Winter 2013
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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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17 Jan
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Shakira Azan/Sarah Hasnain | Queen’s | Arnott Lab | Aquatic plant invasions and the aqaurium and ornamental pond industries/ Sarah: Factors influencing the thermal response of North American Freshwater Fish |
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24 Jan
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Daniel Krupp | Queen’s | Arnott Lab | New frontiers in kin recognition. |
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31 Jan
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Toby Langguth/Anna Tigano | Queen’s | Friesen Lab | Genetic structure and phylogeography of a European flagship species, the white-tailed sea eagle (Toby). Genetic and spatial characterization of population structure of the Portuguese dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis) in the Northeast Atlantic (Anna). |
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7 Feb
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Jeff Row | Trent | Steve Lougheed | Determinants of genetic population structure in Canada lynx: islands, snow and population cycles. |
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14 Feb
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Bob Montgomerie | Queen’s | His very own self. | Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, epic fail: What’s not to love about statistics? |
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21 Feb
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Leslie Holmes | Queen’s | Nelson Lab | Manure and Bacteria: Tidings from the Black Soldier Fly. |
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28 Feb
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Roz Dakin | Queen’s | Montgomerie Lab | Linking courtship behaviour, colour perception and mate choice decisions. |
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7 Mar
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Tony Ricciardi | McGill | Arnott Lab | Ecological naiveté as a mediator of the impacts of invasive species. |
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14 Mar
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Don Jackson | University of Toronto | Arnott Lab | Are fish communities really that random in their composition? |
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Wed 20 Mar 12:30 *
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Rebecca Safran | University of Colorado Boulder | Roz Dakin | The role of divergent sexual selection in speciation. |
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28 Mar
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Leonardo Campagna | Queen’s | Lougheed Lab | The rapid radiation of the southern capuchino seedeaters. |
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4 Apr
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Brooks Miner | Cornell | Martin Lab | How Daphnia safely catch some rays: Molecular mechanisms of adaptation to UV radiation exposure |
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11 Apr
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Val Langlois | RMC | Lougheed | Androgen biosynthesis disruption in frogs. |
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18 Apr
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Marie-Josee Fortin | Toronto | Sarah Hasnain (Arnott Lab) | Global change effects on species distribution: A spatial ecology framework |
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25 Apr
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Stefan Bengston | Queen’s | Nelson Lab | TBA |
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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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13 Sep
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Jeremy Holden | Queen’s | Bruce Tufts | Assessment of the effects of habitat, harvest and community interactions on the abundance of walleye Sander vitreus in inland lakes throughout Ontario |
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Wed 19 Sep at 1:30 pm*
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Anne McKellar | Queen’s | Laurene Ratcliffe | Migratory timing, fitness, and behaviour in a Neotropical migrant songbird: insights from long-term data and experiments |
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20 Sep
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Sarah Wallace | Queen’s | Vicki Friesen | Population genetic structure in the Cassin’s auklet: differentiation of the Baja California subspecies. |
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27 Sep
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Roz Dakin & Cam Hudson | Queen’s/Guelph | Bob Montgomerie & Steve Lougheed | Weaponized ‘stashes and fake hooters |
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Fri 5 Oct**
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Jeremy Searle | Cornell | Vicki Friesen | Stories from unwanted travellers: the history of the world according to stowaway mice. |
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11 Oct
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Tim Connallon | Cornell | Chippindale Lab | Sex-specific selection and the evolution of X inactivation strategies. |
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18 Oct
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Amanda Xuereb | Queen’s | Steve Lougheed | Genetic structure and the influence of habitat heterogeneity on eastern hog-nosed snakes. |
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25 Oct
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John Smol | Queen’s | Chris Grooms | Birds, multiple stressors and sediments: A paleolimnologist’s perspective on ornithology |
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1 Nov
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Ottar Bjornstad | Penn State | Bill Nelson | Emergence, re-emergence and dynamical mysteries of whooping cough. |
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8 Nov
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Stephen Dorus | Syracuse | Chippindale Lab | Sexual selection and spermatogenesis: Integrating proteomic and genomic approaches. |
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15 Nov
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Tristan Long | Wilfred Laurier | Chippindale & Montgomerie Labs | Experimental evolutionary dynamics: or…. Flies, damn flies & statistics! |
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22 Nov
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Anne Dalziel | University of British Columbia | Steve Lougheed | The evolution of energy metabolism among migratory and non-migratory threespine stickleback ecotypes. |
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29 Nov***
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David Evans | Royal Ontario Museum | Steve Lougheed | An Early Jurassic nesting site and the evolution of dinosaur reproductive behaviors. |
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6 Dec
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Aaron King | University of Michigan | Nelson Lab | Process from patterns in diseases with complex ecologies. |
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13 Dec
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Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas and Dariusz Jakubas | University of Gdansk, Poland | Vicki Friesen | Two talks in one! 1. Why my mother leaves me? A big question of the dovekie chick. 2. Response of planktivorous dovekie (Alle alle) to variable oceanographic and climatic conditions in the Arctic. |
