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 27 Thur 3 pm |
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Randall Arauz and Daniel Arauz Naranjo Dr. Arauz is the Goldman Environmental Prize winner and will be focusing on policy regarding shark finning and mapping swimways between Cocos and the Galapagos Islands. Mr. Naranjo is a National Geographic Explorer and will be focusing on sea turtles and sustainable fisheries. Please join us as we get into the spirit of Darwin Day (February 28) with this co-hosted special seminar! **Location: Agriculture & Life Sciences Building (AGLS) 125 @3:00 p.m. |
| 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: Life after ice: Wildlife and ecosystem responses to recent glacier loss in the high tropical Andes Host: Lee Fitzgerald (ECCB) |
| apr 14 |  |
Mark Hay Georgia Institute of Technology Title: The Challenge of Long Ecological Fuses in the Anthropocene: Delayed Effects of Missing Functional Groups on Coral Reefs 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 |
| NOTE |  |
Rescheduled Seminar: Brian Davis Brian Davis’s seminar, originally on the seminar schedule for Feb 24th, has been rescheduled for September 2025. Details available at a later date. Title: Towards “complete” genomes and advancing comparative genomics in domestic mammals |
