EEB seminar schedule for 2017/18
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| Sept. 7 | ||||
| Sept. 14 | Pedro Antunes | Algoma | Colautti lab |
Functional ecology of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis – implications for below and above ground biodiversity in a changing world |
| Sept. 21 | Harris Ivens | Queen’s | Grogan Lab | As above so below? – Impacts of water limitation on growth and nutrient accumulation by a crop plant and its soil microbes across a fertility gradient |
| Sept. 28 | Peter Kotanen | University of Toronto | Colautti lab | Latitudinal and local variation in damage by above and below ground enemies of an invasive thistle |
| Oct. 5 | Sapna Sharma | York | Arnott Lab | On thin ice: are lakes feeling the heat? |
| Oct. 12 | Debbie Leigh | Queen’s | Friesen Lab |
Bottlenecks, evolution and the behavior of selected variation |
| Oct. 19 | Gustavo Betini | Guelph | Chippendale Lab | Eco-evolutionary dynamics in seasonal environments |
| Oct. 26 | Bob Montgomerie | Queen’s | Montgomerie Lab | Discovering birds in the Great White North |
| Nov. 2 | Rob Ness | University of Toronto | Eckert Lab | Mutation rate variation and its consequences for genome evolution |
| Nov. 9 | Marc Johnson | University of Toronto | Eckert Lab | Evolution in the urban jungle |
| Nov. 16 | Ryan Franckowiak | Queen’s | Friesen Lab | Reproductive fitness of Micropterus dolomieu under heterogeneous environmental conditions |
| Nov. 23 | James Sinclair | Queen’s | Arnott Lab | What drives colonist success? |
| Nov. 30 | Andrew Gonzalez | McGill | Arnott Lab | Diversity, stability, and evolution of networks |
| Dec. 7 | Risa Sargent | Ottawa | Eckert Lab | Alien species introductions – a community perspective |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| Jan. 11 | Catherine Dale | Queen’s | Ratcliffe Lab | Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding migratory strategies in western bluebirds |
| Jan. 18 | David Fifield | Environment Canada | Friesen Lab | Predictive Models and Petrel Declines: A Sampling of Applied Marine Bird Research in Atlantic Canada |
| Jan. 25 | Marc Belisle | Sherbrooke | Bonier Lab | Agriculture and pesticides: a cocktail hard to swallows |
| Feb. 1 | Thomas Merkling | Queen’s University | Friesen Lab | Towards a better understanding of offspring sex-ratio variation in vertebrates |
| Feb. 8 | Jenny McCune | Carleton University | Orihel Lab | Rare plants and where to find them: the habitat, the landscape, and the landowners |
| Feb. 15 | Rob Colautti | Queens University | Ecological genetics of invasive plants: Adaptive evolution, genetic constraints, and their ecological consequences | |
| Special Seminar: Feb. 21 | Rebecca Rooney | University pf Waterloo | Orihel Lab | Herbicide use to control invasive Phragmites: efficacy, fate and effects |
| Feb. 22 | No Thursday Speaker | Reading Week | ||
| March 1 | Bob Montgomerie | Queen’s University | Charles Darwin’s Finches and the Origin of (debate about) Species | |
| March 8 | Matthew Guzzo | University of Manitoba | Blanchfield | Why do fish get smaller with warming? |
| March 15 | Drew Sauve | Queen’s University | Freisen lab | Phenotypic plasticity drives phenological change in a declining Arctic colony of Black Guillemots |
| March 22 | No Seminar | Check out the seminars given by applicants for Queens’ faculty position this week. | ||
| March 29 | No Seminar | |||
| April 5 | No Seminar | Check out the Al Downe lecture given by Dr. Vett Lloyd from Mount Allison University on April 5th at 12 noon. | ||
| April 12 | Yihan Wu | Queen’s Unviersity | Colautti Lab | Reconstructing parallel clines in flowering phenology from natural history collections of Lythrum salicaria |
*Split Session with two speakers
