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Biology Seminar Series: 2006-2011


Department of Biology, San Diego State University
Monday 4:00 pm, BioScience Center, Gould Auditorium (
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PAST SEMINARS:


Fall 2011

Spring 2011



Fall 2010
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DATE

SPEAKER

Title

Faculty Host

September 6, 2010

No seminar Labor Day

No seminar Labor Day

No seminar

September 13, 2010

Eben Goodale

USD/UCSD

Information and community ecology: the case of mixed-species bird flocks 

Kevin Burns

September 20, 2010

Phillip Morin

SWFSC / UCSD

Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species 

Annalisa Berta

September 27, 2010

Jeremy Goldbogen

UCSD

"Mechanics of blue and fin whale lunge feeding: integrating kinematics from tags and videos, morphology from bones and whalers, and the physics of parachute inflation"

Annalisa Berta

October 4, 2010

Jason Keller

Chapman University

"Why does the efficiency of methane production vary

dramatically among wetlands?"

David Lipson

October 11, 2010

Lori Hargrove

SDNHM

Limits to species  distributions: spatial structure and dynamics of breeding bird populations along an ecological gradient 

Kevin Burns

October 18, 2010

Josh Kohn

UC San Diego

Evolution and loss of self-incompatibility 

Liz Waters

October 25, 2010

Ted Garland

UC Riverside

"Born to run: experimental evolution of high activity levels in house mice"

Tod Reeder

November 1, 2010

Andrew Thompson

NOAA Fisheries Service

Southwest Fisheries Science Center

"From ecological to evolutionary scales: Elucidation of forces affecting the distribution and abundance of mutualistic marine species".

Matt Edwards

November 8, 2010

Graham Slater

UCLA

Detecting patterns of body size evolution in vertebrates: different approaches for different levels of phylogenetic resolution 

Kevin Burns

November 15, 2010

Eric Ekdale

SDNHM/SDSU

"Comparative anatomy and variation within the inner ear of mammals"

David Archibald

November 22, 2010

Kathleen Kay

UC Santa Cruz

"Diversification of the neotropical spiral gingers: plant-pollinator interactions and rapid speciation"

Mike Simpson

November 29, 2010

Andy Bohonak

SDSU

TBA

Kevin Burns

December 6, 2010

Robert Zink

University of Minnesota

Molecular markers in phylogeography and conservation genetics 

Kevin Burns




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Fall 2006

                                                  Department of Biology
                               Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
                                                           Fall 2006
                                                         
Updated: 10-3-2006

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

  Sept. 18

Dr. Richard Condit
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama (currently on sabbatical and National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara, CA)

Tropical forest community structure and what matters about the neutral theory


Dr. Janet Franklin

 Sept. 25

 Oct 2

Dr. Ernesto Franco
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, MX

West-side blue fan palm oases of Baja California's Sierra San Pedro Martir


Dr. David Lipson

   


Oct.  9


Oct.16

Dr. Matt Rahn
Director, Field Stations, San Diego State University
San Diego, CA

The Field Stations Program: New Opportunities and Challenges.


Dr. Walt Oechel


Oct. 23

Dr. Susan Chivers
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
La Jolla, CA


TBD


Dr. Annalisa Berta


Oct. 30

 


Nov. 6

Dr. Robert Wayne
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

 

TBD

 

Dr. Annalisa Berta


Nov. 13

Dr. Amy Vandergast
USGS, Western Ecological Research Center
San Diego, CA

Multitaxa assessment of the genetic impacts of urbanization and fragmentation in the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, with an emphasis on Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae

 

Dr. Andy Bohonak


Nov. 20

Dr. Patrick Stevens
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
UC Santa Barbara, CA

TBD

 

Dr. Tod Reeder


Nov. 27

Dr. Michael Wall
Dept of Entomology
San Diego Museum of Natural History
San Diego, CA

TBD

Dr. Marshal Hedin


Dec 4

Dr. Ted Twnsend
Department of Biology, SDSU

TBD

 

Dr. Tod Reeder


Dec 11

TBA

TBA