EBIO Seminar Series Schedule 2021 - 2022
The FALL 2021 EBIO seminar series will be held in-person and/or remote, depending on the week.
Remote seminars are on Fridays from 11:30am - 12:30pm in a Zoom meeting that will be emailed out to department members each week.
In-person/hybrid seminars are on Fridays from 3:30pm - 4:30pm in Ramaley N1B23.
Wednesday exit talks that are remote will be from 1:15pm - 2:15pm and in-person/hybrid exit talks will be 3:30pm - 4:30pm.
If you would like to attend a seminar and are not a departmental affiliate, please contact Anna.Paraskevopoulos@colorado.edu to be added to the supplementary Colloquium emailing list.
Fall 2021
Date | Speaker | Modality - Title | Host Lab |
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8/27/2021 | NA |
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NA |
9/03/2021 | Dr. Jenna Ekwealor | Remote - How mosses thrive in the desert: Adaptation, acclimation, and refugia | Smith Lab |
9/10/2021 | Dr. Sam Ramsey |
Remote - Pollinator Pandemic: Recent Findings is in the Study of Infectious Bee mites Tropilaelaps mercedesae and Varroa destructor |
Flaxman Lab |
9/17/2021 | Dr. Loralee Larios | In-person - A demographic approach to managing grasslands | Suding Lab |
9/24/2021 |
Dr. Nate Sanders | In-person - From m2 quadrats to mountains: studying (mostly) ants to understand the causes and consequences of global change |
Resasco Lab |
10/01/2021 | Dr. Seema Sheth | Remote - Does the evolution of thermal tolerance shape patterns of rarity, invasion, and population responses to climate change? | Emery Lab |
10/08/2021 | Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai | Remote - The complex daily rhythms of animal symbioses: Lessons from the squid-vibrio partnership | Li Lab |
10/15/2021 | Dr. Brad Butterfield | Remote - Restoring Ecosystem Function to Degraded Drylands: The RestoreNet Experiment | Barger Lab |
10/22/2021 |
Dr. Simon Levin | Remote - Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems: Scaling, collective phenomena and governance | Davies Lab |
10/29/2021 | Dr. Allison Miller | Remote - Trait variation and covariation in long-lived plants: understanding form, function, and phenotypic plasticity to advance food and ecosystem security | Kane Lab |
11/05/2021 | Dr. Rachel Whitaker | Remote - Epidemic evolution in microbial populations with CRISPR-Cas immunity | Fierer Lab |
11/10/2021 | Javan Carter | Remote - Applying evolutionary genomics to better understand evolutionary history: A phylogenomic study of the Hirundo rustica subspecies complex | Safran Lab |
11/12/2021 | Dr. Elena Bennett | Remote - Measuring, modelling, and monitoring ecosystem services in Canada’s working landscapes | Dee Lab |
11/19/2021 | Deidre Jaeger | In-person - Trees of the urban matrix & the power of place: accelerometers, budburst, & student engagement | Wessman Lab |
11/26/2021 | NA | THANKSGIVING BREAK | NA |
12/03/2021 | Melissa Chen | In-person - Microbes and models and toads, oh my! | McKenzie Lab |
12/10/2021 | NA | HOLIDAY PARTY | NA |
Spring 2022
Date | Day | Speaker | Modality - Time | Title | Host Lab |
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01/14/2022 | Friday | Dr. Rebecca Irwin | Remote - 11:30am | The role of floral traits in pollination and disease transmission | Resasco Lab |
01/21/2022 | Friday | Dr. Justine Smith | Remote - 11:30am | Anthropogenic Influences on the Role of a Top Predator | McCain Lab |
01/28/2022 | Friday | Dr. Marie Josée-Fortin | Remote - 11:30am | Ecological Networks in Dynamic Landscapes | Dee Lab |
02/04/2022 | Friday | Dr. Karen Bailey | Remote - 11:30am | Climate Change, Social Capital and Sustainable Livelihoods in Conservation Landscapes | Resasco Lab |
02/11/2022 | Friday | Dr. Molly Schumer | Remote - 11:30am | The evolution and development of a lethal hybrid incompatibility | Taylor Lab |
02/18/2022 | Friday | Dr. Paul Ode | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Coexistence or displacement?: Competition between two co-occurring parasitoid wasps | Bowers Lab |
02/23/2022 | Wednesday | Bridget Chalifour | Remote - 1:15pm | Mollusks, Microbes, and Museums: Characterizing a Land Snail’s Microbiome Across Life Stage, Time, and Space | Li Lab |
02/25/2022 | Friday | Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton | Remote - 11:30am | Our Human Footprint: Evolution and adaptation of wildlife to human-mediated change | Johnson Lab |
03/04/2022 | Friday | Kathryn Grabenstein | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Human-mediated hybridization in common backyard birds | Taylor Lab |
03/09/2022 | Wednesday | Erik Funk | Hybrid - 3:30pm | The Genetic Basis of Population Divergence and Speciation in Alpine and Arctic Finches | Taylor Lab |
03/11/2022 | Friday | Tim Korpita | Hybrid - 3:30pm | The Boreal Toad Microbiome and Conservation Interventions | McKenzie Lab |
03/16/2022 | Wednesday | Laurel Brigham | Hybrid - 3:30pm | How do habitat-forming species inform species' responses to global change in the alpine? | Suding Lab |
03/18/2022 | Friday | Chelsea Pretz | Hybrid - 3:30pm | The Breakdown of Self-Incompatibility in Sharpleaf-Groundcherry (Physalis acutifolia, Solanaceae) | Smith Lab |
03/25/2022 | Friday | NA | NA | BREAK | NA |
03/30/2022 | Wednesday | Molly McDermott | Remote - 9:00am | Parental physiology to colorful plumage: How the environment influences reproductive investment | Safran Lab |
04/01/2022 | Friday | Matt Bitters | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Parasite persistence in a disturbed world | Davies Lab |
04/06/2022 | Wednesday | Claire Karban | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Overcoming barriers to dryland restoration | Barger Lab |
04/08/2022 | Friday | Alex Alexiev | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Mr. Toad’s Wild Microbes: A story of microbial discovery and amphibian conservation | McKenzie Lab |
04/15/2022 | Friday | Katherine Hernandez | Remote - 11:30am | You are what you eat: Consequences of being a generalist insect herbivore | Bowers Lab |
04/20/2022 | Wednesday | Zachary Root | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Breaking the Binary of Cell Types: Skeletal Diversification and the Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology | Medeiros Lab |
04/22/2022 | Friday | Dr. Chris Funk | Hybrid - 3:30pm | Adaptive divergence and climate change: Why an evolutionary perspective matters for predicting sensitivity to increasing temperatures | Martin Lab |
04/29/2022 | Friday | NA | NA | READING DAY | NA |