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==<span style="color:#008000">'''EEB 3894 Overview'''</span>==
 
==<span style="color:#008000">'''EEB 3894 Overview'''</span>==
  
Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Spring, 2009<br>
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Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Spring, 2014<br>
 
1 credit<br>
 
1 credit<br>
 
Thursday 2:30-5pm<br>
 
Thursday 2:30-5pm<br>
Bamford conference room (Torrey Life Sciences 171b)<br>
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Room: TBD<br>
  
Instructors: [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Tobias_Landberg Tobias Landberg] & [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Kat_Shaw Katherine Shaw]
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Instructor: [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/William_Ryerson Bill Ryerson]
  
We will meet all the distinguished scientists on this semester's  [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebwww/seminars.php#228 list of speakers.]
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We will meet all the distinguished scientists on this semester's  [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebwww/seminars.php#415 list of speakers.]
Student will be responsible for participating in each meeting. We will read at least one research article written by a different visiting scholar every week. After a half hour of discussion, we will meet the person behind the science and then hear them give an hour-long research seminar. This course is for undergraduate students interested in broadening their understanding of modern ecology and evolutionary biology by engaging in active discussion.
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Student will be responsible for participating in each meeting. We will read at least one research article written by a different visiting scholar every week. After a half hour of discussion, we will meet the person behind the science and then hear them give an hour-long research seminar. This course is for undergraduate students interested in broadening their understanding of modern ecology and evolutionary biology by engaging in active discussion. Read this [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Image:Guidesforpaperandiscussion.pdf guide]to writing response papers and preparing for discussion.
  
 
Grades will be calculated out of 140 points (10 points/week)  
 
Grades will be calculated out of 140 points (10 points/week)  
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'''Leading 1 discussion= 10 points''' Pick research article for the discussion, summarize and focus discussion with peers.  
 
'''Leading 1 discussion= 10 points''' Pick research article for the discussion, summarize and focus discussion with peers.  
*Email '''Kat (katherine.shaw@uconn.edu)''' with article choice ''@ least'' 1 week before you lead seminar discussion.
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*Email '''Bill (william.ryerson@uconn.edu)''' with article choice ''@ least'' 1 week before you lead seminar discussion.
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Read this [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Image:Guidesforpaperandiscussion.pdf guide]to writing response papers and preparing for discussion.
 
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==<span style="color:#008000">'''Spring 2009 Seminars'''</span>==
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==<span style="color:#008000">'''Spring 2014 Seminars'''</span>==
 
''(Thursday @ 4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ BPB 130] unless otherwise noted)''
 
''(Thursday @ 4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ BPB 130] unless otherwise noted)''
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'''February 13, 2014''' - ''Teale Lecture*''<br>
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[http://environment.yale.edu/profile/leiserowitz/ Anthony Leiserowitz] (Yale University) ''Climate Change in the American Mind''<br>
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'''March 27, 2014''' - ''Teale Lecture*'' <br>
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[http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/people/Faculty/steven_gaines.htm Steven D. Gaines] (UC - Santa Barbara) ''What role will the oceans play in meeting the global demand for food?''<br>
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'''April 10, 2014''' - ''Teale Lecture*''<br>
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[http://www.noaa.gov/lubchenco.html Jane Lubchenco] (NOAA) ''Climate, Weather, Oceans and Biodiversity: Science in Policy and Politics''<br>
  
'''January 22, 2009'''
 
[http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/MORPH/labs/interests/mcdaniel_ri.html Stuart McDaniel] (Washington University)
 
Mating system, hybrid incompatibility, and diversification in mosses <br>
 
 
 
 
'''January 29, 2009'''
 
[http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/biosci/faculty_staff/blob_r.html Rick Blob] (Clemson University)
 
Functional diversity: insights from studies of weird animals doing strange things <br>
 
 
 
'''February 2, 2009'''
 
[http://www.usm.edu/biology/faculty/Faculty_Profile_Frank_R_Moore.htm Frank Moore] (The University of Southern Mississippi)
 
TBA <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000"> MONDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in BPB 130</span> <br>
 
 
 
