| EBE
Seminar Series
Ecology,
Behavior, and Evolution
FALL
2009
All
seminars will be held on Mondays at 12 noon, in BRB 113 (5 Cummington
St.), unless otherwise posted. Lunch follows in BRB 117.
|
| September
14 |
 |
EBE
Meet & Greet
|
| September
21 |
 |
Krista
McGuire
Barnard College
"Links between plant diversity, fungal diversity, and ecosystem
function"
|
| September
28 |
 |
Department-wide
seminar - Darwin's Bicentennial
Elaine
Ostrander
National Genome Research Institute
"The long and short of it: Mapping complex traits in the domestic
dog"
**Departmental
seminars are held in LSE B01 at noon** |
| October
5 |
 |
Bruce
Byers
UMass Amherst
"Why do songbirds use both diverse and stereotyped songs?"
|
| October
12 |
|
No
Seminar
Columbus Day |
| October
19 |
|
Department-wide
seminar - Darwin's Bicentennial
Nipam Patel
University of California at Berkeley
"Crab
claws and snail shells: Evolution in action"
**Departmental
seminars are held in LSE B01 at noon**
|
October
26 |
|
Leon
Claessens
Holy Cross
"Respiratory evolution in living and extinct archosaurs"
|
| November
2 |
 |
Janelle
Thompson
MIT
"Exploring the structure and function of the Nematostella vectensis
microbiome" |
| November
6 |
 |
Ian
Newton
Special Friday
seminar - noon in BRB 113
"Sparrowhawks: Highlights of a longterm study in the UK"
|
| November
9 |
 |
Nick
Rodenhouse
Wellesley College
"Effects of climate change on birds of the Northeast: identification
and assessment of uncertainties" |
| November
16 |
|
Department-wide
seminar - Darwin's Bicentennial
Jack
Szostak
Harvard Medical School
**Departmental
seminars are held in LSE B01 at noon** |
| November
23 |
 |
Craig
Frank
Fordham University
"The relationship between diet composition, climate change, and
the evolution of hibernation in mammals" |
| November
30 |
 |
Mike
Fogarty
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
"Options for ecosystem-based fishery management
on the Northeast U.S. continental shelf"
|
| December
7 |
 |
Department-wide
seminar - Darwin's Bicentennial
Pardis
Sabeti
Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology
**Departmental
seminars are held in LSE B01 at noon**
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