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Fall 2021
August 27
Impacts of temperature changes on the ecosystem services provided by dung beetles
Nigel Andrew, University of New England (hosted by Kimberly Sheldon)
September 3
Withstanding early adversity: lessons from blue-footed boobies and humans
Hugh Drummond, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (hosted by Gordon Burghardt)
September 17
TBD
Nathan Muchala, University of Missouri (hosted by Joe Williams)
September 24
Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education and Beyond
Elizabeth Barnes, Middle Tennessee State University (hosted by Randy Small)
October 8
TBD
Seema Sheth, NC State University (hosted by Orou Gaoue)
October 15
Conservation across space and time: Museum-based approaches for understanding change in the Anthropocene
Hayley Lanier, University of Oklahoma (hosted by Mona Papes)
October 22
TBD
Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University (hosted by Stephanie Kivlin)
October 29
TBD
Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University (hosted by Brian O’Meara)
https://ees.natsci.msu.edu/people/faculty/libarkin-julie-c/
November 5
TBD
Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union (hosted by Nina Fefferman)
November 12
TBD
Shannon Bayliss, UT (exit seminar, Bailey Lab)
November 19
TBD
Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware (hosted by Dan Simberloff)
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| August 28 | Yamina Pressler | Cal Polytechnic | Pyrogenic soil ecology: consequences of fire for soil food webs and organic matter | Schweitzer |
| September 4 | Lisa Belden | Virginia Tech | Linking community diversity and function in the amphibian skin microbiome | Fitzpatrick |
| September 11 | Bernie Tershy | UC Santa Cruz, Freshwater Life | Science-driven biodiversity conservation on islands and freshwaters | Simberloff |
| September 18 | Martha Munoz | Yale | Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution | Sheldon |
| September 25 | Kevin Kohl | University of Pittsburgh | Who’s in charge here?: Microbial contributions to animal physiology, ecology, and evolution | Derryberry |
| October 2 | Susan Gardner | University of Maine | Unpacking Notions of Success in Graduate Education | Schussler |
| October 9 | Doug Emlen | University of Montana | Extreme Weapons: A Natural History | McCracken |
| October 16 | Rachel Spigler | Temple University | Ecological drivers of plant mating system evolution | Kalisz |
| October 23 | Jane Carter Ingram | Ernst & Young | The nexus of science and business | Armsworth |
| October 30 | Volker Grimm | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | UFZ – Modeling honeybees under stress with BEEHAVE: lessons for theory and practice | Gross |
| November 6 | Emmanuel Frimpong | Virginia Tech | When fish are selfish: cases from communal breeding in streams | Giam |
| November 13 | Caleb Hickman | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians | Managing and Protecting Cherokee Cultural Natural Resources: A Socio-ecological Adaptive Management Plan | Sheldon |
| November 20 | James Lendemer | New York Botanical Garden | Appalachian Lichens: What Drives Diversity and Distributions for Threatened Fungal Symbioses in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot | Budke |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 01/18/2019 | Benjamin Sulman | ORNL | “Modeling plant-microbe-soil interactions from the ecosystem to the global scale” | Kivlin |
| 02/01/2019 | Charles Goodnight | University of Vermont | “The phenotypic perspective: A postmodern synthesis” | Bailey |
| 02/08/2019 | Chris Martin | UNC at Chapel Hill | “The origins of microendemic adaptive radiations: from introgression to fitness landscapes” | O’Meara |
| 02/15/2019 | Rytas Vilgalys | Duke University | “Metagenomic study of introduced soil fungal communities associated with exotic pine plantations.” | Matheny |
| 03/01/2019 | Sebastian Schreiber | UC Davis | TBA | Gavrilets |
| 03/08/2019 | Christine Hawkes | NC State | “How can we predict outcomes of stress-dependent, non-additive plant-symbiont interactions?” | Schweitzer |
| 03/29/2019 | Jessica Metcalf | Princeton University | “Evolution of sex differences when immunity is dangerous” | Gaoue |
| 04/11/2019 | Krithi Karanth | Center for Wildlife Studies, India | **seminar will be in the Howard Baker Center** | Chang (NIMBios) |
| 04/12/2019 | Judith Bronstein | University of Arizona | “Mutualism: What Do We Know, and Where Do We Go From Here?” | Kalisz |
| 04/26/2019 | Ian Ware | UTK | ||
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 1/12/2018 | [first week of semester; no seminar] | |||
| 1/19/2018 | Scott Emrich | Notre Dame | Getting to the good stuff: Bioinformatics answers for a few hard speciation questions. (poster) | Gilchrist |
| 1/26/2018 | Jim Clark | Duke | Mid-latitude community reorganization across NEON with climate change (poster) | |
| 2/2/2018 | Erin Dolan | University of Georgia | Undergraduate research at scale- What if the treatment is a CURE? (poster) | Schussler |
| 2/9/2018 | Casey terHorst | California State University, Northridge | The ecological players in the evolutionary theater: Contemporary evolution in communities. (poster) | Schweitzer |
| 2/16/2018 | Josh Tewksbury | Future Earth | Natural History’s place in Science and Society (poster) This seminar is affiliated with the Haines Morris Endowment-funded seminar series, “Why Natural History Matters in the 21st Century.” | Kwit |
| 2/23/2018 | [Recruitment Weekend] | |||
| 3/2/2018 | Danielle Levesque | University of Maine | Mammalian thermoregulation in hot climates: Clues for deciphering the past and predicting the future. (poster) | Sheldon |
