Papaj |
EEB |
Speed-accuracy tradeoffs and nectar-foraging in bees: Merging neuroeconomics with optimality theory |
|
| 9/7/2010 |
Cristian Villagra |
visiting postdoc, Universidad de Chile |
Moving beyond the predicted syndrome: flower traits and animal visitors in the evening primrose *Oenothera acaulis *(Onagraceae) from Coastal and Andean habitats in Central Chile |
|
| 8/31/2010 |
Meredith Trotter |
Masel postdoc |
Frequency-dependent selection and the maintenance of genetic variation |
|
| 8/31/2010 |
Joanna Masel |
EEB |
Yeast selfing acts as an evolutionary capacitor to reveal "cryptic" heterozygous alleles |
|
| 8/24/2010 |
|
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No Seminar |
|
| 5/4/2010 |
Fernando Mendez |
UA-EEB Hammer Lab |
TBA |
Michael Hammer |
| 5/4/2010 |
Ginny Fitzpatrick |
UA-EEB Bronstein/Huxman Lab |
TBA |
Bronstein/Huxman |
| 4/27/2010 |
Ellen Suurmeyer |
UA -EEB Arnold Lab |
The poison gland of pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps and its implication in the fig-fig wasp mutualism |
Carlos Machado/Betsy Arnold |
| 4/20/2010 |
Deborah Shelton |
UA-EEB Michod Lab |
TBA |
Rick Michod |
| 4/20/2010 |
Steven Foldi |
UA-EEB Becerra Lab |
Spatial variation in species richness of insect seed predators on Mesquite (Prosopis spp.) |
Judith Becerra |
| 4/13/2010 |
Chi Yuan |
UA-EEB Chesson Lab |
Matrix models for perennial plant community in variable environment |
Peter Chesson |
| 4/13/2010 |
Benjamin Blonder |
UA-EEB Enquist Lab |
Secrets of the Naked Leaf |
Brian Enquist |
| 4/6/2010 |
Sara Felker |
UA-EEB Venable Lab |
An empirical test of bet hedging in the heterocarpic desert annual Pectocarya heterocarpa (Boraginaceae) |
Larry Venable |
| 4/6/2010 |
Nhi Duong |
UA-Entomology & Insect Science Program |
Division of labor and division of lifespan among bumble bee sisters:
Investigating factors that affect response thresholds and longevity of Bombus impatiens workers
|
Anna Dornhaus |
| 3/30/2010 |
Jennifer Hughes |
UA-EEB Hackett Lab |
Analysis of expressed genes from stolen prey nuclei in the marine ciliate Myrionecta rubra |
Jeremiah Hackett |
| 3/30/2010 |
Gaelen Burke |
UA-EEB Moran Lab |
The evolution of an aphid facultative symbiont
Moving beyond the predicted syndrome: flower traits and animal visitors in the evening primrose *Oenothera acaulis *(Onagraceae) from Coastal and Andean habitats in Central Chile |
Nancy Moran |
| 3/23/2010 |
Max Li |
UA-EEB Chesson Lab |
Tracing the Invasion of Sahara Mustard (Brassica tournefortii) |
Peter Chesson |
| 3/23/2010 |
Christine Lamanna |
UA-EEB Enquist Lab |
Facilitation of and by Sagebrush in subalpine
meadows: implications for predicting vegetation shifts with climate change |
Brian Enquist |
| 3/16/2010 |
Spring Break |
|
Seminar will not occur on this date. |
|
| 3/9/2010 |
Brigitte Marazzi |
UA -EEB Sanderson Lab |
Are extrafloral nectaries a key innovation? Insights from the widespread legume genus Senna |
Mike Sanderson |
| 3/9/2010 |
Vince Martinson |
UA-EEB PostDoc Moran Lab |
The microbiota associated with honey bees |
Nancy Moran |
| 3/2/2010 |
Bryan Helm |
UA-EEB Davidowitz/Bronstein Labs |
Revisiting Our Knowledge of Insect Trachea in Light of Metabolic Theory of Ecology |
Davidowitz/Bronstein |
| 3/2/2010 |
Henry Adams
|
UA-EEB Huxman/Breshears Labs
|
Global change and the physiology tree drought mortality:
Sensitivity, mechanism, and implications
