Fall Semester

• 08/23. Organizational Meeting.

 

• 08/30. Anna Dornhaus. Collective organisation in social insects. (Ref. #1; Ref. #2).

 

• 09/06. Jenny Jandt. Yellow Jacket Foraging Behavior.

 

• 09/20. Rick Michod. Life History Evolution and the Origin of Multicellularity. [Abstract; Ref. #1 (Origin of Multicellularity); Ref. #2 (Transfer of Fitness); Ref. #3 (Motility and Molecular Transport)].

 

• 09/27.
  1. Laura Carsten. Effects of Sex Ratio on Testes Allocation.
  2. Scott Stark, Dan Bunker and Walter Carson. Do Exotic and Native Plants Follow the Same Rules? Evidence from the Species-Area Relationship.


• 10/04. Paul S. Martin. Rewilding of America. (Ref. #1; Ref. #2).

 

• 10/11. Judy Bronstein, Goggy Davidowitz and Travis Huxman. For Better or For Worse. Benefits and Costs in a Linked Pollination/Herbivory Interaction. [Abstract; Presentation (Not for citation absent authors' permission)].

 

• 10/18. First Year Graduate Student Rotations. 1.1.

 

• 10/25. First Year Graduate Student Rotations. 1.2.

 

• 11/01.
  1. Brad Worden. Primates Do It, Birds Do It, and Yes Even Bees Do It: Social Learning by Bumblebees.
  2. Amelie Schmolke. Territorial Robots - A Model Approach to the Ecology of Spatial Cognition.


• 11/08.
  1. Joanna Monti-Masel. (45 min.) Cryptic Genetic Variation is Enriched for Potential Adaptations.
  2. Adam Hancock. (15 min.) Non-Coding Ka/Ks in Yeast.
  3. Mike Giacomelli. (15 min.) Stop Codon Lability in Yeast.


• 11/15.
  1. Anna Tyler. Selfing Reduces Photosynthetic Function in Datura wrightii.
  2. Emily Jones. Three Species Dynamics in Mutualism.


• 11/22.
  1. Matt Herron. A Comparative Study of the Volvocine Algae.
  2. Travis Huxman. The Fantastically Cool Physiological Strategies of Winter Annual Plants: a Follow-up on the Serious Topic of Species Coexistence Mechanisms in a Variable Environment.


• 11/29. Jeffrey Good. The Genetic Basis of Hybrid Male Sterility Between Two Species of House Mice.

 

• 12/06. First Year Graduate Student Rotations. 2.1.

 

• 12/13. First Year Graduate Student Rotations. 2.2.