School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series

SPRING 2021

January 28 - Dr. Courtney Fitzpatrick, Indiana University

Title: "Trait evolution in a social world; empirical and theoretical perspectives"

Hosted by: Dr. Eileen Hebets

February 4 - No Seminar, Graduate Recruiting

February 11 - No Seminar

February 18 - Dr. Christine Bacon, University of Gothenburg (Lamb Lecture Series)

Title: "Parallel Divergence Across Scales"

Hosted by: Natalia Gutierrez Pinto 

February 25 - No Seminar

March 4 - No Seminar

March 11 - Dr. Nic Vega, Emory University

Title: "Assembly, Stability, and Heterogeneity in the Gut Microbiome"

Hosted by: Dr. Michael Herman

March 18 - Dr. Alissa Armstrong, University of South Carolina

Title: "Using Drosophila melanogaster to understand adipocyte-to-ovary nutritional communication"

Hosted by: Dr. Kristi Montooth

March 25 - Dr. Mike Webster, Cornell University

Title: "Sexual Signals & Divergence in Australian Fairywrens: From Genes to Behaviour to Speciation"

Hosted by: Dr. Dai Shizuka

April 1 - Dr. Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland Baltimore County 

Title: "Three Tales of Arachnid Genomes: Sequencing, Sex, and Silks" 

Hosted by: Dr. Eileen Hebets

April 8 - Dr. Jillian Detwiler, University of Manitoba 

Title: "Exploring the ecological significance of signaling molecules in host-parasite interactions: Is it all about chemistry?"

Hosted by: Undergraduate Affairs Committee

April 15 - Dr. Michael Landis, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: "Statistical methods to infer phylogenetic biome shifts using paleodata"

Hosted by: Will Gearty / Dr. Kate Lyons' Lab

April 22 - No Seminar (SBS Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workshop)

April 29 - Dr. Jack Gilbert, University of California-San Diego (Prather Lecture Series)

Title: "The Human Microbiome in Precision Medicine"

Hosted by: Alaina Pfenning-Butterworth