| 3/9/2018 | Natalie Griffiths | ORNL | Effects of warming and elevated CO2 on ecosystem processes in a northern peatland. (poster) | Giam |
| 3/16/2018 | [Spring Break- no seminar] | |||
| 3/23/2018 | Axel Meyer | Universität Konstanz | Genomics of parallel adaptations and speciation in repeated species flocks of cichlid fishes. (poster) | Gavrilets |
| *Thursday* 3/29/2018 301 Burchfiel Geog. Bldg. 4-5 pm | Mona Papes | EEB | Why Geography Matters to Ecologists: Geographical Patterns of Biodiversity. (poster) | |
| 3/30/2018 | [Spring Recess- no seminar] | |||
| *Wednesday* 4/4/2018 1:30 pm 488 Dabney |
Daniela Rivarola | UT- Thesis Defense | Protected Areas: When good intentions are not enough (poster) | |
| 4/6/2018 | Melissa Cregger | ORNL | Small organisms with big impacts: Examining microbial dynamics across diverse ecosystems | |
| 4/13/2018 | Thomas Whitham | Northern Arizona University | The genetics of local adaptation, community assembly, interaction networks, and stability help develop solutions to mitigate global change. (poster) | Bailey |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 8/25/2017 | [first week of semester; no seminar] | |||
| 9/1/2017 | Joshua Schimel | UC Santa Barbara | The biogeochemistry of drought (poster) | GREBE |
| 9/8/2017 | Julie Lockwood | Rutgers | Can we conserve biodiversity in an increasingly urbanized world? (poster) | Echternacht |
| 9/15/2017 | Jennifer Mandel | University of Memphis | Using phylogenomics to resolve The Compositae Tree of Life (poster) | Schilling |
| 9/22/2017 | Peter Kennedy | University of Minnesota | Partner choice in ectomycorrhizal symbioses: A case study using the fungal genus Suillus (poster) | Matheny |
| 9/29/2017 | Mike Madritch | Appalachian State University | Remote Sensing of above and belowground processes: Aspen forests and old-fields (poster) | Bailey |
| 10/6/2017 | [Fall Break; no seminar] | |||
| 10/13/2017 | Morgan Tingley | University of Connecticut | Charting the spatiotemporal landscape of species’ responses to climate change (poster) | Giam |
| 10/20/2017 | Katie Marshall | University of Oklahoma | Mechanisms of freeze tolerance: Lessons from space and time (poster) | Sheldon |
| 10/27/2017 | Andrew Sih | UC Davis | Integrating behavioral syndromes (aka animal personalities) with social behavior and ecology (poster) | Riechert |
| 11/3/2017 | John Wares | University of Georgia | Sickle cell, sea stars, by the sea shore (poster) | Fitzpatrick |
| 11/10/2017 | Samantha Price | UC Davis | Vertebrate macroevolution and the importance of museums, fossils and data-science (poster) | O’Meara |
| 11/17/2017 | Shu-Mei Chang | University of Georgia | The causes, consequences and maintenance of variation in sex expression in the wild geranium, Geranium maculatum (poster) | Williams |
| 11/24/2017 | [Thanksgiving Break; no seminar] | |||
| 12/1/2017 | David Van Dyken | University of Miami | Eco-evolutionary dynamics in spatially diffusing experimental microcosms (poster) | Gilchrist |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 1/13/2017 | [first week of semester; no seminar] | |||
| Tuesday 1/17/2017 3:30-4:30 |
Mike Blum | Tulane University | Room 27, Alumni Memorial Bldg.: The socioecology of rodent-borne disease risk in post-Katrina New Orleans (poster). | Kimberly Sheldon |
| 1/20/2017 | Erika Zavaleta | UC Santa Cruz | Adapting to changing climates: ecology, conservation and inclusion – “Women in a changing climate” Haines-Morris seminar series (poster). | Jen Schweitzer |
| 1/27/2017 | Mary Jane Epps | Mary Baldwin College | When butterflies beat the birds and the bees: Cryptic specialization in a pollination mutualism (poster). | Charlie Kwit |
| 2/3/2017 | Arpad Nyari | EEB, UT | Diversification of Australo-Papuan mangrove avifaunas: there and back again (poster). | |
| 2/10/2017 | Johanna Varner | Colorado Mesa University | Pikas Under Fire: American Pika Ecology and Behavior in a Time of Global Change – “Women in a changing climate” Haines-Morris seminar series (poster). | Kimberly Sheldon |
| 2/17/2017 | Doug Schemske | Michigan State University | Why are the tropics so diverse? (poster) | Susan Kalisz |
| Thursday 2/23/2017 | Kendra McLauchlan | Geography, Kansas State University | Reconstructing Nutrient Cycling in the Paleorecord to Assess Current Global Changes – “Women in a changing climate” Haines-Morris seminar series. ***3:40pm, UT Hodges Library, Lindsay Young Auditorium*** (poster) | |
| 2/24/2017 | Graduate Students | EEB, UT | Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend | |
| 3/3/2017 | Ingrid Parker | UC Santa Cruz | Phylogenetic ecology and disease (poster) | Dan Simberloff |
| 3/10/2017 | [Friday before spring break; no seminar] | |||
| 3/17/2017 | [spring break; no seminar] | |||
| Wednesday 3/22/2017 1:00 pm |
Brian Looney | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Systematics, phylogeography, and comparative genomics of a diverse clade of ectomycorrhizal fungi (Russulaceae, Russulales) ***Dabney 575*** (poster) | Brandon Matheny |
| Wednesday 3/22/2017 2:00 pm |
Alix Pfennigwerth | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Plasticity and biotic interactions mediate plant persistence in a changing world ***Dabney 575*** (poster) | Jen Schweitzer |
| 3/24/2017 | Michael Van Nuland | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of plant-soil feedbacks (poster) | Jen Schweitzer |
| Monday 3/27/2017 10:00 am |
Christine Dumoulin | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Identifying Extinction Risk Patterns in Pollination Networks and Conservation Planning to Reduce the Cost of Management-Necessitated Travel ***Claxton 206*** (poster) |
Jen Schweitzer |