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'''February 5, 2009'''
 
Bud Ward  (The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media)
 
Bridging the Science/Journalism Gap in a Time of Epochal Change <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Teale Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''February 12, 2009'''
 
[http://www.uri.edu/cels/gel_home/fastovsky.htm David Fastovsky] (University of Rhode Island) Catastrophic Extinction of the Dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary <br>
 
 
 
'''February 19, 2009'''
 
[http://www.columbia.edu/~mu2126/ Maria Uriarte] (Columbia University) TBA <br>
 
 
 
'''February 25, 2009'''
 
[http://web.mac.com/haughtj1/Site/Welcome.html John Haught] (Georgetown University)
 
Evolution and Faith: What Is at Stake? <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">WEDNESDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Darwin Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''March 5, 2009'''
 
[http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/potvin/index.htm Catherine Potvin] (McGIll University)
 
Forest carbon stocks and land-use: Reconciling the international agenda with the needs of indigenous populations <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Teale Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''March 19, 2009'''
 
[http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/LPPI.html Mark Hauser] (Harvard University)
 
The Evolution of a Moral Grammar <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Darwin Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''March 25, 2009'''
 
[http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca/faculty/beatty/ John Beatty] (University of British Columbia)
 
Karl Popper, Darwinianism, and Totalitarianism: Evolutionary Theory and Political Ideology  <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">WEDNESDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Darwin Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''March 26, 2009'''
 
[http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/jshipley/recherche/ Bill Shipley] (Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec)
 
Modelling trait-based community assembly through entropy maximization <br>
 
 
 
'''April 2, 2009'''
 
[http://zoology.ou.edu/Mares.htm Michael Mares] (University of Oklahoma)
 
Sun Tzu and the Art of War: How the Battle of Museums to Survive has a Negative Impact on Nature and the Environment <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Teale Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''April 9, 2009'''
 
[http://www.brown.edu/Faculty/Dunn_Lab/index.php?subject=Research Casey Dunn] (Brown University)
 
Scalable and portable phylogenetic strategies in the era of high throughput sequencing  <br>
 
 
 
'''April 15, 2009'''
 
[http://louisville.edu/a-s/biology/ewald.html Paul Ewald] (University of Louisville)
 
Darwinian Medicine  <br>
 
<span style="color:#ff0000">WEDNESDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in [http://admissions.uconn.edu/virtualtour/search/ Dodd Center]: Darwin Lecture Series</span> <br>
 
 
 
'''April 23, 2009'''
 
[http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1100925750 Osvaldo Sala] (Brown University)
 
Spatial and temporal controls of carbon cycling in arid and semiarid ecosystems <br>
 
 
 
'''April 30, 2009'''
 
[http://www.lutzonilab.net/members/page226.shtml Jolanta Miadlikowska] (Duke University)
 
Exploring lichen symbiosis and its contribution to the diversification of Ascomycota <br>
 
  
 
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|width=56%|'''Discussion Article'''
 
|width=56%|'''Discussion Article'''
 
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|22 January || Stuart McDaniel || Tobias & Kat || None - Discuss Syllabus and Website
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|23 January || || Bill || None - Discuss Syllabus, Website, Class Goals, How to read and interpret scientific literature
 
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|29 January || Rick Blob || LeRoy || [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112649722/abstract Blob, R. W. and Snelgrove, J. M. 2006. Antler stiffness in moose (Alces alces): Correlated evolution of bone function and material properties? Journal of Morphology 267: 1075-1086.] Download PDF using 'Full Text: '''PDF''''
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|30 January || Jonathan Wilson || TBD ||  
 
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|05 February <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' ||Bud Ward|| TBA ||
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|6 February || Cathy Pringle || TBD ||
 
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|12 February || David Fastovsky || Greg ||  
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|13 February <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)'''|| Anthony Leiserowitz || TBD ||  
 
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|19 February || Maria Uriarte || Michael ||  
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|20 February || || TBD ||
 
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|25 February <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' <br> '''(Wednesday Seminar**)''' || John Haught || Thomas ||  
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|27 February ||   || TBD ||
 
