Past EEB seminar schedule for 2013/14
Winter 2014
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| 9 Jan | Bob Montgomerie | Queen’s | Montgomerie | Birds are more colourful than they look |
| 16 Jan | Eelke Jongejans | Radboud University Nijmegen | Nelson | Tracing the effects of environmental drivers and phenotypic plasticity with hierarchical population models |
| 23 Jan | Stefan Bengtson | Queen’s | Nelson | Food quality effects on life history correlations in Daphnia |
| 30 Jan | Takehiko Yamanaka | Queen’s | Nelson | Environmental condition vs. Spatial constraint? Dragonfly metapopulation and metacommunity analyses |
| 6 Feb | Kyle Elliott | Western | Friesen | Sex, Death and Rock’n’roll: Correlates of lifetime reproductive success in a long-lived seabird |
| 13 Feb | Frances Bonier | Queen’s | Bonier | Perils and pitfalls. How can we measure natural selection on endocrine traits? |
| 20 Feb | READING WEEK | |||
| 27 Feb | Emma Greig | Cornell | Friesen | Strategic signaling and the evolution of predator-elicited displays in Australian fairy-wrens |
| 6 Mar | Maren Vitousek | Cornell | Bonier | Sex, stress, and success: investigating the evolutionary causes and consequences of variation in the acute stress response |
| 13 Mar | Clay Cressler | Queen’s | Nelson | Adaptive genome evolution in salamanders: a phylogenetic perspective |
| 20 Mar | Stephen Lougheed | Queen’s | Lougheed | Musings from Australia |
| 27 Mar | Catherine Duguay | Queen’s | Chippindale | Genetic architecture and sexual conflict in the life-history of Drosophila |
| 3 Apr | Kristina Arseneau | Queen’s | Cumming | Acidification & Climate Warming: Understanding Biological Recovery in Multiple Stressor Environments |
| 10 Apr | Hugh Henry | Western | Grogan | Production and nutrient cycling in temperate ecosystems: how winter climate matters |
| 17 Apr | Shannon McCauley | Toronto | Arnott | Assessing the interactions between local and regional processes in freshwater metacommunities |
| 1 May | Julia Duszczyszyn | Queen’s | Chippindale | |
| 15 May | Lukas Schärer and Dita Vizoso | Basel | Chippindale |
* Joint EEB/Departmental Seminar
** This is a combined EEB/BIOL440 talk.
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| 12 Sept | Kim Lemmen | Queen’s | Arnott | Species response to rapid environmental change in a Subarctic pond |
| 19 Sept | Bob Montgomerie | Queen’s | Montgomerie | Magnus opus |
| 26 Sep | Rebecca Taylor and Paul Finigan | Queen’s | Tufts | 1: Wolbachia in wild British moths: prevalence, phylogeny and horizontal transfer 2: Effects of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate communities |
| 3 Oct | Nick Cairns | Queen’s | Lougheed | Development of turtle by catch reduction devices in a diverse inland fishery |
| 10 Oct | Julie Morand-Ferron | Ottawa | Lougheed | Cognition, ecology, and evolution in wild populations of Paridae |
| 17 Oct | Thomas Harder and Bill Rogerson | Aquatarium | Friesen | An Intro to Aquatarium and Research Level 101 |
| 22 Oct | Tony Gaston | Environment Canada | Gabriela Ibarguchi | Arctic Ice |
| 31 Oct | Vicki Friesen | Queen’s | Friesen | Time is the essence: A conversation (hopefully) on the role of breeding time in speciation |
| 7 Nov | Paul Martin | Queen’s | Martin | The paradox of the Birds-of-Paradise: Persistent hybridization as a signature of historical reinforcement |
| 8 Nov* | Chris Martyniuk | University of New Brunswick | Valérie Langlois | Sex steroid production and feedback: Novel perspectives from molecular profiling in the teleostean gonad |
| 14 Nov* | Ehab Abouheif | McGill | Chippindale | What have EvoDevo and supersoldier ants taught us about how evolution works? |
| 21 Nov | James Sinclair | Queen’s | Arnott | Effect of an invasive consumer on zooplankton communities are unaltered by nutrient inputs |
| 28 Nov | Jessica Rico | Trent | Eckert | Does traditional management by rotational shepherding supports landscape connectivity in fragmented calcareous grassland plants? |
| 5 Dec | Nikolaus Gantner | Trent | Campbell | CSI Husky Lakes: Fractionation of mercury isotopes in water, sediments, and fish from the Husky Lakes, Northwest Territories, Canada |
* Joint EEB/Departmental Seminar
** This is a combined EEB/BIOL440 talk.
