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| Bee swarm at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) |
The UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology is sponsoring a series of lectures for winter 2012. The lectures are from 4:10 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays in 2 Wellman.
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JAN. 12 Cancelled
Topic to Be Announced
Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University/NOAA
Host: Alan Hastings, amhastings@ucdavis.edu
JAN. 19
Swarm Intelligence in Honey Bees
Tom Seeley, Cornell University
Host: Rick Grosberg, rkgrosberg@ucdavis.edu
JAN. 26
Habitat Preferences Can Generate Adaptation via Spatial Sorting Rather Than Natural Selection
Dan Bolnick, University of Texas at Austin; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Matthew McGee, mcgee@ucdavis.edu
FEB. 2
Population Genetics in the Personal Genome Era
Carlos Bustamante, Stanford University
Host: Alisa Sedghifar, sedghifar@ucdavis.edu
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| Phil DeVries presented the Storer Lecture on Feb. 9. (Courtesy Photo) |
FEB. 9 (Storer Lecture; sponsored by Storer Life Sciences Endowment)
What Do Butterflies Tell Us About Tropical Diversity?
Phil DeVries, University of New Orleans
Host: Elizabeth Long, eclong@ucdavis.edu
Note: Phil Devries is a tropical and conservation biologist with an active field research program in Central and South America. He is the author of the two-volume Butterflies of Costa Rica and their Natural History. He has won numerous awards, including a Fullbright, MacArthur fellowship, and Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. He has also spent several decades working with natural history documentary filmmakers, including films for National Geographic and the BBC. One of his more famous films chronicles his efforts to film Darwin's Orchid being pollinated by the long-tongued moth Xanthopan morgani (you can see a clip here: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/darwins-orchid-film-of-the-missing-pollinator/) (Phil Ward)
FEB. 16
The Ecology of Anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Holly Ganz, research associate in the Wayne Getz lab at UC Berkeley
Host: Sebastian Schreiber, sschreiber@ucdavis.edu
Note: She received her Ph.D. at UC Davis with Hugh Dingle and is doing exciting work on anthrax ecology in Namibia. More details at her website, http://nature.berkeley.edu/getzlab/people/holly_ganz.html
FEB. 23
Plant Responses to the Relatedness of Belowground Neighbors: Testing for Kin Recognition in Plants
Susan Dudley, McMaster University
Host: Rick Karban, rkarban@ucdavis.edu
MARCH 1
Time Scales in Ecological Systems: Improving our Understanding of Ecological Dynamics
Alan Hastings, University of Maryland
Host: Jennifer Balachowski, jbalachowski@ucdavis.edu
MARCH 8
Here is a Human Being
Misha Angrist, Duke University
Invited as part of the Big Read: Open Access Science - http://sciencenovels.wordpress.com/
Host: Angus Chandler, jschandler@ucdavis.edu
MARCH 15
Phenotypes Phirst! Complex Traits in Complex Environments
Tom Mitchell-Olds, Duke University
Host: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu
The seminars are sponsored by: College of Biological Sciences, Department of Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population Biology, Graduate Group in Ecology, College of Letters & Science Division of Social Sciences, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology, Department of Anthropology, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Center for Theoretical Ecology, Kearney Foundation of Soil Sciences, Biological Invasions & IGERT REACH and John Muir Institute for the Environment.
Updated 01/04/2011
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
