Seminar Series (IB 546)

Spring 2012 -- Wednesdays, 4:00 PM, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

January 18

Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, "Putting the Dead to Work: How Modern Death Assemblages Can Inform Ecology and Conservation Biology"

 

January 25

Genevieve Kozak, Department of Animal Biology, UIUC "Environmentally Dependent Reproductive Isolation and Speciation in Fresh and Saltwater Fish"

February 1

 

Mark Urban, The University of Connecticut, "Eco-evolutionary Dynamics in Aquatic Food Webs"

February 8

Zac Cheviron, Department of Animal Biology, UIUC, "Physiological and Evolutionary Responses to Environmental Stress: Insights from High-altitude Birds and Mammals"

February 15

Stuart Grandy, University of New Hampshire, "The Origin of Litter Chemical Complexity during Decomposition"

 

February 22

James Cheverud, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University in St. Louis, "Some Evolultionary Consequences of Epistasis"

February 29

Matthew P. Rowe, Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University, "Redesigning Introductory Science Courses to Enhance Critical Thinking and Promote Scientific Literacy"

 

March 7

David Marsh, Washington and Lee University, "Climate Change, Logging, and the Persistence of Endemic Mountaintop Salamanders in the Southern Appalachians"

March 14

John A. Vucetich, Michigan Technological University, "Lessons From the Wolves & Moose of Isle Royale: 50 Years of Observation"

March 21

Spring Break

March 28

Andrew N. Miller, Illinois Natural History Survey, UIUC, "So many species, so little time: Fungal biodiversity studies in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park"

April 4

Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota, "Socialized Medicine in Honey Bee Colonies"

 

April 11

Leonie Moyle, Indiana University Bloomington, "Genetics and evolution of species diversity in the wild tomatoes"

April 18

Jason Knouft, Saint Louis University, "Climate, hydrology, and freshwater fish distributions"

April 25 Nicole Davros, PEEC, UIUC. Exit Seminar. "An integrative and experimental approach to testing density effects in a migratory songbird, the Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)"
May 2

Paul Sherman, Cornell University, "Darwinian Gastronomy: How We Protect Ourselves From Food"

 

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