Date

Speaker

Title

Host

Jan 15

Peter Makovicky, The Field Museum

Cladistic approaches to biochronology - telling time from evolution in the fossil record

EEOB GSO

Jan 22

Ryan Rapp, Iowa State University

Global Transcriptome Changes Associated with Fiber Domestication in Cotton

Jan 29

Max Post van der Burg, Iowa State University

Pseudorandom walks in ecological analysis: capturing uncertainty for better estimation and decision making

Feb 5

Mark McPeek, Dartmouth Collge

Building Biological Communities the Old-Fashioned Way: With Evolution

Danielson

"Aging in the wild - Patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of immunosenescence in free-living tree swallows"

Feb 19

Jana Heisler White, University of Wyoming

Climate change in grasslands: ecosystem sensitivity to changes in water availability

Debinksi/PostDoc Program

Feb 26 -Cancelled

Nancy Huntly, Idaho State University

Putting people in the web of Nature: understanding the long-term history of the Aleut and their North Pacific ecosystem

Mar 5

Mar 12

Muriel Posten, Skidmore College

"Biology Education and the Engagement of Under-represented Groups"

ADVANCE

Mar 19

Mar 26

Ellen Ketterson, Indiana University

Phenotypic Integration and Phenotypic Independence: hormones, performance, and response to environmental change

C. Vleck

Apr 2

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota

Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits and environmental gradients in space and time

Apr 9

Christopher Schneider , Boston University

Adaptive speciation in Anolis

Apr 16

Susan Harrison, University of California-Davis

Biogeographic affinity helps explain the productivity-diversity relationship in Californian plants

Apr 23

Jim Dalling, University of Illinois

Explorations of seed ecology in tropical forests: Are pioneer trees just big weeds?

Apr 30

Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University

Evolution of Genome Structure and Function Underlying Development