Seminars - Spring 2009

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Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Friday in Stack 237: snacks at 10:45 AM, seminar promptly at 11:00 AM. Please contact the seminar committee (seminar-committee@kbs.msu.edu) if you have questions. Seminar Procedures (pdf)


January 16Jory Brinkerhoff, Yale University. Community Ecology of Plague in Colorado Grasslands.
Host: Gross Lab
January 23Nathan Bailey, University of California-Riverside. Social Learning Alters Sexual Selection in Field Crickets.
Host: Robin Tinghitella
January 30Gregory Crutsinger, University of Tennessee. Linking Plant Genetic Diversity to Above- and Belowground Communities.
Host: Lau Lab
February 6Peter Chesson, University of Arizona. The Emerging Multitrophic Diversity Maintenance Theory.
Host: Klausmeier Lab
February 13Bopi Biddanda, Annis Water Resources Institute. Rock, Water, Critters: Ecology of Submerged Sinkholes in Lake Huron.
Host: Lennon Lab
February 20Carolyn Malmstrom, MSU. Using Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography to Examine Patch Dynamics and Invasive Species Ecology in Annual Grasslands.
Host: Lennon and Lau Labs
February 27Mick Follows, MIT. Patterns of Phytoplankton Diversity in a Model Ocean.
Host: Litchman and Klausmeier Labs
March 6Alison Bell, University of Illinois. Personality in Sticklebacks.
Host: Mittelbach Lab
March 20Jennifer Fraterrigo, University of Illinois. Linking Lakes and Watersheds: The Importance of Landscape Plumbing.
Host: Litchman Lab
March 27Brian Roth, MSU. Redefining the Role of Invasive Rusty Crayfish in Small Lake Food Webs.
Host: Mittelbach and Lennon Labs
April 3Rachel Whitaker, University of Illinois. Structure and Stability of Microbial Populations from Humic Lakes.
Host: Lennon Lab
April 10Spencer Hall, Indiana University. Predator Spreaders, Friendly Competition, and Quality Matters: Three Stories at the Interface of Community Ecology and Disease.
Host: Lennon Lab
April 17Jeff Dukes, Purdue University. Changing the Rules: Current and Future Determinants of Grassland Invasibility.
Host: Gross Lab
April 24Ian Dworkin, MSU. The Shape of things to Come: The Intergration of Evolutionary, Genetic and Genomic Approaches in the Study of a Model Organism.
Host: Conner Lab

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