Seminar Date

Name/Affiliation/Topic

Host

01/28/08

Dr. Matthew P. Hare, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Title:  Phylogeography and Adaptive Divergence of Cryptic Estuarine Copepod Species in the Genus Acartia

Harrison

02/04/08

Dr. Denise L. Breitburg, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland
Title:  Nutrients, Hypoxia and Fisheries: A Global Comparison

Howarth

SPECIAL SEMINAR
FRIDAY
02/08/08

Ms. Miranda Paton, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University (Doctoral Dissertation Seminar)
Title:  Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894-1944

Provine

02/11/08

Dr. Ian Kaplan, Department of Entomology, Cornell University
Title:  Inducible Plant Responses Linking Above- and Below Ground Herbivory: Ecological Significance and Underlying Mechanisms

Thaler

02/18/08

Dr. Eric A. Schmelz, USDA, Chemistry Research Unit, Center for Medical, Agricultural & Veterinary Entomology, Gainesville, Florida
Title:  Planet of the AAPEs:  Activity, Recognition and Discovery of Arthropod-Associated Plant Effectors

Kessler

02/25/08

Dr. Christian Voigt, Behavioral Physiologist, Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany
Title:  Pollinating Mammals: Life at the Energetic Knife-Edge

Lovette

03/03/08

Dr. Robert Prys-Jones, Department of Zoology, The British Natural History Museum, United Kingdom
Title:  Evolution and Extinction of Birds on the Smaller Western Indian Ocean Islands

Lovette

03/10/08

Dr. J. Andrew DeWoody, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Title:  The History, Mating System, and MHC Biology of Tiger Salamanders From Indiana

Zamudio

03/17/08

NO SEMINAR - Spring Break

03/24/08

Dr. Mariana Federica Wolfner, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Title: Functions and Evolution of Drosophila Seminal Proteins: All's Fair in Love and War

Harrison/
McCune

03/31/08

Dr. Maiken Winter, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
Title: TBA

Winkler

04/07/08

Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Title: Patterns of Herbivory and Plant Defense in Tropical Forests: Adaptive Responses or Phylogenetic Inertia?

Agrawal

Dr. John J. Wiens, Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
Title: Integrating Evolutionary Biology and Historical Biogeography

04/21/08

Dr. Carl Safina, Blue Ocean Institute, East Norwich, New York
Title: History & Destiny in World Fisheries

E&EB GSA

Dr. Michael Akam, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Title: Evolving Mechanisms of Pattern Formation: Segmentation in Arthropods