Seminars are held on Mondays from 4 – 5pm (Central time) in the Horticulture Forest Science Building (HFSB 104) unless noted otherwise (**). Refreshments served at 3:30
For questions, email EEB Program Coordinator Heather Baldi.
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| Date | Speaker, Seminar Title/Topic, Host | |
| jan 13 |  |
Jamie Alfieri University of Texas, EEB Former Student ’23 Special Seminar: Job Talk Title: Hybridization, Domestication, and Diversity: Disentangling the threads of evolution Host: Heath Blackmon |
| jan 20 |  |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No Seminar |
| jan 27 |  |
EEBL 681 Students – Course Meeting |
| feb 3 |  |
EEB General Meeting Heath Blackmon, EEB Chair |
| feb 10 | |
No Seminar |
| feb 17 |  |
John Kominoski Florida International University Title: Lessons in disturbance and restoration from long-term ecological research: 25 years of the FCE LTER Host: Josh Lerner (EEB Student), Rusty Feagin (ECCB) |
| feb 24 |  |
Brian Davis Texas A&M University, VTPB Title: TBA Host: EEB Core Faculty |
| mar 3 |  |
Natasha Bloch University of Los Andes Colombia Title: From Transcriptomics to Gene Editing: Finding candidate genes underlying mating behavior in guppies Host: Rachel Moran (BIOL) |
| mar 10 | |
Spring Break – No Seminar |
| mar 17 ** |
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Yun Ding University of Pennsylvania Title: Neural evolution of sexual behaviors and sexual dimorphism in Drosophila Host: GENE / EEB ** This seminar will be co-hosted with Genetics and Genomics IDP. Location: Biochemistry/Biophysics Building (BICH) 108 @4:05 p.m. |
| mar 24 |  |
Shannon Harris EEB Graduate Student Title: Spiroplasma MSRO protects Drosophila melanogaster against two wasp species: Leptopilina clavipes and Ganaspis sp. Host: Mariana Mateos (ECCB) |
| mar 24 |  |
Kiedon Bryant BIOL Graduate Student Title: Examining the biological basis of paternal care in darters (Percidae) Host: Rachel Moran (BIOL) |
| mar 31 ** |
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Heather Bracken-Grissom Florida International University Title: Creatures of the Darkness: Investigating life and light in the deep sea Host: GENE / EEB ** This seminar will be co-hosted with Genetics and Genomics IDP. Location: Biochemistry/Biophysics Building (BICH) 108 @4:05 p.m. |
| apr 7 |  |
Kelsey Reider James Madison University Title: TBA Host: Lee Fitzgerald (ECCB) |
| apr 14 |  |
Mark Hay Georgia Institute of Technology Title: TBA Host: Spence Behmer (ENTO) |
| apr 21 | |
No Seminar – Muster |
| apr 28 |  |
Erick Motta Texas A&M University, ENTO Title: It Takes Guts to Be Healthy: Host-microbiome interdependence and the impact of environmental sStressors on honey bees Host: EEB Core Faculty |
