Biodiversity Research Seminar Series

Fall 2017

Seminars @ 12.00 pm Beaty Biodiversity Museum auditorium

Cookies @ 11.30 am in the Beaty Biodiversity Centre atrium (thanks for the coffee, Madelyn Ore!)

Note: please send pre-seminar announcements to
Silu Wang (wangsmt “at” zoology “dot” ubc.ca)

To update title/speaker changes, please contact
Katie Beall (brcadmin “at” biodiversity “dot” ubc.ca)

Seminar organizers are Diane Srivastava, John Richardson, and Brian Leander/b>

(link to seminars of previous years is here)

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Host Lab	Cookies!
Sep 06	Colin MacLeod University of British Columbia, Harley Lab	Integrating parasite ecology and global change biology	Harley	Diane, John
Sep 13	Michel Chapuisat University de Lausanne	Ant social evolution, queen number and supergenes	Schluter	Schluter, Otto
Sep 20	Marc Johnson University of Toronto, Mississauga	Evolution in the Urban Jungle	Carrillo	Tseng, Takuji
Sep 27	Roi Holzman Tel Aviv University	the sad story of larval fishes: constraints on larval feeding and survival	Schluter	Pennell, Forbes
Oct 04	Nancy Moran University of Texas, Austin	Molecular Ecology Prize Lecture: The evolution and function of gut communities in social bees	Rieseberg/Keeling	Parfrey, Emily
Oct 11	Louis Bernatchez Laval University	On the maintenance of adaptive potential in the face of environmental change: Considerations from population genomics in fishes	Taylor	de Haas, Sullivan
Oct 18	Tom Miller Rice University	Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion	Williams	Ailene, Jens
Oct 25	Stilianos Louca University of British Columbia, Biodiversity Research Centre	Disentangling microbial metabolic and phylogenetic diversity at local and global scales	Biodiversity Seminar Committee	Osmond, Bontrager
Nov 01	President's Chair Search University	TITLE	President's Chair Committee	Patrick T., Loudon
Nov 08	President's Chair Search University	TITLE	President's Chair Committee	Grummer, Marybel
Nov 15	Ellen Andresen Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	The multiple effects of dung beetle activity on seed and seedling fate in tropical forests	Jankowski	Sarah Joy, Maddie
Nov 22 (UBC-V)	Maureen Neimen University of Iowa	UBC-Vancouver ONLY: Sex in the wild (and especially in New Zealand)	Whitton	Claire, Loeilone
Nov 22 (UBC-O)	Colleen St. Clair University of Alberta	UBC-Okanagan ONLY Title	Parrott
Nov 29	Ben Gilbert University of Toronto	CHITTY LECTURE: Species diversity: Reconciling the effects of ecological drift and species differences	grad students	Amelia, Cassandra
Dec 06	Benjamin Freeman University of British Columbia, Biodiversity Research Centre	Community assembly of Neotropical birds, the richest avifauna on Earth	seminar committee	Linnea, Libby
Dec 13	President's Chair Search University	TITLE	President's Chair Committee	Silu, Melissa G.

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Host Lab	Cookies!
Jan 10	Leonie Moyle Indiana University	TITLE	Schluter	volunteers
Jan 17	Bret Payseur University of Wisconsin, Maddison	TITLE	Otto	volunteers
Jan 24	Chelsea Specht University of California, Berkeley	TITLE	Cronk	volunteers
Jan 31	Stephanie Carlson University of California, Berkeley	TITLE	Richardson	volunteers
Feb 07	Susana Magallon Puebla Univ. National Autonoma de Mexico	TITLE	Graham	volunteers
Feb 14	Maren Friesen Washington State University	TITLE	Haney	volunteers
Feb 21		READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
Feb 28	Ben Phalan Cambridge and Oregon State University	TITLE	Burton	volunteers
Mar 07	Marjorie Weber Michigan State University	TITLE	Pennell	volunteers
Mar 14	Diane Campbell University of California, Irvine	TITLE	Rieseberg	volunteers
Mar 21	Patrick Thompson University of British Columbia, O'Connor Lab	TITLE	O'Connor	volunteers
Mar 28	Nate Swenson University of Maryland	Title	Pither	volunteers
Apr 04	Jonathan Losos Harvard University	EVOLUTION LECTURE: Title	grad students	volunteers
Apr 11	Sarah Joy Bittick University of British Columbia, O'Connor Lab	TITLE	seminar committee	volunteers
Apr 18	Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley	TITLE	Otto	volunteers