DATE

SPEAKER

SPONSOR

TITLE

8/26/2004

EEOB Welcoming

EEOB Social Committee

EEOB Welcome and Social

9/2/2004

Alan Hastings
Environmental Science & Policy
UC Davis

Brent Danielson

Invasion dynamics of Spartina alterniflora: from models to understanding

9/9/2004

Gabby Palacios
EEB
Iowa State University

Organization for Tropical Studies, a great resource for biology students

9/16/2004

Kay Gross
Michigan State University

Brian Wilsey

Biodiversity and invasability of Grasslands: Local and regional impacts

9/23/2004

John Mayfield
GDCB
Iowa State University

Evolution as computation, what can be gained from a generalized theory of evolution?

9/30/2004

Ann E. Russell
NREM
Iowa State University

Brian Wilsey

Does plant species composition matter: the below ground perspective.

10/7/2004

Ragan Callaway
University of Montana

Brian Wilsey

The novel weapons hypothesis for exotic invasion: allelopathic and antimicrobial effects of root exudates.

10/14/2004

Bill Ballard
Department of Biology
University of Iowa

TBA

Linking population genetics with biochemistry: A novel approach to the study of aging

10/21/2004

Fred Janzen
EEOB
Iowa State University

Evolutionary Analyses of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination

10/28/2004

EEB Graduate Program Faculty meeting

Carol Vleck

11/4/2004

Jennifer Tank
Notre Dame

Greg Courtney

Stream ecology and biogeochemistery/nutrient dynamics

11/11/2004

Anja Brunet Rossini
Department of Biology
Normandale College
( Minneapolis)

Anne Bronikowski

Mortal princes of darkness: longevity and senescence in chiroptera

11/18/2004

Lynne Houck
Dept. of Zoology at
Oregon State University

Anne Bronikowski

Salamander pheromones: From molecules to behavior

12/2/2004

Kirk Moloney
EEOB
Iowa State University

The geo-demography of an invasive species: a nascent study

12/9/2004

Cynthia Weinig
Dept. Plant Biology
University of Minnesota

TBA

TBA