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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 |