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2012-2013 Seminar Archives

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 4:30 PM

Microbial Seed Banks: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of Dormancy

Speaker: Jay Lennon, PhD, Associate Professor, Indiana University

Northwestern University, Francis Searle Building Room 2407, Evanston, IL

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 4:30 PM

Dispersal Limitation as a Driving Force in Fungal Communities

Speaker: Tom Bruns, PhD, Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Chicago Botanic Garden,

Plant Science Center Seminar Room, Glencoe, IL  

2011-2012 Seminar Archives

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 4:30 PM

An Evolutionary-Developmental Perspective on the Flowering Plant Reproductive Syndrome

Speaker: Ned Friedman, PhD, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Technological Institute M177, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 4:30 PM

Hybridizing Invasive Plant Species: Challenges for Invaded Ecosystems

Speaker: Pamela Geddes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University

Technological Institute Room M177, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 4:30 PM

Climate Change, Alpine Vegetation, and Ethnobotany in the High Himalaya

Speaker: Jan Salick, PhD, Senior Curator of Ethnobotany, Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Science Center Seminar Room, Glencoe, IL

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:30 PM

A Need for Integrating Host and Mycorrhizal Fungal Responses to Environmental Forcing Factors – Examples from Aspen FACE

Speaker: Mike Miller, PhD, Senior Terrestrial Ecologist/Group Leader, Biosciences Division, Argonne

Chicago Botanic Garden, Plant Science Center Seminar Room, Glencoe, IL

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 4:30 PM

Global Change and the Future of Plant Invasions

Speaker: Bethany Bradley, PhD,

Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts

Amherst

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:30 PM

Perfect Strangers: Exploring How the Association with Plants Affects the Diversity and Distribution of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

Speaker: Andrew Wilson, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chicago Botanic Garden

Frances Searle Building, Room 2370, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 4:30 PM Biogeochemical Controls on Soil Organic Matter Decomposition and Accumulation in a Subtropical Savanna

Speaker: Tim Filley, PhD, Associate Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

Frances Searle Building, Room 2370, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 4:30 PM

Tropical Land-use Change and the Carbon Cycle: Patterns and Processes at Regional and Global Scales

Speaker: Jennifer Powers, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Plant Biology & Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota
Frances Searle Building, Room 2370, Evanston Campus
2010-2011 Seminar Archives

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:30 PM

Cashew Family (Anacardiaceae) Evolution: Phylogenies, Fruits, and Dermatitis

Speaker: Susan K. Pell, PhD, Director of Science, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campu
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PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 4:30 PM

Native Species Evolution in Response to Cheatgrass (Bromus Tectorum) Invasion

Speaker: Elizabeth Leger, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Nevada
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, February 10, 2011, 4:30 PM

Community Phylogeography and Conservation of the Carnivorous Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia Alata)

Speaker: Margaret M. Koopman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, January 13, 2011, 4:30 PM

Native Bee Diversity in Fragmented Landscapes and it's Implications for Pollinator Dependent Agriculture

Speaker: Stephen Hendrix, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Iowa
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 4:30 PM

Breeding Biology and Conservation Genetics of the Lemon Shark, Negaprion Brevirostris

Speaker: Kevin Feldheim, PhD, Biologist and Manager, Field Museum’s Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, October 7, 2010, 4:30 PM

Taxonomy of Wild Potatoes, a Difficult Species Group

Speaker: David Spooner, PhD, Research Botanist, USDA, ARS Professor, Department of Horticulture University of Wisconsin - Madison
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
2009-2010 Seminar Archives
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 4:30 PM
Management and Decision Modeling: Attempts to Bridge Conservation Theory with Practice
Speaker: Eric Lonsdorf, PhD, Director, Urban Wildlife Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus


PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 4:30 PM
Evolutionary Dynamics in Domesticated Trees
Speaker: Allison J. Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, St. Louis University

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 4:30 PM
Floral biology, florivory, and reproduction of an understory rainforest tree, Anaxagorea crassipetala (Annonaceae)
Speaker: Joseph E. Armstrong, PhD, Professor of Botany, Illinois State University
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 4:30 PM

