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1996-1997

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Jan 27

Jan Kozlowski

Jagiellonian University

The effect of seasonality on optimal resource allocation: why heavily exploited fish population must dwarf?

Feb 3

Susan Kalisz

University of Pittsburgh

The evolution of bet hedging traits in unpredictable environments?

Feb 4

Sasha Gimelfarb

University of Oregon

How much genetic variation can be maintained under stabilizing selection?

Feb 10

Bernard Crespi

Simon Fraser University

The evolution of ecological interactions and sociality in Australian gall thrips on Acacia

Feb 24

Russell Lande

University of Oregon

Anthropogenic, ecological and genetic factors in extinction

March 3

Brian Charlesworth

University of Chicago

The evolution of sex chromosomes

March 3

Deborah Charlesworth

University of Chicago

The effects of breddign system on genetic diversity in populations of the plant genus Leavenworthia

March 10

Janette Wenrick Boughman

Social communication in bats: how selection has shaped call structure, detection, and learning

March 17

Marc Hauser

Harvard University

The evolutioon of primate communication: neurobiologica and functional design features

March 31

Peter Tyack

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Vocal learning in the signature whistles of bottlenose dolphins

April 2

Wen-Hsiung Li

University of Texas--Houston

Molecular evolutionary genetics of primate color vision

April 7

Elizabeth Zimmer

Smithsonian Institution

Ribosomal gene tracers of plant molecular evolution

April 8

Susan Harrison

UC Davis

How natural habitat patchiness affects the distribution of diversity in serpentine outcrops in California

April 14

William Rice

UC Santa Cruz

Male-female antagonistic coevolution: implications for speciation and the evolution of the Y sex chromosome

April 15

Christian Schloetterer

Veterinary University of Vienna

Using microsatellites to infer selection in natural populations

April 21

Charles Delwiche

University of Maryland

Untangling the web of plastid phylogeny

April 28

Richard Kesseli

University of Massachusetts--Boston

Precise gene flow and breeding system extimates based on microsatellite genetic markers

May 5

Walter Eanes

SUNY-Stony Brook

Partitioning metabolic flux and selection on genes in the glycolytic pathway of Drosophila

May 12

Mercedes Pascual

Center for Marine Biotechnology

From individuals to population densities: consequences if nonlinear ecological interactions and demographic noise

May 19

Richard McCourt

Academy of Natural Sciences

Phylogeny of green algal relatives of land plants based on multiple plastid genes

1997-1998

Sept 8

Gerald Wilkinson

University of Maryland

Evolution of sexual dimorphism in stalk-eyed flies: female exploitation of selfish genes

Sept 15

Kathy Wynne-Edwards

Queen's University

Conflict between fundamental assumptions of behavioral ecology and fundamental assumptions of reproductive...

Sept 18

Trevor Price

UC San Diego

Adaptive radiations of warblers on two continents

Sept 22

Ken Petren

Princeton University

Molecules and muddy boots: tools for understanding ecological diversity

Oct 8

Peter Narins

UCLA

Adaptations for sound communication by African amphibians: lessons from the forest

Oct 13

Joel Brown

University of Illinois--Chicago

Fit of form and function: the diversity of life and the procession of life as an evolutionary game

Oct 20

Doug Emlen

University of Montana

Does beetle development bias male horn evolution?

Oct 27

Eva Kisdi

Eotvos University

Genetic polymorphism and speciation in a heterogeneous environment

Oct 30

Marlene Zuk

UC Riverside

Sexual selection and immunity in red jungle fowl

Nov 3

Richard Frankham

Macquarie University

Genetics and conservation

Nov 10

Penny Kukuk

National Science Foundation

The evolution of social cooperation among nonkin, Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) hemichalceum as a model...

Nov 17

Nancy Huntley

Idaho State University

Understanding species diversity in a variable and multi- faceted world: models, methods, and data from aridlands...