| Friday 3/31/2017 1:00 pm |
Jessica Welch | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Conservation Biology of Bats. ***Dabney 557*** |
Gary McCracken Dan Simberloff |
| 3/31/2017 | Sara Brownell | Arizona State University | Hidden inequities in active learning classrooms: How groups of students are differentially impacted by active learning (poster) | Beth Schussler |
| Monday 4/3/2017 9:00 am |
Kathryn Massana | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Using Phylogenetic Comparative Methods To Understand Diversification and Geographic Range Evolution ***Dabney 575*** (poster) | Brian O’Meara |
| Thursday 4/6/2017 4:00 pm |
Jeremiah Henning | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change ***Buehler 415*** (poster) | Aimée Classen |
| 4/7/2017 | Leigh Moorhead | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Effects of rodents on ecosystem structure and function (poster) | Aimée Classen |
| 4/14/2017 | [spring recess; no seminar] | |||
| 4/21/2017 | Rachel Fovargue | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: Conservation choices: Designing and buying protection (poster) | Paul Armsworth |
| 4/28/2017 | Cassie Dresser | EEB, UT | Exit Seminar: A tiny turtle tale: Conservation of North America’s smallest turtle (poster) | Ben Fitzpatrick |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 8/19/2016 | [first week of semester; no seminar] | |||
| 8/26/2016 | Sara Branco | Université de Paris-Sud | Fungal Adaptation: from Communities to Genes (poster) | Brandon Matheny |
| 9/2/2016 | [seminar moved to 9/23] | |||
| 9/9/2016 | Pam Soltis | Florida Museum of Natural History; University of Florida | The Evolutionary Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication (poster) | Ed Schilling |
| 9/16/2016 | Ben Bolker | McMaster University | Eco-evolutionary dynamics of virulence: the devil is still in the details (poster) | GREBE |
| 9/23/2016 | David Frank | UT, Philosophy & EEB | Biological Diversities and Multiple Values (poster) | |
| 1 – 2:30pm Thursday 9/29/2016, Baker Center, Toyota Auditorium | Michael Hutchins | American Bird Conservancy | Energy & Environment Forum: “Wind Energy Development and Wildlife: Are They Compatible?” (poster) | |
| 12 – 1pm Friday 9/30/2016, Thompson-Boling Arena Café | Jessica Budke | UT, EEB | UT Science Forum: “Biodiversity Collections: A Record of the Past; A Resource for the Future” | |
| 9/30/2016 | Nathan Turnbough | UT, EEB Exit Seminar | Assessing the functional similarity of native and invasive Anolis lizards in Florida (poster) | |
| 10/7/2016 | [fall break; no seminar] | |||
| 10/14/2016 | TBA | |||
| 10/21/2016 | Claus Wilke | The University of Texas at Austin | Structural and Functional Constraints on Protein Evolution (poster) | Mike Gilchrist |
| 10/28/2016 | Brian Husband | University of Guelph | Polyploidy, phenotypic divergence and speciation: challenging the instantaneous divergence model? (poster) | Randy Small |
| 11/4/2016 | Mike Hickerson | City College of New York | Comparative population genomics for inference of community assembly (poster) | Mike Gilchrist |
| 11/11/2016 | Zach Marion | UT, EEB Exit Seminar | On the quantification of complexity and diversity from phenotypes to ecosystems (poster) | |
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 21-Aug | Elizabeth Hobson/ Matthew Zefferman | NIMBioS | Temporal dynamics of attack strategies provide insight into parrot social cognition (Hobson) & The puzzle of sex-biased learning in dolphins and chimpanzees (Zefferman) | |
| 28-Aug | Alison Boyer | ORNL | Trouble in paradise: Ecology and conservation of island birds | Joe Williams |
| 4-Sep | Charles Price | University of Western Australia | Plant architecture and metabolic scaling theory | Gary McCracken |
| 11-Sep | Spencer Barrett | University of Toronto | Reproductive evolution at geographical range limits | Joe Williams |
| 18-Sep | Jenny McGuire | Georgia Tech | How far can they go? Species responses to climate change through time. (abstract) | Brian O’Meara |
| 25-Sep | Brant Faircloth | Louisiana State University | Ultraconserved elements: Where do we go now? | Ben Fitzpatrick |
| 2-Oct | Paulo Oliveira | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia | Not rainforests: Cerrado and another face of Brazilian biodiversity | Joe Williams |
| 9-Oct | Jenny Knight | University of Colorado, Boulder | Changing learning by using student ideas to drive instruction | Beth Schussler |
| 16-Oct | NO SEMINAR (Fall Break) | |||
| 23-Oct | Megan Frederickson | University of Toronto | The ecology and evolution of plant-animal mutualisms | Charlie Kwit |
| 30-Oct | Nels Johnson/ Jake Ferguson | NIMBioS | Biogeography of methane consuming bacterial communities across the Great Plains assessed from multiple PCR primer sets | |
| 6-Nov | Sarah Hobbie | University of Minnesota | Nitrogen effects on decomposition dynamics: Implications for coupling between the changing global carbon and nitrogen cycles | Jen Schweitzer |
| 13-Nov | Noah Fierer | University of Colorado at Boulder | Dust in the wind: the microbial ecology of indoor and outdoor air | Joe Bailey |
| 20-Nov | Armin Moczek | University of Indiana | Conservation, innovation, and the origins of novelty and diversity: case studies on horned beetles | |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 9-Jan | Mike Wade | Indiana University | The evolutionary genetics of interactions: run-away cooperation and self-limiting conflict (poster) | |
| 16-Jan | Beth Leger | University of Nevada, Reno | Practical applications of contemporary evolution (poster) | |
| 23-Jan | Gary McCracken | UT, EEB | Wie Schnell Fliegt Eine Fledermaus? (poster) | |
