Evolunch

Spring 2004, Fridays 12-1:15, in Coker 215 (unless noted)

 

Date

Speaker

Lab/Host

Room

Topic

Jan 16

Bill Schopf

Genetics

B202 MBRB

Earth's Earliest Fossils: Solutions to Darwin's Dilemma

Jan 23

Mike Baltzley

Lohmann

 

Sensory systems of sea slugs sliding across self-secreted slime

Jan 30

Michael Lienesch (Political Science)

Kingsolver

 

History and politics of fundamentalism and creationism in America

Feb 6

Christina Burch

Genetics

B202 MBRB

Mutational effects and interactions in an RNA virus: What are the

consequences of complexity?

Feb 13

George Harper

Pfennig

 

Gene flow and Batesian mimicry: phylogeography of the scarlet kingsnake

Feb 20

Todd Vision

 

 

A 10,000 year artificial selection experiment: the genetic architecture of crop domestication

Feb 27

Kyle Summers

(ECU)

 Micancin

rescheduled

The evolution of reproductive strategies in poison frogs

Mar 5

Andrea Case

(Duke)

Vision

 

When two sexes are better than one: the evolution of gender dimorphism in flowering plants

Mar 12

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Spring Break

Mar 19

Tara Fitzhenry

Podolsky

 

Consequences of thermal stress for the barnacle Chthamalus fragilis

Mar 26

Dan Weinreich

(Harvard)

Burch

 

Genotype fitness rank order predicts evolvability

of Wrightian fitness landscapes

Apr 2

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Undergraduate Honors Research Symposium

Apr 9

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Spring Holiday

Apr 16

Becca Price

Kier

 

Do different metrics of diversity agree?

Measuring snails through time and space

Apr 23

Kyle Summers

(ECU)

 Micancin

10:45 in

215 Coker

The evolution of reproductive strategies in poison frogs

Apr 30

Marty Ferris

Burch

 

Dissecting the genetics of host range: Characterization of novel host-range mutants