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Winter 2011

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
15 September	Fran Bonier	Queen's	Bob Montgomerie	City bird, country bird: mechanisms of response to urbanization
22 September	No seminar	-	-	-
29 September	Various	Queen's	Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev	Discovery in biology.
6 October	Bill Nelson	Queen's	Chris Eckert	Large generation cycles in the tortrix tea pest: can it be so simple?
13 October	Thierry Gosselin	Fisheries Science & Aquaculture Branch, Fisheries & Oceans Canada	Bob Montgomerie	Mating outcomes in snow crabs.
20 October	Paul Martin	Queen's	Steve Lougheed	Accelerated rates of evolution in high latitude birds.
27 October	Cameron Ghalambor	Colorado State	Paul Martin	What comparative experiments reveal about ecological and evolutionary trade-offs: lessons from birds and fish.
3 November	No seminar	na	na	na
10 November	Ben Gilbert	University of Toronto	Shelley Arnott	Maintaining species diversity: Untangling the roles of environment, space and competition
17 November	Chris Funk	Colorado State	Steve Lougheed	Predicting the effects of climate change on biodiversity: different approaches for different scales.
24 November		Queen's
1 December	Chris Guglielmo	Univ. Western Ont.	Samantha Klaus	Fuel metabolism and water balance in migratory birds and bats.
8 December	Marc Cadotte	Univ. Toronto. Scarborough.	Bill Nelson	Evolutionary influences on ecosystem function.
15 December	Patrick Turko	Queen's	Shelley Arnott	Ecological differentiation within a hybridizing cryptic species complex

Winter 2011

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
6 January	No talk.	na	na	na
13 January	Lesley Campbell	Ryerson	Eckert Lab	Hybridization & its role in evolution: Implications for invasive species, agriculture and plant conservation.
20 January	Andy Gonzalez	McGill	Eckert Lab	Rescue, Robots, and Ranges: experimental explorations of the eco-evolutionary response to environmental change.
27 January	James D. Thomson	Toronto	Eckert Lab	Pollen-transfer efficiency and the evolution of pollinator shifts.
3 February	Tom Brooke	Queen's	Tufts Lab	To Fizz or not to fizz (Part 2): New observations complicating a complicated question.
10 February	John Stinchcombe	Toronto	Eckert Lab	Ecological genomics of invasive Arabidopsis populations.
17 February	Andrew Hendry	McGill	Ann McKellar	Ecological speciation (or the lack thereof) in Darwin's finches, threespine stickleback, and guppies.
24 February	No seminar	na	na	na
3 March	Adriana Olijnyk	Queen's	Nelson	Genotypic differences and trade-offs in life history schedules of Daphnia pulicaria under natural food conditions.
10 March	Asher Cutter	Toronto	Eckert Lab	Molecular hyperdiversity, phylogeography, and reproductive isolation in Caenorhabditis nematodes.
17 March	Kate Turner	Queen's	Arnott	Influence of dispersal and species interactions on zooplankton community structure.
24 March	Joanna Freeland	Trent	Ibarguchi	Evolution and ecology in a changing environment: What can we learn from a 150 year-old experiment?
31 March	Darren Irwin	UBC	Friesen	What role does hybridization play in avian speciation? A comparative analysis of post-glacial contact zones? Note that this EEB will be in Room 3110 Biosciences
7 April	Natalie Kim	TBA	Anneli Jokela.	Assessing the interactive effects of Bythotrephes and environmental calcium decline on daphniids in Canadian Shield lakes.
14 April	Michelle DiLeo	Queen's	Lougheed	The influence of scale and landscape on genetic structure of a threatened snake, the massasauaga rattlesnake.

Fall 2010

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
16 Sept.	Cory Toth	Queen's	Laurene Ratcliffe	Transitive inference in black-capped chickadees.
23 Sept.	Vanya Rohwer	Queen's	Paul Martin	Fitness consequences and selective mechanisms favouring local nest morphologies in Yellow Warblers.
30 Sept.	Chris Eckert & Shelley Arnott	Queen's	Steve Lougheed	Why (Or Maybe How) I Became a Biologist. Tales of Punk Rock and Serendipity.
7 Oct.	Bob Montgomerie	Queen's	Steve Lougheed	Sperm evolution.
14 Oct.	Scott Taylor	Queen's	Vicki Friesen	Specialization to cold water upwelling systems influences gene flow and population differentiation in seabirds.
21 Oct.	Brock Fenton	University of Western Ontario	Chris Grooms	Evolution and adaptive radiation of bats
28 Oct.	Troy Day	Queen's	Bill Nelson	Why evolutionary theory is a waste of time.
4 Nov.	Andrew Simons	Carleton	Stephen Lougheed	Modes of response to environmental change and the elusive empirical evidence for bet hedging.
11 Nov.	Matt Shawkey	University of Akron	Bob Montgomerie	Plumage color in birds and other dinosaurs.
18 Nov.	Rute Clemente-Carvalho	Queen's	Stephen Lougheed	Diversidade fenotípica e relações filogenéticas e moleculares em Brachycephalus (Amphibia: Brachycephalidae) or "Phenotypic diversity and phylogenetic relationships among diminutive frogs from Atlantic Rainforests of Brazil"
25 Nov.	Richard Feldman	McGill	Roz Dakin	Toward a theory of abundance at large spatial scales.
2 Dec.	Mollie Manier	Syracuse University	Adam Chippindale	Resolving mechanisms of post-copulatory sexual selection in Drosophila.