| 30-Jan | Bruce Hungate | Northern Arizona University | Frontiers in Microbial Ecology (poster) | |
| 6-Feb | Kevin Rice | UC Davis | Plant adaptation to drought in California Oak Savannas (poster) | |
| 13-Feb | Matt Wallenstein | Colorado State University | From Global Change Effects on Microbes to Microbial Effects on the Globe: A Personal Journey (poster) | |
| 20-Feb | Graduate Students | UT, EEB | Cassie Dresser, Jenn Bosco, Ian Ware, Anna Jo Auerbach, Quentin Read, Sharon Clemmensen, and Zach Marion (poster) | |
| 27-Feb | SEMINAR CANCELLED (Inclement Weather) | |||
| 6-Mar | Kiona Ogle | Arizona State University | Variation in tree functional traits and implications for tree growth and mortality (poster) | |
| 13-Mar | Riley Bernard | UT, EEB | Bats and Disease: Behavioral and Community Responses of Southern Bat Populations during the White-nose Syndrome Epizootic (poster) | |
| 20-Mar | NO SEMINAR (Spring Break) | |||
| 27-Mar | Jessica Blois | UC Merced | Community ecology in a changing environment: perspectives from the Quaternary (poster) | |
| 3-Apr | NO SEMINAR (Spring Recess) | |||
| 10-Apr | Austin Milt | UT, EEB | Conservation oriented shale gas planning (poster) (video of talk on YouTube) | |
| 17-Apr | Jeanine Cavender-Bares | University of Minnesota | Biogeography, introgression and adaptation in the American live oaks: implications for conservation on a changing planet (poster) | |
| 24-Apr | Alex Buerkle | University of Wyoming | The multifaceted and variable distribution of genetic variation near the species level (poster) | |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 22-Aug | Mary Klein | NatureServe | NatureServe: How Science and Technology Inform Conservation Decisions (abstract) | Armsworth |
| 29-Aug | NO SEMINAR (Labor Day Weekend) | |||
| 5-Sep | Alison Buchan | UT, Microbiology | Virus-Bacteria Interactions and Ocean Biogeochemistry (poster) | |
| 12-Sep | Sean Schaffer | UT, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science | Soil microbial C and N cycling in tundra ecosystems: responses to environment and climate (poster) | |
| 19-Sep | Clara Pregitzer | NYC Parks Department | The ecological complexity of human altered landscapes. Building a framework for forest restoration in New York City (poster) | Bailey |
| 26-Sep | Lance Price | George Washington University | Superbug Ecology | Bailey |
| 3-Oct | Jerry Tuscan | ORNL | Rich genomics resources facilitate discovery of cryptic gene function in Populus | |
| 10-Oct | Jay Lennon | Indiana University | Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary significance of dormancy (poster) | Schweitzer |
| 17-Oct | NO SEMINAR (Fall Break) | |||
| 24-Oct | Jennifer Forbey | Boise State University | Molecular mechanisms and ecological consequences of eating toxic plants (poster) | Bailey |
| 31-Oct | Craig Benkman | University of Wyoming | Explorations of species interactions & their evolution (poster) | Bailey |
| 7-Nov | Brian O’Meara | UT, EEB | Developing and applying tools to answer outstanding biological questions using phylogenies (Tenure talk; poster) | |
| 14-Nov | Marc Cadotte | University of Toronto | Phylogenies in ecology: is it helping? (poster) | Drake |
| 21-Nov | NO SEMINAR | |||
| 28-Nov | NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving Break; Term ends Dec. 2) | |||
Spring 2014
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 10-Jan | Ben Auerbach | UT, Anthropology | Ecogeography, genetics, and the evolution of human body form (Abstract) | Gilchrist |
| 17-Jan | Jim Grace | USGS | Looking at Ecological Systems Through the Lens of Causal Networks (Poster) | Graduate Students |
| 24-Jan | Rafael Zenni | UT, EEB | From global trade to genes: Searching for drivers of biological invasions (Poster) | Simberloff |
| 31-Jan | Jennifer Talbot | Stanford University | From hyphae to mycobiomes: a continental-scale look at form and function of soil fungal communities (Abstract) | |
| 7-Feb | Sara Kuebbing | UT, EEB | Impacts and Implications of Co-occurring Invasive Plant Species (Poster) | Simberloff |
| 14-Feb | Carri LeRoy | Evergreen State College | Bringing science and nature into prisons: The Sustainability in Prisons Project (Abstract) | Bailey |
| 21-Feb | Graduate Students | UT, EEB | Graduate research-grad recruitment weekend | |
| 28-Feb | Joe Hughes | UT, EEB | A 30-Year Census of Forest Disturbance (Poster) | |
| 7-Mar | Butch Brodie | University of Virginia | Time to change the channel: Predator-Prey Arms Races and the Evolution of Tetrodotoxin Resistance in Snakes (Abstract) | Graduate Students |
| 14-Mar | Randy Swaty | The Nature Conservancy | The Nature Conservancy’s North America Science Team (Poster) | Bailey |
| 21-Mar | NO SEMINAR (Spring Break) | |||
| 28-Mar | Ruth Shaw | University of Minnesota | Investigating the capacity for adaptation in natural populations (Poster) | |
| 4-Apr | Rodolfo Dirzo | Stanford University | Tropical defaunation and the local co-extinction of ecological processes (Poster) | |
| 11-Apr | Keith Clay | Indiana University | Soil pathogens and temperate forest diversity (Poster) | Schweitzer |
| Thursday 17-Apr |
Michael Donoghue | Yale University | Viburnum evolution turned upside down (and why the details matter) (Poster) | O’Meara |
| 25-Apr | Dave Wagner | Northern Arizona University | The three great plague pandemics and the worldwide dissemination of plague: Insights from contemporary and ancient DNA studies (Poster) | |
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 23-Aug | Rebecca Benner | The Nature Conservancy | Water Funds: Investing in Watershed Conservation to Benefit Both People & Nature | Armsworth |
