EEB SPRING 2010 Seminar Schedule
Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M., ESC 110

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Refreshments and conversation in ESC 110 after seminar concludes

Date

Speaker and Title Host
  CLASSES BEGIN JAN. 11  

01/13/10

Cedric Feschotte, University of Texas Arlington

Günter Wagner

01/20/10

Antónia Monteiro, Yale
The evolution and development of novel complex traits

 
01/27/10 Peter Crane, Yale University
The Origin and Early Evolution of Flowering Plants:
New Pieces of the Puzzle and a Few New Answers
 
02/03/10 Marc Feldman, Stanford University
Evolution of Stochastic and Deterministic Switching
Steve Stearns
02/10/10 David Haig, Harvard University
Prader-Willi syndrome and the evolution of human childhood
Steve Stearns
02/17/20 Susan Foster, Clark University
Ancestral Plasticity and Evolutionary Diversification:
The Stickleback Adaptive Radiation
Suzanne Alonzo
02/24/10 Kevin Foster, Harvard University
Social evolution in microbes
Paul Turner
03/03/10 Michael Singer, Wesleyan University
Evolutionary ecology of self-medication behavior
Katy Prudic
03/10/10 NO SEMINAR SPRING RECESS  
03/17/10 NO SEMINAR SPRING RECESS  
03/24/10 Molly Cummings, University of Texas Austin
Predicting Diversity in Animal Communication:
Insights from Mechanistic Studies
Talbot Waterman and Suzanne Alonzo
03/31/10 Ezra Susser Steve Stearns
04/07/10 Dov Sax, Brown University Melinda Smith
04/14/10 Stephen Hubbell, Univ. of California EEB Graduate Students
04/21/10 Jeremy Fox, University of Calgary
The Price (Equation) of Biodiversity Loss
David Vasseur
  FALL 2009  

09/02/09

CLASSES START, NO SPEAKER

 

09/09/09

Bob Reed, University of Calif., Irvine
Developmental genetics of butterfly wing pattern mimicry

Antonia Monteiro

09/16/09

David Post, Yale
Eco-evolutionary Interactions in Community and Ecosystem Ecology

 

09/23/09

Keith Thomson
The Young Charles Darwin and the origin of “The Origin of Species”

Jeff Powell

09/30/09

Ron Amundson, University of Hawaii
Our Two Theories of Evolution and Where They Came From

Rick Prum

10/07/09

Tod Reeder, San Diego State
Multi-locus Phylogenetics of Iguanian Lizards: Revealing the
Squamate Tree of Life

Tom Near

10/13/09

Santiago Elena, Universidad de Politécnica, Valencia
Evolutionary Genetics and Systems Biology of RNA Virus Emergence

Paul Turner

10/21/09

Vincent Lynch, Yale
Transposon-mediated Gene Regulatory Network Innovation During the
Evolution of Pregnancy (or Where Do Novelties Come From?)

 

10/28/09

Suzanne Alonzo, Yale
The Coevolutionary Dynamics Of Mating and Parental Effort:
Beyond Boy Meets Girl

 

11/04/09

Rebecca Young-Brim, Yale
The Evolution of Character Identities: Changes in Gene Regulation Underlie
Digit Identity Transformations in the Bird Wing

 

11/11/09

Junhyong Kim, U Penn
Single Cell Genomics of Mammalian Neurons over Waddington's Landscape

Jeff Townsend

11/18/09

Mark Bradford, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Acclimation and Adaptation in Soil Microbial Communities:
Implications for Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics

David Vasseur

11/25/09

FALL RECESS NO SEMINAR


12/02/09

Larry Samuelson, Yale Department of Economics
Crossing Fitness Valleys via Sexual Drift

Steve Stearns

  CLASSES END DEC 4  

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