Winter 2010

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
21 Jan.	Helen Alexander	Queen's	Peter Taylor	Risk factors for pathogen emergence.
28 Jan.	Xu Han	Queen's	Sara Calhim	Evolutionary consequences of sperm senescence in Drosophila melanogaster
4 Feb.	Erika Crispo	McGill	Anneli Jokela	Interactions among local adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, and gene flow.
11 Feb.	Markus Dyck	Queen's	Lougheed Lab	Effects of tundra vehicle activity on polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
18 Feb.	Bill Nelson	Queen's	Shelley Arnott	The calm waters of chaos: evaluating the role of fluctuating selection for maintaining competitor diversity.
25 Feb.	Reading Week	Reading Week	Reading Week	Reading Week
4 March	Scott Findlay	Ottawa	Chris Eckert	Student engagement and second-order (synthetic) science
11 March	Adam Jeziorski	Queen's	Smol Lab	Calcium decline: Long-term consequences of acid rain for crustacean zooplankton in softwater lakes
18 March	Erin Reardon	McGill	Anneli Jokela	Fishes in extreme environments: energetics under hypoxia in tropical waters
25 March	Neal Scott	Queen's	Derek Gray	Permafrost disruption and changes in species distribution alter the carbon budget of High Arctic ecosystems.
1 April	Mark Conboy	McGill	Martin Lab	Does phylogeny Influence territory overlap in wood-warblers?
8 April	Tom Stewart	MNR - G. Lakes Ecosystems	Shelley Arnott	Carbon-based balanced trophic structure and flows in the offshore Lake Ontario food web before and after invasion-associated ecosystem change
15 April	Christoph Richter	Queen's	Arnott Lab	Fishing for whales and whaling for fish: The current state of whaling management
22 April	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
29 April	Petra Deane	Queen's	Vicki Friesen	Predisposed to ecological speciation: Population characteristics that contribute to the repeated, independent evolution of sympatric seasonal foraging types among band-rumped storm petrels.

Fall 2009

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
10 Sept.	Ryan Germain	Queen's	Laurene Ratcliffe	The awkward phase: Delayed maturation of secondary sexual signals in juvenile male American redstarts.
17 Sept.	Josh Schimel	UC Santa Barbara	Paul Grogan	The Arctic plant-soil feedback loop: Linkages to the Arctic system.
24 Sept.	Biol profs	Queen's	Ratcliffe lab	5 minute prof talks
1 Oct.	Michael Runtz	Carleton University	Chris Grooms	What you see is not always what you get - the adaptive colour and appearance of animals.
8 Oct.	Steve Lougheed	Queen's University	TBA	Biological stations in research, teaching and outreach.
15 Oct.	Philina English	Queen's	Bob Montgomerie	Why is a robin's egg blue?
22 Oct.	Adam Smith	Carleton	Ratcliffe Lab	How to rank the benefits of competing conservation options: Statistical recommendations and a theoretical framework
29 Oct.	Tiffany Schriever	Toronto	Steve Lougheed	The forgotten ecosystem: Food web dynamics of temporary ponds.
5 Nov.	Joe Nocera	OMNR & Trent Univ.	Laurene Ratcliffe	How to bait an ecological trap.
12 Nov.	Pamela Wong	Queen's	Peter Boag	Reliability in polar bear estimates: Inuit diagnoses of sex, age, and size from footprints in the snow.
19 Nov.	Chris Eckert	Queen's	Adam Chippindale	Plant mating systems in a changing world.
26 Nov.	Kim Mathot	Université du Québec à Montréal	Ratcliffe lab	Condition-dependent use of alternative social foraging tactics in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).
3 Dec.	Niko Troje	Queen's	Ratcliffe lab	Of pigeons and people: Perception of agency.
10 Dec.	Samantha Franks	Simon Fraser	Catherine Dale	Investigating variation in the migratory strategies of shorebirds.

