INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

10-Oct

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
Department of Plant Biology
University of Minnesota
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/plantbio/faculty/Weiblen.htm

Plant systematics, molecular
phylogenetics, coevolution, & plant/pollinator interactions

Nason

13 December

Kelly Zamudio
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/zamudio/KZcv.html

Mating system evolution and behavioral ecology in spotted salamanders*

Janzen