|
Travis Huxman |
| 2/23/2010 |
Bradley Christoffersen |
UA-EEB Saleska Lab |
Gap-phase and fine root dynamics in context of the tropical phenology problem: An ecohydrological perspective |
Scott Saleska |
| 2/16/2010 |
Dr. Athena Aktipis |
UA-EEB PostDoc |
Parental investment without kin recgnition: Simple rules promote proximity maintenance and benefit transmission |
John Pepper |
| 2/16/2010 |
Catherine Hulshof |
UA - EEB Enquist Lab |
A proposal: Testing Janzen's ´´Mountain Passes Are Higher in the Tropics´´ Hypothesis |
Brian Enquist |
| 2/9/2010 |
First year student rotations |
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Travis Huxman |
| 2/2/2010 |
Dr. Chiou-Rong Sheve |
Dept. of Biological Resources, National Chiayi University, Taiwan |
A green miracle - Bizonoplasts, a photosynthetic adaptation of deep shade plants |
Peter Chesson |
| 1/26/2010 |
Bonnie Hurwitz |
UA-EEB Sullivan Lab |
Metagenomic Analysis of an Ocean Transect in Monterey Bay |
Matt Sullivan
Matt Sullivan |
| 1/26/2010 |
Dr. Philip Bergmann |
UA-EEB PostDoc |
Characterizing macroevolution: Tempo and mode of vertebral and body shape evolution in lizards |
EEB Simpson PostDoc |
| 1/19/2010 |
No Speaker |
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Seminar will not occur on this date. |
|
| 12/8/2009 |
Kathy Gerst |
UA-EEB Venable Lab |
Reproductive phenology in selfing and outcrossing desert annual plants |
|
| 12/8/2009 |
Dr. Annie Leonard |
UA-EEB Papaj Lab |
Signal detection and the evolution of complex floral signals |
|
| 12/1/2009 |
Dr. Etienne Rajon |
UA - EEB Masel Lab |
Local adaptation of dormancy strategies |
|
| 11/24/2009 |
Will Driscoll |
UA-EEB Pepper Lab |
What limits cheating in Pseudomonas chlororaphis bacterial biofilms? |
|
| 11/17/2009 |
Dr. Hisayoshi Nozaki |
University of Tokyo |
Colonial Volvocales, a model lineage unveiling the origin of female and male. |
Matt Herron – Michod Lab |
| 11/10/2009 |
Julio Ignacio-Espinoza |
UA-EEB Sullivan Lab |
T4-like phages: Comparative genomics of marine representatives. |
|
| 11/10/2009 |
Galen Holt |
UA-EEB Chesson Lab |
Drift in Streams: Effects on Coexistence |
|
| 11/3/2009 |
Dr. Aimee Dunlap |
UA-EEB Dornhaus Lab |
Reliability & change in the evolution of learning. |
|
| 10/27/2009 |
Dr. Michael Lynch |
Indiana University |
Mutation and Evolution |
|
| 10/20/2009 |
Dr. Allison Hansen |
UA-EEB Moran Lab |
Roles of heritable bacterial endosymbionts in psyllids. |
|
| 10/13/2009 |
Dr. Pierre Durand |
UA-EEB Michod Lab |
The evolution of death, Part 1 |
|
| 10/13/2009 |
Dr. Armin Rashidi |
UA-EEB Michod Lab |
The evolution of death, Part 2 |
|
| 10/6/2009 |
Dr. Matina Donaldson-Matasci |
UA-EEB Dornhaus Lab |
The adaptive value of collecting information about an uncertain environment.
|
|
| 9/29/2009 |
Dr. Scott Powell |
UA-EEB Dornhaus Lab |
Specialization in the adaptive radiation of social insect lineages. |
|
| 9/22/2009 |
Matt Herron |
UA-EEB Michod Lab |
Does biology need an organism concept? |
|
| 9/22/2009 |
Dr. Pierre Durand |
UA-EEB Michod Lab |
Is programmed organismal death ever adaptive? |
|
| 9/15/2009 |
Dr. Omar Eldakar |
PERT/Pepper Lab |
Nice guys don't always finish last: How sexual conflict is mediated by the population structure. |
John Pepper |
| 9/15/2009 |
Christopher Meehan |
EEB - Bronstein Lab |
Herbivory in a spider through exploitation of an ant-plant mutualism.
