EEB Seminar Series

DATE

NAME / AFFILIATION / TOPIC

HOST

02/15/21

Celina Baines, McGill University
Title: Context- and Phenotype-Dependent Dispersal and its Consequences.

Greischar

02/22/21

Swanne Gordon, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Sex, Genes, and Environment: Integrating Multiple Determinants of Diversity in Nature.

Vitousek

03/02/21*
Tuesday

Svante Paabo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Title: Archaic Genomics. 8:45AM

Searle

3/05/21*
Friday

EEB Town Hall (DEIJB) 1:15–2:35PM

EEB

03/08/21

Michaela Hau, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Title: Hormone-Mediated Phenotype Plasticity: Is There an Optimal Hormonal Phenotype?

Vitousek

03/11/21*
Thursday

Ruth DeFries, Columbia University
Title: Nature’s Secrets for Navigating Uncertain Times. 4:00PM
Barbara McClintock Life Sciences Lecture Series

Goodale  / Hess (BEE)

03/15/21

Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University
Title: A Tale of Tails: The Genetic Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Morphological Evolution.

EEB Graduate Students

03/22/21

Andrew Davis, Harvard University
Title: Quantifying Landscape Scale Animal Impacts on Ecosystem Processes.

Xu

03/24/21*
Wednesday

Susana Wadgymar, Davidson College
Title: Local Adaptation, Evolutionary Constraints, and the Conservation of Plants under Climate Change. 12:30PM

03/29/21

Joyce Chery, Cornell University
Title: How to Build a Vine: from Cell Biology to Macroevolutionary Patterns.

Flecker

04/05/21

Molly Schumer, Stanford University
Title: The Tangled Tree of Life: Examining the Genetic Consequences of Hybridization

 Aguillon

EEB Seminar & Discussion (DEIJB)
Kurt Jordan, American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program, Cornell University
Title: Cornell, Indigenous Dispossession, and Relationships with Present-Day Communities. 1:20pm

04/12/21

Stepfanie Aguillon
Title: Hybridization, Coloration, and Genomics: Understanding the Genomic Architecture of Feather Coloration in the Northern Flicker.

Lovette

04/13/21*
Tuesday

Kerstin Lindblad Toh, Uppsala University
Title: Understanding Genome Evolution and Disease using Comparative Genetics and Genomics. 4:00PM
Barbara McClintock Life Sciences Lecture Series

Danko (Baker Institute)/

Hume (BMS)

04/19/21

       Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
       Title: Three Tales of Arachnid Genomes: Sequencing, Sex, and Silks.

Moreau

04/26/21

Anna Hargreaves, McGill University
Title: Where Do Species Interactions Matter?

Geber 

05/03/21

Andre Green, University of Michigan
Title: Monarch Migration as an Integrative Model of Complex Trait Evolution.

Moreau / Agrawal

05/10/21

Sonal Singhal, California State University Dominguez Hills
Title: Bridging the Microevolutionary-Macroevolutionary Gap through Studies of Speciation.

Johnson / Searle

EEB Town Hall (Graduate Students Matters)