Winter 2009

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
8 Jan.	Bob Montgomerie	Queen's	Roz Dakin	Genitalia
15 Jan.	Lonnie Aarssen	Queen's	TBA	Not my brother's keeper: a thought experiment for Hamilton's rule
22 Jan.	Kat Stewart	Queen's	Steve Lougheed	Is it really how you use it or is bigger always better?
29 Jan.	Jamie Morris-Pocock	Queen's	Vicki Friesen	Does foraging range restrict gene flow in pelagic seabirds?
5 Feb.	David Wilson	Windsor	Bob Montgomerie	Causes and consequences of reproduction in male fowl.
12 Feb.	Tyler Flockhart	Saskatchewan	Paul Martin	Dynamics of the northern flicker hybrid zone: Pairing patterns, fitness, & stability.
19 Feb.	na	na	na	Reading Week
26 Feb.	Amy Schwartz	McGill	Ann McKellar	The interaction between natural and sexual selection during adaptive divergence: Lessons from guppies
5 March	Sara Calhim	Queen's	Bob Montgomerie	Compensating testis.
12 March	Shawn Leroux	McGill	Amy Hurford	Spatial subsidies and the strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems
19 March	Darryl Gwynne	Toronto	Bob Montgomerie	Ornamental females
26 March	Daniel Cownden	Queen's	TBA	TBA
2 April	Mathew Vankoughnett	Queen's	Paul Grogan	Shrub Expansion in the Arctic
9 April	Troy Day	Queen's	TBA	TBA
Wed. 15 April	Tammy Steeves	Canterbury	Vicki Friesen	TBA
23 April - note 2:30 start time.	Chris Jerde	Notre Dame	Bill Nelson	Hung out to dry: Fitness loss of Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) from desiccation during overland transport.
30 April	Paul Faure	McMaster	Trina Hancock	Vocal change in bats naturally infected with rabies

Fall 2008

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
4 Sept.	Roslyn Dakin	Queen's	Bob Montgomerie	The peacock's tale: the role of the visual train ornament in courtship.
11 Sept.	Vicki Friesen	Queen's	Tim Birt	Evidence of speciation in the absence of geographic barriers to dispersal in seabirds.
18 Sept.	Paul Martin/Bill Nelson	Queen's	Joey Ramone	Why I chose a career in biology.
25 Sept.	no talk	-	-	-
2 Oct.	Michael Pedruski	Queen's	Anneli Jokela	The effects of habitat connectivity and regional heterogeneity in artificial pond metacommunities.
9 Oct.	no talk	-	-	-
16 Oct.	Petra Deane & Cory Toth	Queen's	Scott Taylor	Have refugees from lost habitat contributed to the current pattern of genetic diversity in cerulean warblers? / How do you get to Carnegie Hall: The effects of singing experience in chickadees.
23 Oct.	Ann McKellar	Queen's	Laurene Ratcliffe	Environmental factors influence adult sex ratio in guppies.
30 Oct.	Martin Mallet	Queen's	Adam Chippindale	Flies
6 Nov.	Catherine Dale	Queen's	Laurene Ratcliffe	Fitness consequences of migration decisions by Ipswich sparrow.
13 Nov.	Philip Careless	Univ. Guelph	Floyd Connor	Biosurveillance: using wasps to find beetles.
20 Nov.	Frances Bonier	Queen's	Stephen Lougheed	Interpreting baseline corticosteroid measures: are they useful predictors of fitness?
27 Nov.	Kate Buckeridge	Queen's	Paul Grogan	Arctic ecosystem feedbacks and vegetation change.
4 Dec.	John Casselman	Queen's	Bob Montgomerie	Could it be argued that the American eel is not slipping away?
11 Dec.	Nathan Muchhala	Toronto	Chris Eckert	Darwin's coevolutionary race in bat-flower mutualism.

Winter 2008

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
10 Jan.	Rachel Vallender	Cornell	Raleigh Robertson	Patterns in avian hybridization - using the wood-warblers as a model system.
17 Jan.	Chris Eckert	Queen's	Bob Montgomerie	Ideas for improvement of graduate training in EEB.
24 Jan.	Paul Grogan	Queen's	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Snow effects on biological processes, and vice versa.
31 Jan.	Greg Bulte	Ottawa University	Jeff Row	Turtle vs Mollusc: Functional morphology and trophic ecology of the northern map turtle.
7 Feb.	Risa Sargent	Ottawa University	Chris Eckert	Patterns of diversity in flowering plants.
14 Feb.	Jeremiah Busch	McGill University	Sara Dart	Adaptive evolution of an inbreeding barrier in a flowering plant.
21 Feb.	Reading Week	NA	NA	NA
28 Feb.	NA	NA	NA	NA
6 March	Justin Ramsey	University of Rochester		Climatic and edaphic adaptation in North America Achillea.
13 March	Mario Vallejo-Marin	University of Toronto	Adriana Lopez Villalobos	Division of labor within flowers: Empirical evidence and theoretical consequences of sex organ specialization.
20 March	Justina Ray	Wildlife Conservation Society	Joe Nocera	What's at stake for wolverines in Northern Ontario?
27 March	Michael Whitlock	University of British Columbia	Troy Day	Simple selection in complex metapopulations.
3 April	Jessica Abbott	TBA	TBA	TBA
10 April	Frank Johansson	Umeå University	Troy Day	Phenotypic plasticty as a local adaptation to variation in environmental heterogeneity.
17 April	Marie-Josee Fortin	University of Toronto	Chris Eckert	Graph theory: From boundary detection to habitat connectivity.
24 April	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Fall 2007

