Seminars

Spring 2008 OEB Seminars

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 8

Investigating the performance of key ecosystem engineers from coral reef and deep-sea habitats
RANDI ROTJAN, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Feb 21

Sexual selection and communication in the tungara frog: Brain, behavior and evolution
MIKE RYAN, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas Austin
*Note that this seminar falls on a Thursday, not Friday.
Sponsored by Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Feb 29

Coexistence of variable and stereotyped signals in a songbird communication system
BRUCE BYERS, Department of Biology and OEB, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mar 28

To the sea and back again: survival strategies in larval estuarine crabs
RENAE BRODIE, Biology Department, Mt. Holyoke College

Apr 4

Comparative and functional evolutionary genomics
JEFFREY TOWNSEND, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

Apr 11

Thermal sensitivity of physiological performance: evolutionary and statistical perspectives
STEVE ADOLPH, Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College

Apr 18

The ecology and genomics of an ancient asexual scandal
DAVID MARK WELCH, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Apr 25

Functional consequences of biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem
MATT BRACKEN, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University

May 2

Why we have allergies
PAUL SHERMAN, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University

May 9

Evolutionary and ecological genomics of plant adaptations: Lessons from Arabidopsis
MICHAEL PURUGGANAN, Department of Biology, New York University