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Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar: Fall Semester 2006
Fridays 1:15-2:30 pm in room A247 LSRC unless otherwise noted.
For University Credit as: UPE 303S or BIO 311S, Prof. Bernhardt.

Friday
1 Sept

Judie Bronstein
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona

The dark side of mutualism

Friday
8 Sept
Paul Stoy
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Department of Biology, Duke University
Final seminar: The interplay between the carbon and water cycles along a successional gradient in the southeastern US
Friday
15 Sept
Nigel Roulet
James McGill Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University

Northern peatlands, carbon cycling and climate change

Friday
22 Sept
No seminar
Friday
29 Sept
UPE Faculty Speed Seminars
Labs affiliated with UPE have two minutes and two slides to explain who they are and what they do. Hilarity ensues.

Friday
6 Oct

Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
Ecophysiological and genetic differentiation of live oaks from the tropics to the temperate zone
Friday
13 Oct

Alun Lloyd
Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, North Carolina State University

Within and between host dynamics of rhinoviruses: drug resistance in a multistrain setting
Friday
20 Oct
Carol Horvitz
Professor, Biology Department, University of Miami
Plant-animal interactions in random environments

Friday
27 Oct

Todd Dawson
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
The manner and magnitude by which trees impact the hydrological cycle
Friday
3 Nov
Amy Austin
Research Scientist, University of Buenos Aires and IFEVA, Argentina
Sunshine, waterbugs and real estate: unique controls on litter decomposition in arid ecosystems
Friday
10 Nov
Catarina Moura
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Department of Biology, Duke University
Final seminar: From the atmosphere to the transcriptome: loblolly pine trees FACE a rise in CO2
Friday
17 Nov
Rachel Noble
Assistant Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina
Use of novel molecular approaches to solve estuarine and coastal water quality problems
Friday
24 Nov
Thanksgiving break No seminar
Friday
1 Dec
Lars Hedin
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
The challenge of representing nitrogen cycling in global biogeochemical models
Friday
8 Dec
John Terborgh
James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science, Nicholas School, Duke University
Maintenance of tree diversity in tropical forests: an affirmation of Janzen-Connell

Past UPE seminars: Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004

UNC Curriculum in Ecology seminars