Nov 24

Alison Power

Cornell University

Ecological interactions among plants, viruses, and insect vectors

Dec 1

Bernie Lohr

University of Maryland

Songs of the Paridae: a parody of song

Dec 8

Len Nunney

UC Riverside

Effective population size and conservation

Dec 15

Fred Dyer

Michigan State University

Spatial cognition and navigation in insects

Feb 2

Alexander Wait

University of Maryland-College Park

The role of nitrogen and leaf development in plant-insect interactions

Feb 9

Robert Marquis

University of Missouri--St. Louis

Birds-caterpilars-oaks, tritrophic interactions from the plant's perspective

Feb 16

Scott Johnson

Towson University

Effect of blood-sucking blow fly maggots on nelting wrens: who pays the costs of parasites

Feb 23

Kathryn Hanley

University of Maryland

Sex on the beach: the evolutionary maintenance of sex in Pacific island geckos

March 2

Donat Agosti

American Museum of Natural History

Measuring and monitoring biodiversity: Matat Atlantica ants and remote sensing

March 9

Bob Gardner

Appalachian Environmental Lab

The role of spatial pattern, competition, and disturbance in the invasibility of established plant communities

March 16

John Pandolfi

National Museum of National History

Ecosystem response to environmental change in modern coral reefs: clues from the Pleistocene fossil record

March 30

Timothy Mousseau

National Science Foundation

Adaptive maternal effects: moms do more than make babies

April 6

Stephen Prince

University of Maryland

Ecology writ large: tools and results at the regional-global scales

April 13

Erik Nilsen

National Science Foundation

Water flow dynamics in Rhododendron species: constraints by freeze that and drought

April 20

Lisa Donovan

University of Georgia

Ecology and ecophysiology of saline desert shrubs, Mono Lake, California

April 30

Simon Levin

Princeton University

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: a problem in scaling

May 4

Steve Insely

National Zoological Park

Recognition behavior in fur seals

May 11

Tom Frost

National Science Foundation

Lessons from zooplankton community responses to, and recovery from, the experimental acidification of Little...

1998-1999

 Sept 14

Lin Chao

University of Maryland

How to study evolution with a virus

Sept 21

A. Gimelfarb

University of Maryland

Traveling on adaptive landscapes

Sept 28

Michael Moore

Arizona State University

Hormonal control and evolution of alternative male phenotypes

Oct 5

Nancy Huntley

Idaho State University

The role of environmental variability and temporal niches in ecological diversity

Oct 12

H. Kern Reeve

Cornell University

Toward a unified theory of social evolution: reproductive skew in social wasps

Oct 19

Brenda Casper

University of Pennsylvania

Exploring plant populations below ground

Oct 26

Lynda Delph

Indiana University

Sexual dimorphism in a dioecious plant: sexual selection, enigmas, and artificial selection

Nov 2

Kerry Shaw

Harvard University

Behavioral evolution and speciation in Hawaiian crickets

Nov 9

William Wilson

Duke University

Consuming a structured resource and the implications for competitive coexistence

Nov 16

Andrew Baldwin

University of Maryland

Response of mangrove plant communities to catastrophic hurricane disturbance: an example from south Florida

Nov 23

Jack Dumbacher

Smithsonian Institution

Evolution and ecology of the poisonous pitohui birds from New Guinea

Nov 30

Ulrich Mueller

University of Maryland

The evolution of agriculture in ants

Dec 7

Lou Pitelka

University of Maryland--Frostburg

Potential effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems of the US

Jan 27

Abraham Korol

University of Haifa

How to increase the efficiency of QTL mapping

Feb 1

Doug Erwin

NMNH

The search for the Protosome/Deuterostome ancestor: evolving views from the fossils and developmental biology

Feb 8

Samuel Scheiner

Arizona State University West

The evolution of phenotypic plasticity

Feb 10

Mike Ryan

University of Texas--Austin

Historical effect on the evolution of female reproductive preferences in tungara frogs

Feb 22

Peter Hamback

Yale University

Winter herbivory by voles: spatial and temporal aspects

March 1

Suzanne Rutherford

Heat shock protein 90 as a capacitor for variation affecting development

March 8

James Mallet

Genetics of mimicry and speciation in Heliconius butterflies

March 15

Malcolm Schug


March 29

Rachel Waugh O'Neill

Rutgers University

Genome defense, hybridization, and speciation

April 5

Rick Kittles

Howard University Cancer Center

The Finnish population bottleneck: exploiting the evolutionary history of genes for population and genetic...

