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Spring 2009
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
| January 20 | CANCELED | |
| January 27 | CANCELED | |
| February 3 | CANCELED | |
| February 10 | Mike Ryan – Host: Bass University of Texas - Austin |
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| February 17 | CANCELED | |
| February 24 | Marty Leonard – Host: Bass |
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| March 3 | Sheng-Feng Shen | Reciprocity, by-product mutualism and collective action |
| March 10 | Susan Villarreal | Female acoustic response to the counting katydid, Scudderia pistillata |
| March 17 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 24 | Pat Barclay | Manipulation of group threats, status, and threat-dependent cooperation |
| March 31 | Karl Berg | Darling, is that you?: Vocal mate recognition in wild parrots |
| April 7 | Jessie Barker | Variation of cooperation and conflict in response to social context: ideas for 2009 Polistes field season |
| April 14 | CANCELED | |
| April 21 | Elizabeth Turnell | Mutual cryptic mate choice in a Hawaiian swordtail cricket |
| April 28 | Maggie Kirkland Wray | Honey bee personality |
Fall 2008
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
| September 2 | Kern Reeve | Welcome and Organization |
| September 9 | Cristian Villagra | How to share, a lesson from the coexistence of flower visitors on /Oenothera caespitosa/ |
| September 16 | Sheng-Feng Shen | “Why yuhinas not cooperate with kin?” |
| September 23 | Tom Eisner | Butterfly flight |
| September 30 | Kevin Loope | Nest construction strategies in swarm-founding social wasps |
| October 7 | Juliana Rangel-Posada | Identity of the signalers that trigger the departure of a honey bee swarm from its parental nest |
| October 14 | FALL BREAK | |
| October 21 | Chris Wilson | Is there life beyond sex? "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind..." |
| October 28 | Judith Scarl - Defense (Morison Room) | Sex differences and vocal flexibility in wild parrot communication |
| November 4 | Becky Cramer | Song quality, Aggression, and Testosterone in House wrens |
| November 11 | Heather Mattila | Promiscuous queens and dancing honey bees |
| November 18 | CANCELED | |
| November 25 | Gerry Carter | Sensory exploitation and the evolution of sulfur odors in bat-pollinated flowers |
| December 2 | CANCELED | |
| December 9 | Elise Ferree, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Do nongenetic factors drive fitness differences between pair and extrapair offspring in western bluebirds? |
Spring 2008
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
| January 22 | Paul Sherman | Welcome and Organization |
| January 29 | Caitlin Stern | Modeling the effect of help on sexual conflict in cooperative groups |
| February 5 | ||
| February 12 | Lynn Fletcher | Playbacks of a different Order: Testing signal function in an Australian sawfly larva |
| February 19 | Pat Barclay | Biological markets, partner choice & competitive altruism |
| February 26 | Mya Thompson | Big sources and complex filters: applying source-filter theory to elephant vocalizations |
| March 4 | Kern Reeve | Tug-of-war, worker policing, and the evolution of cooperative somatic cells |
| March 11 | Juliana Rangel Posada | CANCELLED |
| March 18 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 25 | Karl Berg | Acquisition of vocal signatures in a free-ranging parrot population |
| April 1 | Joaquin Goyret | Beta-carotene deficient larval diet influences the use of visual and olfactory stimuli by foraging adults of Manduca sexta |
| April 8 | Susan Villarreal | The acoustic behavior of a Bush Katydid, Scudderia pistillata |
| April 15 | Maggie Kirkland | Individual differences and the use of dance information in honey bee foragers |
| April 24 Thursday |
Chris Wiley | Genetic architecture of male song and female preference: a test of genomic linkage in the rapidly speciating cricket genus Laupala |
| April 29 | Sheng-Feng Shen | Mechanism design in nature: How unrelated yuhinas maintain stable
cooperation? |
| May 6 | Jessie Barker | The effect of between-group interactions on within-group cooperation |
| May 6 SPECIAL SEMINAR 4:30 in the Rosenblatt Room |
Mark Laidre Princeton University |
'Minding mandrills': communication, cognition, and culture in a nonhuman primate |