| 30-Aug | Chris Schadt | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Dissecting the Factors Shaping the Composition and Function of the Root-Associated Microbiome of Populus species | |
| 6-Sep | Claudio Casola | St. Louis University | Interlocus gene conversion, genome evolution and human disease | Gilchrist |
| 13-Sep | Erik Sotka | College of Charleston | Diffuse coevolutionary arms races among plants and herbivores in the sea | |
| 20-Sep | Chris Nice | Texas State University | Biodiversity in a hierarchical world: what can population genomics tell us | Fordyce |
| 27-Sep | Denise Dearing | University of Utah | Bailey | |
| 4-Oct | Beth Schussler | UT, EEB | Biology instruction in a time of change | |
| 11-Oct | Brandon Matheney | UT, EEB | An age of discovery: biodiversity and evolution of ectomycorrhizal clades of fungi | |
| 18-Oct | No Speaker (Fall Break) | |||
| 25-Oct | Darrin Hulsey | UT, EEB | Chimeric evolution and the diversification of cichlid fishes | |
| 1-Nov | Emily Austin | UT, EEB | Wood decomposition in a warmer world | |
| 8-Nov | Gordon Burghardt | UT, EEB | ||
| 15-Nov | Josh Lawler | University of Washington | Will animals be able to track projected changes in climate? | Armsworth |
| 22-Nov | Jen Lau | Michigan State University | Species interactions in a changing world: Evolutionary consequences of global change | |
| 29-Nov | No Speaker (Thanksgiving Break, then End of Term) | |||
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 11-Jan | Ivan Erill | University of Maryland, Baltimore City | Mike Gilchrist | |
| 18-Jan | Ines Ibáñez | University of Michigan | Biotic interactions and tree range expansion: Can plant-soil feedbacks act as a selective force during establishment of species tracking climate change? | GREBE |
| 25-Jan | Larry McKay | UT | Germs & Geology | GREBE |
| 1-Feb | Adam Ruben | Sanaria, Inc. | Whole Sporozoite Vaccines for Eradication of Malaria | GREBE |
| 8-Feb | Kristen Hawkes | University of Utah | Grandmothering and human evolution | Kelly Rooker, Mauricio, Ivan Juric |
| 15-Feb | Rich Norby | ORNL | From tundra to tropics and points in between: providing data for climate change models. | Aimee Classen & Nate Sanders |
| 22-Feb | Grad Student Recruitment Weekend | UT | TBD | GREBE |
| 1-Mar | Todd Palmer | University of Florida | The community ecology of mutualism: ants, plants and elephants in east africa. | Nate Sanders |
| 8-Mar | Ryan Earley | University of Alabama | Phenotypic variation and plasticity in a self-fertilizing hermaphroditic vertebrate. | Darrin Hulsey |
| 15-Mar | Susan Mopper | University of Louisiana | Down in the Bayou – Ecological Interactions in Coastal Louisiana | Dan Simberloff |
| 22-Mar | No Speaker (Spring Break) | |||
| 29-Mar | No Speaker (Spring Recess) | |||
| 5-Apr | Andrew Hendry | McGill University | Selection and gene flow fist-fight in nature | Jen Schweitzer |
| 12-Apr | Katie Stuble | UT | Ant Community Dynamics and the Effects of Global Warming | |
| 19-Apr | Mauricio Gonzalez-Forero | UT | Evolution of manipulated behavior. | |
| 26-Apr | Dylan Dittrich-Reed | UT | Roles of host hybridization and symbiont admixture on adaptation and diversification. | |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 24-Aug | Melissa Cregger | UTK | Microbial community structure and ecosystem function in a changing world | |
| 31-Aug | Tracy Langkilde | Penn State | Mechanisms and consequences of adaptive responses to invasive species | S. Echternacht |
| 7-Sep | Angelica Gonzalez | U. British Columbia | Ecological stoichiometry of communities and ecosystems | A. Classen / N. Sanders |
| 14-Sep | Rick Lankau | U Georgia | Taking the long view of species invasions: ecological and evolutionary responses throughout an invasion history | J. Bailey |
| 21-Sep | Paul Armsworth | UTK | The Design of Incentive Payment Programs for Biodiversity Conservation | |
| 28-Sep | Rick Ree | The Field Museum | The evolution and ecology of floral diversity in Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae) | B. Matheny |
| 5-Oct | David Post | Yale | The tail of two fish: importance of intraspecific variation for community and ecosystem ecology | J. Schweitzer |
| 19-Oct 9:00 am seminar | Dave Tilman | U. Minnesota | Biodiversity: From Evolutionary Origins to Ecosystem Functioning | Paul Armsworth |
| 26-Oct | Allen Moore | U Georgia | Quantitative to Molecular Genetics of Parenting | C. Boake |
| 2-Nov | Noelia Barrios | UTK | Multi-level impacts of introduced wild boar on Patagonian ecosystems | D. Simberloff |
| 9-Nov | Joshua Weitz | Georgia Tech | TBA | M. Gilchrist |
| 16-Nov | Jen Schweitzer | UTK | TBA | |
| 30-Nov | Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal | UTK | Biological invasions disrupt mutualisms and disassemble communities | Nate Sanders |
Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 20-Jan | Sean Doody | Monash University | Ecology of cane toads | Echternacht |
| 27-Jan | Lisa Grubisha | Centre College | Host, geography, and climate change effects on the population structure of the Populus-associated ectomycorrhizal fungus, Tricholoma populinum | Matheny |
| 3-Feb | Emily Moran | NIMBioS | Responses to environmental change in plants | |
| 10-Feb | Jennifer DeBruyn | UTK Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science | Environmental microbiology | |
| 17-Feb | Justin Boyles | UTK, EEB | Adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms | |
| 24-Feb | Emily Austin, Romina Dimarco, TBA | UTK, EEB | Graduate research-grad recruitment weekend | |
| 2-Mar | Mike Sanderson | University of Arizona | Tree of Life | O’Meara |
| 9-Mar | Emmi Felker-Quinn | UTK, EEB PhD Exit Seminar | Invasive species dynamics | |
| 16-Mar | Michael Kinnison | University of Maine | Evolution in the fast lane | Hulsey |
