Evolunch

Fall 2005, Thursdays 1:00 pm in Coker 215 (unless noted)

 

 

Date

Speaker

Lab/Host

Room

Topic

Sept 8

Erin Friedman

C. Jones

215 Coker

Testing the robustness of codon volatility as a measure of amino

               acid evolution in the Pseudomonas genome

Sep 15

David Pfennig

Pfennig

 

Maternally inherited plasticity as a facilitator of evolution

Sep 22

Mukta Chakraborty

Burmeister

 

Immune-endoctrine interactions in the lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus: Testing an assumption of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis

Sep 29

Sarah Diamond

Servedio

 

Sympatric speciation in an herbivorous insect: could nutritional variation have facilitated a host shift from stems to galls in species 2 Mordellistena convicta

Oct 6

Amy Bouck

Vision

 

Will QTL analysis help to predict trait evolution and introgression in hybrid zones? A quagmire of results from Lousiana Irises

Oct 13

Justin McAlister

Kingsolver

 

Environmental heterogeneity and the evolution of plasticity 
in Panamanian echinoid larvae

Oct 20

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Fall break, no seminar

Oct 27

Greg Ragland

Kingsolver

 

Thermal adaptation to seasonal windows in pitcher plant mosquitoes: joint evolution of phenology and thermal physiology

Nov 3

Renee Duckworth

Sockman

 

Rapid evolution of aggression across the recent range overlap of two passerine species

Nov 10

Corbin Jones

Jones

 

Evolution of egg size in Drosophila

Nov 17

Joel Kingsolver

Kingsolver

 

Rapid evolution of growth, size and thermal sensitivity: a tale of two caterpillars

Nov 24

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Thanksgiving, no seminar

Dec 1

Amanda Chunco

Servedio/

K. Pfennig

 

Microhabitat variation and the maintenance of male color polymorphism

Dec 8

Chris Willett

Willett

 

Local adaptation and hybrid breakdown in temperature tolerance in copepods