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