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Seminar Series (IB 546)

Spring 2008--Wednesdays, 4:00 PM, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Jan. 23

Justin Rhodes, Dept. of Psychology, UIUC, "Experimental Evolution of Voluntary Physical Activity"

Jan. 30 Mike Douglas, IL Natural History Survey, "Global Climate Change and Evolution of the New World PitViper genus Agkistrodon (Viperidae)"
Feb. 6 Noah Rosenberg, Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, "Genomic Analysis of Population Relationships and Genetic Diversity in Native Americans"
Feb. 13 Joe Parkos - Exit Seminar, Animal Biology, UIUC, "Recruitment Variation of An Aquatic Predator: Nesting Behavior, Ontogenetic Diet Shifts, and the Importance of Environmental Context"
Feb. 20 Kim Schulz, SUNY-ESF, "When all you can eat may not be enough? Why Ecologists should be as concerned with quality as with quantity in the aquatic food web buffet"
Feb. 27 Marlis Douglas, IL Natural History Survey, "Conservation of Desert Fishes at Multiple Scales - A Molecular Approach"
Mar. 5 Peter Morin, Rutgers University, "Small Worlds: Using Experiments with Microbes to Explore Patterns in Community Ecology"
Mar. 12 Elliot Sober, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Phylogenetic Parsimony, Likelihood, and Inferences about Ancestors"
Mar. 19 SPRING BREAK
Mar. 26 Cynthia Weinig, University of Minnesota, "Genetic Mechanisms of Adaptation to Heterogeneous Competitive Environments"
Apr. 2 Chris Smith, Exit Seminar, PEEC, UIUC, "Ecology and Evolution of Caste in Harvester Ants"
Apr. 9 Greg Sass, INHS Illinois River Biological Station, "Fish Community Responses to Reciprocal Whole-lake Manipulations of Coarse Woody Habitat in Two Northern Wisconsin Lakes"
Apr. 16 John Wiens, Lead Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, "Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty in Conservation"
Apr. 23 Neil Tsutsui, Integrative Biology, UC-Berkeley, "Genetics, Chemical Ecology and Altered Social Behavior in the Invasive Argentine Ant"
Apr. 30 Winsor Lowe, University of Montana, "Consequences and Causes of Dispersal in Plethodontid Salamanders"

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