| May 13 | Ingrid Biedron | North Atlantic right whale
(Eubalaena glacialis) acoustic behavior and feeding in Cape Cod Bay,
Massachusetts |
Fall 2007
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
| August 28 | Tom Seeley | Welcome and Organization |
| September 4 | Tom Seeley | Swarm intelligence in bees: new stuff from summer 2007 |
| September 11 | Dan Fergus | Variation among species of the Hawaiian cricket genus /Laupala/ |
| September 18 | Andrea Townsend | Non-helpers, helping cheaters, and offspring quality in the cooperatively-breeding American Crow |
| September 25 | Becky Cramer | Extra-pair paternity in the banded wren, a synchronously breeding tropical bird |
| October 2 | Juliana Rangel Posada | Mechanisms and function of the departure of a honey bee swarm |
| October 9 | FALL BREAK | |
| October 16 | Danielle Cholewiak | Movements of singing humpbacks: are males interacting? |
| October 23 | Joaquin Goyret | Behavioral responses to sensory stimuli by foraging_Manduca sexta_: a matter of scale and content |
| October 30 | Eric Yip | Costs and benefits for social living in a huntsman spider |
| November 6 | Jason Gallant | Implications of electric organ polymorphism in Paramormyrops kingsleyae |
| November 13 | Judith Scarl | Scree! Joint signaling in galahs |
| November 20 | Julian Kapoor | Vocal learning in lekking birds |
| November 27 | Chris Wilson | Bdelloid rotifers: sex and parasites |
| December 4 | Sheng-Feng Shen | Toward a unified theory of cooperative breeding: a road map |
Spring 2007
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
| January 23 | Tom Seeley | Welcome and Organization |
| January 30 | Karl Berg | The Avian Dawn Chorus |
| February 6 | Laura Sirot | Strategic ejaculation of seminal fluid proteins in the fly, Drosophila melanogaster |
| February 13 | Caitlin Stern | The influence of help on extra-pair paternity: Ideas for my first field season |
| February 20 | Linda S. Rayor | Sociality in huntsman spiders |
| February 27 | Andrea Townsend | Patterns of paternity and disease in the cooperatively-breeding American Crow |
| March 6 | Susannah Buhrman-Deever | Recruitment calling in brown-throated conure (Aratinga pertinax) foraging groups |
| March 13 | Sheng-Feng Shen | The heirarchical study of conflict resolution and reproductive skew in the joint-nesting Taiwan yuhina |
| March 20 | Spring Break | |
| March 27 | Mya Thompson | The elephant mating pandemonium: why advertise? |
| April 3 | Renata S. Sousa-Lima, M. S. | Male singing posture changes humpback whale communicaton range |
| April 10 | Jesse Ellis | |
| April 17 | Danielle Cholewiak | |
| April 24 | Juliana Rangel Posada | Honey bee pre-swarming behavior: How does a colony prepare to fission? |
| May 1 | Ingrid Biedron | North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) acoustic behavior |
| May 10 | Sigal Balshine | Invasive round gobies: reproduction, ecological impacts and cognition |
Fall 2006
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
| August 29 | Tom Seeley and Kern Reeve | Welcome and Organization |
| September 5 | Tom Seeley | Thoughts on the graphical display of animal behavior |
| September 12 | Chris Wilson | The Adaptive Significance of Male and Female Genital Mutilation in Humans |
| September 19 | Carlos Andres Botero P. | Behavioral mechanisms that affect paternity in the tropical mockingbird |
| September 26 | Paulo Liambias | Why are southern House wren males constrain to monogamy? |
| October 3 | Valerie Clark | The ecology and evolution of chemical defense in poison frogs and their dietary arthropods |
| October 10 | Fall Break | |
| October 17 | Maggie Kirkland | Honey bee cognition |
| October 24 | Sheng-Feng Shen | Power asymmetry and competition stabilize cooperation |
| October 31 | Julian Kapoor | The development of vocal coordination in the duetting Lance-tailed Manakin |
| November 7 | Lynn Fletcher | Communication and Group-living Down Under: Tactics of an Australian sawfly larva |
| November 14 | Danielle Cholewiak | |
| November 21 | Janet & Paul | Wa. Gr. Sq. Cooperation and Fortress Defense |
| November 28 | ||
| December 5 | Kern Reeve | Courtship song and the evolution of the nervous system |
| December 12 | Pat Barclay | Costly signaling in cooperative interactions: (dis)honest signals and audience skepticism |
| December 19 |
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