The EEB Brown Bottle Colloquium will be held on Fridays in ESC 110, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a
Happy Hour. Please feel free to bring something to eat.
| This semester's schedule: |
See previous semester's schedule |
| 01/18/13 |
Billy Requena
"Male parental investment, sex roles, and sexual selection"
(45 minute seminar) |
| 01/25/13 |
Katie Scranton
"A Bayesian framework for fitting stochastic stage-structured population models"
(45 minute seminar) |
| 02/01/13 |
Teresa Feo
"Theoretic morphology of feather asymmetry: Present results and future directions"
(20 minute seminar) |
| 02/08/13 |
Gordon Bennett POSTPONED TO 03/04/13
”Historical biogeography and ecological opportunity in the adaptive radiation of native Hawaiian leafhoppers (Cicadellidae: Nesophrosyne)"
(45 minute seminar) |
| 02/15/13 |
Dan Wieczynski
“Competition in colored noise environments”
(20 minute seminar)
David Williams
“Patterns of gene evolution in Bacteria and Archaea inferred by comparative genomics”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 02/22/13 |
Kendra Pesko
“Experimental evolution of VSV cancer therapy candidates in prostate cancer cell lines”
(20 minute seminar)
Brian Wasik
“Viral adaptation in response to innate immunity”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 03/01/13 |
Panel discussion
“Finding the right postdoc position”
Dan Edwards, Ron Eytan, David Post, and Paul Turner |
| 03/04/13 |
Gordon Bennett
“Adaptive radiation and symbiosis in native Hawaiian leafhoppers”
(45 minute seminar) |
| 03/08/13 |
Dan Edwards
"Integrative approaches to studying biogeography and the interaction between ecology, phenotype, and evolutionary history"
(45 minute seminar) |
| 03/15 & 03/22/13 |
SPRING BREAK |
| 03/29/13 |
Bethany Wasik
“Spot on! Insights into the genetic basis of eyespot number evolution in butterfly wings”
(20 minute seminar)
Magnus Huss
“Niche construction by a novel life history type drives prey selection and performance in a competing species”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 04/05/13 |
Daniel Goldhill
“Something something something virus, something something something evolution…”
(20 minute seminar)
Jason Shapiro
“Modeling the effects of horizontal transmission on the evolution of beneficial symbionts”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 04/12/13 |
Jake Musser
“Investigating the homology of feathers and scales with high throughput genomics”
(20 minute seminar)
Waldan Kwong
“Symbiosis in the bee gut microbiome: From discovery to model system”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 04/19/13 |
Amanda Subalusky
“Animal migrations, resource subsidies, and ecosystem function”
(20 minute seminar)
KT Mertes
“Detecting characteristic grains of species-environment relationships in East African birds”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 04/26/13 |
Natalie Pilakouta
“Predator-induced plasticity in female mate preferences in the green swordtail, Xiphophorus helleri”
(20 minute seminar)
Valerie Morley
“Adaptation to different rates of environmental change in an RNA virus”
(20 minute seminar) |
| 05/03/13 |
GRAD SYMPOSIUM |
For questions, or to sign up for a slot, please contact any of the following:
Postdocs: Chris Clark christopher.clark@yale.edu; Dan Edwards danielle.edwards@yale.edu
Grad Students: Val Morley valerie.morley@yale.edu; Waldan Kwong waldan.kwong@yale.edu |
