EEB Seminar Series – Spring 2018 – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

All seminars are held on Mondays at 3:30 pm in HFSB 104 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments served before start.

January 15 No seminar, Martin Luther King Day
January 22 EEB Faculty Meeting
January 29 Postdoc Research Presentations Hosted by EEB Pierre Lesne (Behmer Lab) Title: Behavioral plasticity as a driver of the competition between the invasive ant species Solenopsis invicta and Nylanderia fulva. Isabel Caballero (Hurtado Lab) Title: Population genomics of the blue crab, a tale of caution Talk summaries
February 5 No seminar today
February 12 Graduate Student Research Presentations Hosted by EEB Pierre Lau (Rangel Lab) Title: Are honey bees picky eaters? A nutritional perspective to honey bee foraging preferences Jocelyn Holt (Medina Lab) Title: Characterization of the Sugarcane Aphid Microbiome Talk summaries
February 19 Implications of gene-environment interplay for the evolution of behavior: insights from Drosophila melanogaster Speaker: Julia Saltz, Rice University Hosted by Aaron Tarone
February 26 A sustainability science perspective on the regional scale gradient in forest cover in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes basin Speaker: Bill Currie, University of Michigan Co-hosted with ABS: Jason Martina
March 5 Phylogenomics and the Procrustean bed of the species tree Speaker: Matt Hahn, Indiana University Hosted by Claudio Casola
March 12 No seminar, Spring Break.
March 19 Animal migrations and resource subsidies influence river ecosystem dynamics Speaker: Amanda Subalusky, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Co-hosted with ABS: Lee Fitzgerald
March 26 The multi-trophic effects of insectivorous birds Speaker: Kailen Mooney, UC Irvine Hosted by Micky Eubanks
April 2 No seminar, Ecological Integration Symposium
April 9 No seminar, Ecological Integration Symposium
April 16 CANCELLED Grassland ecosystems and global change: insights from NutNet, a globally-replicated experiment Speaker: Eric Seabloom, University of Minnesota Co-hosted with ESSM: Bill Rogers
April 23 Everyone in the world is my friend: The genetics of hyper-sociability in domestic dogs Speaker: Bridgett vonHoldt, Princeton University Co-hosted with G2: Bill Murphy
April 30 Bat cranial diversity: from ontogeny to macroevolution Speaker: Sharlene Santana, University of Washington Hosted by Mike Smotherman