2006-2007 Seminars
Monthly seminars and colloquia are presented by the
Masters' Program in Plant Biology and Conservation and the
Interdisciplinary Committee on Evolutionary Processes
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 
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, 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
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