April 12

Daniel Cristol

The College of William and Mary

A tough nut to crack: prey dropping by gulls and crows

April 19

Denise Breitburg

Academy of Natural Science

From ecology to economics: incorporating complexity in understanding effects of anthropogenic stress, in coastal...

April 26

Lou Kaplan

Stroud Water Research Center

Impact of temporal and spatial variability in dissolved organic carbon concentrations on energy flow in a...

May 3

Peter Abrams

University of Maryland

The adaptive dynamics of consumer choice

May 10

Scott Pitnick

Syracuse University

Rapid sperm evolution: implications for speciatio

1999-2000

Sept 13

Irwin Forseth

University of Maryland

Plant responses to temporal and spatial heterogeneity: a case study with the desert perennial, Cryptantha flava

Sept 20

Deborah Letourneau

UC Santa Cruz

Top-down and bottom-up effects in a tropical rainforest community

Sept 27

Preston Aldrich

Smithsonian Institution

Pleistocene and contemporary forest fragmentation and the genetic composition of neotropical plant populations

Oct 4

Matthew Leibold

University of Chicago

How does regional biodiversity regulate trophic structure?

Oct 11

Dina Fonesca

Walter Reed Army Institute

Avian malaria vectors in Hawaii: population genetics of an introduced pest

Oct 18

Alexey Kondrashov

NCBI, NIH

Comparative genomics and evolution

Oct 25

Timothy Wright

University of Maryland

Vocal dialects in the yellow-naped amazon; do genes and culture covary?

Nov 1

Mary Price

UC Riverside

Competition and coexistence: why are there so many desert rats?

Nov 8

Chistine Boake

University of  Tennessee

Flying apart: sexual selection and speciation in Hawaiian Drosophila

Nov 22

Wayne Coats

SERC

Parasitism of bloom-forming dinoflagellates: a case of inside-out control

Nov 29

Robert Denno

University of Maryland

Top-down versus bottom-up control of insect populations: spatial and temporal variation

Dec 6

John Byers

National Science Foundation

Dickensian pronghorn

Feb 7

Lucy Roberts

National Institute of Child Health

The proximate cause for cooperative breeding in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Feb 14

Judith Bronstein

University of Arizona

Towards a unified view of mutualism

Feb 21

Janet Mann

Georgetown University

Reproductive strategies in wild bottlenose dolphins

Feb 28

Warren Johnson

National Cancer Institute

Molecular genetic insights into neotropical field evolution and conservation

Mar 6

Mary Christman

University of Maryland

Modeling biodiversity in obligate subterranean cave species in the US

Mar 13

Marta Manser

University of Pennsylvania

Suricate alarm calls

April 3

H. Allen Orr

University of Rochester

Problems in the genetics of adaptation

April 10

William Michener

National Science Foundation

Natural disturbance dynamics in a highly fragmented longleaf pine ecosystem

April 17

Rick Karban

UC Davis

Communication between plants, induced resistance, and information about risk herbivory

April 24

Rudolf Raff

Indiana University

The evolution of development and body  plan origins

May 1

David Parichy

University of Texas--Austin

Evolutionary genetics of pigment pattern development in Danio fishes

 2000-2001

Sept 11

Bernard Wood

George Washington University

Reconstructing human phylogeny: a lost cause?

Sept 18

Sue Carter

University of Maryland

An integrative look at mammalian monogamy

Sept 25

Jeff Jensen

University of Maryland

Ecomorphology of fishes: combining phylogeny, ecology, and functional morphology

Oct 2

Sabra Klein

Johns Hopkins University

Proximate causes and ultimate function of sex difference in immunity and infection

Oct 10

Richard Ostfeld

Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Biodiversity and disease risk

Oct 16

Cliff Cunningham

Duke University

Comparing population histories of north Atlantic marine invertebrates: a search for generalities in biogeography

Oct 23

Chi-hua Chiu

Yale University

Molecular evolution of clustered globin genes in primates: duplications, conversions, and shifts

Oct 30

Arlin Stoltzfus

CARB

The population genetics of orthogenesis: mutational and developmental biases in variation as orientation factors

Nov 6

John Gittleman

University of Virginia

Phylogenetic approaches to mammal extinctions

Nov 13

John Phillips

Virginia Tech

Multiple roles and multiple receptors for geomagnetic information in the navigational systems of vertebrates