| 23-Mar | No Seminar – Spring Break | |||
| 30-Mar | Tad Fukami | Stanford University | Historical contingency in community assembly | GREBE |
| 6-Apr | No Seminar – Spring Recess | |||
| 13-Apr | Erik Hobbie | University of NewHampshire | C/N cycling in forests | Classen |
| 20-Apr | Kathleen Treseder | University of California-Irvine | Fungi and ecosystem response to global change | Classen & Matheny |
| 27-Apr | EEB Awards Ceremony | UTK, EEB | Departmental awards | McCracken |
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 26-Aug | Colin Sumrall | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville | Early Paleozoic fossils: the key to recovering the echinoderm tree-of-life | Brian O’Meara |
| 2-Sept | Lauren Buckley | U. of North Carolina | Functional approaches to ecological forecasting for lizards and butterflies | Nate Sanders |
| 9-Sept | Scott Freeman | U. of Washington | Evidence-based teaching in introductory biology | Beth Schussler and Brandon Matheny |
| 16-Sept | Len Nunney | U. of California, Riverside | The evolution of cancer suppression | Mike Gilchrist |
| 23-Sept | Patricia Brennan | U. of Massachussetts, Amherst | Sexual conflict and genital evolution | Susan Riechert |
| 7-Oct | Kelly Dyer | U. of Georgia | Consequences of genetic conflict in Drosophila | Francisco Ubeda |
| 14-Oct | Vladimir Dinets | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville | Making of a hit: How to succeed in songwriting if you are a crocodile? | Gordon Burghardt |
| 21-Oct | Annette Engel | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville | Evidence for a non-terrigenous food web base in the Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas | Brian O’Meara |
| 28-Oct | Justin Blumenstiel | U. of Kansas | The epigenetics and evolution of genome defense by piRNA in Drosophila | Taylor Feild |
| 4-Nov | Liang Liu | U. of Georgia | A Bayesian model for gene-content evolution | Brian O’Meara |
| 11-Nov | Aimee Classen | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville | Ecosystem response and reorganization in the face of global change | Aimee Classen |
| 29-Nov (8:30 am, Dabney 575) | Audra Galasso | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville | Exit seminar | Audra Galasso |
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 14-Jan | Joan Herbers | The Ohio State University | Haines-Morris 1: Coevolution in a social context: ants and their parasites | Sanders |
| 21-Jan, 10:10 am, Dabney 575 | Jon Shik | University of Oklahoma | The importance of size in ants | Sanders |
| 21-Jan | Ken Kozak | University of Minnesota | Haines-Morris 2: Evolutionary and ecological insights on the origin and fate of large-scale gradients in salamander richness | Fitzpatrick |
| 28-Jan | Virginia Dale | ORNL | Lessons from 30 years of ecological recovery at Mount St. Helens | Armsworth |
| 4-Feb | Hazel Barton | Northern Kentucky University | White-Nose Syndrome: A Microbiologist’s Prospective | Hallam |
| 11-Feb | Catherine Graham | Stony Brook University | Haines-Morris 3:Phylogenetic structure in tropical hummingbird assemblages | Sanders |
| 18-Feb | Erika Edwards | Brown University | Haines-Morris 4: A phylogenetic perspective on the ecology and evolution of C4 photosynthesis in plants | Matheny |
| 25-Feb | Beth Schussler | UTK, EEB | New Realities of College Science Teaching | Schussler |
| 2-Mar, 11 am, Hesler 427 | Kay Holekamp | Michigan State University | Roles of selection and constraint in the evolution of sex-role reversed traits | O’Meara |
| 4-Mar | GREBE | UTK, EEB | ||
| 25-Mar | Mackenzie Taylor | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Williams | |
| 1-Apr, 10:10 am, 575 Dabney | Lauren Wilmoth | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Fordyce | |
| 1-Apr | Kailen Mooney | University of California | Sanders | |
| 8-Apr, 10:10 am, 575 Dabney | Matt Niemiller | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Fitzpatrick | |
| 8-Apr | Graham Reynolds | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Fitzpatrick | |
| 15-Apr | Premal Shah | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Gilchrist | |
| 25-Apr (Monday) | Jennifer Hughes-Martiny | University of California, Irvine | Haines-Morris 5 | Buchan |
| 29-Apr | EEB Awards Ceremony | McCracken |
Fall 2010
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 20-Aug | JP Lessard | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Linking ecology and evolutionary biology: the role of biotic interactions; abiotic gradients and evolutionary history in shaping the structure of antcommunities |
Sanders |
| 27-Aug | Michael Lawton | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | Waves, Flows, and Rubble: Tropical Montane Cloudforest Dynamics |
Drake |
| 3-Sep | Jean Brennan | Defenders of Wildlife |
Small spores and big spaces: molecular markers unravel the evolutionary history of an important basidiomycete plant pathogen, Armillaria mellea. |
McCracken |
| 10-Sep | Karen Carleton |
University of Maryland | Using Opsin Genes to See Through the Eyes of a Fish | Hulsey |
| 17-Sep | Sarah Bergemann | Middle Tennessee StateUniversity |
Small Spores and Big Spaces: Molecular Markers Unravel the Evolutionary History of an Important Basidiomycete Plant Pathogen, Armillaria mellea |
Matheny |
| 24-Sep | Rebecca McCulley | University of Kentucky | Response of a Fungal Endophyte-grass Symbiosis to Climate Change: Effects on Ecosystem Dynamics |
Classen |
| 1-Oct | Ben Fitzpatrick | EEB, UTK – Tenure &Promotion Seminar | Hybridization and the Species Problem in Evolution and Conservation |
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| 8-Oct | Fall Break – No Seminar | |||
| 15-Oct | Duncan Irschick | University of Massachusetts,Amherst |
