BioFrASS

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE	HOST LAB
SPRING 2007
January 26	Michele Dephilip	Center for Aquatic Conservation graduate fellowships www.aquacon.nd.edu	The Nature Conservancy's Great Lakes Program
February 2	Dave Choate	Counting cougars for conservation: lessons learned from exploited populations in Utah	Belovsky
February 9	NO BIOFRASS
February 16	Chris Patrick John Rothlisberger	Testing theories concerning ecological consequences of biotic homogenization Human-mediated dispersal of nonindigenous aquatic species: Impacts, forecasts, and intervention	Belovsky Lodge
February 23	Laura Johnson Jake Beaulieu	The effect of land use on DOC and DON uptake in headwater streams in the Kalamazoo river basin, Michigan Nitrous oxide emissions from the headwaer streams in the upper Midwest	Tank Tank
March 2	Travis Marsico Andrea Fowler	Population structure in core and peripheral populations of Quercus garryana Effects of large wood aggregations on brook trout distribution, trout diet, and invertebrate drift in six small Michigan streams	Hellmann Lamberti
March 9	Peter Levi Sean Hoban	Influence of Forest Management on Salmon-Derived Nutrient Dynamics Using Microsatellite Markers to Save the Butternut Tree	Tank Romero-Severson
March 16	SPRING BREAK
March 23	Kirsten Prior Inna Birchenko	Range expansions of damaging species: the importance of enemy release and impacts on native taxa Genetic diversity of Northern red oak	Hellmann Romero-Severson
March 30	Ed Bensman		Center for Research Computing
April 6	EASTER BREAK
April 13	Lindsay Chadderton		Director of Aquatic Invasive Species for The Nature Conservancy
April 20	Denise Bruesewitz Jody Murray		Tank Lodge
April 27	Kelly Lane		Hollocher/Fuentes
May 4	Angela Bobledyk Natalie Griffiths		Lamberti Tank

FALL 2006
DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC	HOST LAB
September 1	Kelly Lane	LNK: Modeling disease transmission in Balinese macaques (Macaca fascicularis)	Hollocher/Fuentes
September 8	David Hoekman	Top-down and bottom-up effects in a pitcher plant food web: the influence of a processing detritivore	Belovsky
September 15	Kevin Passino	Systems biology of cooperative decision making by social insects	Visiting professor from Ohio State University
September 22	Becky Miller	The phylogeography of Prosopium (whitefish) in western North America	On Rotation
September 29	Andy Deines	My experience in development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia	Lodge
October 6	Jason McLachlan & Lynn Sanders	Range expansion following climate change: modeling and genetic signatures	McLachlan
October 13	Tim Hoellein	Large woody debris as a stream restoration tool	Tank
October 20	FALL BREAK
October 27	Konrad Kulacki Andrea Fowler	Ionic liquids and aquatic communities Is the Lacey Act effective at protecting U.S. ecosystems against animal invasions?	Lamberti
November 3	Jill Mueller	An Empirical Evaluation of the Covariance Effect Assumption in Diversity-Stability Models	Hellmann
November 10	Tom Powell, Andrew Forbes & colleagues	Rapid Identification of Potential Invasive Species in Ballast Water	Feder
November 17	Chelse Prather Dave Costello	The Canopy Trimming Experiment-Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research Site, Puerto Rico The effect of ionic liquids on the retention of nutrients by aquatic invertebrates	Belovsky Lamberti
November 24	THANKSGIVING
December 1	Shannon Pelini	The biogeography of adaptation and its implication for range shifts under climate change	Hellmann
December 8	Sally Entrekin	Organic matter dynamics following an experimental addition of wood to 3 streams	Lamberti/Tank