Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

   EEB Fall 2010 Seminar Schedule
   Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
   ESC 110

Spring 2011
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
01/12/11 POSTPONED	Eric Haag, University of Maryland Germline sex determination and the evolution of nematode reproductive strategies	Antónia Monteiro
01/19/11	Mihaela Pavličev, University of Oslo, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis Evolving complex organisms: genetic variation in pleiotropy	Günter Wagner
01/26/11	Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin Climatic and herbivory controls on the no-analogue plant communities of eastern North America	Melinda Smith
02/02/11	Mauris Nnamani, Yale University Critical regulatory domain of the Abdominal B (AbdB)-like transcription factor HoxA-11	Günter Wagner
02/09/11	Eric Haag, University of Maryland Germline sex determination and the evolution of nematode reproductive strategies	Antónia Monteiro
02/16/11	Sarah Matthews, Harvard University Seed plant systematics and the origin of angiosperms	Michael Donoghue
02/23/11	Dustin Rubenstein, Columbia University Spatiotemporal environmental variation and the evolution of sociality	Rick Prum
03/02/11	Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania On the role of neutral mutations in adaptation	Paul Turner
03/23/11	Brenda Bradley, Yale University An evolutionary look at primate pigmentation	Antónia Monteiro
03/30/11	Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University Sex à la carte: Ecological and evolutionary genomics of sex determination and sex chromosomes	Antónia Monteiro
04/06/11	Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute An overview of the tropical forests over geological time	Michael Donoghue
04/13/11	Robert Whitlatch, University of Connecticut Latitudinal variation in marine fouling assemblages	EEB Graduate Students
04/20/11	Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University Approaches to understanding the evolution of novelty in germ line specification EEB gratefully acknowledges funding provided by the HARVARD LECTURESHIP	Antónia Monteiro
04/27/11	Jonathan Belmaker, Yale University Global scaling of terrestrial vertebrate diversity	Thomas Near
05/05/11 12 to 1 PM	SPECIAL SEMINAR – PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY SEMINAR, & WILL BE CONDUCTED FROM 12 TO 1 PM. Martin Schaefer, University of Freiburg Plant-animal communication	Richard Prum

Fall 2010
Date	Speaker and Title	Host
09/08/10	Mike Hickerson, Queens College – City University of New York Using multi-taxa phylogeographic models to test community assembly hypotheses	Gisella Caccone
09/15/10	Angela McLean, University of Oxford Evolution inside hosts and transmission between hosts - how can we understand both at once?	Stephen Stearns
09/22/10	Paul Turner, Associate Professor, Yale University Evolution of RNA viruses in changing environments
09/29/10	Marc Lipsitch, Harvard University Maintenance of antigenic diversity in streptococcus pneumoniae populations: natural immunity and disruption by vaccines EEB gratefully acknowledges funding provided by THE TRAPHAGEN ALUMNI SPEAKERS SERIES	Paul Turner
10/06/10	Charlie Brayer, Yale University How transcription factors evolve: novel functional and physical interactions
10/13/10	Arkhat Abzhanov, Harvard University Pecking at the Origin of Morphological Variation: Insights from Darwin's Finches and Other Birds EEB gratefully acknowledges funding provided by the HARVARD LECTURESHIP	Rick Prum
10/20/10	Kathy Cottingham, Dartmouth College Opening Pandora's box with a biotic key: Can cyanobacterial blooms in nutrient-poor lakes accelerate eutrophication?	David Vasseur
10/27/10	Thomas Near, Yale University PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: Professor Near’s seminar will be held in the Peabody Museum Auditorium (3rd floor) Patterns of diversification in continental distributed freshwater fishes
11/03/10	Mark Ritchie, Syracuse University Thermodynamic constraints on biological rates and states: unifying energy and elements as ecological and evolutionary currencies	Kimberly LaPierre
11/10/10	Walter Jetz, Yale University PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SEMINAR START TIME: Professor Jetz’s seminar will begin at 2:30 p.m. in ESC 110. Integrating and conserving the dimensions of global vertebrate diversity
11/17/10	Peter and Rosemary Grant, Professors Emeriti, Princeton University PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: Professors’ Grant seminar will be held in BASS 305 Speciation in Darwin's Finches	Gisella Caccone
12/01/10	Robert Paine, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Food webs: misleading cartoons or useful guides to complex ecological interactions?	Grad Students
12/08/10	James Noonan, Yale University Using functional genomics to study human evolution	Günter Wagner