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2007- 2008 Darwin Lecture Series Schedule
2007-2008 Plant Biology and Conservation Lecture Series Schedule
The Science and Practice of Restoration In the Face of Invasion: An Example from
Chicago Wilderness
Lauren Umek
DePaul University
January 24, 2008, 4:30 PM
Location: Pancoe 3103, 2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
The Roles of Integration and Constraint in
Adaptive Evolution: A Floral Case Study
Dr. Jeff Conner
Professor, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Michigan State University
November 8 , 2007, 4:30 PM
Location: Pancoe 3103, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus
Ethnobotanical Uses for Plant-Derived Smoke
Dr. Marcello Pennacchio
Ethnobotanist, Conservation Scientist
Chicago Botanic Garden
October 4, 2007, 4:30 PM
Location: Pancoe 3103, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus
2007-2008 ICEP Colloquia Series Schedule
The Evolution of Evolutionary Philosophy
and its place in the modern world
Dr. Lance Grande
Senior Vice President and Head of Collections and Research
Field Museum of Natural History
May 14, 2008, 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe 2401, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus
The History of Evolutionary Thought
Dr. Olivier Rieppel
Department of Geology
Field Museum of Natural History
April 9, 2008, 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe 2401, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus
Hormones, Hot Flashes and the Thrifty Grandmother
Dr. Teresa Horton
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
March 12, 2008, 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe 2401, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus
"The Birth and Death of microRNA Genes in the Genus
Drosophila and Their Impact on Phenotypic Variation"
Dr.
Richard Carthew
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
January 9, 2008, 4:30 PM
Location: Pancoe 2401, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus
Sex When Spaced Out: Effects of Isolation on Mating and Contemporary
Evolution in Fragmented Landscapes
Dr. Stuart Wagenius
Institute for Plant Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden
November 14, 2007, 4:30 PM
Pancoe 2401
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
New Insights Into the Reality of Some Asian Large Mammals:
The Gobi Bear, The Kouprey, The Khting Vor, and The Yellow Hog
Dr. Gary J. Galbreath
Associate Director and Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Program in Biological Sciences, Northwestern University
October 10, 2007, 4:30 PM
Pancoe 2401
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
2006-2007 Darwin Lecture Series Schedule
Discovering Tiktaalik: Learning about the transition from fish to amphibian
Dr. Neil Shubin
Provost, The Field Museum of Natural History
Professor and Chair, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:30 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture
Pancoe- ENH Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
The Evolution of the Human Lifespan
Dr. Caleb Finch
Professor, ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging and Professor of Gerontology, Biology and Psychology
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 7, 12:00 PM Reception, 12:30 PM Lecture
Ryan Family Auditorium
Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
Dr. Robert M. Hazen
Research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University
Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:30 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture
Pancoe- ENH Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Earth Day Special Event!
Brave New Ocean
Dr. Jeremy Jackson
William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:45 PM Lecture
Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
2006-2007 Plant Biology and Conservation (PBC) Lecture Series Schedule
Plant diversity and evolution in China's Hengduan Mountains, a temperate-zone biodiversity hotspot
Speaker: Richard Ree, Ph.D., Assistant Curator
Botany Department
Field Museum of Natural History
Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:30 PM
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Gene expression studies on physiological dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds
Speaker: Peter Toorop
Molecular Biologist, Millennium Seed Bank Project
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:30 PM
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
In Praise of Alienation: Ecological Restoration as an Encounter with Nature-as-Other
Dr.Wiliam R. Jordan III
Co-Director, Institute for Nature and Culture
DePaul University
Thursday, April 5, 2007 4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Drivers of ecological change: Tracking 50 year shifts in forest understories
Dr. Don Waller
Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin
President, The Society for the Study of Evolution, 2006-07
Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin
Thursday, March 1, 2007 4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Disease transmission and insect outbreaks
Dr. Greg Dwyer, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago
Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Experimental Restoration of Complexity in Tropical Landscapes
Dr. Henry F. Howe, Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies for Ecology and Evolution, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Local and landscape oak genetics
Dr. Mary V. Ashley
Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Thursday, November 2, 2006 4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Ecology and evolution of a native purple coneflower, Echinacea angustifolia, in fragmented prairie
Dr. Stuart Wagenius, Conservation Scientist
Institute for Plant Conservation,
Chicago Botanic Garden
Thursday, October 5, 2006
4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Printable flyer (PDF)
The Challenges of Conserving Amazonian Ecosystems: A Cooperative Effort among Governments, Educators, Scientists, and NGOs
Dr. Jose "Pepe" Alvarez, 2006 Parker/Gentry recipient, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 2401
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Printable Flyer (PDF)
2005-06 Schedule
Collapse and recovery of terrestrial ecosystems across the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction boundary 200 million years ago
Dr. Jennifer C. McElwain, Associate Curator of Paleobotany, Department of Geology, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
May 25, 2006
4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Worlds Apart: why urban ecological restoration fails and what we can do about it
Dr. Liam Heneghan, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Co-Director of the Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University
May 4, 2006
4:30 PM Lecture
Pancoe 3103
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Ethnobotany, Cyanotoxins, and Neurodegenerative Disease
Dr. Paul Cox, Institute for Ethnomedicine
April 19, 2006
3:30 PM Lecture
4:30 PM Reception
Tech Lecture Room 4
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Evolution: The Impact of Social and Political Concerns on Science
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
5:30 PM Reception
6:00 PM Lecture
Pancoe Auditorium
Pancoe Life Sciences Building
2200 Campus Drive, Room 110
Evanston
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
5:30 PM Reception
6:00 PM Lecture
Pritzker Auditorium
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
251 East Huron Street, Chicago
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, is recognized internationally as an expert on the controversy surrounding evolution. She will address the political and social issues challenging the science classroom.
