Friday, January 24, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, February 7, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, February 21, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, March 7, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, March 21, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, April 4, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, April 18, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Waterloo EcoEvo Journal Club

Meetings are in person in B2-256, BUT - do let Nick (npianosi@uwaterloo.ca) know at least one day in advance if you would like to attend remotely and we will get a projector setup for a hybrid Zoom meeting.


We are still looking for folks to lead a discussion for our Feb 21, Apr 04 and Apr 18 meetings. Email julie.messier@uwaterloo.ca if you’d like to chose a paper.

Upcoming meetings

January 24

Hanna Hickey (Messier lab)will lead our discussion of:

MacKell et al. 2023 Assessing the impacts of urban beehives on wild bees using individual, community, and population-level metrics. Urban Ecosystems 26: 1209-1223

 

February 7

Tim Shardlow (Muller lab) will lead the discussion of:

Sommers et al. 2019. Comparison of Microbial Communities in the Sediments and Water Columns of Frozen Cryoconite Holes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Frontiers Microbiology. 10:65

 

February 21

Chris Therrien (Swanson lab) will lead the discussion of:

Balk et al. 2016. Widespread episodic thiamine deficiency in Northern Hemisphere wildlife. Scientific Reports 6:38821  

March 7

Magalie Galarneau (Messier lab) will lead the discussion of:

Gillies, G. J., Angert, A. L., & Usui, T. (2024). Temperature dependence and genetic variation in resource acquisition strategies in a model freshwater plant. Functional Ecology, 38, 1600–1610

 

March 21

Katie Pita (Trant Lab) will lead the discussion of:

Menéndez-Miguélez et al. 2023. Development of tools to estimate the contribution of young sweet chestnut plantations to climate-change mitigation. Forest Ecology and Management

 

April 4

Débora Andrade-Pereira & Xuewen Geng (Cuddington lab) will lead the discussion of:

Sinclair et al. 2016. Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? 19: 1372–1385.

April 18 

Katryna Barone (Trant lab) will lead the discussion of:

Cardenas et al. 2021. Glacier influence on bird assemblages in habitat islands of the high Bolivian Andes. Diversity and Distributions 28 (2), pp.242-256.