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	HOST	TALK TITLE
13 Sept.	Sue Bertram	Carleton University	Jenn Foote	Understanding variation in sexually selected traits: A cricket model.
20 Sept.	Stephanie Bedhomme	Queen's University	Martin Mallet	What did male-limited evolution teach us ? The almost full picture…
28 Sept. (Note change to day & venue - see left panel)	Raleigh Robertson	Queen's University	QUBS/Opinicon Hotel	Field Ornithology — Agent for Science, Education and Conservation
4 Oct.	Amy Hurford	Queen's University	Troy Day	Allee effects: reconciling mechanisms and models.
11 Oct.	Bob Montomerie & Chris Eckert	Queen's University	Jack Kerouac	Montgomerie: Tales from a Sperm Conference. Eckert: Evolution of dispersal at range limits.
18 Oct.	no EEB	-	-	-
25 Oct.	Frances Bonier	Queen's University	Steve Lougheed	Effects of the urban environment on the distribution, physiology, and life history of birds
1 Nov.	Suzanne Gray	Queen's University	Craig Hawryshyn	Sex, fish and videotapes: Environment contingent sexual selection and the maintenance of male colour polymorphism
Wed. 7 Nov. (still 12:30)	Louis Lefebvre	McGill University	Laurene Ratclifee	Brain size evolution and behavioural flexibility.
15 Nov.	Noah Perlut	University of Vermont	Joe Nocera	Agricultural management affects ecological and evolutionary processes in a migratory songbird
22 Nov.	Jean-Guy Godin	Carleton University	Joe Nocera	Risky sex in fishes.
29 Nov.	Nick Rodenhouse	Wellesley University	Joe Nocera	Effects of climate change on migratory songbirds: identification and assessment of uncertainties.
6 Dec.	Teri Balser	Uinversity of Wisconsin-Madison	Kate Buckridge	Disturbance, legacies, and soil microbial control over ecosystem functioning.
13 Dec.	Justina Ray	Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada (Director)	Joe Nocera	What's at stake for wolverines in Northern Ontario?

Winter 2007

Date	Name	Institution	Supervisor or Host	Title
Jan. 11, 2007	None	None	None	None.
Jan. 18, 2007	Katie Langin	Queen's University	Ratcliffe	Using stable isotopes to link breeding latitude with migratory patterns in songbirds.
Jan. 25, 2007	Howard Rundle	University of Ottawa	Chippindale	Experimental manipulation of natural and sexual selection in Drosophila serrata: Understanding adaptation, phenotypic diversification, and speciation.
Feb. 1, 2007	Tony Gaston	Canadian Wildlife Service	Friesen	Seabirds and climate change in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.
Feb. 8, 2007	Samuel Alizon	Queen's University	Taylor	Parasite virulence evolution: insights from embedded models.
Feb. 15, 2007	Robyn Foote	Queen's University	Grogan	The down and dirty of succession: A century of soil dynamics in southeastern Ontario.
Feb. 22, 2007	NA	NA	NA	Reading Week - NO EEB
March 1, 2007	Troy Murphy	Queen's University	Montgomerie	Function of elaborate male and female plumage in the turquoise-browed motmot.
March 8, 2007	Lib Yanch	Queen's University	Hodson/Campbell	Tracing Hg bioaccumulation in the aquatic food web at Cornwall, ON.
March 15, 2007	Christoph Richter	Queen's University	Montgomerie	Whales with a Texan accent: Sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico.
March 22, 2007	Peter J. van Coeverden de Groot	Queen's University	Boag	Polar Bear research at Queen’s: implications for management and conservation.
March 29, 2007	Jessica Kundapur	Queen's University	Chippindale	Desperate Housewives? Exploring the co-evolutionary consequences of mating interactions.
April 5, 2007	Ben Evans	McMaster University	Lougheed	Testing alternate demographic histories: implications for biodiversity conservatikon on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.
April 12, 2007	Anthony Ricciardi	McGill University	Angela Strecker	Global swarming: How biological invasions are changing the world.
April 19, 2007	Camille Bonneaud	Harvard University	Stephanie Bedhomme	Mhc genes under natural and sexual selection in wild populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
April 26, 2007	Candace Scott	Queen's University	Boag	A comparative estimate of microsatellite variability within and among four extant rhinoceros species; Conservation implications.

