departmental Seminars

January

17

Swamp Bats: Roosting Ecology Under Thermal and Hydrological Extremes

Matt Clement

Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Bloomington, IN.

24

 From social interactions to spatial genetic structure

Dr. Eric B. Liebgold

Dept. of Biology:  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

31

How social cues influence habitat selection in birds

Dr. Michael P. Ward

Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign

February

7

How long does Juliet listen? How male acoustic signals influence female reproduction in the gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor

Dr. Noah Gordon

Dept. of Biology, University of Evansville.

14

Darwin Day Seminar: The Structure of Phenotypic Variation: Novel Insights from Analyses of Repeatedly Expressed Trait

Dr. David Westneat

Dept. of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

21

Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment: Using Biological Indicators to Identify and Diagnose Impairment

Charles Morris

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, Indiana

28

Social relationships, health, and survival in wild baboons

Dr. Elizabeth Archie

Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, South Bend.

March

6

Spring Break

13

Estimating the trajectory of reptile populations in a fragmented landscape: two case studies

Dr. Christopher A. Phillips

Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois.

20

Why should we care about microbial sociality?

Dr. Joan Strassmann

Dept. of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis.

27

Looking for sexual selection in the brain: a behavioral genomics approach with swordtails

Dr. Molly Cummings

Schools of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin.

April

3

Costs and coercion: evidence of mafia-like and farming behaviors in brood parasitic cowbirds

Dr. Jeffrey P. Hoover

Illinois Natural History, Champaign, Illinois.

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