Schedule

February 8, 2008

David Kidd, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC
Historical biogeography and the geospatial revolution

March 7, 2008

M. Alex Smith, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Case studies in CO1 DNA barcoding hyper-diverse species assemblages:
initiating and focusing species discovery and biodiversity estimation

April 11, 2008

Prosanta Chakrabarty, American Museum of Natural History
Pattern and process in marine and freshwater diversifications: sexual selection in leiognathids and historical biogeography of Neotropical cichlids

May 2008

Andrea Sequeira, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Colonization history and species formation in endemic Galapagos weevils 2007 SEMINARS

September 14

Stéphane Boissinot, Biology Department, Queens College, CUNY
The molecular evolution of LINE-1 retrotransposons

October 26

Hendrik Poinar, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
DNA Preservation, Paleogenomics, mammoths and the benefits of time travel

November 9

Menno Schilthuizen, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands
The evolution of a brass band: diversity in microsnails from karst outcrops in Borneo

December 7

Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook
Assembly for double-ended short-read sequencing technologies

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