A special spring EEB was presented by Sébastien Lion (Laboratoire d'Écologie,Université Pierre et Marie Curie). Thursday May 10th at 3:00 pm

Title: From infanticide to parental care: why spatial structure can help adults be good parents.
We investigate the evolution of parental care and cannibalism using a theoretical model of a spatially-structured population where adults can either help or kill juveniles in their neighbourhood. We show that spatial structure can reverse the selective pressures on adult behaviour, leading to the evolution of parental care; whereas the non-spatial model predicts that cannibalism is the sole evolutionary outcome. Our analysis takes into account both the physiological and ecological costs of parental care, and shows that spatial clustering can provide an explanation for the origin of parental care in the absence of kin recognition. We discuss our results in the light of the existing literature on the evolution of cannibalism and parental care (especially communal breeding in birds). We also show that relatedness and Hamilton's rule in class-structured populations are recovered as emergent properties of the spatial ecological dynamics, and discuss the links between our work and classical kin selection models. Host: Samuel Alizon (email: samuel at mast.queensu.ca).

You can learn more about Sébastien's research at: http://ecologie.snv.jussieu.fr/seb/

Autumn 2006

Date	Name	Institution	Supervisor or Host	Title
Sept. 14, 2006	Various and sundry	Queen's University	Team EEB	Five-minute prof follies.
Sept. 21, 2006	Kevin Fraser	Queen's University	Ratcliffe	Historical and contemporary migratory connectivity in Parulids using stable-hydrogen isotopic compositions in claws and feathers?
Sept. 28, 2006	Elena Bennett	Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the McGill School of Environment	Smol	Managing food and water together: Understanding the role of phosphorus in agricultural production and water quality.
Oct. 5, 2006	Doug Armstrong	Massey University, New Zealand	Montgomerie	The role of population ecology in improving our management of reintroduced species.
Oct. 12, 2006	Joe Nocera	Queen's University	Ratcliffe	You can observe a lot just by watching: how birds use social information to solve ecological problems.
Oct. 19, 2006	Chrissy Spencer	University of Toronto	Eckert	Ecological diversification in a model microbial system: Resource use, genetics, and the propensity to diversify.
Oct. 26, 2006	Al Uy	Syracuse University	Montgomerie	The ecology and evolution of visual signals in manakins.
Nov. 2, 2006	Kurt McKeen	Cornell University	Chippindale	The fitness costs of maintaining an immune system and mounting an immune response
Nov. 9, 2006	Rob Colautti	University of Toronto	Eckert	Evolution of invasive species: from populations to continental patterns
Nov. 16, 2006	Maggie Xenopoulos	Trent University	Arnott	Troubled waters: multiple stresses in freshwater ecosystems
Nov. 23, 2006	EEB postponed till next term: Howard Rundle	Univeristy of Ottawa	Chippindale	Quantitative genetics and social interactions: Indirect genetic effects on male sexual display traits in an Australian fruit fly.
Nov. 30, 2006	EEB postponed till next term: Katie Langin	Queen's Univeristy	Ratcliffe	TBA
Dec. 7, 2006	Mhairi MacFarlane	University of Western Ontario	Chippindale	Sex, costs and benefits: Why do male Cape Sugarbirds have ridiculously long tails?
Dec. 14, 2006	Amber Budden	York University	Aarssen	Pride and prejudice: Investigating bias in the publication process.

Winter 2006

Date	Name	Institution	Supervisor or Host	Title
Jan. 12, 2006	Lindsay Farrell	Lakehead University	Friesen	Last call of the raincrow: geographic variation and subspecies status of the yellow-billed cuckoo.
Jan. 19, 2006	Lonnie Aarssen	Queen's University	Grogan	Why are there so many small plants? or Why is plant competition like baseball?
Jan. 26, 2006	Bob Montgomerie & Raliegh Robertson	Queen's University	Grogan	Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them.
Feb. 2, 2006	Chris Eckert & Paul Grogan	Queen's University	Grogan	Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them.
Feb. 9, 2006	Damien Picard	TBA	Friesen	Population genetics and phylogeography of the potato cyst nematode (Globodera pallida) in Peru.
Feb. 16, 2006	Kary Segraves	TBA	Eckert	The evolution of cheating mutualisms.
Feb. 23, 2006	NO EEB - READING WEEK
March 2, 2006	Cecilia Doebel	Queen's University	Hodson	Caged minnows as sentinels for gold mining wastes in environmental effects monitoring.
March 9, 2006	Neal Scott	Queen's University	Grogan	Forest management and the carbon cycle in northern forests: can we manage carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems?
March 16, 2006	Adrienne Fowlie	Queen's University	Hodson	The Cornwall affair: unravelling the secrets of fish mercury contamination at teh Cornwall Area of Concern.
March 23, 2006	Sonia Nobrega	Queen's Univeristy	Grogan	TBA
March 28, 2006	SPECIAL EEB - Steve Lougheed	Queen's Univeristy	Grogan	A layperson's guide to habitat and landform diversity in southern South America OR How I spent 4 months of my sabbatical.
March 30, 2006	Jennifer Waugh	Queen's Univeristy	Aarssen	TBA
April 6, 2006	Monica Gerber	Cornell University	Eckert	Magnitude and variation in natural selection in plant populations.
April 13, 2006	Shelley Arnott & Vicki Friesen	Queen's University	Grogan	Places, people, ideas and organisms that inspired them.
April 20, 2006	Maren Oelbermann	University of Waterloo	Grogan	Global change: carbon dynamics and stable isotopes in terrestrial ecosystem research.
April 27, 2006	Elena Gómez-Díaz	University of Barcelona	Friesen	Phylogeography of the Calonectris shearwaters using molecular and morphometric data.

