Fall 2007 & Spring 2008
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Fall 2007
October 1
Monday
12:00 PM
300 Wallace Hall
Joint EEB and STEP Seminar
Robert M. May, University of Oxford
"Parasites, people and poverty: Infectious diseases and millennium development goals"

October 4
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Young Investigator Seminar
Jeremy R. Niven,
University of Cambridge
"Energy, information and size trade-offs in neurons"

October 11
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
The Class of 1877 Lecture
Paul Sherman,
Cornell University
"Darwinian medicine: Why we have allergies"


October 25
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Sunetra Gupta, Oxford University
"A new perspective oninfluenza evolution"

November 7
Wednesday
4:15 PM
Robertson Hall
Bowl 2
Joint EEB and WWS Seminar
Marcel Tanner, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
"
Neglected Diseases and the Challenges of International Health"

November 8
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan
"Infectious disease dynamics in a changing world"

November 15
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
The George M. Moffett Lecture
Raymond Huey,
University of Washington
"Ecological and evolutionary consequences of environmental change:
past, present, future"

December 6
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
The John Bonner Lecture
Kevin Foster,
Harvard University
"Social evolution of microbes"

December 13
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Young Investigator Seminar
Ryan Norris
, University of Guelph
"Stable isotopes, migration and conservation"

Spring 2008
     
February 21
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall

Young Investigator Seminar
Nathalie Seddon,
Oxford University
"Signal evolution and speciation in suboscine birds"

February 27
Wednesday

12:20 PM
LTL 003
Joint MolBio/EEB Seminar
Jack Szostak, Harvard University
"Learning about the origin of life from efforts to design an artificial cell"


March 6
Thursday

12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Young Investigator Seminar
Patricia Beldade,
Leiden University
"Evolutionary diversification of form: genes and development behind butterfly wing patterns"

March 13
Thursday

12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
The Robert M. May Lecture
Stuart Pimm,
Duke University
"Using laws of biodiversity to make practical conservation decisions"



March 25
Tuesday


12:30 PM
209 Eno Hall
John Terborgh, Duke University
March 27
Thursday

12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Douglas Yu, University of East Anglia
"Contracts and the evolution of mutualism"

April 3
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Young Investigator Seminar
Renee Duckworth,
Harvard University
"Evolution of adaptive dispersal strategies and the dynamics of
a range expansion"
April 10
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Kevin Lafferty, UC Santa Barbara & USGS
"Parasites and food webs"

April 17
Thursday
12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Young Investigator Seminar
Karin Pfennig,
University of North Carolina
"The evolutionary ecological implications of fitness trade-offs in mate recognition"

April 24
Thursday

12:30 PM
10 Guyot Hall
Harry Greene, Cornell University
"Pleistocene rewilding: Lions in a den of Daniels?"
   
For information regarding EEB's colloquium please contact Pia Ellen (piaellen 'at' princeton.edu)
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