EECB Evoluncheon Series

Fridays 11:30 to 12:30

Gilmore 306

2013

January
11	Faculty Meeting
18	Student Meeting
25	Jon Whitney Department of Biology Incipient speciation despite continuous gene flow in sympatric polymorphs of the arceye hawkfish

February
1	Aki Laruson Department of Biology Speciation across oceans: teasing apart the members of sea urchin genus Tripneustes
8	Sean Canfield Department of Biology Heterodontiform population structure within the Pacific
15	Julia Rowe Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management Seabirds as ecosystem service providers and their relationship with wind farms: an interdisciplinary project in Hawaii
22	Dr. Ken Hayes Pacific Biosciences Research Center Apple snails: phylogenetics, evolution and ecology of keystone species

March
1	Dr. Brian Bowen Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Origins of tropical marine biodiversity
8	Hillary Holt Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management Effects of urbanization on the introduced birds of Hawaii
15	Thomas Smith Department of Biology Arthropods: it's for the birds!
22	Alisa Davis Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management Toxoplasmosis from cats (Felis catus) on Oahu, Hawaii
29	Spring Break - No Evoluncheon

April
5	Raphael Ritson-Williams Department of Biology Measuring variability in coral larval settlement; statistical nightmare or evolutionary insight?
12	Rafael Bergstrom Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management Forest phenology, photography and kinky memory palaces
19	Tester Symposium - No Evoluncheon
26	Dr. Vicki Funk National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution Origin and diversification of all of the native Pacific Compositae (daisies, artichokes, dandelions, and sunflowers)

May
3	Dr. Mark Hixon Department of Biology Toward metapopulation ecology of coral-reef fishes
10	John Slapcinsky Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville Land snails, diverse, but how diverse? Surveys, sequences and morphology suggest many groups are more diverse than we think

Welcome to EECB

The EECB graduate specialization at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is an interdisciplinary program promoting integration among the traditionally separate disciplines that come together synergistically under the umbrella of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology. Participation in the program is available to students enrolled in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs of the affiliated Mānoa departments. The program draws on the resources of approximately 60 faculty with research skills in many specialized areas, from various departments in the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Social Sciences, the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, the School of Medicine, and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, as well as from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and affiliate faculty from other agencies.

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Latest News from EECB
Dr. Mark Hixon (Hsiao Endowed Chair of Marine Biology, Biology Department) has joined the EECB faculty
Please welcome new EECB students: Raphael Ritson-Williams (Biology), Eric Tong (Oceanography), Melissa Wright (Biology)
New publications from EECB members in 2013: Cowie, R.H. (ed.) (2013) Eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm: biology, distribution, epidemiology, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and management. Hawaii Journal of Medicine and Public Health 72(6) Supplement 2: 1-88. [includes 4 contributions from current and former members of EECB] Holland, B.S. & Kay, E.A. (2013) Biogeography. In: The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society. (M. Rapaport, ed), pages 83-94, Second Edition, University of Hawaii Press. Lohr, C.A., Cox, L.J. & Lepczyk, C.A. (2013) Costs and benefits of trap-neuter-release and euthanasia for removal of urban cats in Oahu, Hawaii. Conservation Biology 27: 64-73. Abramyan, J. ... Thomson, R.C. et al. (2013) The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. Genome Biology 14: R28 [doi:10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-r28]
The following graduate students were recently awarded EECB scholarships: Maybelle Roth Scholarship - Raphael Ritson-Williams, Jonathan Whitney Watson T. Yoshimoto Scholarships - Richard Coleman, Melissa Wright Hampton & Meredith Carson Scholarship - Kirill Vinnikov