Autumn 2005

Date	Name	Institution	Supervisor or Host	Title
Sept. 15, 2005	Boris Fumanal	UMR BGA, Dijon, France	Aarssen	Life history traits and adaptive strategy of the invasive European plant: Ambrosia artemisifolia.
Sept. 22, 2005	Scott Hodges	UC Santa Barbara	Eckert	Genomics of Aquilegia: A new model for the study of floral evolution & ecology.
Sept. 29, 2005	Jessica Forrest	Queen's University	Arnott	Immigration and the effects of disturbance on a zooplankton community.
Oct. 6, 2005	Louis Bernatchez	Biology, Laval	Friesen	Evolution and conservation in salmonids: A functional genomics perspective.
Oct. 13, 2005	Lonnie Aarssen & Bob Montgomerie	Queen's University	Montgomerie	Half-baked ideas.
Oct. 20, 2005	Travis Clark	University of Toronto	Eckert	The evolutionary genetics of dikaryosis, a novel ploidy.
Oct. 27, 2005	Karen Choo	Queen's University	Day	Lysogenic conversion and the evolution of bacterial pathogenesis.
Nov. 3, 2005 Joint EEB/Departmental	Chris Eckert	Queen's University	Montgomerie	Intelligent design vs. evolution.
Nov. 15, 2005	Alison Pischedda	Queen's University	Chippindale	Hope for the shallow end of the gene pool: sexual conflict disrupts sexual selection.
Nov. 17, 2005	Javier Salgado	Queen's University	Robertson	Tweety vs. Sylvester: examining avian nest depredation patterns in a tropical forest using real and artificial nests.
Nov. 24, 2005	Mike Kasumovic	University of Toronto	Aarssen	Is bigger better? Explaining the maintenance of phenotypic variation in males.
Dec. 1, 2005	Mary Timonin	Queen's University	Wynne-Edwards	Extending the known effects of photoperiod in the dwarf hamster (Phodopus): reproductive responses to short days in social P.campbelliand social responses to short days in photoperiodic P. sungorus.
Dec. 8, 2005	N.G. Prasad	Queen's University	Chippindale	TBA
Dec. 15, 2005	Pedro Peres-Neto	University of Regina	Arnott	Modeling metacommunities: approaches, patterns and challenges.

Winter 2005

Date	Name	Institution	Supervisor or Host	Title
Jan. 13, 2005	N/A	N/A	N/A	NO MEETING
Jan. 20, 2005	Dave Winkler	Cornell Univeristy	Robertson	Dispersal and life history evolution in tree swallows and their kin
Jan. 27, 2005	Joseph Brown	Queen's University	Friesen	Temporal and spatial genetics of Canadian peregrine falcons
Feb. 3, 2005	Martin Lechowicz	McGill University	Aarssen	Niches and neutrality in a temperate forest understory
Feb. 10, 2005	Kamini Persaud	Queen's University	Montgomerie	And the winner is...? Sexual conflict in Japanese Quail, Coturnix japica
Feb. 17, 2005	Roger Bull	Queen's University	Friesen	Patterns of differentiation in orange-crownedwarbler populations across their breeding range
Feb. 24, 2005	N/A	N/A	N/A	READING WEEK - NO MEETING
March 10, 2005	Rulon Clark	Cornell Univeristy	Lougheed	Effect of anthropogenic barriers on timber rattlesnake population genetic structure
March 15, 2005	Jan Conn	Wadsworth Center, NY	Arnott	Population structure of neotropical malaria vectors
March 17, 2005	Jessica Montague	Queen's University	Eckert	Local adaptation during biological invasion in purple loosestrife
March 24, 2005	Paul Hebert	University of Guelph	Arnott	Barcodes and biodiversity
March 31, 2005	John Klironomos	University of Guelph	Aarssen	Below-ground interactions and the structuring of plant communities
April 7, 2005	Yves Prairie	Université du Québec à Montréal	Arnott	Carbon transport and processing in southeastern Quebec lakes
April 14, 2005	David Alonso	University of Michigan	P.E.A.R.L. (nuestro amigo de España - Sergi)	Exploring neutral dynamics and environmental variability in ecological communities
April 21, 2005	Hugh Henry	University of Western	Aarssen	Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change (and fire too!) on a California annual grassland
April 28, 2005	Karen Choo	Queen's University	Day	Water-bourne disease and the evolution of mobile genetic elements
May 5, 2005	Stephanie Bedhomme	Queen's University	Chippindale	Life-history evolution in a host-parasite system