Nov 20

Stephen Vessey

National Science Foundation

Population and behavioral ecology of the white-footed mouse

Nov 28

Don Forester

Towson University

Alternating mating tactics in Bufo americanus: why toads sit on roads

Dec 4

Kevin Omland

UMBC

Using molecular phylogenies to study plumage evolution and speciation in birds

Dec 11

Patrick Danley

University of New Hampshire

The ecological, behavioral, and genetic factors influencing the rapid divergence of Lake Malawi cichlids

March 12

Jay Evans

USDA


March 26

David Westneat

University of Kentucky

Is sexy healthy? Diet immunity, and sexual advertisement in house sparrows

April 2

Peter Marra

SERC


April 16

Mark Kirkpatrick

University of Texas--Austin

Speciation by reinforcement

April 23

Charles Henry

University of Connecticut

Discovering the "true" Chrysoperla carnea of Stephens (1835): systematic sleuthing using substrate songs in a...

April 30

Chip Taylor

University of Kansas

Monarch butterflies: orientation, navigation, and a new theory of migration

May 7

Mark Chappell

UC Riverside

 

2001-2002

Nov 19

Lu Zhi

Yale University

The giant panda: from biology to conservation

Feb 11

Sharon Struass

National Science Foundation

Direct and indirect pathways influencing plant tolerance to herbivory

Feb 18

Francoise Seiller-Moiseiwitsch


Feb 25

Steve Nowicki

Duke University

Developmental stress, song learning, and mate choice in birds

April 1

Werner Callebaut

University of Vienna, Austria

Eco-devo: a Viennese perspective

April 8

Scott Armbuster

Norwegian University of Technology

Island endemism: relict lineages, adaptive radiation, and ongoing extinction in Madagascar

April 8

Matt Hamilton

Georgetown University

The populations-genetic impacts of tropical forest fragmentation: evidence from Corythorphora alta

April 15

Joel Kingsolver

UNC Chapel Hill

Selection and evolution of functional traits: thermal sensitivity of caterpillars

April 22

John Jaenike

University of Rochester

Male-killing Wolbachia in Drosophila innubila

April 29

Lucinda McDade

Philadelphia Academy of Sciences

"Pure" and "applied" phylogenetics of the highly diverse pantropical family Acanthaceae

May 6

Laura Galloway

University of Virginia

Non-Mendelian trait transmission: how a mother influences the life history of her offspring

 May 13

John Kress

Smithsonian Institution

The evolutionary history of the Ziniberales: ecology, phylogeny, and classification

2002-2003

Sept 9

Robert Ragusso

University of South Carolina

The perfume connection: hawkmoths, night blooming flowers, and phylogeny

Sept 16

Shozo Yokoyama

Syracuse University

Molecular evolutionary genetics of visual protein genes

Sept 23

Roldan Munoz

University of Maryland

Alternative reproductive behavior in the bucktooth parrrotfish: extraordinary life history differences and a...

Sept 30

Joel Trexler

Florida International University

Metacommunity dynamics of fishes in the Florida Everglades

Oct 7

Juan Bouzat

Bowling Green State University

Genetic diversity: what good is it for?

Oct 14

Willie Swanson

University of Washington

Life in the fast lane: functional inferences from rapidly evolving reproductive proteins

Oct 21

Eduardo Eizirik

University of Maryland

Molecular evolution of melanism in the cat family

Oct 28

Paulette Bloomer

University of Pretoria

Phylogeographic patterns from the southern tip of Africa

Nov 4

Martha Weiss

Georgetown University

Silver-spotted skippers: amazing architects and fabulous frass-flingers

Nov 11

John Warren

University of Rochester

How evolution makes things bigger (and smaller): the evolution of wing size in Nasonia and other stories

Nov  18

Glenn Morris

University of Toronto at Mississauga

What Katy did and said: adaptive pitch in the calls of some acoustic insects

Nov 25

Emma Teeling

National Cancer Institute

Yinptreochiroptera revisited: an independent molecular investigation into the evolution of echolocation in bats

Dec 2

Betsy VonHolle

Harvard University

Ranking the componenets of ecological resistance to biological invaders: an experimantal manipulation in a...

