Biodiversity Research Seminar Series
Spring 2012
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– Beaty Biodiversity Centre, 11:30 am
Seminar
– Beaty Biodiversity Museum auditorium, 12.00 pm
Note: please send pre-seminar
announcements to
Thor Veen (veen@zoology.ubc.ca) and Kieran Samuk (samuk@zoology.ubc.ca)
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Date |
Speaker |
Title
of Talk |
Host
Lab |
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Jan.
11 |
Katie Suding Univ California, Berkeley |
Species
invasion and restoration in a changing world: are we running with the red
queen? |
Turkington |
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Jan.
18 |
Kristan
Schneider Univ. Vienna |
Models
of frequency-dependent intraspecific competition –
linking population genetics and adaptive dynamics |
Doebeli |
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Jan.
25 |
Ilya Ruvinsky Univ. Chicago |
Conservation,
divergence, and epistasis in evolution of gene
regulation |
Adams |
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Feb.
1 |
EVOLUTION LECTURE Marcus Kronforst Harvard Univ. |
Exploring
the genetics and evolution of adaptation and speciation in tropical
butterflies |
Grad
students |
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Feb.
8 |
Lauren
Buckley Univ. N. Carolina |
Functional
models of insect ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change |
Jankowski |
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Feb.
15 |
Kristi Miller-Saunders Pacific Biological
Station |
Genomic
insights into the health and condition of wild salmon populations |
Whitton |
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Feb.
22 |
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Mid-term
Break |
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Feb.
29 |
Michael
Alfaro Ecology & Evolution UCLA |
Next-gen
comparative methods, really large trees, and new insights into the tempo and
mode of diversification in fishes, vertebrates, and other eukaryotes |
Taylor |
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Mar. 7 |
Aimee Classen Univ. Tennessee |
Ecosystem
structure and function in a changing world |
Crutsinger |
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Mar.
14 |
Stephen
Wright Univ. Toronto |
How
much selection is acting on plant genomes? |
Rieseberg |
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Mar.
21 |
Julius Lukes Univ. South Bohemia, Czech
Republic |
RNA
editing in trypanosomes - ever growing complexity |
Keeling |
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Mar.
28 |
Jonathan Moore Simon Fraser Univ. |
TBA |
Srivastava |
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Apr.
4 |
Sally Aitken Forest Sciences, UBC |
Changing
climates, changing forests: Population genomics of conifer adaptation |
Schluter |
Biodiversity Research Seminar Series
Fall 2011
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– Beaty Biodiversity Centre, 11:30 am
Seminar
– Beaty Biodiversity Museum auditorium, 12.00 pm
Note: please send pre-seminar
announcements to:
Thor Veen (veen@zoology.ubc.ca)
and Kieran Samuk (samuk@zoology.ubc.ca)
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host
Lab |
|
Sept.
14 |
Tony
Sinclair, UBC |
Alternating
effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on Serengeti ecosystem stability |
Crutzinger |
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Sept.
21 |
John
McCutcheon Univ Montana |
Extreme
genome reduction and metabolic complementarity in
bacterial symbionts of sap-feeding insects |
Fast |
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Sept.
28 |
Kevin Omland Univ.
Maryland, Baltimore |
Phylogeny
and Hybridization in the Northern Oriole Group |
Irwin |
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Oct.
6, 12pm THURSDAY |
Robert Ricklefs Univ. Missouri,
St. Louis |
Regional
perspectives on ecological communities |
Otto |
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Oct.
12 |
ORGANISMAL DIVERSITY LECTURE John Stachowicz Univ.
California, Davis |
Effects of species and genetic diversity on the
functioning of marine communities |
Grad
students |
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Oct.
19 |
Simon Donnor UBC Geography |
Climate
change and coral reefs: Lessons
from the Central Equatorial Pacific |
Crutzinger |
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Oct.
26 |
Josh
Tewksbury Univ. Washington |
Catchers
in the Rye: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Food Security |
Vellend |
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Nov.
2 |
CHITTY LECTURE Andy Derocher Univ. Alberta |
Polar bears in a changing Arctic |
Grad
students |
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Nov.
9 |
Peter Trontelj Univ Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Subterranean
biodiversity - fast to evolve, hard to study |
Schluter |
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Nov.
16 |
Aurora
Nedelcu Univ. New Brunswick |
To
die or not to die: On the paradigm of altruistic suicide in the unicellular
world |
Keeling |
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Nov.
23 |
Esa
Koskela Univ. Jyväskylä,
Finland |
Sexual
conflicts in mammals - experiments in the bank vole Myodes
glareolus |
Schluter |
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Nov.
30 |
Judy
Myers and UBC |
Do long term studies point the way to a national
monitoring program for Canada? |
Myers |
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Dec.
7 |
Postponed to Dec. 14th |
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Dec.
14 |
Andrew
Gonzalez McGill University |
Biodiversity science for global environmental
change |
O’Connor |