Autumn 2004

Date	Name	Institution	Supervisor or Host	Title
Sept. 9, 2004	N/A	N/A	N/A	NO MEETING
Sept. 16, 2004	N/A	N/A	N/A	MEET THE STUDENTS WEEK
Sept. 23, 2004	Emmanuel Milot	Laval University	V. Friesen	Documenting dispersal events and population structure in Albatrosses
Sept. 30, 2004	Matt Reudink	Queen's University	L. Ratclifffe	Extra pair paternity in the chickadee hybrid zone
Oct. 7, 2004	Andy Gonzalez	McGill University	TBA	TBA
Oct. 14, 2004	Erin Cameron	Queen's University	T. Day	Ejaculate competition: conflict, cooperation and coevolution
Oct. 21, 2004	Jen Foote	Queen's University	L. Ratclifffe	Singing behavior of the eastern song sparrow
Oct. 28, 2004
Nov. 4, 2004	Jean-Baptiste	Queen's University	T. Day	TBA
Nov. 11, 2004	Scott Pitnick	TBA	A. Chippindale	TBA
Nov. 18, 2004	Bob Montgomerie	Queen's University	R. Robertson	A beginners' guide to scientific misconduct
Nov. 25, 2004	Joseph Brown	Queen's University	T. Birt and V. Friesen	Temporal and Spatial Population Genetics of Canadian Peregrine Falcons
Dec. 2, 2004	Brenda Saunders	Queen's University	P. Boag	The mating system of polar bears
Dec. 9, 2004	Rebecca Safran	Cornell University	R. Robertson	Female reproductive strategies and variation in group size of Barn Swallows: Individual-level decisions and population-level patterns
Dec. 16, 2004	Jill Hamilton	Queen's University	C. Eckert	TBA

Winter 2004

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 8	Bill McLeish	R.J. Robertson Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Habitat use and selection by Eastern Kingbirds across multiple spatial scales
Jan. 15	Vincent Staszewski	Universite Paris, France	Host-parasite interactions, maternal effects and juvenile immunity in a colonial seabird, the Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla).
Jan. 22	NO EEB	-	-
Jan. 29	Sarah Yakimowski	Eckert Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Life on the edge: a geographic context for the ecology and genetics of endangered species.
Fri. Feb. 6 @ 10:30 Special Time	Ken Warheit	State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	Conservation genetics of Sharp-tailed Grouse and Pygmy Rabbit populations in Washington's Columbia Basin: glaciers, farms, and floods.
Feb. 19	Special EEB (Eckert/Aarssen/Montgomerie)	Department of Biology, Queen's University	Half-baked ideas from Queen's Biology.
Feb. 26	Andrew Park	Department of Biology, University of Ottawa
March 4	Rees Kassen	Department of Biology, University of Ottawa	Causes and constraints in adaptive radiation.
March 11	Jason Pither	Aarssen Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	The environmental sampling effect confounds classical interpretations of the niche.
March 18	Sergi Pla	PEARL, Queen's University	Decoding the mud using biological beauty marbles: Chrysophycean cysts and their applicability as paleoenvironmental indicators.
March 25	Bea Beisner	Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQÀM)	Alternative community states of lakes.
April 1	NO EEB
April 8	Christina Caruso	Department of Botany, University of Guelph	Trade-offs and functional correlations: the evolutionary ecology of correlated traits in Lobelia.
April 15	Derick Potter	Wildlife Research and Development Section, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources	Modeling habitat associations of fisher (Martes pennanti) in Nova Scotia.
April 22	Melanie Rathburn	Department of Biology, Queen's University
April 29	Paul Grogan	Department of Biology , Queen's University