Dec 9

Rebecca Simmons

USDA

What kind of signals do tiger moths send?  The evolution of wasp mimicry n Arctiidae (Lepidoptera)

Feb 3

Brian Husband

University of Guelph

Evolutionary dynamics of a diploid/polyploid contact zone: implications for plant diversification

Feb 10

Dannie Durrand

Carnegie Mellon University

Gene clusters in comparative genomics: accident or design?

March 3

Patrick Megonigal

SERC

Micorbial iron cycling in the Rhizosphere

March 10

Carol Goodwillie

World Wildlife Fund

Mating systems in transition: transient self-incompatability and the evolution of mating systems in Leptosiphon ...

March 17

Taylor Ricketts

World Wildlife Fund

The matrix in fragmented landscapes: ecological importance and conservation opportunities

March 31

Carl Schlichting

University of Connecticut

The origins of differentiation and the early evolution of development

April 7

Charles Epifanio

University of Delaware

Transport of blue crab larvae in the coastal ocean: a windy tale

April 14

Michael Purugganan

Duke University

Molecular evolution of plant development

April 21

Andy Clark

Cornell University

Comparative genomics of coding regions of human, chimpanzee, and mouse

April 28

Michael Dietrich

Dartmouth College

Keeping time: probability, mechanisms, and the molecular clock

May 5

Gil Rosenthal

Boston University

Integrative biology of visual communication in tropical reef fishes

May 12

Jody Hey

Rutgers University

Genealogical studies of speciation in Drosophila

2003-2004

Sept 8

John Wiens

The Nature Conservancy

Can landscape ecology brdige the gap beween science and conservation?

Sept 15

Mohammed Noor

Louisiana State University

Speciation and species persistence: a genetic approach

Sept 22

Greg Gibson

North Carolina State University

Quantitative genomics on the fly: association with SNPs, traits, and transcripts

Sept 29

T'ai Roulston

University of Virginia

Causes and consequences of body sizze variation within and among bee species

Oct 6

Howard Cornell

University of Delaware

Testing phytochemical coevolution theory with bioassay data

Oct 20

Brian Verelli

University of Maryland


Oct 27

Donna Holmes (Parks)

University of Idaho

Which ages first--the bird or the egg? A test of the oocyte depletion model in long- and short-lived birds

Nov 3

David Skelly

Yale University

Dynamic amphibians in changing landscapes

Nov 10

Elena Silva-Casey

Georgetown University

Are there shared mechanisms of neural induction in frogs and ascidians?

Nov 17

David Stern

Princeton University

The developmental genetics of microevolution

Nov 24

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto

University of Maryland

Using cavefish to explore micro- and macroevolution and development

Dec 1

Dan Howard

New Mexico State University

Reproductive isolation in Allonemobius : lessons learned from hybrid zones and molecules

Dec 8

James Schulte

Smithsonian Institution

Integration of phylogenetics, biodiversity, and natural history in evolutionary studies

Jan 26

Anne Burke

Wesleyan University

Development and evolution of the vertebrate body plan

Feb 2

Scott Sakaluk

Illinois State University

Sexual conflict in goft-giving insects: chasing the 'chase-away'

Feb 9

Jane Brockman

National Science Foundation

Alternative mating tactics in horseshoe crabs

Feb 13

Diane Srivastava

University of British Colombia

Diversity and function in a miniature food web: aquatic fauna in tropical bromeliads

Feb 23

Britta Bierwagen

EPA

Predicting butterfly dispersal distance using evolutionary and ecological correlates

March 1

Alexey Kondrashov

NIH

Evolutionary approaches to comprehending genomic data

March 8

Elizabeth Elle

Simon Fraser University

Mating system evolution: biotic and abiotic selection

March 15

Eli Meir

MIT

Robustness and variability in developmental genetic networks

March 29

Charles Hawkins

Utah State University

Restoring the biological health of the nations's waters: the reality, political will, and institutional bureaucracy

April 5

Joshua Ginsberg

Wildlife Conservation Society

King of beasts? Top-down structuring of large mammalian carnivore guilds

April 12

David Culver

American University

The Struggle to Measure Subterranean Biodiversity

April 19

Steve Gaines

UC Santa Barbara

Seeing the Big Picture: Large Scal