OEB Spring 2013 Seminars

January 30
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
***CANCELED***
January 31
12:00 PM
Haller Hall
 

Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate
Nadia Fröbisch
Museum für Naturkunde, Germany
Fossils, Morphology, and Development in Amphibian Evolution

February 4
12:00 PM
Haller Hall
 
Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate
Bhart-Anjan Bhullar
Harvard University
Combining paleontology and development to unravel a major evolutionary transition: the origin of the bird skull
February 6  NO SEMINAR
February 11
12:00 PM
Haller Hall
 
Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate
Graham Slater
National Museum of Natural History
Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Form and Function in Mammals
February 13
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Dan Rabosky
University of Michigan
What's the connection between reproductive isolation and speciation?
Host: Diggle Lab
February 14
12:00 PM
Haller Hall
 
Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate
Stephanie Pierce
The Royal Veterinary College
Getting a leg up on land: morphology and movement in the earliest limbed animals
February 20
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
 
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Xing Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Paleontology and Anthropology, IVPP
Tracing the evolution of major avian characters: combining paleontological and neontological data
Host: Abzhanov Lab
February 27
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Doug Emlen
University of Montana
The origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns
Host: Pierce and Extavour Lab

March 6
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
 
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Mark Norell
American Museum of Natural History
What is a bird - the perspective of the theropod working group
Host: Abzhanov Lab
March 13
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
 
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Rosemary Gillespie
University of California, Berkeley
Community Assembly through Adaptive Radiation: Spiders on Islands
Host: OEB Graduate Students
March 27
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
 
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Kelly Benoit-Bird
Oregon State University
Making a living in a heterogeneous ocean: Life and dinner for small and large marine animals
Host: Mahadevan Lab
April 3
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
 
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Paul Fine
University of California, Berkeley
Natural enemies, chemical defense innovation and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees
Host: Holbrook Lab
April 10
NO SEMINAR
April 17
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Ehab Abouheif
McGill University
The Theory of MesoEvolution
Host: Abzhanov Lab
April 24

OEB Weekly Seminar Series
***CANCELED***

May 1
3:00 PM
Main Lecture Hall
BioLabs Building
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Asher Cutter
University of Toronto
Mega-diversity in the meso-fauna: Population genetics and speciation in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Host: Zhang Lab