EEB Seminar Series – Spring 2026
Seminars are held Mondays from 11:30-12:20 p.m. in the Wehner Building (WCBA), Room 115.
Light refreshments served.
JANUARY 12
No seminar
JANUARY 19
No seminar, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
JANUARY 26
DUE TO CAMPUS CLOSURE, THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.
FEBRUARY 9
Ben Padilla, Assistant Professor
University of Texas at El Paso
Title: Action Oriented Wildlife Ecology: Observation, Innovation, and Collaboration
Host: Perry Barboza (ECCB)
FEBRUARY 16
Tammi Johnson, Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Title: Connecting Ecology, Health, and Agriculture: Large Animal Models for One Health Research
Host: EEB Core Faculty
**ZOOM ONLY**
FEBRUARY 23
Ryan Earley, Associate Professor
University of Alabama
Title: Why do males exist? Sex ratio variation in the world’s only self-fertilizing hermaphroditic vertebrat
Host: Kiedon Bryant and Dr. Heath Blackmon (BIOL)
MARCH 2
Felicity Newell, Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University, ECCB
Title: Rainfall-mediated food webs & ecosystem function in a time of rapid global change
Host: EEB Core Faculty
MARCH 9
No seminar. SPRING BREAK!!!!
MARCH 16
Stacey Weiss, Professor
University of Puget Sound
Title: Egg protection in the absence of parental care: The reproductive microbiome of Sceloporus lizards and its role in providing antifungal protection to eggs
Host: Courtney Fitzpatrick (BIOL)
MARCH 23
Dr Ezra Bailey, EEB Postdoctoral Scholar
Texas A&M University
Title: The Evolution of Parasitism in the True Flies
Host: Jeff Tomberlin (ENTO)
MARCH 30
Rachel Short, Assistant Professor
South Dakota State University
Title: Functional trait indicators of mammalian responses to environmental change
Host: Breann Richey and Dr. Michelle Lawing (ECCB)
APRIL 6
Dr. Corinne Kendall
The Peregrine Fund
Title:How African Vulture Movement Can Inform Conservation
Host: Jeff Tomberlin (ENTO)
APRIL 13
Wenzhe Jiao, Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Title: Monitoring Natural Disasters Impact Using Remote Sensing and AI
Host: EEB Core Faculty
APRIL 20
Aaron Hogan, Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Title: Tree Demography and Physiology in the Global Change Era: Past Work and Future Application to Texas Piney Woods
Host: EEB Core Faculty