The Evolution of Animal Performance: From Microevolution toMacroevolution |
Fitzpatrick |
| 22-Oct | Riki Ott | co-Director of Ultimate Civics | Oil Spill Impact: People, Ecology, Communities | McCracken |
| 29-Oct | Don Strong | UC Davis | The Ecological and Evolutionary Misadventures of Invasive Spartina |
Simberloff |
| 5-Nov | Tom Hallam | EEB, UTK | White Nose Syndrome: A Contemporary Epizootic Tragedy for Bats |
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| 12-Nov | TBA | |||
| 19-Nov | Antonis Rokas | Vanderbilt University | TBA | O’Meara |
| 26-Nov | No Seminar -UT Closed (Thanksgiving Break) | |||
| 3-Dec | James Clark | Duke University | TBA | Classen |
Spring 2010
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 15-Jan | Jim Drake | EEB, UTK – Faculty Member | Creating and manipulating emergence … of the hard kind | Echternacht |
| 22-Jan | Jim Bever | Indiana University | Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mycorrhizal Mutualism | Schweitzer |
| 29-Jan | Duncan Irschick | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Animal athletics: From microevolution to macroevolution | Pruitt |
| 5-Feb | Randy Brewton, Stan Guffey, Susan Riechert | Members of EEB & BIO, UTK | Passing Gas: What we learned at The National Academies & HHMI Summer Institute | Riechert |
| 12-Feb | Brad Shaffer | University of California, Davis | Deep phylogeny, recent speciation, and the conservation genetics of turtles | Fitzpatrick |
| 19-Feb | Patrick Hudson | EEB, UTK – MS Seminar | Early vessel evolution and diversification in wood function-Insights from Malagasy Canellales | Feild |
| 26-Feb | Mark Lewis | NIMBioS Guest | Plagued by numbers: Mathematics of emerging wildlife diseases and their interactions with human activities | Armsworth |
| 5-Mar | Shakunthala Sridhara | University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, India | An overview of agricultural problems with vertebrates in India | Burghardt |
| 12-Mar | Spring Break – No Seminar | |||
| 19-Mar | Marc Johnson | North Carolina State University | The ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant sex | Schweitzer, Bailey |
| 26-Mar | Matt Forister | University of Nevada, Reno | TBA | Fordyce |
| 2-Apr | UT Closed for Spring Recess – No Seminar | |||
| 9-Apr | Stan Faeth | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | Asexual endophytes: tiny partners with big effects | Simberloff |
| 16-Apr | Arijana Barun | EEB, UTK – PhD Seminar | The small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) on Adriatic Islands: impact, control, and evolution | Simberloff |
| 23-Apr | Jim Collins | Arizona State University | TBA | Fitzpatrick |
| 30-Apr | Brian Beckage | NIMBioS Guest | TBA | Armsworth |
Fall 2009
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 21-Aug | Amy Turmelle Ph.D Exit Seminar | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology – UTK | Ecological and evolutionary factors affecting rabies virus infection in two colonialinsectivorous bats | McCracken |
| 28-Aug | Patrick Danley | Baylor University | The Genetics of Reproductive Isolation: Ongoing and Thrilling Studies of AfricanCichlids & Hawaiian Crickets | Hulsey |
| 4-Sep | Mike Lynch | Indiana University | Mutation and Evolution | Gilchrist |
| 11-Sep | Michael Tobler | Texas A & M | A fishy story from a stinky cave: How selection along environmental gradients can lead to adaptation and speciation | Hulsey |
| 18-Sep | Adam Langley | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Villanova University | How to hold ground with high water: tidal marsh response to global change | Schweitzer |
| 25-Sep | Taylor Feild Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology – UTK | The Green (Grim) Reaper: The Evolution of Leaf Productivity in Angiosperms and Ecophysiological Transformation of Biosphere Function | — |
| 2-Oct | Michael Gilchrist Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology – UTK | Defining, Surveying and Mining Codon Usage Adaptive Landscapes for Information on Gene Expression: An Evolutionary Approach to Bioinformatics | — |
| 9-Oct | Gary Graves | Smithsonian Institution | Macroecological signals of species interactions in the Danish avifauna | Simberloff |
| 16-Oct | NoSeminar – Fall Break | |||
| 23-Oct | Brad Shaffer | University of California – Davis | TBA | Fitzpatrick |
| 30-Oct | Doug Levey | University of Florida | TBA | Sanders |
| 6-Nov | Mark Bradford | Yale University | How does consideration of soil microbial processes influence predictions of ecosystem carbon dynamics? | Classen |
| 13-Nov | Dan Rabosky | University of California – Berkeley | Diversification rate, ecological limits, and the variation in species richness among clades and regions | Matheny |
| 20-Nov | Jennifer Rhode | University of North Carolina – Asheville | Impacts of floral morphology, breeding system, and phenotypic plasticity on fitness in a hybrid plant complex | Classen |
Spring 2009
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 16-Jan | Chunlei Su | Microbiology Dept.-UTK | Population genetics of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii | Gilchrist |
| 23-Jan | Alison Bennett | University of Wisconsin | Invasive plants and evolution in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal-plant mutualism | Classen |
| 26-Jan* | Kurt Anderson | University of California, Riverside | TBA | Gavrilets |
| 29-Jan ‡ | Robin Snyder | Case Western University | TBA | Gross |
| 30-Jan | James R. Kahn | Washington & Lee | Ecological knowledge and management of ecosystems: formation of economic incentives for the protection of biodiversity and other ecosystem services | Simberloff |
| 4-Feb* | Paul Armsworth | |||
