Winter Evolutionary Biology Lecture Series
Winter 2007: "Plant Evolution" (Organizer: Jim Hamrick)
| Elizabeth Friar | Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden | "Ecological Speciation and Gene Flow: Two studies in the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance (Asteraceae)” “Genetics of Conservation and Reintroduction of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance” |
| Pamela and Doug Soltis | Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida | "Groundhog Day: Recent and Recurring Polyploidy in Tragopogon” “Darwin’s “abominable mystery”: The Origin and Early Diversification of Angiosperms" |
| David Baum | University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Statistical Analysis of Genealogical Discordance in Multigene or Genome-wide Datasets” “If Species are Clades, What is “Speciation?" |
Winter 2005: "Behavior and Evolution" (Organizers: Patty Gowaty and Wyatt Anderson)
| Gene Robinson | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | "Molecular Analyses of Honey Bee Social Behavior” “Genomic Analyses of Honey Bee Social Behavior” |
| Judy Stamps | University of California, Davis | "Habitat Selection and Space Use in Drosophila” “Individual Differences in Habitat Selection Behavior in Drosophila" |
| Jeanne Altmann | Princeton University | "Family, Friends and Community: The Environment of Selection in a Highly Social Species” “Behavior for a Changing Environment" |
Winter 2004: "Behavior and Evolution" (Organizers: Patty Gowaty and Wyatt Anderson)
| Joan Roughgarden | Stanford University | "Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality: Conceptual Implications for Biology” “Evolution’s Rainbow” |
| Linda Partridge | University College, London |
"Diet, Death, and Demography in Drosophila” “Mechanisms of Aging: Public or Private?" |
| Martin Wikelski | Princeton University | "New Approaches to Old Questions: Why Biology Needs Field Ecology” “Understanding Organismal Design in Nature: The Physiology-Life History Connection" |
Winter 2003: "Interactions" (Organizer: Rodney Mauricio)
| Edmund D. Brodie, III | Indiana University | "Indirect genetic effects of parent-offspring interactions: Who cares?" "Eye of newt and fillet of fenny snake: the witches' brew of coevolutionary arms races" |
| Nancy Moran | University of Arizona | "Genome reduction in obligate symbionts" "Symbiosis in insects: from interaction to union" |
| Jeffrey Palmer | Indiana University | "Treasure your exceptions: lateral gene transfer in plants and runaway mutation rates in mitochondrial DNA" "Evolutionary transfer of mitochondrial genes to the nucleus: when, what, how, and why?" |
| Janis Antonovics | University of Virginia | "Evolutionary genetics of intra-tetrad mating: Fungi, flies and bagworms" "Birds, bees, and STD's: The natural history of sexually transmitted disease" |
Winter 2002: "Deep Time" (Organizers: Rodney Mauricio, Steven Holland, Daniel Promislow)
| Andrew Knoll | Harvard University | "Fossils,
phylogeny, and environment in the early diversification of eukaryotic organisms"
"The deep history of life" |
| Jeremy B. C. Jackson | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
"The pace of life in the last few million years" "Unnatural oceans" |
| S. Blair Hedges | Pennsylvania State University | "A
genomic timescale for the origin of eukaryotes and rise in oxygen during
the Precambrian" "Molecular clocks, snowball Earth, the Cambrian explosion, and colonization of land by fungi and plants" |
| Michael Foote | University of Chicago | "Recalibrating
taxonomic origination and extinction intensity in earth history"
"Studying evolution in an incomplete fossil record" |
Winter 2001: "Applied Evolution" (Organizers: Rodney Mauricio and Daniel Promislow)
| Fred Gould | North Carolina State University | "Using
population genetic models to increase the efficiency of transgenic crops
and transgenic insect pests "
"Practical uses of evolutionary biology in sustainable agriculture" |
| Steven Benner | University of Florida |
"Redesigning nucleic acids: progress towards artificial genetics" "Why natural history is important to modern medicine" |
| Laura Landweber | Princeton University | "The
genetic code: from ancient to recent evolution"
"Computing with DNA and RNA" |
| Bruce Levin | Emory University | "The
within and between: population and evolutionary dynamics of bacterial infections
"
"Population biology, evolution and the future of antibiotics" |
Winter 2000: "Perspectives on Human Evolution" (Organizers: Rodney Mauricio and Daniel Promislow)
| Mark Stoneking | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
"Interspersed repeat polymorphism and human evolution" DNA and recent human evolution |
| Paul Gepts | University of California, Davis |
"Investigations of gene flow in Phaseolus vulgaris, a predominant selfer" "Phylogeographic analyses of plant domestication" |
| Derek Bickerton | University of Hawaii |
"How natural selection generated universal grammar" "The centrality of language in human evolution" |
| Frans de Waal | Emory University |
"The rewards of cooperation: cognitive aspects of primate reciprocity" "Bonobos and human social evolution" |
| Michael Nachman | University of Arizona |
"From genotype to phenotype: selection on ecologically important traits in mice " "Natural selection and DNA sequence variation in humans" |
Winter 1999: "Evolution of Sex" (Organizer: Daniel Promislow)
| H. Kern Reeve | Cornell University | "Toward a unified theory of social evolution: reproductive skew in social wasps" |
| Michael Ghiselin | California Academy of Sciences | "The mythology and phylogeny of sex" |
| Dan Schoen | McGill University | "Mutations, markers and plant genetic conservation" |
| Jack Werren | University of Rochester | "Evolution of Wolbachia: a widespread group of bacteria that affects reproduction in invertebrates" |
| Margo Wilson & Martin Daly | McMaster University | "Sex differences in fatal confrontations" |
Winter 1998 (Organizer: Daniel Promislow)
| Paul Ewald | Amherst College | "Evolution of infection diseases" |
| Loren Rieseberg | Indiana University | "Evolutionary genetics of sunflowers" |
| Kristen Hawkes | University of Utah |
"Hunting and meat sharing: evolution of the nuclear family reconsidered" "Grandmothers, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories" |
| Therese Markow | Arizona State University | "Evolution of mating behavior in Drosophila" |
| Daniel Dennett | Tufts University | "Darwin's dangerous idea" |