Autumn 2003

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 25	Dr. Troy Day	Departments of Biology and Mathematics, Queen's University	A general theory for the evolutionary dynamics of virulence.
Oct. 2	NO EEB
Oct. 9	Wendell Challenger	Wynne-Edwards Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Predicting mammalian sex steroid levels: a role for ecology?
Oct. 16	NO EEB
Oct. 23	Alex Ophir	Department of Psychology, McMaster University	T.B.A.
Oct. 30	Laura Dosen	Montgomerie Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Male mating preferences in relation to female quality and sperm competition risk in the guppy.
Nov. 6	Heather Arnold	Aarssen Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Species diversity in riparian vegetation: influences of seed dispersal, habitat mosaics, and the local environment.
Nov. 13	Jeremy Lundholm	Department of Botany, University of Guelph	Cracks in the pavement: environmental heterogeneity and plant diversity on alvars.
Nov. 20	Niko Troje	Department of Psychology, Queen's University	Decomposing biological motion: social recognition from human gait.
Nov. 27	Sarah Yakimowski	Eckert Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	CANCALLED
Dec. 4	Amy Dawson	Arnott Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Effects of pH fluctuations on zooplankton communities recovering from acidification.
Dec. 11	Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers	Department of Biology, University of Ottawa	Reproductive ecology of black ratsnakes.

Winter 2003

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Jan. 9

Dr. Scott A. Tarof

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Size does matter: Male mask size, dominance, and female choice in a secretively breeding warbler.

Jan. 16

Dr. Thierry Boulinier

Université Pierre & Marie Curie

Habitat selection based on conspecific reproductive success: Behavioural evidence and population consequences.

Jan. 23

Dr. Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde

Montgomerie Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University

A tail of two phenotypes: Sperm, spleens and bluegill.

Jan. 30

NO EEB

Feb. 6

Dr. John Casselman

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

The effects of climate and climate change on fish and fisheries.

Feb. 13

Dr. Tony Gaston

National Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service

Long-term population studies of marine birds.

Feb. 20

READING WEEK

Feb. 27

Dr. Karen McCoy

Friesen Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University

Coevolution in a geographic mosaic: host specialisation of a bipolar parasite.

March 6

Room 1102

Dr. Brian Alters

Room 1102

Director, Evolution Education Research Centre, William Dawson Scholar McGill University, and Associate Professor at Harvard University

Teaching and defending evolution: Exloring some problematic aspects with teaching evolution from the pedagogical to the antievolutionist factors.

March 13

Dr. Ivana Stehlik

Department of Botany, University of Toronto

Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the Ice Ages.

March 20

Dr. David M. Green

Associate Professor, McGill University & Curator of Vertebrates, Redpath Museum

The ecology of extinction: population fluctuation and decline in amphibians.

March 27

Matthew Routley

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Guelph

The adaptive significance of temporal separation of gender in plants.

April 3

Melinda Collins

M.Sc. Candidate, R.J. Robertson Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University

Settlement patterns, breeding behaviour and nest-site selection in black-and-white warblers.

April 10

Dr. Howard D. Rundle

Simon Fraser University

Divergent natural selection and speciation in sticklebacks.

April 17

Daria Koscinski

M.Sc. Candidate, Lougheed Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University

Assessing the importance of geographic isolation and ecological selection in the diversification of an Andean frog

April 24

Dr. Neil Gemmel

Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

The curse of the mummy: some implications of mitochondrial driven infertility.

Autumn 2002

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 12
Sept. 19	Dr. Christoph Richter	Department of Biology, Uinversity of Otago	Blows, clicks, and flukes: assesing the impacts of whale watching on Sperm whales off Kaikoura, New Zealand.
Sept. 26	Agnes Kilber	Eckert Lab, Dept. of Biology, Queen's University	Colonization effects on genetic diversity of an invasive clonal plant.
Oct. 3	Dr. Miriam Richards	Department of Biology, Brock University	On bee-ing social: intrinsic and extrinsic influences on selfishness and cooperation in social sweat bees.
Oct. 10	Dr. Lennart Hansson	Department Conservation Biology, Swedish Unversity of Agricultural Sciences	Conservation of a successional ecosystem in Sweden.
Oct. 17	Dr. Barbara Mable	Department of Botany, University of Guelph	Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in a model plant "species": gene families, polyploidy, and genetic diversity.
Oct. 24	Dr. Theresa Burg	Friesen Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University	Genetic studies of albatrosses in the Southern Ocean.
Oct. 31	Dr. Liana Zanette	Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario	Interactions between food and predators: implications for songbird conservation.
Nov. 7	Jean-Guy Godin	Department of Biology, Carleton University	Risky sex in fishes.
Nov. 14	Dr. Bryan Neff	Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario	Dynamics and origins of alternative mating tactics in bluegill sunfish.
Nov. 21	Amy MacDougall	Montgomerie Lab, Dept. of Biology, Queen's University	Plumage colour and quality in American goldfinches.
Nov. 28	Dr. Bonnie Wolfenden	Department of Biology, York University	Song as a sexual signal in Acadian flycatchers.
Dec. 5	Dr. Keith Hobson	Canadian Wildlife Service, Saskatoon	From the ecosystem to the individual: using stable isotopes to investigate nutrient pathways and allocations.

Created by B. Howes and S.C. Lougheed 8 Jan. 2002

Last Updated 27 Dec. 2011

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