| FALL SEMESTER 2008 |
Date |
Speaker |
Seminar title |
Sep
8 |
BEES
Faculty Meeting
|
|
Tuesday
Sep 9 |
Sarah Hankerson
BEES Program
10:00 am in 1208 Bio-Psych |
Dissertation Defense
Resource and Space Use in the Wild Golden Lion Tamarin |
Sep
15 |
Frank Siewerdt
Animal and Avian Sciences
University of Maryland |
A new look at selection strategies in the presence of associative genetic effects |
Sep 22 |
Kailen Mooney
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
U of California - Irvine
Host: Dan Gruner |
Community and evolutionary
consequences of ant-aphid interactions |
| Sep 22 |
Maile Neel
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture & Entomology
University of Maryland |
Can we conserve biological diversity without really trying?
Note: This seminar is at 4:00 in PLS 1140. |
Sep 29 |
Peter Leimgruber
Conservation Ecology Center
Smithsonian National Zoo |
Asian Elephant Ecology and Conservation |
Oct 6 |
Eric Fortune
Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Tagide deCarvalho |
Species differences in social behavior of sympatric weakly electric fishes in Ecuador: Contributions of social signaling to sensory perception |
Oct
13 |
David Crews
Biological Sciences
University of Texas
Host: Eric Haag |
Evolution of Behavioral
Controlling Mechanisms |
Oct 20 |
Lisa Horth
Biological Sciences
Old Dominion University
Host: Chris Hofmann |
The beauty and bane of being a rare, melanic morph in a common fish species |
Oct
27 |
Jonathan Sherratt
Department of Mathematics
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh UK
Host: Bill Fagan |
Multi-annual cycles in field vole populations: Spatial data and spatiotemporal models |
| Nov 3 |
Thomas Holtz
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland |
New Advances in the Evolutionary Biology and Paleoecology of Tyrant Dinosaurs (Tyrannosauroidea) |
Wed
Nov 5 |
Silvana Marten-Rodriguez
BEES Program |
Dissertation Defense |
Thur
Nov 6 |
Thomas Mueller
BEES Program
11:00 am in 1208 Bio-Psych |
Dissertation Defense |
Tues
Nov 11 |
Colin Studds
BEES Program
11:00 am |
Dissertation Defense |
Tues
Nov 11 |
Pam Soltis
Curator, Florida Museum
of Natural History
University of Florida
and
Rudy Raff
Distiguished Professor
Director, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
Indiana University
2:30 pm in BRB 1103 |
Special Seminars
Polyploid Evolution in Plants:
Genetic and Genomic Consequences
and
Title T.B.A.
Joint question session and
round table discussion to follow. |
Wed
Nov 12 |
Bioscience Day |
*Note: This event is on a Wednesday
in the Stamp Student Union.*
Noon-2:00 Poster Session and Lunch
5:00 Keynote Address by E.O. Wilson
Click on the title to the left for details. |
Nov 17 |
Gary Krupnick
Plant Conservation Unit
Smithsonian Institution
Host: Abby Kula |
The value of herbarium specimens in the conservation of threatened plant species |
Nov 24 |
Ing-Nang Wang
Biological Sciences Dept.
SUNY - Albany
Host: Alexa Bely |
Evolution of bacteriophage
life history traits |
| Dec 1 |
Charles Fenster
Dept. of Biology
University of Maryland |
Quantifying mutation parameters in the wild: field studies of Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines |
| Dec 1 |
Jenna Jadin
BEES Program |
Dissertation Defense |
Dec 8 |
BEES Faculty Meeting |
|
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SPRING SEMESTER 2009
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
Seminar Title
|
| Jan 23 |
BEES RoundUP |
*Note: This event is on the Friday afternoon before classes start.* |
| Feb 2 |
BEES Faculty Meeting |
|
Feb 9
|
Priscila Chaverri
Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture
University of Maryland |
|
| Feb 16 |
Leslie Ries
Dept. of Biology
University of Maryland |
|
| Feb 23 |
Hans Sues
Associate Director, National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Host: Charlie Mitter |
|
| Mar 2 |
Daniel J. Funk
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Host: Julie Byrd |
Ecological specialization and ecological speciation in the maple- and willow ‘host forms’ of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles |
| Mar 9 |
Daven Presgraves
Dept. of Biology
University of Rochester
Host: Jerry Wilkinson |
|
| Mar 23 |
Judge John Jones
Host: Michele Dudash |
Our Constitution's Intelligent Design |
| Mar 30 |
Conrad Labandeira
Chair, Dept. of Paleobiology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Host: Dan Gruner |
The fossil record of plant-insect associations enriches our
understanding of how terrestrial biodiversity is evolutionarily generated |
| Apr 6 |
Jiuzhou Song
Animal Sciences
University of Maryland |
|
| Apr 13 |
Bill Cresko
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Oregon
Host: Alana Doty
and Kelly O'Quin |
|
Thursday
Apr 23 |
Organismal Biology Day
Richard Lenski
Hannah Distinguished Professor
Michigan State University |
*Please note this event is on a Thursday starting at 4:00 pm.*
Adaptation, chance, and history: Phenotypic and genomic evolution during a long-term experiment with bacteria
(Dinner and poster session to follow.) |
| Apr 27 |
BEES Student Meeting |
|
| May 4 |
BEES Faculty Meeting |
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