OEB Spring 2008 Seminars

February 5

1:30 PM

MCZ Lecture Hall 101

26 Oxford Street

OEB Seminars

Speaker: Prof. Hiroyoshi Higuchi

Affiliation: University of Tokyo

Seminar Title: The Ecology of Bird Migration in East Asia

Host: Edwards Lab

February 14

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Robert Trivers

Affiliation: Rutgers University

Seminar Title: The logic of self-deception

Host: Haig Lab

February 21

12:00 PM

Center for the Environment

Seminar Room 310

Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series

Speaker: Dr. Maria Serrat

Affiliation: Cornell University College of Vetrinary Medicine

Seminar Title: Temperature and limb length in mice: A comparative model for human skeletal adaptation

February 27

12:00 PM

Geological Lecture Hall

MCZ Building

Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series

Speaker: Mark Shriver

Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University

Seminar Title: The evolutionary/genetic architecture of normal variation: skin pigmentation and facial features

February 28

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

**This seminar has been cancelled.**

Speaker: Dr. Ben Sheldon

Affiliation: Oxford-Edward Grey Institute for Ornithology

Seminar Title: Phenodynamics: evolution and ecology of change in a wild bird population

Host: Edwards Lab

March 6

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Stuart Pimm

Affiliation: Duke University

Seminar Title: The laws of biodiversity - and how they set a practical agenda for saving species from extinction

Host: Farrell/Pierce

March 13

12:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search

Speaker: Kenneth Feeley

Affiliation: Wake Forest University

Seminar Title: Fragmentation and climate change: tropical forests in a changing world

March 13

12:00 PM

Yenching Auditorium

2 Divinity Avenue

Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series

Speaker: Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Seminar Title: Population genomics of human gene expression

March 13

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Robert Turgeon

Affiliation: Cornell University

Seminar Title: Phloem loading: mechanisms, evolution and ecophysiology

Host: Holbrook

March 17

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search

Speaker: Claudia Czimczik

Affiliation: University of California Irvine

Seminar Title: The fate of carbon in northern ecosystems in a warmer world

 

March 20

10:30 AM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search

Speaker: Andrew Richardson

Affiliation: University of New Hampshire

Seminar Title: Vegetation phenology at scales from organism to biosphere: Why it matters

March 20

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Hanna Kokko

Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Finland

Seminar Title: Which sex does what and why?

Host: Pierce Lab

April 3

12:00 PM

Yenching Auditorium

2 Divinity Avenue

Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series

Speaker: Carlos Bustamante

Affiliation: Duke University

Seminar Title: Detecting natural selection and reconstructing demographic history from global patterns of human genomic diversity

April 3

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Brian O'Meara

Affiliation: NESCent

Seminar Title: Finding and filling holes in the evolutionary biologist's toolbox

Host: Brian Farrell

April 7

12:00 PM

Geological Lecture Hall

MCZ Building

Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series

Speaker: Jianzhi George Zhang

Affiliation: University of Michigan

Seminar Title: Molecular dissection of primate evolution and human origins

April 10

12:00 PM

Geological Lecture Hall

University Museum

OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search

Speaker: Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Affiliation: University of Minnesota

Seminar Title: Linking evolutionary history, plant traits and communities in space and time: Consequences for ecosystem function and stability on a changing planet

April 10

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Karen Warkentin

Affiliation: Boston University

Seminar Title: Phenotypic plasticity in complex life cycles: lessons from amphibians

Host: Hanken Lab

April 16

12:30 PM

Seminar room 122

Herbaria

OEB Plant Ecology Faculty Search

Speaker: Sabrina Russo

Affiliation: University of Nebraska

Seminar Title: Biodiversity in Forest Communities

April 17

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Robert Holt

Affiliation: University of Florida

Seminar Title: Niche Conservatism, Evolution, and Applied Ecology: Challenges and Opportinities

Host: Donohue Lab

April 24

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Mike Ryan

Affiliation: University of Texas

Seminar Title: Sexual Communication in Tungara Frogs: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution

Host: Losos Lab

April 28

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Seminar

Speaker: David Penny

Affiliation: Massey University, New Zealand

Seminar Title: Demonstrating the sufficiency of microevolutionary processes

Host: Davis Lab

May 1

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Chris Amemiya

Affiliation: Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle

Seminar Title: Evolution of vertebrate developmental complexity

Host: Edwards Lab

May 8

9:00 - 4:45

Fairchild Auditorium

Sherman Fairchild Building

Fourth Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium

Topic: Phylogeny Informs Biology

Lunchtime poster session

Event is open to the public

May 8

4:00 PM

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

OEB Weekly Seminar Series

Speaker: Kiisa Nishikawa

Affiliation: Northern Arizona University

Seminar Title: Neuromechanics of ballistic movements

Host: Biewener Lab

May 21

12:00 PM

Room 52H

Peabody Museum

Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series

Speaker: William Hylander

Affiliation: Duke University

Seminar Title: Canine reduction in hominins: functional links between jaw mechanics and canine height