Fall 09 Seminars
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All Seminars will start at 3:30 PM, Room 307 in Science & Engineering Bldg. unless otherwise stated. Attendees are invited to an informal pre-talk reception at 3 PM in 568 Dabney Hall
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 21-Aug | Amy Turmelle Ph.D Exit Seminar | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology - UTK | Ecological and evolutionary factors affecting rabies virus infection in two colonialinsectivorous bats | McCracken |
| 28-Aug | Patrick Danley | Baylor University | The Genetics of Reproductive Isolation: Ongoing and Thrilling Studies of AfricanCichlids & Hawaiian Crickets | Hulsey |
| 4-Sep | Mike Lynch | Indiana University | Mutation and Evolution | Gilchrist |
| 11-Sep | Michael Tobler | Texas A & M | A fishy story from a stinky cave: How selection along environmental gradients can lead to adaptation and speciation | Hulsey |
| 18-Sep | Adam Langley | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Villanova University | How to hold ground with high water: tidal marsh response to global change | Schweitzer |
| 25-Sep | Taylor Feild Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology - UTK | The Green (Grim) Reaper: The Evolution of Leaf Productivity in Angiosperms and Ecophysiological Transformation of Biosphere Function | --- |
| 2-Oct | Michael Gilchrist Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology - UTK | Defining, Surveying and Mining Codon Usage Adaptive Landscapes for Information on Gene Expression: An Evolutionary Approach to Bioinformatics | --- |
| 9-Oct | Gary Graves | Smithsonian Institution | Macroecological signals of species interactions in the Danish avifauna | Simberloff |
| 16-Oct | NoSeminar - Fall Break | |||
| 23-Oct | Brad Shaffer | University of California - Davis | TBA | Fitzpatrick |
| 30-Oct | Doug Levey | University of Florida | TBA | Sanders |
| 6-Nov | Mark Bradford | Yale University | How does consideration of soil microbial processes influence predictions of ecosystem carbon dynamics? | Classen |
| 13-Nov | Dan Rabosky | University of California - Berkeley | Diversification rate, ecological limits, and the variation in species richness among clades and regions | Matheny |
| 20-Nov | Jennifer Rhode | University of North Carolina - Asheville | Impacts of floral morphology, breeding system, and phenotypic plasticity on fitness in a hybrid plant complex | Classen |