SP21 Seminars are Thursdays at 1PM. Location: Online
January 14
Dr. Lawrence Ball
Ohio State University, Dept EEOB
Title: Camels in a cloud forest: The social drivers and ecological impacts of pastoralism in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman
Host: Dr. Ian Hamilton
January 21
Dr. Claudia Solis-Lemus
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Plant Pathology
Title: Scalable inference of phylogenetic networks
Host: Dr. Laura Kubatko
January 28
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf
Ohio State University, Department of EEOB
Title: Data Science for Ecology and Conservation
Host: Dr. John Freudenstein
February 4
Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences
Title: Species interactions and genomic contributors to plant adaptation and biodiversity
Host: Dr. Francis Sivakoff
February 11
Darwin Talks 1 – EEOB Graduate Students
Kevin Kong
Title: Comparative Performance of Popular Methods for Hybrid Detection using Genomic Data”
Dylan Poorboy
Title: Variation in Ecomorphology between Co-occurring Pine Squirrels
Leah Weston
Title: Long-Term Impacts of Organic Soil Amendments on Urban Prairie Restoration
Host: Dr. John Freudenstein
February 18
Darwin Talks 2 – EEOB Graduate Students
Victoria Sadowski
Title: Species-specificity of vertically transmitted symbiotic bacterial communities in fungus-farming ants
Ben Stone
Title: Introgression, Phylogeography, and Trait Diversification in Penstemon
Elizabeth Reagan
Title: Plasticity of Physiological Traits in the Pacific Beetle Cockroach
Host: Dr. John Freudenstein
February 25
Dr. Meg Crofoot
Max Planck for Animal Behavior, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies
Title: Evolution of complex social systems and social decision-making
Host: Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf
March 4
Dr. Mohamed Noor
Duke University, Department of Biology
Title: “Leveraging science fiction to teach evolution to the public”
Host: Dr. Julie Reynolds
March 11
Dr. Enric Frago
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
Title: “An experimental test on the relative role of natural enemy diversity and intraguild predation on herbivore dynamic”
Host: Dr. Alison Bennett
March 25
Dr. Linda van Diepen
University of Wyoming, Department of Ecosystem Science and Managment
Title: Disturbance impacts on soil microbial dynamics
Host: Dr. Agustin Munoz-Garcia
April 1
Dr. Katie Langin
Writer, Science Magazine
Title: The human dimensions of science
Host: GEES Invited Speaker
April 8
Dr. Meg Whitney
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Title: Histological insights into vertebrate paleobiology
Host: Jonathan Calede
April 15
Dr. Matthew L. Holding
University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Title: Phylogenetically diverse diets favor more complex venoms in North American pitvipers
Host: H. Lisle Gibbs