Spring 2010 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 |
| 15-Jan | Jim Drake | EEB, UTK - Faculty Member | Creating and manipulating emergence ... of the hard kind | Echternacht |
| 22-Jan | Jim Bever | Indiana University | Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mycorrhizal Mutualism | Schweitzer |
| 29-Jan | Duncan Irschick | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Animal athletics: From microevolution to macroevolution | Pruitt |
| 5-Feb | Randy Brewton, Stan Guffey, Susan Riechert | Members of EEB & BIO, UTK | Passing Gas: What we learned at The National Academies & HHMI Summer Institute | Riechert |
| 12-Feb | Brad Shaffer | University of California, Davis | Deep phylogeny, recent speciation, and the conservation genetics of turtles | Fitzpatrick |
| 19-Feb | Patrick Hudson | EEB, UTK - MS Seminar | Early vessel evolution and diversification in wood function-Insights from Malagasy Canellales | Feild |
| 26-Feb | Mark Lewis | NIMBioS Guest | Plagued by numbers: Mathematics of emerging wildlife diseases and their interactions with human activities | Armsworth |
| 5-Mar | Shakunthala Sridhara | University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, India | An overview of agricultural problems with vertebrates in India | Burghardt |
| 12-Mar | Spring Break - No Seminar | |||
| 19-Mar | Marc Johnson | North Carolina State University | The ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant sex | Schweitzer, Bailey |
| 26-Mar | Matt Forister | University of Nevada, Reno | TBA | Fordyce |
| 2-Apr | UT Closed for Spring Recess - No Seminar | |||
| 9-Apr | Stan Faeth | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | Asexual endophytes: tiny partners with big effects | Simberloff |
| 16-Apr | Arijana Barun | EEB, UTK - PhD Seminar | The small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) on Adriatic Islands: impact, control, and evolution | Simberloff |
| 23-Apr | Jim Collins | Arizona State University | TBA | Fitzpatrick |
| 30-Apr | Brian Beckage | NIMBioS Guest | TBA | Armsworth |