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"

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"

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"

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

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

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

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

Spring Break

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

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

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

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

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