Biology 506/507 ARCHIVE Systematics and Evolution Forum (2003/2004)

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Instructors:

• Sean Graham (coordinator, Fall Term)
  Office: Biological Sciences B608, Phone 2-7567, swgraham@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

• A. Richard Palmer (coordinator, Winter Term)
  Office: Biological Sciences Z1116, Phone 2-3633, rich.palmer@ualberta.ca

• Heather Proctor (co-instructor, Winter Term)
  Office: Earth Sciences 1-44, Phone 2-5704, hproctor@ualberta.ca

BIOL 506 provides a forum for graduate students who are registered in the course to give a formal lecture on any subject in Systematics & Evolution, and to receive constructive feedback on that lecture. It also provides a forum where other graduate students and staff may give an informal presentation of their research.

Each 45-50 minute lecture by registered students will be centered on a focal paper from the primary literature and will be followed by a discussion.

All interested persons are welcome to attend the presentations and discussions.

BIOL 507 allows registered students to receive credit for attending the presentations in BIOL 506.

COPIES OF FOCAL PAPERS:

Focal papers will be distributed electronically to all Systematics & Evolution graduates students and staff as pdf files.
If you are not on the mailing list and would like a pdf reprint, please E-mail Rich Palmer.

• Tips for preparing a good lecture

SCHEDULE - 2003/2004

Date	Presenter	Lecture Topic	Focal Paper
Sept. 8	Graham/Palmer	Organizational meeting
Sept. 15	Alexandra Eaves Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	Part I: Mindless and Faceless: Why study sea urchin development? Part II: Cloning in Sea urchin larvae: Comparisons with normal development and other echinoderm classes	(none)
Sept. 22	Dr. Bruce Rannala Medical Genetics University of Alberta	Bayesian estimation of species divergence times and ancestral population sizes using DNA sequences from multiple loci	(none)
Sept. 29
Oct. 6
Oct. 13	No class	(Thanksgiving break)
Oct. 20	Randall Mindell Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	The significance of absense in the fossil record	Benton, M.J. et al. 2000. Quality of the fossil record through time. Nature 403:534-537
Oct. 27	Dr. Joseph Nelson Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	Systematics of fishes	(none)
Nov. 3	Jessie Zgurski Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	Evolutionary biology and its relevance to captive breeding programs for endangered wildlife	Hedrick, P.W. 2001. Conservation genetics: where are we now? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16:629-636
Nov. 10	No class	(Fall term class break )
Nov. 17	Dr. Evgueni Zakharov Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	Evolutionary aspects of hybridization in swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera; Papilionidae)	(none)
Nov. 24	Chris Schmidt Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	Insect genitalic morphology and the lock-and-key hypothesis	Arnqvist, G. 1998. Comparative evidence for the evolution of genitalia by sexual selection. Nature 393:784-786
Dec. 1	Dr. Raoul Mutter Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	TBA	(none)
Date	Presenter	WINTER TERM Lecture Topic	Focal Paper
Jan. 12	Palmer/Proctor	Organizational meeting
Jan. 19	Dr. Richard Palmer Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Evolution of Development: Insights from Biological Asymmetries	(none)
Jan. 26	Dr. Heather Proctor Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Birds and Their Bugs: Factors Affecting Richness, Abundance, and Cophylogenetic Relationships of Bird-Associated Arthropods	Paterson, A.M. and J. Banks. 2001. Analytical approaches to measuring cospeciation of host and parasites: Through a glass, darkly. Int. J. Parasitol. 31:1012-1022
Feb. 2	Amanda Roe Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Western Coneworms: Molecular Systematics and Morphological Identification	(none)
Feb. 9	Dr. Arthur Anker Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Systematics and Evolution of Snapping Shrimp (Alpheidae): Claw Asymmetry, Symbioses, Diversification	(none)
Feb. 16	no class	Reading Week
Feb. 23	Vazrick Nazari Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Chromosome evolution in butterflies	Livingstone, K. and L. Reisberg. (2003) Chromosomal evolution and speciation: a recombination-based approach. New Phytologist 161:107-112. (download)
Mar. 1	Tara Gallagher Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Geographic Parthenogenesis: Why do some species stop having sex?	Kearney, M. (2003) Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18(12): 605-607 (download)
Mar. 8	Dr. Pierre Lemelin Division of Anatomy University of Alberta	Locomotor evolution in arboreal mammals: Why do some opossums walk like monkeys	Gillis, G. (2004) Walk on four legs, not on two. J. Exp. Biol. 207:713-714 (a short commentary on Lemelin's work) (download)
Mar. 15	Dr. Brad Magor Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Evolution of Adaptive Humoral Immunity in Early Vertebrates	(none)
Mar. 22**	Dr. Locke Rowe Dept. of Zoology Univ. of Toronto	Comparative Approaches to Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution NOTE ROOM CHANGE: TALK WILL BE IN M145 BioSciences	(none)
Mar. 29	Dr. Murray Gingras Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta	Evolutionary Implications of Animal Behaviors Preserved in the Sedimentary Rock Record	(none)
Apr. 5	Tara Macdonald Biological Sciences University of Alberta	Systematics and Evolution of Spirorbid Polychaetes: How the Worm Got Its Turn (and other stories)	(none)
May 3	Dr. Bill McGrew Depts. of Anthropology & Zoology Miami University, Oxford, OH	*** SPECIAL SEMINAR *** Ape and Human Handedness: What We Know and Don't Know NOTE ROOM CHANGE: TALK WILL BE IN M149 BioSciences	(none)

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