Robert T. Pennock, professor of history, philosophy, and sociology of science at Michigan State University, is author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism. He will define what science is and is not.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the Center for Genetic Medicine as part of the Silverstein Lecture Series. For more information please visit www.cgm.northwestern.edu
Temperature sensing in plants: How do plants know it's going to be a hot day and get ready for it?
Professor Pierre Goloubinoff, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Thursday, April 6th.
4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
Sponsored by the Master's Program in Plant Biology and Conservation.
Ecoregional Assessments: Informing the Conservation of Regional Biodiveristy in an Ecological Context
Dr. Jonathan V. Higgins, Senior Ecologist, Global Conservation Approach Team, The Nature Conservancy
Thursday, March 9th
4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Sponsored by the Master's Program in Plant Biology and Conservation.
Quantifying the Quality of Evolutionary Data from the Fossil Record
Dr. Susan Kidwell, University of Chicago
February 22, 2006
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Tech LR 4, 2145 N. Sheridan Road
Map
Printable Flyer (PDF)
Susan Kidwell, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago. This talk will provide an overview of some of the major challenges facing evolutionary analysis of the fossil record.
Ever since Darwin, biologists have been aware of the enormous potential of the fossil record to reveal the diversity of past life and its evolutionary patterns, but this has been accompanied by concerns about record quality: to what extent is the record incomplete, that is full of gaps, and to what extent is surviving information distorted because of preferential loss of some clades, morphs, habitats, etc? Analysis of completeness and bias have become increasingly quantitative in the last several decades, permitting us both to test our intuitions – do biases actually exist in the supposed directions, and in detectable levels? – and to develop correction factors and other strategies to compensate for bias or circumvent it. This talk will provide an overview of some of the major challenges facing evolutionary analysis of the record and progress being made by taphonomic analysis, both of the stratigraphic record itself and in analogous modern systems.
Games plants play: Tragedy of the commons and nutrient foraging by roots
Dr. Joel Brown, UIC
Thursday, February 16.
4:30 PM
Pancoe 3103
Printable Flyer (PDF)
2006-2007 ICEP Colloquia Series Schedule
April 12 Conodonts Dr. Gil Klapper,
Professor Emeritus,
Micropaleontology,
University of Iowa, Department of Geoscience
February 8 Francesca Smith, Earth and Planetary Sciences - Plant lipid isotope signatures as molecular fossils and paleoclimate proxies
Printable Flyer
January 11 Jeremie Fant, Chicago Botanic Garden -"Floral syndromes within Penstemon species: Intraspecific variation in flower shape and pollinator community"
Printable Flyer
December 14 Rich Barclay, Earth and Planetary Sciences - Fighting For An Invisible Food Source? CO2 and Paleoclimate During The Rise of Angiosperms
Printable Flyer
Nov 9 Eugene Xu, Feinberg School of Medicine - Evolution of Sperm development from fly to man: Convergence or Conservation?
Printable Flyer
Oct 12 Thomas McDade, WCAS Anthropology - "Ethnocological knowledge and child health in lowland Bolivia"
Printable flyer
2005-06 Schedule
May 10 Nyree Zerega - "Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Crop Origins and Pollination Syndromes"
Printable flyer
March 8 Bob Cook, "The Unique Evolution of a Protein: Insertions in the Hormone Inhibin and Implications for the Evolution of Early Mammals"
February 8 Terry Horton, "A Practical Guide to Science and the Theory of Evolution"
January 11, 2006 Matt Hurtgen. Geological Sciences
November 9
Carla Ng
"Food web evolution in a changing landscape: the impacts of dynamic processes on trophic structure."
The structure of aquatic food webs are undergoing rapidand many would say acceleratingchange. Multiple stresses, including non-indigenous species invasions, chronic and acute chemical contamination, large-scale habitat disruption, and climate change, all act to disrupt the “natural” structure of food webs. Often, the synergistic or antagonistic effects of these interacting stresses lead to unexpected changes in food web structure. These changes can have significant implications not only for the directly affected wildlife, but also for human populations interacting with these ecosystems, the Great Lakes’ communities being a prime example. I will touch on various aspects of these impacts, and concentrate in particular on some of the effects on human and wildlife health that are associated with altered food web structure.
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