Seminar Series 2023-2024
Fall 2023
September 14
EEB Town Hall
Join your fellow EEB members to socialize and learn about the exciting activities to come during the new academic year.
September 21
Immunological allee effects and the epidemiology and evolution of parasites
Clay Cressler
School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Host: Nina Wale
September 28
Getting serious about a top-down view of community assembly
Brian McGill
School of Biology & Ecology, University of Maine
Host: Phoebe Zarnetske
October 5
Automating my own job: Machine learning for evolutionary genomics
Dan Schrider
Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina
Host: Emily Josephs
October 12
Exploring biotic drivers of tick-borne pathogen transmission
Jeb Owen
Department of Entomology, Washington State University
Host: Olivia Smith
October 19
CAREER EXPLORATION PANEL
Rebecca Barnes
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Host: Toby SantaMaria
CAREER EXPLORATION PANEL
Shawn Narum
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)
Host: Ben Kline
October 26
Understanding novelty, one cell at a time
Leslie Babonis
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Host: Julia Ganz
November 2
Quantifying demographic impacts of climate changes on North American amphibian communities
David Miller
Wildlife Population Ecology, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Bruna Rodrigues do Amaral
November 9
The insect visual system as a model for neural development and education
Michael Perry
Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California - San Diego
Host: David Arnosti
November 16
NOTABLE DISSERATION LECTURE
Informing conservation actions: Genetic approaches to Chinook Salmon management in the Sacramento River of California
Sara Hugentobler
Integrative Biology
Mentor: Mariah Meek
November 30
CANCELLED
The development basis of biological diversity
Ricardo Mallarino
Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Host: Julia Ganz
December 7
EEB Core Faculty Meeting
Faculty will recap the semester, discuss plans for spring, and learn about new initiatives.
Spring 2024
February 1
#FindThatLizard: Ecology, science outreach, and supporting underrepresented groups in herpetology and natural resources
Herpetologist at #FindThatLizard
Host: Toby SantaMaria
February 8
Career Exploration Panel (VIA ZOOM)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Rhode Island
Hosts: Toby SantaMaria
Michael Van Nuland, Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)
Host: Moriah Young
February 15
MSU SPARTAN EMINENT LECTURE
The power of birds to transform biodiversity conservation
Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University
Host: Kayla Davis
February 22
NOTABLE DISSERTATION LECTURE
Effect of seed dispersal and plant recruitment on tallgrass prairie community assembly
Katherine Wynne
Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Mentor: Lauren Sullivan
March 7 - CANCELLED
Managing populations with highly variable recruitment dynamics
Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
Host: Jim Bence
March 14
From microbes to mountains: Exploring ecosystems in a changing world
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Host: Moriah Young
March 21
Connecting soil feedback experiments to eco-friendly plant-soil management
Biology, Algoma University (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada)
Host: Akihiro Koyama
April 4
The evolutionary origins and mechanisms of the water-to-land transition in vertebrates
Genetics, Rutgers University
Host: Ingo Braasch
April 11
The role of natural enemies in maintaining plant diversity in a semi-arid grassland
Ecology and Natural Resources, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Lauren Sullivan
April 25
EEB Core Faculty Meeting
Faculty will recap the semester, discuss plans for fall, and learn about new initiatives.