ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SEMINAR SERIES*
Spring 2015
ECL 296 (CRN 30286) / PBG 292 (CRN 44196)
Thursdays, 4:10-5:30PM; Wellman 6
April 2
“Sexual selection and adaptive divergence with gene flow”
Reinhard Bürger, University of Vienna
Host: Sebastian Schreiber, sschreiber@ucdavis.edu
April 9
“Hidden consequences of living in my wormy world: insights of natural populations”
Vanessa Ezenwa, University of Georgia
Host: Meg Crowfoot, mccrowfoot@ucdavis.edu
April 16
“The evolution of cooperation and cooperative breeding”
Storer Lecturer: Tim Clutton-Brock, University of Cambridge
Host: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder mborgerhoffmulder@ucdavis.edu
April 23
Co-sponsored by Biostatistics “TBA”
Perry de Valpine, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Sebastian Schreiber, sschreiber@ucdavis.edu
April 30
“Metrics for Conservation and Human Well-being: Monitoring the impacts of
an international NGO ”
Madeleine Bottrill, Conservation International
Host: Mark Schwartz, mwschwartz@ucdavis.edu
May 7
“Wallace, Darwin, Hendrix, zebras and fairy tales”
Tim Caro, University of California, Davis
May 14
“The causes and consequences of natural selection for speciation”
Robin Hopkins, Harvard University
Host: Gideon Bradburd gbradburd@ucdavis.edu
May 21
“From gliding ants to Andean hummingbirds: the evolution of animal flight evolution”
Robert Dudley, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Peter Wainwright pcwainwright@ucdavis.edu
May 28
TBA
June 4
Merton Love Award TBA
*Sponsored by: College of Biological Sciences, Department of Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population
Biology, Graduate Group in Ecology, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, Department of Plant
Sciences, Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology, Department of Land, Air and Water
Resources, Center for Theoretical Ecology, and John Muir Institute for the Environment.