2009-10 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution
(listing updated 9 October 09)

Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays (unless otherwise noted below), in room 1024 King Life Sciences Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida. They are open to the public.

Fall Series

• September 4: Dr. David Houle, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Measurement and meaning in biology
  Host: Dr. Emily C. Lemmon

• September 11: Dr. Loren McClenachan
  Historical change in marine animal populations and coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean and Florida Keys
  Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller

• September 18: Dr. Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire
  Glaciers, sex, and ecological drift
  Host: Casey terHorst

• September 25: Dr. Adam G. Jones, Texas A&M University, College Station
  Postmating sexual selection and the pregnant male
  Hosts: Kathleen Lotterhos and Neil Aschliman

• October 2: Dr. Paul R. Gagnon, University of Florida, Gainesville
  Bamboo, wind, and fire in bottomland hardwood forests
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye

• October 9: Dr. John J. Schenk, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Phylogeny, divergence times, and diversity in Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae)
  Host: Dr. Scott J. Steppan

• October 16: Stephanie Schwinn, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Changing network topology in the Drosophila melanogaster wing development network
  Host: Dr. David Houle

• October 23: Stephanie Martin, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Evolution of the functional dental morphology in murine rodents as adapted to diet type
  Host: Dr. Scott J. Steppan

• October 30: Paul Gignac, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  How do crocodilians make a living? Biomechanics and the ontogeny of feeding in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
  Host: Dr. Gregory M. Erickson

• November 6: Brian Hollis, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Investigating the adaptive value of sexual selection in Drosophila melanogaster
  Host: Dr. David Houle

• November 13: Dr. Craig Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
  The Grinnell Project: changes in California mammal and avian distributions over a century
  Host: Dr. Emily C. Lemmon

• November 20: Dr. Thomas E. X. Miller, Rice University, Houston, Texas
  Sex, density dependence, and the spread of invasive species
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye

• November 27: None scheduled (Thanksgiving holiday)

• December 4: Dr. Brian C. Carstens, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Information-theoretic approaches to evolutionary genetics (with examples from bats and salamanders and carnivorous plants)
  Host: Dr. Emily C. Lemmon

• January 15: Dr. Andrew Sih, University of California, Davis
  Host: Dr. Emily H. DuVal

• January 22: Dr. J. Albert C. Uy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
  Host: Dr. Emily H. Duval

• January 29: Clemens Lakner, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Host: Dr. Gavin J. P. Naylor

• February 5: Dr. Holly Ober, University of Florida, Gainvesille
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye

• February 12: Dr. H. Jane Brockmann, University of Florida, Gainesville
  Host: Dr. Emily H. Duval

• February 19: Dr. J. Wilson White, University of California, Davis
  Host: Dr. Christopher D. Stallings

• February 26: To be announced

• March 5: To be announced

• March 12: None scheduled (Spring Break)

• March 19: To be announced

• March 26: To be announced

• April 2: Jason Bladow, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Host: Dr. Alice A. Winn

• April 9: To be announced

• April 16: To be announced

• April 23: Dr. Jeffrey Leips, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes

• April 30: To be announced