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Seminar Series: Ecolunch Spring 2007

The Ecology group's Ecolunch seminar series is scheduled for each Tuesday and Friday of the week, held in 109 Leidy, unless otherwise noted.

Questions and comments about this series may be directed to Roberto Salguero-Gomez (salguero@sas.upenn.edu).

January

  • 9 (T) Zhirong Bao (Univ. of Washington)
  • 12 (F) TBA
  • 16 (T) John Newman (UCLA)
  • TBA
  • 19 (F) TBA
  • 23 (T) Emma Aronson (UPenn)
    Methane-cycling microbes, their habitats, and the questions behind atmospheric CH4 trends.
  • 25 (F) TBA
  • 30 (T) Brenda Casper (UPenn)
    Friends or foes: mycorrhizal communities in grasslands.

February

  • 2 (F) TBA
  • 6 (T) TBA
  • 9 (F) TBA
  • 13 (T) Bob Curry (Villanova)
    Progress in understanding the causes and consequences of chickadee hybridazation in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
  • 15 (F) TBA
  • 20 (T) TBA
  • 23 (F) TBA
  • 27 (T) Steven Pacala (Princeton)
    Microscopic Equations for Forests and the Structure of Forests in the Northern Widwest.

March

  • 2 (F) Maria Rakhovskaya
  • 6 (T) TBA Spring Break
  • 9 (F) TBA Spring Break
  • 13 (T) Jose Luis Machado (Swarthmore)
    Universal  Metabolic Scaling: Plants are Exceptions to the Rule.
  • 16 (F) TBA
  • 20 (T) Jeff Klemens (UPenn)
    Factors limiting regeneration of a tropical oak forest
  • 23 (F) Alain Plante
    Soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems: processes, mechanisms and issues.
  • 27 (T) TBA
  • 30 (F) TBA

April

  • 3 (T) Oswald Schmitz (Yale)
    Predator identity as a determinant of ecosystem function.
  • 6 (F) Megan Rixey (UPenn)
    Neutral genetic structure of population of L. obtusata in the Gulf of Maine.
  • 10 (T) Art Johnson (UPenn-EEScience)
    Paleogene and neogene forests in Canada Arctic.
  • 13 (F) Annalise (UPenn)
    Functional allelic variation of a candidate gene for aging in D. melanogaster.
  • 17 (T) Rich Lucas (UPenn)
    Atmospheric N deposition and ectomycorrhizal community structure.
  • 20 (F) Roberto Salguero (UPenn)
    The importance of being small
  • 24 (T) Jennifer Doherty and Lori Spindler (UPenn)
    TBA
  • 27 (F) Anna Nesterova

May

  • 1 (T) Baoming (UPenn)
    T-RFLP analysis on AM fungi
  • 4 (F) EEB 1&2yr grad students (UPenn)
    BIOL 615: phenotypic plasticity
  • 8 (T)

 

 


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