Fall 2008 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 |
| 29-Aug | Feng Chen | Dept. of Plant Sciences, UTK | Molecular and genomic basis of insect-induced plant volatiles mediating tritrophic interactions | Gilchrist |
| 5-Sep | Marie-Anne De Graaf | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | At the root of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling | Classen |
| 12-Sep | No Seminar Scheduled | |||
| 19-Sep | Jim Fordyce | Dept. of EEB - Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Seeing the tips for the trees: The evolutionary signature of chemically-mediated trophic interactions | -- |
| 26-Sep | Mike Benard | University of Michigan | Ecological consequences of natural selection and adaptation | Fitzpatrick |
| 3-Oct | Ben Keck | Dept. of EEB - PhD Exit Seminar | Introgression, ancestral polymorphism and undescribed diversity in Nothonotus darters (Teleostei: Percidae) | -- |
| 10-Oct | Fall Break | |||
| 16-Oct | Anurag Agrawal | Cornell University | Phylogenetic tests of plant defense theory | Schweitzer |
| 17-Oct | Jennifer Thaler | Cornell University | TBA | Schweitzer |
| 24-Oct | Dan Simberloff | EEB | Who's the father of invasion biology? Darwin vs. Elton vs. SCOPE | -- |
| 31-Oct | TBA | |||
| 7-Nov | Joe Williams | Dept. of EEB - Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Innovations that begot innovations: how flowering plants got their unique reproductive syndrome | -- |
| 14-Nov | Andy Gardner | University of Edinburgh, UK | Capturing the superorganism | Ubeda |
| 21-Nov | John Gittleman | Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia | Ecological change of global proportions | McCracken |