Past EEB seminar schedule for 2014/15
Winter 2015
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| 15 Jan | Megan Frederickson | University of Toronto | Arnott | The ecology and evolution of mutualism |
| 22 Jan | Meghan Duffy | University of Michigan | Nelson | Infectious diseases and food webs: links between Daphnia, parasites, and the larger food web |
| 29 Jan | Krista Patriquin | University of Toronto | Ratcliffe | Evolution of Sociality in Bats |
| 5 Feb | Scott MacDougall-Shackleton | University of Western Ontario | Bonier | Tell me about your childhood. Stress, developmental phenotypic plasticity, and birdsong. |
| 12 Feb | Nishka Wright | Queen’s | Grogan | Is snowmelt the key to understanding plant nutrient availability in the low Arctic? |
| 19 Feb | READING WEEK | – | – | – |
| 26 Feb | Jayne Yack | Carleton University | Martin | Caterpillars Scream and Butterflies Listen: Sound Strategies for Avoiding Attack |
| 5 Mar | Hayley Roberts | Queen’s | Lougheed | Understanding Reproductive Phenology in Temperate Frogs |
| 12 Mar | Stefanie Hixson | Ryerson University | Arnott | The role of nutrition in growing sustainable and nutritious farmed seafood |
| 19 Mar | Brad Fedy | University of Waterloo | Lougheed | Integrating habitat selection, landscape genetics, and population demography in wildlife populations across large extents |
| 26 Mar | Adam Meyer | Queen’s | Nelson | Can spatial heterogeneity maintain multiple migration behaviors in a freshwater zooplankton? |
| 2 Apr | Paul Martin | Queen’s | EEB | Trade-offs and the structure of biological diversity | 9 Apr | Sara Burns | Queen’s | Bonier | Does capture method introduce bias in studies of free-ranging birds? |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| 18 Sept |
Paul Grogan | Queen’s | EEB | Mentors and mentoring |
| 25 Sept |
Nalini Puniamoorthy | Syracuse University | Chippindale | Sexual selection in widespread dung fly… |
| 2 Oct |
Changhai Zu | Queen’s | Tufts | Population ecology of black bass… |
| 9 Oct |
Art Weis | University of Toronto | Eckert & Chippindale | Phenology as habitat choice in plants… |
| 16 Oct |
Virginia Walker | Queen’s | EEB | There may be more to nanoparticles… |
| 23 Oct |
Josh Neufeld | University of Waterloo | Grogan | Thaumarchaeota in global vitamin B production |
| 30 Oct |
Kiyoko Gotanda | McGill University | Bonier | Adaptation as spatiotemporal mosaic… |
| 6 Nov |
Scott Colbourne | University of Windsor / Great Lakes IER | Bonier | Sympatric speciation: … in pumpkinseed sunfish |
| 13 Nov |
Jessica Forrest | University of Ottawa | Arnott | Solitary bees in a warming world |
| 20 Nov |
Haley Kenyon & Mike Lavender | Queen’s grad students shared seminar | Martin & Arnott | Bird song variation / Community assembly |
| 27 Nov |
Bill Glass | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | EEB | Northern range of Spotted Gar… |
| 4 Dec |
Chris Eckert | Queen’s | EEB | Plants and evolution… and stuff |
* Joint EEB/Departmental Seminar
** This is a combined EEB/BIOL440 talk.
