Evolunch

Spring 2006, Thursdays 1:00 pm in Coker 215 (unless noted)

 

Date

Speaker

Lab/Host

Location

Topic

Jan 12

Paul Gabrielson     Northeast Pacific Halymeniaceae (Rhodophyta): A re-evaluation of selected species based on sequences of type material 

Jan 19

Maria Servedio Servedio   Population genetic models of male and mutual mate choice

Jan 26

Chris Willett Willett   Local adaptation and hybrid breakdown in temperature tolerance in copepods

Feb 2

Jennifer Knies Burch   Can evolvability evolve?

Feb 09

David Kidd Peet   The  influence of climate and landscape history on biodiversity in the  European Bushcricket genus Ephippiger

Feb 16

Amy Bouck Vision   Using ESTs to detect past genome duplication events in Mimulus

Feb 23

Stefanie Hartmann Vision   The road to analyzing coevolving gene families is paved with incomplete alignments

Mar 2

Eric Schranz Vision   Studies of polyploidy and life-history evolution in the Brassicaceae
using comparative approaches to Arabidopsis

Mar 09

Cris Ledon-Rettig D. Pfennig   A Molecular Analysis of Plasticity in Amphibians

Mar 16

--------     Spring break, no seminar

Mar 23

John Bruno and Mary O'Connor Bruno   Temperature control of larval dispersal: implications for marine ecology, evolution and conservation

Mar 30

Maureen McClung Wiley   Geographic variation in the vocalizations of tamarins (Saguinus) in the Peruvian Amazon

Apr 6

Owen McMillan Servedio   Towards a comparative genomic understanding of mimicry in Heliconius

Apr 13

Ryan Martin D. Pfennig   Historic selection and the outcome of competition

Apr 20

Karen Laughlin Mitchell   Transgenic Virus Resistance, Plant Fitness and Virus Competition in Wild Squash (Curcurbita pepo)

Apr 27

Travis Gaydos Kingsolver   Quantifying evolutionary constraints for complex traits