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2007-2008 Seminar Archives

Darwin Lecture Series
April 28, 2008, 6:00 PM
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Prospects and
Responsibilties
Speaker: Dr. Christopher F. Chyba
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and
Internationational Affairs, Director of Program on
Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium,
Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Seminar
April 24, 2008, 4:30 PM
Primness and Promiscuity in Oaks and Sedges:
Plant Diversification at Opposite Ends of the
Plant World
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Hipp
Plant Systematist, Morton Arboretum
Location: Pancoe 3103,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

ICEP Colloquium
April 9, 2008, 4:30 PM
The History of Evolutionary Thought
Speaker: Dr. Olivier Rieppel
MacArthur Curator of Fossil Reptiles
Chair of the Department of Geology
Field Museum of Natural History
Pancoe Room 2401
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

ICEP Colloquium
March 12, 2008 4:45 PM
Hormones, Hot Flashes and The Thrifty Grandmother
Speaker: Dr. Teresa Horton
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
Pancoe Room 2401
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Seminar
March 13, 2008, 4:30 PM
Soybean in a High CO2 and High O3 World
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Ainsworth
Research Scientist, USDA and
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Pancoe 3103,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Seminar
February 28, 2008 , 4:30 PM
Investigating the Biodiversity and Biogeography of
Macrofungi
Speaker: Dr. Greg Mueller
Curator of Fungi
Field Museum of Natural History
Location: Pancoe 3103, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus

PBC Seminar
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
Location: Pancoe 3103, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus

ICEP Colloquium
January 9, 2008 4:30 PM
The Birth and Death of microRNA Genes in the Genus
Drosophila and Their Impact on Phenotypic Variation
Speaker: Dr. Richard Carthew
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Northwestern University
Pancoe Room 2401,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.

ICEP Colloquium
November 14, 2007 4:30 PM
Sex When Spaced Out: Effects of Isolation on
Mating and Contemporary Evolution in Fragmented
Landscapes
Speaker: Dr. Stuart Wagenius, Conservation Scientist
Chicago Botanic Garden
Pancoe Room 2401,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.

PBC Seminar
November 8 , 2007, 4:30 PM
The Roles of Integration and Constraint in
Adaptive Evolution: A Floral Case Study
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Conner
Professor, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Michigan State University
Location: Pancoe 3103, 2200 Campus Drive,
Evanston Campus

ICEP Colloquium
October 10, 2007 4:30 PM
New Insights Into the Reality of Some Asian Large
Mammals: The Gobi Bear, The Kouprey, The
Khting Vor, and The Yellow Hog
Speaker: Dr. Gary J. Galbreath, Associate Director and
College Lecturer, WCAS Program in Biological Sciences
Pancoe Room 2401,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus.

Darwin Lecture Series
October 8, 2007 6:00 PM
The Early Evolultion of Multicellular Organisms
Speaker: Dr. Andrew H. Knoll,
Fisher Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium,
Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion,
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus

PBC Seminar
October 4, 2007, 4:30 PM
Ethnobotanical Uses for Plant-Derived Smoke
Speaker: Dr. Marcello Pennacchio
Ethnobotanist, Conservation Scientist
Chicago Botanic Garden
Location: Pancoe 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

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

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

Special Event
Thursday, April 19, 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

ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, April 12, 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

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 5, 2007 4:30 PM
In Praise of Alienation: Ecological Restoration as an Encounter with Nature-as-Other
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

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

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

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

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, February 15, 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

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.

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.

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, January 4, 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

ICEP Colloquium

Thursday, December 14, 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

ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, November 9, 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

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, November 2, 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

ICEP Colloquium
Thursday, October 12, 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

PBC Lecture Series

Thursday, October 5, 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

ICEP Lecture Series

Wednesday, September 27, 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

2005-2006 Seminar Archives

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 25th, 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.

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, May 4th 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.

ICEP Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 19, 3:30pm
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/


PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, April 6th, 4:30pm
"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.

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, March 9th, 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.

PBC Lecture Series
Thursday, Feb 16th 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.