Spring 2008 Seminars

All seminars are held on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. in room 247 Plant Biology Building except where noted.

April Harlin-Cognato
“Evolution of Male Pregnancy Genes in Seahorses and Pipefishes (Syngnathidae)”
Departments of Fisheries & Wildlife and Zoology
Michigan State University
Wednesday, January 16, 3:30 p.m.

No Seminar
Wednesday, January 23, 3:30 p.m.

Leonie C. Moyle
“From Genes to GIS: Speciation and Adaptation in Lycopersicon (the Wild Tomatoes)”
Department of Biology, Indiana University
Wednesday, January 30, 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Jay Sobel

Johanna M. Schmitt
“Geographic Variation in Arabidopsis Flowering Responses to Different Seasonal Environments”
Center for Environmental Studies, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
Wednesday, February 6, 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Jeff Conner

Kathryn E. Wharton
EEBB Student Speaker
“Queen and Worker Influence on Sex Allocation Patterns in the Honeybee”
Dept. of Zoology, Michigan State University
Wednesday, February 13, 3:30 p.m.

No Seminar
Wednesday, February 20

Alexander W. Shingleton
“Size Matters: The Developmental Regulation and Evolution of Allometry in Drosophila”
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University
Wednesday, February 27, 3:30 p.m

Patricia Wright
“Climate Change in the Tropics: News from the Rainforests of Madagascar”
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York--Stony Brook
Wednesday, March 12, 3:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
Contact: Jack Liu

Robert M. Sapolsky
EEBB Distinguished Speaker
“Stress and Health: From Molecules to Societies”
Department of Biology, Stanford University
Thursday, March 20, 12:00 p.m.
Room Gold A & B, MSU Union
Contact: Jeannette McGuire

Hopi Hoekstra
“From Mice to Molecules: The Molecular Basis of Adaptive Change”
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Comparative Biology
Harvard University
Wednesday, March 26, 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Ian Dworkin

Murray Humphries
“Climate and Resource-Mediated Metabolism of Northern Wildlife”
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University
Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Richard Hill

Adrien Finzi
“Rising Atmospheric CO2, Forest Productivity and C Sequestration: The Role of Nitrogen Limitation in Forest-Carbon Uptake and Storage”
Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology
Boston University
Wednesday, April 9, 3:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: Department of Forestry
Contact: Richard Kobe

Jerry Coyne
“Speciation of Drosophila on an Oceanic Island”
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
Wednesday, April 16, 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Doug Schemske

Kevin L. Pangle
EEBB Student Speaker
“How Antipredator Behavior Can Shape Food Web Interactions: Multi-Scale Effects of a Great Lakes Invader”
Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Michigan State University
Wednesday, April 23, 3:30 p.m.

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