IB 546

Spring 2018 All Classes

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Topics in Ecology & Evolution

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Credit: 1 hours.

Speaker seminar series featuring discussion, review and critical analysis of general concepts and specific problems in ecology and evolution.

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IB 546 class schedule data for spring 2018
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34689	Conference	A	4:00PM -4:50PM	W	Chemical and Life Sci Lab	Paige, K Kent, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60812	Conference	F	1:00PM -1:50PM	T	Natural History Building	Dalling, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Info: 1 hour. Graduate Seminar in Ecology. Topic: Foundations of Ecology. Graduate students in ecology should be familiar with the historical roots of their discipline. This seminar will discuss the literature that laid the foundations of population, community and ecosystem ecology. Readings will based around classic papers published from the 1880s to the 1960s and compiled in Real and Brown (1991) Foundations of Ecology, Chicago University Press. Each week students will also identify recent papers that build on this legacy and provide their own commentaries on how classical work has informed, and continues to influence contemporary studies in ecology.
62170	Conference	G	12:00PM -12:50PM	W	Location Pending	Robinson, G Sinha, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Info: 1 hour. Graduate Seminar in Evolution. Topic: Genetic Tookits and the Evolution of Social Behavior. Evolutionary biology has traditionally relied on a dichotomous application of the concepts of conservation and convergence in considering the evolutionary origins of complex traits such as behavior. Recently a new heuristic framework, made possible by genomics, has been developed to address the evolution of complex traits in a more nuanced and satisfying manner, by considering the evolutionary basis of both a given trait and its molecular underpinnings separately. This "genetic toolkit" concept, originally developed for morphological traits, is now being used to help develop a better understanding of the roles of conservation and convergence in the evolution of social behavior. This seminar will explore the roots of the genetic toolkit concept and its application to social behavior, consider the strengths and limitations of the approach, and outline ideas for its further elaboration. THIS WILL MEET IN 1619IGB.