Systematics Seminar

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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Meeting time and place

We are meeting this semester in the Bamford Room (TLS 171B) Tuesdays 4-5pm.

Theme 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

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