Winter 2009
DATE
|
SPEAKER
|
INSTITUTION
|
HOST
|
TITLE
|
---|---|---|---|---|
8 Jan
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
Queen’s
|
Roz Dakin
|
Genitalia
|
15 Jan
|
Lonnie Aarssen
|
Queen’s
|
TBA
|
Not my brother’s keeper: a thought experiment
for Hamilton’s rule |
22 Jan
|
Kat Stewart
|
Queen’s
|
Steve Lougheed
|
Is it really how you use it or is bigger always
better? |
29 Jan
|
Jamie Morris-Pocock | Queen’s | Vicki Friesen |
Does foraging range restrict gene flow in
pelagic seabirds? |
5 Feb
|
David Wilson |
Windsor
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
Causes and consequences of reproduction in
male fowl |
12 Feb
|
Tyler Flockhart | Saskatchewan |
Paul Martin
|
Dynamics of the northern flicker hybrid zone:
Pairing patterns, fitness, & stability |
19 Feb
|
– |
na
|
na
|
Reading Week
|
26 Feb
|
Amy Schwartz |
McGill
|
Ann McKellar
|
The interaction between natural and sexual
selection during adaptive divergence: Lessons from guppies |
5 Mar
|
Sara Calhim |
Queen’s
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
Compensating testis
|
12 Mar
|
Shawn Leroux |
McGill
|
Amy Hurford
|
Spatial subsidies and the strength of trophic
cascades across ecosystems |
19 Mar
|
Darryl Gwynne |
Toronto
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
Ornamental females
|
26 Mar
|
Daniel Cownden |
Queen’s
|
TBA
|
TBA
|
2 Apr
|
Mathew Vankoughnett | Queen’s |
Paul Grogan
|
Shrub Expansion in the Arctic
|
9 Apr
|
Troy Day |
Queen’s
|
TBA
|
TBA
|
Wed 15 Apr
|
Tammy Steeves |
Canterbury
|
Vicki Friesen
|
TBA
|
23 Apr – note 2:30 start time
|
Chris Jerde |
Notre Dame
|
Bill Nelson
|
Hung out to dry: Fitness loss of Eurasian
watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) from desiccation during overland transport |
30 Apr
|
Paul Faure |
McMaster
|
Trina Hancock
|
Vocal change in bats naturally infected with
rabies |
Fall 2008
DATE
|
SPEAKER
|
INSTITUTION
|
HOST
|
TITLE
|
---|---|---|---|---|
4 Sep
|
Roslyn Dakin
|
Queen’s
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
The peacock’s tale: the role of the visual
train ornament in courtship |
11 Sep
|
Vicki Friesen
|
Queen’s
|
Tim Birt
|
Evidence of speciation in the absence of
geographic barriers to dispersal in seabirds |
18 Sep
|
Paul Martin/Bill Nelson
|
Queen’s
|
Joey Ramone
|
Why I chose a career in biology
|
25 Sep
|
no talk | – | – |
–
|
2 Oct
|
Michael Pedruski |
Queen’s
|
Anneli Jokela
|
The effects of habitat connectivity and regional heterogeneity |
9 Oct
|
no talk | – |
–
|
– |
16 Oct
|
Petra Deane & Cory Toth |
Queen’s
|
Scott Taylor | Have refugees from lost habitat contributed to the current pattern of genetic diversity in cerulean warblers? / How do you get to Carnegie Hall: The effects of singing experience in chickadees |
23 Oct
|
Ann McKellar
|
Queen’s
|
Laurene Ratcliffe
|
Environmental factors influence adult sex ratio
in guppies |
30 Oct
|
Martin Mallet
|
Queen’s
|
Adam Chippindale
|
Flies
|
6 Nov
|
Catherine Dale
|
Queen’s |
Laurene Ratcliffe
|
Fitness consequences of migration decisions by
Ipswich sparrow |
13 Nov
|
Philip Careless
|
Univ Guelph
|
Floyd Connor
|
Biosurveillance: using wasps to |
20 Nov
|
Frances Bonier
|
Queen’s
|
Stephen Lougheed
|
Interpreting baseline corticosteroid measures:
are they useful predictors of fitness? |
27 Nov
|
Kate Buckeridge
|
Queen’s
|
Paul Grogan
|
Arctic ecosystem feedbacks and vegetation
change |
4 Dec
|
John Casselman
|
Queen’s
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
Could it be argued that the American eel is not
slipping away? |
11 Dec
|
Nathan Muchhala
|
Toronto
|
Chris Eckert
|
Darwin’s coevolutionary race in bat-flower
mutualism |