Instructors Toby Bradshaw, Josh Tewksbury & Ben Kerr

Teaching Assistants Karen Reagan & Josh Nahum

Peer TAs Susan Taylor, Cat Adams & Kelsea Laegreid

Schedule
Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm, Mueller 153
Lab A: Thursday, 1:30-3:20pm, Hitchcock 343
Lab B: Thursday, 3:30-5:20pm, Hitchcock 343

Course Content
This course is designed to give upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students hands-on experience in the field of experimental evolutionary ecology. The course is composed of lectures and labs. The lectures will introduce some of the current "big questions" in ecology and evolution that are experimentally tractable. The labs will be devoted to designing, running and analyzing various experiments. Students will read the primary scientific literature in order to gain a better understanding of how experimental approaches have been used to explore ecological and evolutionary phenomena. In the labs, students (in groups of four) will conduct experiments in the field and laboratory to investigate wide-ranging issues (such as the evolution of bacterial antibiotic resistance, plant speciation, and coevolution of pathogens and their hosts). Grades will be based on weekly quizzes, lab reports, and a single final group presentation.