• In-person seminars will be held in HFSB 104 unless noted otherwise**.
  • Seminars are held on Monday at 4 pm Central Time (U.S. and Canada) unless noted otherwise**.
  • Link for Zoom seminars — unless one is noted specifically in the information below.
  • Links to seminar recordings may be posted as they become available.
  • For questions, email Dr. Nick Jacobsen
Date Speaker, Seminar Title or Topic
sep 12 General Meeting
sep 19 Marie Strader
Texas A&M University
Title:  Organism-environment interactions involved in the response to global change
**
sep 30
3 pm
**
** Note date and time change
Janice Edgerly-Rooks
Santa Clara University
Title:  A Web of Adaptation: Lessons from an Insect’s Silk Road
Co-hosted with ECCB
oct 3 TBA
oct 10 No seminar, Fall break
oct 17 John E. Losey
Cornell University
Title:  The Coccinellid Conundrum: Citizen Scientists Help Connect the Dots
oct 24 Serguei Drovetski
US Geological Survery (USGS)
Title:  Shotgun Metagenomics vs. Metatranscriptomics for Wildlife Microbiota Analyses
oct 31

Natalie Aguirre, Graduate Student
Title: Stomata: A missing link to understanding plant volatile communication

Mason Clark, Graduate Student
Title: EcoVIGS: Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) as a promising tool for investigating cotton-herbivore interactions
nov 7 Katie Marshall
University of British Columbia
Title:  Causes and consequences of invertebrate low temperature thresholds
nov 14 Alfred L. Roca
University of Illinois
Title:  Conservation genetics of two African elephant species
nov 21 No seminar, Thanksgiving holiday
nov 28
3 pm**

Marco Alberto Luca Zuffi – CANCELED

University of Pisa (Italy)
Title:  Islands lizard populations in the Mediterranean Sea:  What happened and is still happening in the Tuscan Archipelago (biometric variability, colonization times, introduction times)

dec 5 Joanna Lambert
University of Colorado at Boulder
Title:  Wolves, Fear, and Rewilding: Lessons from our Evolutionary Past for Coexisting with Predators Today

Past Seminars