Seminar Series (IB 546)

Fall 2009 -- Wednesdays, 4:00 PM, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

August 26 Carla Caceres, PEEC Director, "Introduction - Welcome Reception"
September 2  
September 9 Steve Lima, Indiana State University, Dept. of Biology, "Sleeping is Dangerous: An Ecological Perspective on the Study of Sleep"
September 16 Stanley Harpole, Iowa State University, "Multiple Resource Limitation Across Ecosystems"
September 23 Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame, "Plant Population Responses to Global Change Forcings: What Have We Learned from the Past"
September 30 Andrew Whitehead, Louisiana State University, "The Plastic Transcriptome: Variation in Compensatory Stress Responses Among Populations Species of Killifish"
October 7 David Enstrom, INHS, UIUC, "Structure, Use and Function of Gender-specific Song in the Northern Cardinal"
October 14 Alfred Roca, Dept. of Animal Sciences, UIUC, "Genetics of the Two (and only two) Species of Elephant in Africa"
October 21 Kathryn Clancy, Dept. of Anthropology, UIUC, "Reproductive Ecology and the Endometrium: Ovarian, Energetic and Inflammatory Variables"
October 28 Jay Lennon, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, "Terrestrial Carbon in Aquatic Ecosystems: Experimental Tests of the Subsidy-Stability Hypothesis"
November 4 Anthony Yannarell, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, UIUC, "Microbial Ecology of Soil Feedback to Native and Invasive Plants"
November 11 Matthew Schrader, Postdoc, Dept. Animal Biology, UIUC, "Conflict, Coadaptation and the Evolution of Maternal Investment in a Placential Fish"
November 18

Rebecca Stumpf, Dept. of Anthropology, UIUC, "Reproductive Strategies and Sexual Conflict in Wild Chimpanzees"

NOTE ROOM CHANGE - Seminar will be in 161 Noyes Lab

November 25 Thanksgiving Break
December 2 Jim Garvey, Southern Illinois University, "Asian Carp: A Spatial Perspective"
December 9 Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware, "Lepidopteran Use of Native and Alien Ornamental Plants"

 

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