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EEB Seminar Series – Spring 2018

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

Past EEB Seminar Series

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