09/12/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Eileen Hebets,
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University
of Nebraska
Complex courtship signaling and variable female mating
preferences in spiders |
09/19/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Holly Rushmeier,
Computer Science, Yale University
Computer Graphics Techniques for Capturing and Using Shape
and Appearance Data |
09/26/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Maria Diuk-Wasser, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, Environmental drivers in vector-borne disease epidemiology |
10/03/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
TBA |
| 10/05/2007 |
1:30 pm - OML 201 |
Sharon A. Jansa. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan
Rats, Rates, and Radiations: Understanding Diversification of Madagascar's Native Rodents |
10/10/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Shannon La Deau, Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation at Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and Ohio State University, The ecology of West Nile virus emergence in North America |
10/17/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
David Vasseur
NSERC and Alberta Ingenuity Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
The 'balance of nature' in variable environments |
10/24/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
**CANCELLED** |
10/31/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Walter Jetz, Assistant Professor, University of California at San Diego
Terrestrial vertebrates in a changing world – from global biota to local communities |
11/02/07 |
12:30 pm - KBT 102 |
Marc Cadotte, Postdoctoral Associate, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara
The competition-colonization tradeoff and scale dependent coexistence mechanisms |
11/05/07 |
12:30 pm - 305 Bass |
Andrew Suarez, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois
The ecology of ant invasions |
11/07/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Mark Siegal, Department of Biology, New York University
A Systems-Level View of Evolutionary Robustness |
11/14/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Jonathan Arnold, Department of Genetics, University
of Georgia
Systems biology of the biological clock |
11/21/2007 |
|
Fall
recess-No Seminar |
11/28/2007 |
12:40 pm - KBT102 |
Lauren Ancel Meyers, Integrative Biology, University
of Texas-Austin
Using networks to forecast evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics |
12/05/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Hiroshi Akashi, Department of Biology, Penn State
University
Genome evolution among closely related Drosophila species: Lineage effects and the time-scale of parameter fluctuations. |
12/12/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
Greg Gibson, Genetics Department, North Carolina
State University
Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Gene Expression Variation in Flies and Humans |
12/19/2007 |
12:30 pm - KBT102 |
**CANCELLED** |
01/14/2007 |
12:00 pm |
Classes
begin |
01/16/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Patricia Brennan, Ph.D., NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
The Biology of Avian Genitalia: A Proximate and an Ultimate approach |
01/23/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Michel Milinkovitch, Ph.D., Full Professor in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Integrated analysis of multiple metazoan full gnomes and functional data in a phylogenetic framework
|
01/30/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
François Lutzoni, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology,
Duke University
Developing a lichen model system and a new scheme to assemble the tree of life |
02/06/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Ignazio Carbone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Integrated Fungal
Research, North Carolina State University
Gene clustering, aflatoxin biosynthesis and speciation in Aspergillus: a population genetics perspective |
02/13/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Michael Purugganan, Ph.D., Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics, in the Department of Biology at New York University
The evolutionary and ecological genomics of plant adaptations |
02/20/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Alex Badyaev, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona
The Origin of the Fittest: Investigating the link between adaptation and evolutionary change. |
02/27/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Ben Sheldon, Luc Professor of Field Ornithology Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology University of Oxford
Phenodynamics: evolution and ecology of change in a wild bird population |
| 03/02/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Derek Wildman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Perinatology Research Branch NICHD?NIH/DHHS
Evolution and selection during the emergence of placentation in mammals |
03/05/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
**CANCELLED** |
03/12/2008 |
|
spring recess |
03/10/2008 |
|
spring recess |
03/26/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Kevin Verstrepen, Ph.D., Harvard Bauer Fellow and MCB Lecturer, FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University
Tandem repeats - junk DNA confers evolvability to genes and promoters |
04/02/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Derek Wildman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Perinatology Research Branch NICHD?NIH/DHHS
Evolution and selection during the emergence of placentation in mammals |
| 04/10/2008 |
10:00 pm - OML 400 |
Bernard Degnan, Ph.D., Professor, Integrative Biology School, at The University of Queensland, Australia
Building and patterning a sea shell with conserved and novel genes |
04/09/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Joe Thornton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon
Evolution of molecular complexity: protein structure/function evolution in the steroid hormone receptors |
04/16/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Professor Bernard Crespi, Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, Canada
Evolutionary-genomic architecture of the social brain: insights from psychotic and autistic spectrum conditions |
04/23/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Alexander Vargas, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, in Wagner's Lab, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
The developmental evolution of the bird wing |
04/29/2008 |
11:00 am - OML 202 |
Susanna Remold, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in the Department of Biology, at the University of Louisville
Microbial niche-adaptation and human disease: three study systems in early development |
04/30/2008 |
12:30 pm - KBT 102 |
Brad Shaffer, Ph.D., Section of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology at the University of California, Davis
Landscape genetics, landscape ecology, and conservation: Keeping tiger salamanders alive and well in California |
05/07/2008 |
12:30 pm - OML 202 |
Nora J. Besansky, Ph.D., Professor, at the Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame
Recombination, adaptation and speciation in Anopheles gambiae |
