Fall 2018
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
Sep 13th | Paul Martin | Queen’s University | EEB Committee | Life in the city: opportunities and challenges for interacting species |
Sep 20th | Bob Montgomerie | Queen’s University | EEB Committee | The enduring enchantment of birds’ eggs |
Sep 27th | David Punzalan | University of Toronto | Colautti lab | Ambush bugs and the limits to micro- and macroevolution |
Oct 4th | Karl Grieshop | University of Toronto | Chippindale lab | Broad evolutionary implications for sex-specific selection |
Oct 11th | Amelia Cox & Matt Macpherson | Queen’s University | EEB Committee | Long-term study of an avian aerial insectivore points to climate change as a driver of decline &Our Hurting Herps: An update on the conservation of Ontario’s amphibian and reptiles |
Oct 18th | Adam Groulx | Queen’s University | Martin lab | Nesting aggregation as a predictor of brood parasitism in mason bees (Osmia spp.) |
Oct 25th | Katherine Duchesneau | Queen’s University | Colautti lab | Mycorrhizal disturbance as an invasion mechanism in Alliaria petiolata: Community and functional composition of soil microbial communities in the field |
Nov 1st | Manisha Kulkarni | University of Ottawa | Nelson lab | Disease ecology in action: focus on vector-borne pathogens |
Nov 8th | Njal Rollinson | University of Toronto | Bonier lab | The evolution of body size in endotherms and ectotherms, or, why they might not be giants |
Nov 15th | Geraint Element | Queen’s University | Walker lab | Gut microbial ecology of a wild arctic salmonid |
Nov 22nd | Evelyn Jensen | Queen’s University | Lougheed lab | From Darwin to DNA: evolution, genomics and conservation of the Galapagos giant tortoises |
Nov 29th | Brian Husband | University of Guelph | Eckert lab | Reproductive and genetic interactions between domesticated and native apple (Malus): a case study of agricultural effects on biological diversity |
Dec 6th | Etienne Laliberté | Université de Montréal | Plaxton lab | How soils shape plant diversity |
Winter 2019
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
Jan 10th | John Smol | Queen’s University | Smol lab | A crisis in science literacy: Does our reluctance to engage the public make academics complicit? |
Jan 17th | Vincent Fugère | McGill University | Arnott lab | Eco-evolutionary impacts of land use on freshwater communities |
Jan 24th | Trevor Pitcher | University of Windsor | Montgomerie lab | The Evolutionary Ecology of Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Chinook Salmon |
Jan 31st | Grant Gilchrist | Environment Canada | Friesen lab | How changing biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic is affecting seabirds: from pathogens to predators, bacteria to bears |
Feb 7th | Luke Mahler * cancelled due to weather | University of Toronto | Martin lab | Anthropocene determinants of diversity in island anole lizards |
Feb 14th | Open discussion | Queen’s University | Friesen/ Birt lab | For the love of the planet |
Feb 21st | READING | WEEK | no seminar | |
Feb 28th | Chelsea Rochman | University of Toronto | Orihel lab | The Impacts of Plastic Debris on Aquatic Ecosystems |
Mar 7th | Eugene Sit | Queen’s University | Colautti lab | Examining phenological variation of an invasive plant using a developmental model |
Mar 14th | Jill Wettlaufer | Queen’s University | Martin lab | Resource partitioning through the seasons: a test of a competitive ability – cold tolerance trade-off among closely-related, seasonally breeding beetles |
Mar 21st | Qian Gu | Queen’s University | Grogan lab | Living in an (elementally) imbalanced world: Is stoichiometry useful in understanding the structure and functioning of an arctic tundra ecosystem? |
Mar 28th | Marcel Dorken | Trent University | Colautti lab | Evolution of plant reproductive strategies |
Apr 4th | Julia Kreiner | University of Toronto | Eckert lab | Population genomics of herbicide resistance and agricultural adaptation |
Apr 11th | Aly Van Natto, Regan Cross & Chris Eckert | Queen’s University | Eckert lab | Dynamic dunes: science, stories, and shifting sands |