Winter 2012
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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INSTITUTION
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HOST
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TALK TITLE
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12 Jan
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– | – | – | – |
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19 Jan
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Shelley Arnott | Queen’s | – | Response to environmental change: impact and adaptation in aquatic communities. |
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26 Jan
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EEB Grad Students I | Queen’s | Paul Martin | Vanya Rohwer: Chemical nest defence in birds. Kat Stewart: Diagnosing reinforcement in the spring peeper. Jamie Morris-Pocock: Conservation of Christmas Island seabirds. |
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2 Feb
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Clay Cressler | Queen’s | Bill Nelson | Feed a fever, starve a cold? Energetics, immunity, and host-parasite interactions. |
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9 Feb
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Daniel Ruzzante | Dalhousie | Steve Lougheed | Climate and life history influence on ancestral population dynamics of Patagonian fishes. |
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16 Feb
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Ben Bolker | McMaster | Bill Nelson | Transient virulence of host-pathogen systems: models and speculations |
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23 Feb
|
READING WEEK | na | na | na |
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1 Mar
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Chris Solomon | McGill | Shelley Arnott | Global browning: effects of increased terrestrial organic matter loads on food webs and carbon cycles in lake ecosystems |
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9 Mar*
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Bill Montevecchi | Memorial | Vicki Friesen | Tracking Atlantic seabirds: prey, habitat and population interactions. |
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15 Mar
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Jason Weir | Toronto | Paul Martin | Latitudinal fiversity gradients: The role of speciation, extinction and biogeographic interchange |
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16 Mar
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Lynn Miller | Concordia | Vicki Friesen | Is the Northern Gannet a sentinel species for the impacts of Deepwater Horizon? |
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22 Mar
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EEB Grad Students I | Queen’s | Paul Martin | Andy Wong, (Eckert lab): The conundrum of mating-system trait variation maintenance in natural populations of Aquilegia canadensis. Casper Tai Christiansen, (Grogan lab): Seasonality in Arctic biogeochemical dynamics. |
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29 Mar
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Irby Lovette | Cornell | Vicki Friesen | Historical perspectives on the evolution of warbler diversity, behavior, and ecology. |
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5 Apr
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Adam Chippindale | Queen’s | Paul Martin | Twisted tales of sperm tails. |
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12 Apr
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Stephen Wright | Toronto | Chris Eckert | How much selection is acting on plant genomes? |
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19 Apr
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Gregor Fussmann | McGill | Bill Nelson | Understanding the dynamics of aquatic ecosystems – how to solve nature’s equation with a thousand unknowns. |
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26 Apr
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Celia Symons | Queen’s | Shelley Arnott | The invasibility of zooplankton communities post-disturbance. |
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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INSTITUTION
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HOST
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TALK TITLE
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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15 Sep
|
Fran Bonier
|
Queen’s
|
Bob Montgomerie
|
City bird, country bird: mechanisms of response to urbanization |
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22 Sep
|
No seminar
|
–
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–
|
–
|
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29 Sep
|
Various |
Queen’s
|
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
|
Discovery in biology.
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6 Oct
|
Bill Nelson
|
Queen’s
|
Chris Eckert
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Large generation cycles in the tortrix tea pest: can it be so simple?
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13 Oct
|
Thierry Gosselin
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Fisheries Science & Aquaculture Branch, Fisheries & Oceans Canada
|
Bob Montgomerie
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Mating outcomes in snow crabs.
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20 Oct
|
Paul Martin
|
Queen’s
|
Steve Lougheed
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Accelerated rates of evolution in high latitude birds.
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27 Oct
|
Cameron Ghalambor
|
Colorado State
|
Paul Martin
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What comparative experiments reveal about ecological and evolutionary trade-offs: lessons from birds and fish.
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3 Nov
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No seminar
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na
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na |
na
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10 Nov
|
Ben Gilbert
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University of Toronto
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Shelley Arnott
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Maintaining species diversity: Untangling the roles of environment, space and competition |
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17 Nov
|
Chris Funk
|
Colorado State
|
Steve Lougheed
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Predicting the effects of climate change on biodiversity: different approaches for different scales.
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24 Nov
|
Queen’s
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1 Dec
|
Chris Guglielmo
|
Univ. Western Ont.
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Samantha Klaus
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Fuel metabolism and water balance in migratory birds and bats.
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8 December
|
Marc Cadotte
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Univ. Toronto. Scarborough.
|
Bill Nelson
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Evolutionary influences on ecosystem function.
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15 Dec
|
Patrick Turko
|
Queen’s
|
Shelley Arnott
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Ecological differentiation within a hybridizing cryptic species complex
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