EBIO Colloquia

EBIO Colloquium Series

Fall 2003 Talks are Friday 4-5 pm in Ramaley N1B23 unless otherwise indicated below. Refreshments will be available prior to the talk at 3:30 in Ramaley N240. All are welcome; however, please bring your own cup for coffee and tea.
* We will have pizza lunch with the speaker on all "*" days

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Fall 2003

Date	Speaker	Title	Host Lab
Aug. 29	EBIO Potluck	n/a	n/a
Sept. 5 *	Thomas Hobbs		Collinge
Sept. 12	Mark Simmons	Efficiently Resolving the Basal Clades of a Phylogenetic Tree Using Bayesian and Parsimony Approaches: A Case Study Using Mitogenomic Data from 100 Higher Teleost Fishes.	Ranker/Guralnick
Sept. 19	Eric DeChaine	Food, Flight, or Frost: What governs popoulation structure in the alpine herbivore Parnassius smintheus?	Martin
Sept. 26	Kailen Mooney	Why is the world green? Predator effects in ponderosa pine canopy food webs.	Linhart
Oct. 3	No Colloquium	Fall Break	n/a
Oct. 10 *	Ron Burton	Why F2 Hybrids Are Weak: The Molecular Basis of Coadaptation	Mitton
Oct. 17 *	Bob Marquis	Leaftying caterpillars as ecosystem engineers	Bowers
Oct. 24 *	Valerie Eviner	The ecosystem consequences of interactions among plant species, soil microbes, and small mammals	Seastedt
Oct. 31	Laura Scott Denton	Soil carbon cycling at the Niwot Ridge Ameriflux Site	Monson
Nov. 7 *	Michelle Sauther		Cruz
Nov. 12	Fritz Gerhardt	Abiotic and Biotic Resistance to Plant Invasions of Vernal Pools in the Central Valley of California	Collinge
Nov. 14 *	Keith Crandall	Bioinformatic tools for evolutionary sequence analyses: examples from freshwater crayfish and HIV	Guralnick
Nov. 21 *	Curtis Lively		Perkins
Nov. 28	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving	n/a
Dec. 5	Heather Swanson	Is Patchiness for the Birds? Spatial Structure, Urbanization, Resource Availability and Ponderosa Pine Forest Birds	Cruz