Dirt Lunch Seminar
Fall 2004
Tuesdays 12:30 - 1:30 location: Ralf Yorque room (Hut B8)
contact Aleeza or Katsky to sign up for seminars

Date Speaker Title
September 14 Ross Thompson Interacting effects of resource supply, toxins and warming on pond food webs: what I did on my summer holidays
September 21 Aleeza Gerstein Rapid genome size change in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
September 28 Kirstin Kaschner Mapping and modeling resource overlap between marine mammals and fisheries on a global scale
October 5 Mario Pineda-Krch Constraints on adaptation under climate change: selection of genetically correlated traits
October 12 Henrik Hoek The conservation situation in the Galapagos
October 19 Darren Irwin Patterns and causes of avian diversification in Siberia
October 26 Arianne AlbertSympatry drives divergence in male stickleback colour
November 2 Jessica Purcell Tales from Bolivia, Sweden and Equador - patterns of dispersal
November 9 Dan Baker The Ecological Implications of the Physiology of Sturgeon
November 15 Roger Pech Vole populations in Inner Mongolia
November 16 Laura Prugh Coyote populations
November 23 Dilara Ally Estimating the rate of loss of sex in Populus tremuloides, trembling aspen
November 30 Brad Davis Extinction: Global climate change & the mutational meltdown
December 7 Janeene Touchton Community dynamics of ant-following birds: a case study of competitive release


Spring 2005

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Date Speaker Title
January 11 Ross Thompson The ways we change the world: ecosystem level impacts of human activitie
January 18 Jackie Ngai Nutrient limitation of plant growth and forage quality in arctic coastal marshes
January 25 Diane Srivsastava How will species extinctions affect bioturbation in the marine benthos?
February 1
February 8 Leticia Aviles The dynamics of multilevel selection: from cellular slime molds to social spiders.
February 15 READING WEEK
February 22 Brian StarzomskiRegion size and disturbance as determinants of local diversity
March 1 Scott Pavey Unique Genetic Patterns of Lake-Type and Sea-/River-Type Sockeye Salmon Involving Recently-Colonized Habitat, Aniakchak River Drainage, Alaska
March 8 Cancelled
March 15 Jessica Hill Loss of sexual function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
March 22 Martin Bummel Synteny and Linkage of Molecular Markers between Xiphophorus and Poecilia
March 29 Liz Gillis
April 5 Dave O'Brien The effects of fishing on community interactions
April 12 **Available** Available as a 'last resort' date

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