Student Colloquia 2023-2024
Spring 2024
January 24
Welcome to EEB and Student Colloquia
Wendy Leuenberger and Alyssa Saunders, Colloquia Co-chairs
Department of Integrative Biology
Restoration of relationships: fire, grouse, and Anishinaabek.
Danielle Fegan, Graduate Student
Fisheries & Wildlife
January 31 (Data Colloquium)
Data Colloquium
February 7
TBD
TBD
February 14 (Data Colloquium)
Data Colloquium
February 21
The paradox of the parasite: Ecological mechanisms maintaining parasite species coexistence
Ashwini Ramesh, Postdoctoral Fellow
MMB/Integrative Biology
February 28
N/A - SPRING BREAK
March 6
Can't stand the heat? Get out of the prairie! Effects of seed provenancing strategies on plant community assembly under simulated climate warming
Riley Pizza, Graduate Student
Plant Biology
TBD
TBD
March 13 (Data Colloquium)
Data Colloquium
March 20
Kleptoparasitism risk in spotted hyenas
Jana Woerner, PhD Student
Integrative Biology
TBD
TBD
March 27 (Data Colloquium)
High performance computing part 1: Using the HPCC, GitHub, and RStudio (Demonstration)
Wendy Leuenberger, PhD Student
Integrative Biology
April 3 (Data Colloquium)
High performance computing part 2: Set up your workflow (Interactive, bring your computer!)
Wendy Leuenberger, PhD Student
Integrative Biology
April 10 (Data Colloquium)
Data Colloquium
April 17
Evolutionary applications in swallow-wort biological control
Brianna Foster, PhD Student
Entomology
April 24 (Data Colloquium)
Data Colloquium
Fall 2023
September 20
Welcome to EEB and Student Colloquia
Wendy Leuenberger and Alyssa Saunders, Colloquia Co-chairs
Department of Integrative Biology
The effects of shade and reproduction on Karner Blue host plant nutrition
Ashley Darst, Graduate Student
Integrative Biology
October 4
Homogenization of winter & breeding bird communities in Northeast USA
Peter Williams, Postdoctoral Researcher
Integrative Biology
October 18
A large-scale analysis of passive experimental warming effects on plant communities
Kara Dobson, PhD Student
Integrative Biology
November 1
Pursuing a genetic basis of life history variation in monkeyflower
Madison Plunkert, PhD Student
Plant Biology
Discussion Re: stats support needed in EEB
Lauren Sullivan, Faculty
Plant Biology
November 15
Interploid introgression in genus Capsella
Maya Wilson Brown, PhD Student
Plant Biology
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India
Ashish Nerlekar, Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant Biology
November 29
Heat waves and flash drought: Interactive effects during embryonic development in the painted turtle
Ayley Shortridge, PhD Student
Integrative Biology
December 13
Spatial optimization of prescribed fire for a suite of grouse in the eastern Upper Peninsula, MI
Danielle Fegan, Graduate Student