(All seminars will be presented via Zoom. Please check back for Zoom links)

 

Fall 2020

Name Date Institution Seminar Title Website Host

 

 

Dr. Caitlin Colleary

 

 

9/17/20

 

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

 

“Scales of Preservation: Molecular Paleontology”

 

https://www.cmnh.org/caitlin-       colleary

 

Dr. Ryan Martin

(adjunct professor candidate)

 

 

Dr. Elissa Hallem

 

9/24/20

 

University of California Los Angeles

 

“The neural basis of host seeking in skin-penetrating nematodes.”

 

https://www.mimg.ucla.edu/people/elissa-hallem-ph-d/

 

Dr. Jessica Fox

 

 

Dr. Na Wei

 

 

10/1/20

 

 

Holden Arboretum

 

“Evolutionary ecology and genomics of adaptation to environmental change”

 

https://holdenarb.org/researchstaff/na-wei-phd/

 

Dr. Ryan Martin (Adjunct Professor candidate)

 

Dr. Christine Ann Denny

 

10/8/20

 

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

 

Identification and manipulation of memory traces in disease states 

 

 

https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/christine-denny-phd

 

Dr. Jessica Fox
 Dr. Zac Mackey 10/15/2020 Fralin Life Sciences Institute – Virginia Tech   TBA https://fralinlifesci.vt.edu/Faculty/ZacMackey.html

 

Dr. Jessica Fox

 

Dr. Ansgar Busches

 

10/22/20

 

University of Cologne

     “Neural Control of Locomotion: “Generating Task Specificity of Local and Intersegmental Control in Insect Walking”

 

http://germainlab.weebly.com/

 

Dr. Jessica Fox

 

Dr. Rachel Germain

 

10/29/20

 

University of British Columbia

  “The ecology and evolution of biodiversity in spatially structured landscapes”

 

https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/rachel-germain

 

 

Dr. Robin Snyder

 

 

Dr. Michael Johnson

 

 

11/5/20

 

 

University of Arizona

 

“Something old, something new, something borrowed, Copper II”

 

https://immunobiology.arizona.edu/profile/michael-d-l-johnson-phd

 

Dr. Emmitt Jolly

 

Yana Kamberov

 

11/12/20

 Perelman School of Medicine  “How to look human: genetic mechanisms of human skin development and evolution” https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/p1971822

 

Dr. Radhika Atit

 

Dr. Ximena Bernal

 

11/19/20

 

Purdue University

 

“Ornaments, Enemies and Sensory Filters in the Evolution of Communication Systems”

 

https://www.bio.purdue.edu/People/profile/xbernal.html

 

Dr. Mike Benard

Dr. Robin Snyder

 

Thanksgiving & Fall

Break

 

 

11/26/20

 

Dr. Robin Snyder

Amy Patterson

 

Dr. Carl Boettiger

 

12/3/20

 

UC Berkeley

 

“From Oceans to Fields: Socio-ecological Decision Making for the 21st Century”

 https://www.carlboettiger.info/

 

Dr. Robin Snyder

Amy Patterson