Florida State University
Department of Biological Science

2006-07 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution
(listing updated 5 June 06)

Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays, in room 228 Conradi Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida. They are open to the public.

Planning has not yet begun for E&E Seminars beyond fall of 2006. When it is, information about it will be posted here.

  • January 13: Matthew S. Schrader, FSU
    Parent-offspring conflict and the ecological genetics of offspring size in the least killifish
    Host: Dr. Joseph Travis

  • January 20: Dr. Joseph Travis, FSU
    Is it what we know or who we know? Choice of organism and robustness of inference in evolutionary biology and ecology
    Host: Dr. Peter Beerli

  • January 27: Dr. Marlene Zuk, University of California, Riverside
    Sexual selections: what we can and can't learn about sex from animals
    Host: Katie E. McGhee

  • February 3: Dr. Michael McManus, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, Florida
    All conservation biology is local: water quality and the Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) in a central Missouri watershed
    Host: To be announced

  • February 10: Dr. Margaret Lowman, New College of Florida, Sarasota
    Herbivory in forest canopies: use of long-term data sets to measure ecosystem processes
    Host: Dr. Janie L. Wulff

  • February 17: Toshinori Okuyama, University of Florida, Gainesville.
    Intraguild predation among jumping spiders: the role of spatial structure and behavior
    Host: Rebecca Hale

  • February 24: Dr. Carol E. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Molecular ecology of zebra and quagga mussel invasions
    Host: Jean Burns Moriuchi

  • March 3: Brian L. Storz, FSU
    Developmental modification over evolutionary and ecological time scales: are there conserved means by which developmental programs are modified?
    Host: Dr. Joseph Travis

  • March 10: None scheduled

  • March 17: Dr. Robert Dudley, University of California Berkeley
    Ethanol, fruit ripening, and the historical origins of human alcoholism in primate frugivory
    Host: Dr. Scott J. Steppan

  • March 24: Donald Griffin, FSU
    Directional epistasis and evolvability theory
    Host: Dr. Thomas F. Hansen

  • March 31: Jill A. Holliday, FSU
    Bias, constraint, and convergence: morphological evolution in Carnivora
    Host: Dr. Scott J. Steppan

  • April 7: Dr. Sharon Kingsland, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
    The New York Botanical Garden as matrix for the new discipline of ecology in America
    Host: Dr. Frederick R. Davis

  • April 14: Ken S. Moriuchi, FSU
    Developmental, physiological, and plastic response to environmental quality in a perennial violet
    Host: Dr. Alice A. Winn

  • April 21: Dr. Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Stability and the population dynamics of midges in Myvatn and
    Diversity and biological control of aphids
    Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye

  • April 28: Dr. Egbert G. Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
    The evolution of mutualism and the role of mutualism in evolution
    Host: Dr. Janie L. Wulff

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