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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 Campus
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
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 Campus
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
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, 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
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
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
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, 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.