| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Sponsor |
| Jan 27 |
Digestive physiology: A view from molecules to ecosystem |
William Karasov, UW-Madison |
Stephen Gammie |
| Feb 3 |
Global Limnology and the Global Carbon Cycle |
John Downing, Iowa State University |
Jake Walsh |
Feb 10
|
Clades and climate change: comparing notes with Thoreau |
Chuck Davis, Harvard University |
David Baum |
| Feb 17 |
Throwing open the "window of speciation" |
David Baum, UW-Madison |
-- |
| Feb 24 |
Speciation among two killifish species: adaptation to salinity and reproductive isolation |
Becky Fuller, University of Illinois |
Carol Lee |
| Mar 2 |
The Andean tuber Oxalis tuberosa as an example for study of distribution of genetic diversity of clonally propagated crops |
Eve Emshwiller |
Ken Sytsma |
| Mar 9 |
Bark beetle outbreaks in western conifer ecosystems: Constraints, drivers, and how we’ve made a difficult lifestyle easier |
Ken Raffa |
Eve Emshwiller |
| Mar 16 |
Architecture without a blueprint: how the acentrosomal plant cortical microtubules form ordered arrays |
Ram Dixit, Washington University |
Simon Gilroy |
| Mar 23 |
How far do pollinators move plant genes via pollen? |
Johanne Brunet, UW-Madison |
-- |
| Mar 28 |
Wisconsin Ecology Symposium |
| Mar 30 |
Genes, jeans, and genomes: exploring the mysteries of polyploidy in cotton |
Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University |
Tom Givnish |
| Apr 6 |
No Zoology colloquium |
| Apr 13 |
Phylogenomics and the age of speciation events: dating the origin of mammalian Plasmodium parasites |
Joana Silva, Institute for Genome Sciences |
Carol Lee |
| Apr 20 |
Indirect effects of top predators and direct effects of rodent consumers in terrestrial food webs |
John Maron, University of Montana |
John Orrock |
| Apr 27 |
Honeybee Democracy
Special Emlen Lecture |
Thomas Seeley, Cornell University |
Carol Lee |
| May 4 |
Systems Approaches to Unravel Plant Gene Regulatory Networks |
Erich Grotewold, Ohio State University |
Marisa Otegui |
| May 11 |
The Evolution and Development of Arthropod Body Patterning |
Nipam Patel, UC-Berkeley |
Jeff Hardin |
| May 18
|
Evolution of Extreme Traits: Insulin signalling as a mechanism for exaggerated growth and conditional expression of a weapon of sexual selection |
Laura Lavine, Washington State University |
Carol Lee |