|
|
| 9/8/2009 |
Dr. John Pepper |
UA-EEB |
Multilevel Selection and the First General Theory of Cancer |
|
| 9/1/2009 |
Dr. Megan Phifer-Rhixey |
UA-EEB Nachman Lab |
Spatially-varying selection on shell color in the flat periwinkle snail Littorina obtusata |
Michael Nachman |
| 9/1/2009 |
Dr. Polly Campbell |
UA-EEB |
Geographic variation in the songs of singing mice: Local adaptation or neutral divergence? |
|
| 8/25/2009 |
Dr. Susanne Foitzik |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Slave Rebellion! The Evolution of a novel resistance trait! |
Anna Dornhaus |
| 5/5/2009 |
Fernando Mendez |
ARL - Hammer Lab |
TBA |
|
| 5/5/2009 |
Gaelen Burke |
EEB - Moran Lab |
TBA |
|
| 4/28/2009 |
Dr. Lisa Patrick |
EEB - Enquist Lab |
TBA |
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| 4/21/2009 |
Tuan Cao |
EEB - Dornhaus Lab |
The effects of crowding on social behavior and colony energetics in Temnothorax ants. |
|
| 4/21/2009 |
Kristen Potter |
EEB - Davidowitz Lab |
Feeling the heat: Linking egg microclimate with hatchling performance in Manduca sexta. |
|
| 4/14/2009 |
Dr. Regis Ferriere |
EEB Faculty |
Adaptive dynamics – Exploring the interaction of ecological and evolutionary processes. |
|
| 4/7/2009 |
Anna Tyler |
EEB - Huxman Lab |
TBA |
|
| 4/7/2009 |
Brad Christoffersen |
EEB - Saleska Lab |
What controls the seasonality of evapotranspiration in the Amazon basin? Insights from a suite of models and observations. |
|
| 3/31/2009 |
Dr. Brigitte Marazzi |
EEB - Sanderson Lab |
Large-scale diversification in Senna (Leguminosae): insights on the evolution of floral specialization and extrafloral nectaries. |
|
| 3/31/2009 |
Dr. Jake Weltzin |
USA National Phenology Network |
|
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| 3/24/2009 |
Dr. Athena Aktipis |
EEB - Pepper Lab |
Parental investment without kin recgnition: Simple rules promote proximity maintenance and benefit transmission |
|
| 3/24/2009 |
Mary Jane Epps |
PS - Arnold Lab |
TBA |
|
| 3/10/2009 |
Kevin Vogel |
EEB - Moran Lab |
Degradation of symbiont genes and their effect on host nutrition. |
|
| 3/10/2009 |
Steven Foldi |
EEB - Becerra Lab |
TBA |
|
| 3/3/2009 |
Catherine Hulshof |
EEB - Enquist Lab |
Inter- and intraspecific plant trait variation in the dry tropical forests of Costa Rica. |
|
| 3/3/2009 |
Dr. Margaret Couvillon |
EEB - Dornhaus Lab |
The hows and whys of worker caste size polymorphism in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens). |
|
| 2/17/2009 |
Dr. Daniel Dennett |
Tufts University |
TBA |
|
| 2/10/2009 |
Dr. Renee Duckworth |
Simpson Fellow |
Evolution of integrated phenotypes: from developmental plasticity to diversification in birds. |
|
| 2/3/2009 |
Kathy Gerst |
EEB - Venable Lab |
The importance of mating system and herbivory on the timing of reproduction in desert annual plants. |
|
| 2/3/2009 |
Deborah Shelton |
EEB - Michod Lab |
Quantifying DNA damage in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. |
|
| 1/27/2009 |
Dr. Joanna Masel |
EEB Faculty |
The yeast prion [PSI+]: evolution of evolvability or just a sexually transmitted disease? |
|
| 1/27/2009 |
Taylor Kessinger |
EEB - Masel Lab |
Leaky readthrough as a cause of preadaptation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3' UTRs |
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| 1/20/2009 |
Dr. William Schaffer & Dr. Tatiana Bronnikova |
EEB |
Biological Dynamics of Malaria and Inflammation. |
|
| 11/27/2007 |
Jennifer M. Jandt
|
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In-Nest Task Specialization in the Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
In-Nest Task Specialization in the Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
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| 9/17/2007 |
Scott Saleska |
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The once (and future?) forest: vegetation carbon balance, ecosystem phenology, and climate change in the Amazon basin |
|
| 9/4/2007 |
Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry |
|
Evolution of an arsenal: Diversification of the reptile venom system |
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