Current Seminars

The weekly EEB seminar starts at 3:30 p.m. in 307 SERF (Science & Engineering Building), unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Host
8/31/2018	John Thompson	UCSC	“The Diversification of Coevolving Interactions”	Bailey
9/7/2018	Susan Whitehead	Virginia Tech	“Attracting Friends and Avoiding Foes: The Chemical Ecology of Seed Dispersal“	Kwit
9/14/2018	Steve Nowicki	Duke Univ	“Categorical Perception and the Evolution of Signaling Systems“	Derryberry
9/21/2018	Judy Stamps	UC Davis	“Bayesian Development for Empiricists“	Simberloff
9/28/2018	Thomas Quinn	Univ. of Washington	“Predation by Bears on Salmon: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution“	Blum
10/12/2018	Shweta Bansal	Georgetown Univ	“From Social Behavior to Network Structure for Wildlife Disease Transmission“	Fefferman
10/19/2018	Ariel Lugo	US Forest Service in Puerto Rico	“The Anthropocene and Novelty in Caribbean Forests: What This Means to Conservation and Closely Held Ecological Myths”	Giam
10/19/2018	Tom Miller	Rice Univ	“Plant population responses to environmental change“	Gaoue
10/26/2018	Sarah Diamond	Case Western Reserve Univ	“Contemporary parallel evolution of thermal performance and its fitness consequences: how acorn-dwelling ants remodel their physiology in response to city heat“	Sheldon
11/2/2018	Erin Shortlidge	Portland State Univ	“Can life science graduate students defy the cultural perception of trade-offs between teaching and research?“	Budke
11/9/2018	Songlin Fei	Purdue	“Understanding forest ecosystems dynamics under a macrosystems ecology framework“	Kalisz and Kivlin
11/16/2018	Andrea Porras-Alfaro	Western Illinois Univ	“Plant-Fungal Interactions: Teasing apart complex symbiosis and building new bridges for student training.”	Hughes