| 13-Feb | TBA | |||
| 20-Feb | Chris Buddle | McGill University | TBA | Sackett |
| 27-Feb | Ben Normark | University of Massachusetts | Phylogeny and evolution of armored scale insects and their unusual genetic systems | Ubeda |
| 6-Mar | EEB Grad Students | EEB-UTK | ||
| 13-Mar | TBA | |||
| 20-Mar | Spring Break | |||
| 27-Mar | Greg Crutsinger | EEB-Dissertation Defense | Community and ecosystem consequences of genotypic diversity in goldenrod | – |
| 3-Apr | Rachel Goodman | EEB-Dissertation Defense | How does temperature shape phenotype in the lizard, Anolis carolinensis? | – |
| 10-Apr | Spring Recess | |||
| 17-Apr | Alison Bell | University of Illinois | Integrating causes and consequences of behavioral syndromes in threespined sticklebacks | Fitzpatrick |
| 24-Apr | Jason Hoeksema | University of Mississippi | TBA | Classen |
Fall 2008
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 29-Aug | Feng Chen | Dept. of Plant Sciences, UTK | Molecular and genomic basis of insect-induced plant volatiles mediating tritrophic interactions | Gilchrist |
| 5-Sep | Marie-Anne De Graaf | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | At the root of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling | Classen |
| 12-Sep | No Seminar Scheduled | |||
| 19-Sep | Jim Fordyce | Dept. of EEB – Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Seeing the tips for the trees: The evolutionary signature of chemically-mediated trophic interactions | — |
| 26-Sep | Mike Benard | University of Michigan | Ecological consequences of natural selection and adaptation | Fitzpatrick |
| 3-Oct | Ben Keck | Dept. of EEB – PhD Exit Seminar | Introgression, ancestral polymorphism and undescribed diversity in Nothonotus darters (Teleostei: Percidae) | — |
| 10-Oct | Fall Break | |||
| 16-Oct | Anurag Agrawal | Cornell University | Phylogenetic tests of plant defense theory | Schweitzer |
| 17-Oct | Jennifer Thaler | Cornell University | TBA | Schweitzer |
| 24-Oct | Dan Simberloff | EEB | Who’s the father of invasion biology? Darwin vs. Elton vs. SCOPE | — |
| 31-Oct | TBA | |||
| 7-Nov | Joe Williams | Dept. of EEB – Tenure & Promotion Seminar | Innovations that begot innovations: how flowering plants got their unique reproductive syndrome | — |
| 14-Nov | Andy Gardner | University of Edinburgh, UK | Capturing the superorganism | Ubeda |
| 21-Nov | John Gittleman | Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia | Ecological change of global proportions | McCracken |
Spring 2008
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 01/11/08 | Harmit Malik | Fred Hutchinson Cancer ResearchWashington | “Satellite Wars: The Evolutionary Origins of Centromere Complexity” | Ubeda |
| 01/17/08 | Brandon Matheny | Clark University | “The Inocybaceae: Insights into Biogeography and Evolution of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi” | Hughes |
| 01/24/08 | Kentaro Hosaka | Field Museum of Natural History | “Comparative Biogeography of Two Distantly Related Mushrooms – Hysterangiales and Laccaria” | Feild |
| 01/28/08 | Terry Henkel | Humboldt State | “Masting, Meristems, Mycorrhizae and Mulch-Factors Contributing to Forest Dominance in the Guiana Shield” | Schilling |
| 01/31/08 | Timothy James | Uppsala UniversitySweden | “Sex and the Single Nucleus: Evolutionary Investigations “ | Small |
| 02/08/08 | Lacey Knowles | University of Michigan | “What the Dynamics of Speciation Reveal About a Radiation of Montane Grasshoppers” | Fitzpatrick |
| 02/11/08 | Aimee Classen | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | “Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Ecosystem Structure and Function in a Changing World” | Williams |
| 02/15/08 | Julia Koricheva | Royal Holloway UniversityLondon, UK | “Tree Diversity and Herbivores: Does Intercropping Work in Forests?” | Bailey |
| 02/18/08 | Jeri Parrent | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow | “Plant-Fungal Interactions in a Changing Environment: Linking Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Fungal Communities to Soil Carbon Dynamics” | Echternacht |
| 02/22/08 | EEB Grads | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Tennessee | “TBA” | |
| 02/25/08 | Edward Ayres | Colorado State University | “Plant-Soil Interactions in a Changing World” | Riechert |
| 02/29/08 | Jason Leonard | Hiwassee College | “When, where and how often to mate? Genetic correlations among male and female mating behaviors in the wasp Nasonia“ | Boake |
| 03/06/08 | John W. Stiller | East Carolina University | “Complexities of Gene and Genome Evolution: Challenges To The Unfolding Tree of Life” | Williams |
| 03/07/08 | Carol Goodwillie | East Carolina University | “The Effects of Transient Self-Incompatibility on the Dynamics of S-alleles: A Simulation Model and Experimental Test in the Annual Plant Genus, Leptosiphon (Polemoniaceae)” | Williams |
| 03/14/08 | SPRING BREAK | |||
| 03/21/08 | SPRING RECESS | |||
| 03/28/08 | Brian Inoyue and Nora Underwood | Florida State University | “Connecting empirical and theoretical population dynamics.Plants and insect herbivores: effects of individual variation on population processes.” | Sanders and Crutsinger |
| 04/04/08 | Rick Relyea | University of Pittsburg | “The Impacts of Pesticides on Aquatic Communities: Connections to Global Amphibian Declines?” | Gray |
| 04/11/08 | Alison Buchan | Department of MicrobiologyUniversity of Tennessee | “Ecology of the Marine Roseobacter Lineage” | Fitzpatrick |
| 04/18/08 | John Chase | Washington UniversityMissouri | “Community Assembly in Space and Time” | Sanders |
| 04/25/08 | Marcel Rejmanek | University of California, Davis | “Plant Invasions: Causes and Consequences” | Nunez |