Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Friday in Stack 237 at 10:45 AM. Please contact the seminar committee (seminar-committee@kbs.msu.edu) if you have questions.

KBS Fall 2012 Seminars

Sept. 7 ­– Paul Ewald, University of Louisville (Lau Lab)

Title: Emerging diseases: an evolutionary framework for identifying the few grave threats amongst the fizzlers

Sept. 14 –Steve Culman

Title: Ecosystem services provided by perennial grains: results from KBS trials

Sept. 21 – Neville Millar, Michigan State University

Title: Carbon markets for agricultural offsets: The current climate

Sept. 28 – Katy Heath, University of Illinois (Student Invited Speaker)

Title: Ecological genetics of legume-rhizobium mutualisms

Oct. 5 – Kevin McCann, University of Guelph (Mittelbach Lab)

Title: Lake food web expansion and contraction: Nature flexes its muscles

Oct. 12* -- Matt Liebman, Iowa State (Snapp Lab)

Title: Using biodiversity to link agricultural productivity and profitability with environmental quality: Results from three field experiments in Iowa

Oct. 19* – Nalini Nadkarni, University of Utah (Gross Lab/Hamilton Lab)

Title: Functional roles of canopy-dwelling communities in tropical and temperate
rainforests: three decades of research in Costa Rica and Washington State

Oct. 26 –  Jen Lau, MSU (tenure seminar)

Title: Species interactions in a changing world: ecological and evolutionary consequences of global change

Nov. 2 – Joel Sachs, University of California at Riverside (Lau Lab)

Title: Evolutionary origins and stability of bacterial mutualisms

Nov. 9 – Greg Dick, University of Michigan (Klausmeier/Litchman Labs)

Title: Tracking microbial communities in the deep sea: meta'omic insights
into biogeochemical processes

Nov. 16 – Linda Kinkel, University of Minnesota (Snapp Lab)

Title: The underground arms race:  competition, coevolution, and disease suppression among soilborne Streptomyces

Nov. 30 – Mark Bee, University of Minnesota (Getty Lab)

Title: Finding Your Mate at a Cocktail Party: The Sensory Ecology of Vocal Communication in Frogs

Dec. 7 –  Emilio Laca, University of California at Davis (Utsumi Lab)

Title: Balancing ecosystem services by playing with spatial scaling of pattern and process

KBS Spring 2013 Seminars

Jan. 18  –   Kathleen Treseder, University of California at Irvine (Lau Lab)

Title: Fungi, ecosystems, and global change

Jan. 25 – Tom Miller, Florida State University (Lau/Schemske Labs)

Title: Ecology of pitcher plant communities: Time

Feb. 1 – Chris Oakley, Michigan State University (Schemske Lab)

Title: Drift shapes genetic variation relevant to fitness in natural populations

Feb. 8 – Steve Carpenter, University of Wisconsin (Student Invited Speaker)*

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Feb. 15 (*10:30am)– Stuart Jones, University of Notre Dame

Title: Microbes as mediators of human-lake interactions

Feb. 22 – Sarah Evans, University of California at Irvine

Title: Microbial community responses to changes in rainfall: moving from pattern to process

Feb. 25 (Monday) - Lydia Zeglin, Oregon State University

Title: How does hydrology affect microbial diversity and microbial C cycling mechanisms in streams and soils?

Mar. 1 – Dave Vasseur, Yale University (Klausmeier/Litchman Labs)

Title: The 'ups' and 'downs' of environmental variation for populations

Mar. 8 – Spring Break (No seminar)

Mar. 15 – Van Savage, UCLA (Klausmeier/Litchman Labs)

Title: Combining traits and scaling theory to understand how temperature, size, and dimensionality affect consumer-resource interactions

Mar. 22 – Jon Shurin, University of California, San Diego (Klausmeier/Litchman Labs)

Title: Warming and the transmission of top-down and bottom-up forces in pond food webs

Mar. 29 – Spencer Hall, Indiana University (Mittelbach Lab)

Title: Three reasons why resources of hosts matter for disease epidemics.

Apr. 5 – Chris Steiner, Wayne State University (Mittelbach Lab)

Title: The effects of dispersal on the structure and dynamics of aquatic populations and communities

Apr. 12 – Hank Stevens, Miami University (Gross Lab)

Title: A pedagogy for ecology in the 21st century: Paradigms and examples

Apr. 19 – Annette Ostling, University of Michigan (Klausmeier/Litchman Labs)

Title: Towards more robust tests of the neutral theory of ecology

Apr. 26  –  Richard York, University of Oregon (Stuart Lab)

Title: Addressing the climate change crisis by looking beyond green technology