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== Past Systematics Seminars == | == Past Systematics Seminars == |
Revision as of 17:27, 6 September 2011
This is the home page of the UConn EEB department's Systematics Seminar. This is a graduate seminar devoted to issues of interest to graduate students and faculty who make up the systematics program at the University of Connecticut.
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Contents
Meeting time and place
We are meeting this semester in the Bamford Room (TLS 171B) Tuesdays 4-5pm.
Schedule for Fall Semester 2011
Several themes were identified for this semester's Systematics Seminar. We will spend 2-3 weeks on each one.
- Ancestral state reconstruction
- Use of niche modeling in delimiting species
- Informativeness of genes
- Cryptic species
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
We will attend the special seminar by Chris Bird, an EEB BS alum and presently a postdoctoral associate at the University of Hawaii. The talk will be at 4 pm today in TLS 154, and is entitled “Sympatric Speciation on the Seashore.”
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Eric Schultz will lead a discussion of the following paper:
- Whitehead, A. 2010. The evolutionary radiation of diverse osmotolerant physiologies in killifish (Fundulus sp.). Evolution 64(7): 2070-2085. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00957.x.
Past Systematics Seminars
- Spring 2010 (we joined Kent Holsinger's seminar on Statistical Phylogeography this semester)
- Fall 2010
- Spring 2010
- Fall 2009
- Fall 2008
- Spring 2008
- Fall 2007
- Spring 2007
- Fall 2006
- Spring 2005
- Fall 2004
- Spring 2004