The Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology
&
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdepartmental Graduate Program
Seminar Series

FALL Semester 2003
Every Thursday -- 4:00-5:00 pm
164 East LagoMarcino

Date Speaker Sponsor Title
28 August     We will have a meeting of all faculty, graduate students, and staff, announcements, introductions of department members, inspiring comment from our department Chair, and delicious snacks.
4 September Ricky Spencer
EEOB - postdoc (w/ Janzen)		   Fire Ecology in the Land of Fire: Experimentally testing the effect of fire regime on eucalypt communities in Australia
11 September Michael Collyer
EEOB (postdoc w/ Adams)		   Ecological morphology of the White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa)
18 September John Nason
EEOB		   Population genetic analyses of plants and their phytophagous insects: Stories of dispersal, phylogeography, and cascading host race formation
25 September Guy McPherson
Renewable Natural Resources & EEB
University of Arizona		 Debinski Southwestern savannas: a student-centered research program
2 October
See note below		 Massimo Pigliucci
U. of Tennessee-Knoxville		 Dekker
AEBI		 The Evolution of Complex Phenotypes
9 October
See note below		 Derek Roff
U. of California-Riverside		 Dekker
AEBI		 The Evolution of Trade-Offs: Quantitative Genetics meets Optimality Theory
16 October Dmitri Petrov
Stanford

Wendel

 Searching for adaptive transpositions: a possible new case of transposable element induced pesticide resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
23 October Jim Raich
EEOB		   Soil Respiration in the Global Carbon Cycle:
Studies from Isotopes to Earth
30 October Jim Colbert
EEOB		   Fully Engaged Learning: Biology Field Trip Classes for Undergraduates
6 November Art Davis
University of Saskatchewan		 Horner Structure and Development of Nectaries: Diminutive Floral Organs of Ecological and Agricultural Significance
13 November Arnold van der Valk
EEOB		   Tree Islands of the Everglades: Ecology, Status and Restoration
20 November Dr. Conrad C. Labandeira
Smithsonian Institution		 Courtney

Plant-Insect Associations in Deep Time:  Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Patterns from Early Seed Plants and Angiosperms
27 November Thanksgiving Break   Dinner
4 December Teri Markow
Center for Insect Studies
University of Arizona		 Nason Ecology and population biology of cactophilic Sonoran Desert Drosophila
11 December Charlie Drewes
EEOB		   Helical Swimming: New Twists for Invertebrate Locomotion

NOTE:  Seminars by Pigliucci and Roff are coordinated with the Agriculture series and will occur at 4:10 in room 1352 Gilman Hall.