Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Seminar Schedule | Brown Bag Seminar Series

   EEB Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule
   Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
   ESC 110

Fall 2011
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
09/07/11	Suzanne Alonzo, Yale University Coevolutionary and social dynamics of reproduction	Suzanne Alonzo
09/14/11	Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylania African genomic variation: Implications for human origins and disease	Stephen Stearns
09/21/11	Dan Edwards, University of Michigan Using integrative data to resolve issues in comparative phylogeography and species delimitation	Gisella Caccone
09/28/11	Stephen Baines, State University of New York Linking organism traits and ecosystem function in aquatic environments: a trilogy	David Post
10/05/11	Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University From MIce to molecules: the genetic basis of evolutionary change	Jeffrey Powell
10/12/11	Robert Wayne, UCLA Evolutionary genomics of wild and domestic canids	Gisella Caccone
10/19/11	Peter Buston, Boston University Anemonefishes as model systems for marine evolutionary ecology	Suzanne Alonzo
10/26/11	Edward Holmes, Pennsylvania State University Life on the edge: The evolutionary biology of RNA viruses	Paul Turner
11/02/11	Dan Rubenstein, Princeton University Social networks: Linking form with function in animal societies	Suzanne Alonzo
11/09/11	Beckie Symula, Yale University Insights into tsetse symbiont evolution uncovered using population genetics	Gisella Caccone
11/16/11	Allison Snow, The Ohio State University Genetic engineering of nature: Fitness effects of crop transgenes that disperse to wild relatives	Michael Donoghue
11/30/11	Ilya Ruvinsky, University of Chicago Conservation, divergence, and epistasis in evolution of gene regulation	Günter Wagner
12/14/11	Ana Carolina Carnaval, City University of New York From paleo distribution models to DNA, fossil pollen, and physiology: Integrative biology improves biodiversity prediction in Brazil	Gisella Caccone

Spring 2012
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
01/18/12	Erika Edwards, Brown University A clade's eye view of plant ecological adaptation	Michael Donoghue
01/25/12	Troy Day, Queens University Theoretical insights for preventing the evolution of drug resistance	Paul Turner
02/01/12	Felicity Jones, Stanford University The genomic basis of parallel evolution and reproductive isolation in threespine sticklebacks	Thomas Near
02/15/12	Jo Handelsman, Yale University Metagenomic analysis of antibiotic resistance in the environment PLEASE NOTE TIME & VENUE CHANGE: This seminar will take place in Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Paul Turner
02/22/12	Priyanga Amarasekare, UCLA Diversity maintenance in variable environments: Effects of temperature variation on population and community dynamics	David Vasseur
02/29/12	John Thompson, UC Santa Cruz G. Evelyn Hutchinson Distinguished Speaker The assembly of webs of coevolving species	Jason Shapiro (Grad Students)
03/21/12	Andrew Read, Penn State	Paul Turner
03/28/12	Lin Jiang, GA Institute of Technology	David Vasseur
04/04/12	Kathryn Hanley, New Mexico State	Paul Turner
04/11/12	Sara Lewis, Tufts University	Antónia Monteiro
04/18/12	Kelly Stiver, Yale University	Suzanne Alonzo
04/25/12	Mary Power, UC Berkeley G. Evelyn Hutchinson Distinguished Speaker	Amanda Subalusky (Grad Students)