The Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology
&
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdepartmental Graduate Program
Seminar Series
with financial support from departments of
Zoology & Genetics &
BoTany
Fall Semester 2002
Every Friday -- 12 noon to 12:50 pm
101 Industrial Education II
(first
building north and across the street from LagoMarcino Hall)
|
Date |
Speaker & Affiliation | Title (* general topic) | Sponsor |
| 30 August | No Seminar Scheduled | ||
| 6 September | Jonathan Wendel Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology http://www.botany.iastate.edu/~jfw/HomePage/wendel.html |
Genes, jeans and genomes: exploring the mysteries of polyploidy in cotton | |
| 13 September | Lynn Clark Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology http://www.public.iastate.edu/~botany/clark.html |
Evolution and Diversity of Grasses | |
| 20 September | Lily Ainouche France |
Genomic consequences of hybridization and polyploidy in Spartina (Poaceae) | Wendel |
| 27 September | Jim Colbert Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology http://www.public.iastate.edu/~botany/colbert.html |
Service-Learning in a Biological Context The Skunk River Navy | |
| 4 October | Brian Maurer Department of Fisheries & Wildlife and the Department of Geography Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~maurerb/ |
Nonneutral Macroecology* | Danielson |
|
Thurs
10-Oct 142 West Lagomarcino 3:10-4pm |
Mike Whitlock Department of Zoology University of British Columbia http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~whitlock/HP.html |
Simple selection in complex metapopulations | Janzen |
| 18 October | Bob Andrews Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology Iowa State University http://www.micro.iastate.edu/%7Erandrews/andrews.html |
The Life and
Times of Tn916
|
|
| 25 October | Rachel Bowden Zoology and Genetics Iowa State University |
Maternal
effects and hormone allocation in turtles
|
Joint with Zool/Gen |
| 1 November | Chris Brochu Department of Geoscience University of Iowa http:www.uiowa.edu/faculty/brochu |
Paleontology and the evolution of crocodilians | TJ Benson and EEB Grads |
| 8 November | Mary Ann Vinton Department of Biology Creighton University http://biology.creighton.edu/faculty/vinton/index.html |
Soil nutrients and plant invasions in prairie communities* | Wilsey |
| 15 November | Kelly Kindscher Environmental Studies Program & Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas http://www.kbs.ku.edu/people/kindscher/kindscher.htm |
Echinacea--A
case study of medicinal plant use, exploitation, and conservation
|
Debinski |
| 22 November | John Downing Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology Iowa State University http://www.public.iastate.edu/~downing/ |
A slow and lingering death? Notes on a century of decline in North America's mussel fauna | |
| 29 November | Thanksgiving | ||
| 6 December |
George
Weiblen |
Plant systematics, molecular phylogenetics, coevolution, & plant/pollinator interactions |
Nason |
| 13 December |
Kelly Zamudio |
Mating system evolution and behavioral ecology in spotted salamanders* | Janzen |