All seminars take place at 4:00 p.m. on Friday in the OEB Seminar Room (319 Morrill Science Center 2), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Refreshments precede seminars at 3:45 p.m.
Following each seminar, all are invited to the University Club’s Lounge for further refreshments and continued conversation.
Feb 6 |
Stress in wild animals: From the arctic to the equator
MICHAEL ROMERO, Department of Biology, Tufts University
HOST: Steve McCormick |
Feb 13 |
Darwin in the age of the genome
NORMAN JOHNSON, Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Feb 20 |
Chasing adaptation: Evolving robotic replicants of vertebrates
JOHN H. LONG, Department of Biology, Vassar College
HOST: Natasha Taft |
Feb 27 |
When theory meets data: The coevolution of mating behaviour and paternal investment
SUZANNE H. ALONZO, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
HOST: David Lahti |
Mar 6 |
Ants, plants and elephants: Long-term dynamics of a multi-species mutualism
TODD PALMER, Department of Biology, University of Florida
HOST: Ethan Clotfelter |
Mar 26 |
The function and evolution of plumage coloration in birds
STEPHANIE DOUCET, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor
Note: This seminar will take place on Thursday, March 26, at 12:15 p.m..
HOST: Dana Moseley |
Mar 27 |
Vocal duetting in tropical wrens: Acoustic communication in the animal kingdom’s most coordinated singers
DANIEL MENNILL, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor
HOST: Dana Moseley |
Apr 3 |
Keeping warm and staying healthy: Life history trade-offs in birds and fish
ETHAN CLOTFELTER, Department of Biology, Amherst College and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, UMass Amherst
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Apr 10 |
Gene therapy for psychiatric disorders: Do parasites know more neurobiology than we do?
ROBERT SAPOLSKY, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Location: Integrated Sciences Building Auditorium
Sinauer Associates Lectureship in Biology |
Apr 17 |
Testing evolutionary hypothesis in the age of genomics
CARLOS BUSTAMANTE, Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University
HOST: Norman Johnson |
Apr 24 |
Clades, continents, and compatibility: The secret life of wolfberry (Solanaceae)
RACHEL LEVIN, Department of Biology, Amherst College
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May 1 |
Voices from the blue deep: The acoustic ecology of the great whales
CHRISTOPHER CLARK, Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program
HOST: Ben Taft |
May 8 |
Mating and signaling tactics in fiddler crabs: Competition and conflict
DENISE POPE, Department of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College
Department of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College
HOST: Jeff Podos |
319 Morrill S. 
