Evolunch
Fall 2005, Thursdays 1:00 pm in Coker
215 (unless noted)
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Date |
Speaker |
Lab/Host |
Room |
Topic |
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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 |
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Sep 15 |
David Pfennig |
Pfennig |
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Maternally inherited plasticity as a facilitator of evolution |
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Sep 22 |
Mukta Chakraborty |
Burmeister |
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Immune-endoctrine interactions in the lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus: Testing an assumption of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis |
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Sep 29 |
Sarah Diamond |
Servedio |
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Sympatric speciation in an herbivorous insect: could nutritional variation have facilitated a host shift from stems to galls in species 2 Mordellistena convicta |
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Oct 6 |
Amy Bouck |
Vision |
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Will QTL analysis help to predict trait evolution and introgression in hybrid zones? A quagmire of results from Lousiana Irises |
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Oct 13 |
Justin McAlister |
Kingsolver |
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Environmental heterogeneity and the evolution of
plasticity |
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Oct 20 |
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Fall break |
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Oct 27 |
Greg Ragland |
Kingsolver |
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Thermal adaptation to seasonal windows in pitcher plant mosquitoes: joint evolution of phenology and thermal physiology |
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Nov 3 |
Renee Duckworth |
Sockman |
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Rapid evolution of aggression across the recent range overlap of two passerine species |
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Nov 10 |
Corbin Jones |
Jones |
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Evolution of egg size in Drosophila |
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Nov 17 |
Joel Kingsolver |
Kingsolver |
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Rapid evolution of growth, size and thermal sensitivity: a tale of two caterpillars |
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Nov 24 |
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Thanksgiving |
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Dec 1 |
Amanda Chunco |
Servedio/ K. Pfennig |
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Microhabitat variation and the maintenance of male color polymorphism |
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Dec 8 |
Chris Willett |
Willett |
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Local adaptation and hybrid breakdown in temperature tolerance in copepods |