Fall 2006 Seminar Series

Date

Speaker

Title

Sponsor

Aug 31

Brian Wilsey

EEOB

Ecological studies of species diversity in fragmented tallgrass prairies

Bill Clark

Sept 7

John Downing & Dean Adams

EEOB

Global mammalian biomass production and the dueling banjos of ecological and evolutionary interpretation of contemporary patterns

N/A

Sept 14

Hugh Britten

University of South Dakota

Population Genetic Aspects of Sylvatic Plague in Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs

Diane Debinski

Sept 21

Mark Westneat

University of Chicago & Field Museum

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biomechanics in Coral Reef Fishes

Dean Adams

Sept 28

Mark Ungerer

Kansas State University

Hybrid speciation, transposable elements, and genome evolution in wild sunflowers

Jonathan Wendel

Oct 5

Evan Weiher

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Tactics, opportunities, and obstacles of trait-based approaches to community assembly and ecosystem function

Brian Wilsey

Oct 12

John Wiens

Stony Brook University

Evolution and Biogeography

Grad Students

Oct 19

Bryant McAllister

University of Iowa

Early Events in the Evolution of Sex Chromosomes

John Nason

Oct 26

Mohamed Noor

Duke University

Speciation Despite Gene Flow? How Can It Be?

Anne Bronikowski

Nov 2

Scott Hodges

University of California at Santa Barbara

N/A

John Nason

Nov 9

Sean Rice

Texas Tech University

Constructing an Exact and Universal Evolutionary Theory

Stephen Proulx

Nov 16

Matt Hill

ISU Dept. of Anthropology

Bison, Birds, and Box Turtles: Diet and Subsistence Behavior of Early Holocene Paleoindian Hunter/Gatherers on the Central Great Plains

N/A