EEB Discussion Group

(Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior)

Meetings are held every other Friday at 4pm at the Greenhouse (unless it is cold or rainy).

EEB is an informal seminar designed for exchange of ideas between students and faculty, through the presentation of research, discussion, and good company. All that is required is an interest in EEB.

All students (undergraduate & graduate) and faculty are welcome. Contact Dr. Caitlin Gabor if you are interested in joining and/or presenting.

Papers or related information will be linked as soon as they become available

Spring 2008 schedule

Date Leader(s) Topic
Jan. 25

Alberici, Aspbury, Gabor, Nice

Intro, sign up and Reading on How populations of asexual species persist (pdf)
Feb. 8

Half-Baked Idea Seminar- Billy Simper

Quantifying movement: prelude to landscape based dispersal modeling
Feb. 15

Garrett Street

Patch density determines movement patterns and foraging efficiency of large herbivores (pdf)
Feb. 22

Half-Baked Idea Seminar

TBA
Feb. 29

Kristen Epp

Discussion of predator-prey interactions (pdf)
March 7

Half-Baked Idea Seminar

TBA
March 21

Cancelled

TBA
March 28

Biology Colloquium

12-5pm
April 4

Half-Baked Idea Seminar - Buddy Gaertner

Predator-prey in action: chytrid fungus in Central Texas amphibians
April 11

Sunni Taylor

Hybrid vigor- paper to read (pdf) and data(doc)
April 18

Half-Baked Idea Seminar

April 25

Mitchell George-~4:15pm

Food chain lengths (pdf)

Fall 2007 schedule

Date Leader(s) Topic
August. 31 Gabor/ Epp Organizational & Risk Assessment by salamanders
Sept. 14

Celeste Espinedo

A scent of a Molly

Sept. 28

Shawn McCracken

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY EFFECTS AND THE ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF VERTICALLY STRATIFIED RAINFOREST CANOPY FAUNA
Oct 12

Jeff Troy

Color polymorphism and intersexual competition in wedge-tailed shearwaters
Oct 26 Michele Gaston

C&A out

Assessing the relative strength of sexual selection in anurans

Nov. 9

Laura Alberici

Molly genetics

Prior EEBs