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Date
Time |
Speaker |
Host |
Seminar Location |
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September 7
3:40 p.m. |
Chris Thacker
Associate curator of ichthyology
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Pacific shrimp gobies and their mutalistic shrimp: exploring coevolution using SCUBA, and DNA sequencers
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Dr. William Fink |
1040 Dana |
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September 14
3:40 p.m. |
Dr. Rick Grosberg
University of California at Davis
All in the family: the ecology, evolution and resolution of multiway conflicts of interest |
Dr. Thomas Duda |
1040 Dana |
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September 21
3:40 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Abrams
University of Toronto
Adaptive habitat choice and the population dynamics of interacting species |
Dr. Aaron King |
1040 Dana |
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September 28
3:40 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Curtis
Ohio State University
Disturbance, succession, and forest carbon storage: Re-examining Odum’s Theory of Ecosystem Development with the tools of Fluxnet |
Dr. Knute Nadelhoffer |
1040 Dana |
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October 5
3:40 p.m. |
Dr. David Houle
Florida State University
Mutation, variation and divergence |
Dr. Patricia Wittkopp |
1040 Dana |
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October 12
3:10 p.m. |
Dr. Pamela Rasmussen
Michigan State University
The impact of species limits on biodiversity and conservation of South Asian birds |
Dr. Robert Payne |
1040 Dana |
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October 19
3:40 p.m. |
Eldredge Bermingham
Deputy director, senior staff scientist
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Color pattern as a magic trait driving speciation in coral reef fishes |
Dr. Chris Dick |
1040 Dana |
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October 26 |
CANCELLED |
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November 2
3:40 p.m. |
Dr. William Rice
University of California, Santa Barbara
Assessing sexual conflict in the Drosophila melanogaster model system |
Sarah Cobey
Graduate Student |
1040 Dana |
November 9
Noon - 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Victoria Sork, Chair
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment
Graduate student lunch discussion
Opportunities and challenges for women in science: Personal and other case studies |
EEB Diversity Committee |
2060 Kraus Natural Sciences |
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November 9
4:10 p.m. |
Dr. Victoria Sork, Chair
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment
Contemporary and historical gene flow in California valley oak, Quercus lobata |
Dr. John Vandermeer |
1040 Dana |
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November 16
4:10 p.m. |
Dr. Priscilla Tucker
University of Michigan
Introgression in the European house mouse hybrid zone: a genomic approach to understanding reproductive isolation |
Dr. Jianzhi Zhang |
1040 Dana |
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November 30
4:10 p.m. |
Dr. Hervé Philippe
University of Montreal
Lack of resolution in the animal phylogeny: Closely spaced cladogeneses or undetected systematic errors? |
Dr. Yin Long Qui |
1040 Dana |
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December 7
4:10 p.m. |
Dr. Thore Bergman
University of Michigan
Curiosity, communication, and cognition: Comparative studies in two wild primates |
Dr. Jianzhi Zhang |
1040 Dana |