ANNOUNCEMENTS

ZOOL 510, Seminar on Evolution

• CLASS INFORMATION  (Topmost listing is most recent posting.)
  • New room.  Beginning Friday, Feb. 11, and continuing until further notice, class will meet in Room 1001 of LSIII.

  • Assignments for chapter presentation.

  • E-mail address for class participants.
    • M: ...@siu.edu
    • D: ...@siu.edu

• CAMPUS EVENTS AT SIU
  • Seminar Series, Center for Systematic Biology.
  • Seminar Series, Department of Zoology.

• OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS  (Listed in calendar order, earliest first.)
  • Evolution '00.
    Annual Meeting of:
    • The Society for the Study of Evolution
    • The American Society of Naturalists
    • The Society of Systematic Biologists.
    
    Indiana University, Bloomington IN, June 23-27, 2000.
    Conference information.

Chapter-by-Chapter Assignments for classroom discussion.
Tentatively plan for two class periods per chapter.  This time may be adjusted as we proceed.

Chapter	Presenter	Topic
7	Name	Molecular evolution, neutral theory.
8	Name	Multilocus population genetics.
9	Name	Quantitative genetics.
10	Name	Genome evolution.
11	Name	Analysis of adaptation.
12	Name	Units of selection.
13	Name	Adaptive explanation.
14	Name	Evolution and classification.
15	Name	The idea of species.
16	Name	Speciation.
17	Name	Reconstruction of phylogeny.
18	Name	Evolutionary biogeography.
19	Name	Fossil record.
20	David	Rates of evolution.
21	Name	Macroevolutionary change.
22	Name	Coevolution.
23	Name	Extinction.

Center for Systematic Biology.  TENTATIVE schedule of seminar speakers. In general, the seminars will be held in the Life Science 3 Auditorium at 4:00 pm on Thursday afternoons (the systematics seminars will not conflict with Zoology seminars in the same time slots -- they are on different dates).

• 17 February: Charles J. O'Kelly (Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences), "Jakobid flagellates, mitochondrial genomes, and the origin of eukaryotes."
• 2 March: . Dr. James Cheverud (Washington University School of Medicine), "Evolutionary Systematics of Tamarins (Saguinus): phyletic and morphological diversification."
• 30 March: David Swofford (Smithsonian Institution), Topic TBA.
• 13 April: TBA.
• 27 April: Systematics Symposium
  • Brett Riddle (UNLV): topic TBA (mammalian biogeography)
  • Dan Nickrent (SIUC Plant Biology): topic TBA (plant molecular systematics/evolution)

Department of Zoology Seminar Series, Spring 2000.
To be held in Life Science III Auditorium (Rm. 1059) at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted.  Refreshments at 3:30pm.

• March 9.  Dr. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois-Champaign:  Title TBA.  University Museum, Faner Hall, 12:00pm.
• March 9.  Dr. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois-Champaign:  Title TBA.  LSIII Rm. 1059, 4:00pm.
• March 23.  Dr. Jack Grubaugh, University of Memphis:  "Macroinvertebrates and floodplain river systems of western Tennessee."
• April 6.  Dr. John Gold, Texas A & M University:  "Genetic studies of marine and freshwater fishers."
• April 20.  Joyce Collins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Carbondale:  Indiana bats and forest management: Myth vs. reality."
• May 4.  Dr. William Hamlett, Indiana University School of Medicine:  Diversity of reproductive modes in elasmobranchs."

510 Index page

King home page

Comments and questions: dgking@siu.edu
Department of Zoology e-mail: zoology@zoology.siu.edu
Comments and questions related to web server: webmaster@science.siu.edu