Loss of Self-incompatibility is an Evolutionary Decadence
Speaker: Boris Igic, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

Boris Igic's photo
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 4:30 PM
At the sharp end: On the front lines of the conservation of the Sharp-tailed Grouse in Wisconsin
Speaker: Bradley J. Swanson, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, Central Michigan University
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:30 PM
Landscape connectivity – for better or for worse?
Speaker: Emily Minor, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campu
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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 4:30 PM
The Role of a Hemiparasite in a Restored Prairie Community
Speaker: Victoria A. Borowicz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

2008-2009 Seminar Archives

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 4:30 PM
Host Plant Resistance as Part of a Plant Health Care Management Program:  Relative susceptibility of woody landscape plants shade tree species for  defoliating insect pests.
Speaker: Fredric Miller, PhD, Professor of Horticulture, Joliet Junior College, Research Associate in Entomology, The Morton Arboretum

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 4:30 PM

Systematics of Vanilla and Related Orchids:
A Test Case for Plant DNA Barcoding

Speaker: Kenneth Cameron, PhD, Associate of Professor of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 5:30 PM
Constraints on Geographic Range Change and the Need for a New Conservation Paradigm
Speaker: Jessica Hellman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Technological Institute,Tech LR4
2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston Campus
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, January 22, 2009, 4:30 PM
Kin Recognition in Four Annual Plants
Speaker: Susan A. Dudley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, McMaster University, Ontario Canada
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 4:30 PM
Does Terrestrial Vegetation Regulate Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations?
Speaker: Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 4:30 PM
Declining Desmodium: Multiple
Approaches to a Unique Conservation Problem

Speaker: Krissa Skogen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Conservation, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

2007-2008 Seminar Archives

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 4:30 PM

A Species on the Edge (Of Its Range): Climate Change and the Northern Limit of Sugar Maple

Speaker: David Goldblum, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4:30 PM

Primness and Promiscuity in Oaks and Sedges: Plant Diversification at Opposite Ends of the Plant World

Speaker: Andrew Hipp, PhD, Plant Systematist, Morton Arboretum

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 4:30 PM

Soybean in a High CO2 and High O3 World

Speaker: Lisa Ainsworth, PhD, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, USDA ARS Photosynthesis Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 4:30 PM

Investigating the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Macrofungi

Speaker: Greg Mueller, PhD, Curator of Fungi, The Field Museum of Natural History

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 4:30 PM

The Science and Practice of Restoration

In the Face of Invasion: An Example from

Chicago Wilderness

Speaker: Lauren Umek, Urban Ecology Project Coordinator, DePaul University

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 4:30 PM

The roles of integration and constraint in adaptive evolution: a floral case study

Speaker: Jeff Conner, PhD, Professor of Plant Biology, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:30 PM

Ethnobotanical Uses for Plant-Derived Smoke

Speaker: Marcello Pennacchio, PhD, Ethnobotanist, Conservation Scientist

Chicago Botanc Garden

Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

2006-2007 Seminar Archives
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 17, 2007, 4:30 PM
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
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 10, 2007, 4:30 PM
Gene expression studies on physiological dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds
Speaker: Peter Toorop
Molecular Biologist, Millennium Seed Bank Project
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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Darwin Lecture Series
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007, 5:30 PM Reception 6:00 PM Lecture
Discovering Tiktaalik: Learning about the transition from fish to amphibian
Speaker: Dr. Neil Shubin, Provost, The Field Museum Professor and Chair of the Department of
Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago.
Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
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Special Event
Thursday, April 19, 2007, 5:45 PM Lecture
Brave New Ocean
Speaker: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
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ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 4:30 PM Lecture
Conodonts
Speaker: Dr. Gil Klapper
Professor Emeritus, Micropaleontology
University of Iowa, Department of Geoscience
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:30 PM
Specific Title TBA
Speaker: William R. Jordan III Co-director, Institute for Nature and Culture,
DePaul University, author of The Sunflower Forest
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

forest
ICEP Darwin Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 12:30 PM Lecture