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|05 March <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' || Catherine Potvin || TBA ||  
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|6 March || Jill Wergrzyn || TBD ||
 
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|12 March || **Spring Break** || **No Class** ||
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|13 March || Beth Brainder || TBD ||
 
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|19 March <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' || Mark Hauser || Yalitza||  
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|20 March || SPRING BREAK!||   ||
 
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|26 March || Bill Shipley || Laura ||  
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|27 March <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' ||Steven Gaines || TBD ||  
 
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|2 April November <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' || Michael Mares  || ||  
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|3 April || Mark Moffett || TBD ||
 
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|9 April || Casey Dunn || ||  
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|10 April <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' || Jane Lubchenco || TBD |||
 
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|15 April <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' <br> '''(Wednesday Seminar**)'''  || Paul Ewald || ||  
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|17 April || Norm Wickett || TBD ||  
 
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|23 April || Osvaldo Sala || ||
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|24 April || Bruce Patterson || TBD ||
 
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|30 April || Jolanta Miadlikowska ||  ||  
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|1 May || Tracy Heath||
 
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Seminars in the [[Darwin Lecture Series]] and Teale Lecture Series are held in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center (near the Homer Babbidge Library).<br>
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Seminars in the Teale Lecture Series are held in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center (near the Homer Babbidge Library).<br>
<nowiki>**</nowiki> The department seminar will be held on Wednesday of this week. We will discuss a paper on Thursday, and students are encouraged to attend the seminar on Wednesday.
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[[Category:EEB Seminars]]
 
[[Category:EEB Seminars]]

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EEB 3894 Overview

Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Spring, 2014
1 credit
Thursday 2:30-5pm
Room: TBD

Instructor: Bill Ryerson

We will meet all the distinguished scientists on this semester's list of speakers. Student will be responsible for participating in each meeting. We will read at least one research article written by a different visiting scholar every week. After a half hour of discussion, we will meet the person behind the science and then hear them give an hour-long research seminar. This course is for undergraduate students interested in broadening their understanding of modern ecology and evolutionary biology by engaging in active discussion. Read this guideto writing response papers and preparing for discussion.

Grades will be calculated out of 140 points (10 points/week)

Attendance= 4 points/week Attend discussion and seminar every week.

Participation= 4 points/week Ask questions, volunteer comments and engage in constructive discussion with peers and speaker.

1 page response paper= 2 points/week Typed, double-spaced response to the research article.

Leading 1 discussion= 10 points Pick research article for the discussion, summarize and focus discussion with peers.

  • Email Bill (william.ryerson@uconn.edu) with article choice @ least 1 week before you lead seminar discussion.

Read this guideto writing response papers and preparing for discussion.

Spring 2014 Seminars

(Thursday @ 4:00PM in BPB 130 unless otherwise noted)
February 13, 2014 - Teale Lecture*
Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale University) Climate Change in the American Mind
March 27, 2014 - Teale Lecture*
Steven D. Gaines (UC - Santa Barbara) What role will the oceans play in meeting the global demand for food?
April 10, 2014 - Teale Lecture*
Jane Lubchenco (NOAA) Climate, Weather, Oceans and Biodiversity: Science in Policy and Politics



EEB 3894 Semester Schedule

Trouble accessing the discussion article when off campus? First sign into the UConn VPN and then try the link.

Date Seminar Speaker Presenter Discussion Article
23 January Bill None - Discuss Syllabus, Website, Class Goals, How to read and interpret scientific literature
30 January Jonathan Wilson TBD
6 February Cathy Pringle TBD
13 February
(Teale Lecture Series*)
Anthony Leiserowitz TBD
20 February TBD
27 February TBD
6 March Jill Wergrzyn TBD
13 March Beth Brainder TBD
20 March SPRING BREAK!
27 March
(Teale Lecture Series*)
Steven Gaines TBD
3 April Mark Moffett TBD
10 April
(Teale Lecture Series*)
Jane Lubchenco TBD
17 April Norm Wickett TBD
24 April Bruce Patterson TBD
1 May Tracy Heath


* Seminars in the Teale Lecture Series are held in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center (near the Homer Babbidge Library).