The Evolution of the Human Lifespan
Speaker: 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
Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 4:30 PM Lecture
Drivers of ecological change:  Tracking 50 year shifts in forest understories
Speaker: Dr. Don Waller, Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
President, The Society for the Study of Evolution, 2006-07
Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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ICEP Darwin Lecture Series
Thursday, February 22, 2007, 5:30 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
Speaker: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
Pancoe- ENH Auditorium, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 4:30 PM

Disease transmission and insect outbreaks
Speaker: Dr. Greg Dwyer
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 4:30 PM
Plant lipid isotope signatures as molecular fossils and paleoclimate proxies
Speaker: Francesca Smith, Associate Professor, Earth
and Planetary Sciences
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.
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ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, January 11 2007, 4:30 PM
"Floral syndromes within Penstemon species: Intraspecific variation in flower shape and pollinator community"
Speaker: Jeremie Fant, Chicago Botanic Garden
Pancoe Life Sciences Building,Room 3103, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, January 4, 2007, 4:30 PM
Experimental Restoration of Complexity in Tropical Landscapes
Speaker: Henry F. Howe
Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies for Ecology and Evolution, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

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ICEP Colloquium

Thursday, December 14, 2006, 4:30 PM
Fighting For An Invisible Food Source? CO2 and Paleoclimate During The Rise of Angiosperms
Speaker: Richard S. Barclay
Ph.D. Student, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

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ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 5:00 PM
Evolution of sperm development from fly to man: Convergence or Conservation?
Speaker: Dr. Eugene Y. Xu
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:30PM

Local and landscape oak genetics
Speaker: Dr. Mary V. Ashley
Professor, Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 5:00 PM

Ethnoecological knowledge and child health in lowland Bolivia
Speaker: Dr. Thomas McDade
Associate Professor
WCAS Anthropology
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

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PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4:30 PM
Ecology and Evolution of a native purple coneflower,
Echinacea angustifolia, in fragmented prairie

Speaker: Dr.Stuart Wagenius
Conservation Scientist
Institute for Plant Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

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ICEP Lecture Series

Wednesday, September 27, 2006,
4:30 PM

The Challenges of Conserving Amazonian Ecosystems:
A Cooperative Effort among Governments, Educators, Scientists, and NGOs

Speaker: Dr. Jose "Pepe" Alvarez
2006 Parker/Gentry Recipient
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 2401
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

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2005-2006 Seminar Archives
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 25, 2006, 4:30 PM
"Collapse and recovery of terrestrial ecosystems across the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction boundary 200 million years ago"

Speaker: Jennifer C. McElwain,
Associate Curator of Paleobotany
Department of Geology
The Field Museum of Natural History
Pancoe #3103, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Jennifer McElwain
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 4:30 PM
"Worlds Apart: why urban ecological restoration fails and what we can do about it"

Speaker: Dr. Liam Heneghan, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Co-Director of the Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University.
Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.

Worlds Apart

ICEP Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 3:30 PM
Ethnobotany, Cyanotoxins, and Neurodegenerative Disease
Dr. Paul Cox, Institute for Ethnomedicine
LR 4, Tech institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston Campus
presented by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Evolutionary Processes (ICEP)

http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/evolution/

Dr. Paul Cox
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 6, 2006, 4:30 PM
"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
Pancoe 3103, Evanston Campus.

Temperature Sensing in Plants
PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, March 9 2006, 4:30 PM
"Ecoregional Assessments: Informing the Conservation of Regional Biodiversity in an Ecological Context."
Speaker: Jonathan V. Higgins Ph.D., Senior Ecologist, Global Conservation Approach Team, The Nature Conservancy. Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.
Ecoregional Assessments: Informing the Conservation of Regional Biodiversity in an Ecological Context

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, Feb 16, 2006, 4:30 PM
"Games Plants Play: Root Competition and the Tragedy of the Commons"
Speaker: Joel Brown, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Illinois-Chicago. Pancoe Life Sciences Building, Room 3103, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.
Games Plants Play

 

 

 

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